ADs getting ready

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Sorry it’s a bit of a lame title.

I'm mainly a lurker. I post occasionally but can't keep up with you, but love reading it all
I'd love to be on the map - I'm South Central

It just reminded me of the crisps on a bench - what is it about crisps?

just seen this dementing about 'people going out' for the night the next dementoring I guess

"they'll claim mental health and all sorts as factors as to why they should be allowed to go out and drink etc"

trust Sainsbury's can be quite good for trousers, they tend to come up a little longer than elsewhere, but still have the adjustable waist.

Dd1's new trousers arrived today. Hoping they fit. I had to go to a uniform supplier to get the length.

Can I have a bit of a rant and/or a handhold and/or a kick up the arse please?

So mother has been drinking again. I don't mind that...(- I actually don't! she's a grown up, she can please herself) - she's now in the hungover and needy stage and it's starting to make me feel physically ill to be in the same room. Soiled incontinence pads on the bedroom floor (she's getting up to change them but says she "can't" pick them up... she's naked when her alcohol support worker comes round because she's "frightened" to get dressed...)
I'm sorry for her and she's my mum and when she's sober I love her, but she's starting to scare me a little bit. She does have a key worker, but she tells her a load of old shit. I'm fed up of un-telling her (no, she is not being neglected by her GP.... no, she did not fall and break her hip this year and get sent away by the hospital...)
It's not my responsibility to keep bailing out her shit, is it?

@IAintentDead No worries

Coventry is usually West Midlands but it's a moot point

We are counting the hours til the pub round the corner opens and we can go and get a burger! With fries! That I didn't cook!
It will be rammed in there on Saturday. My areas is a pretty even split between people who are raring to get the the pub and people who are still scuttling about in masks and leaping out of the way of you into the road.
There are no deaths here ( of Covid) and not many infections. You'd have to try quite hard to catch it I reckon.
The news is getting me down,I can't watch it anymore. It's as if nothing else at all is going on in the world but Covid 19. The ominous voiceovers,the wanky graphics.
I'm sick of the word "safe".
The lady on a nearby campsite we were thinking of going to said " you're welcome to camp but the toilets and showers won't be open because we can't guarantee safety"
I wish I had said " that's ok, I never wash and I'll shit behind a tree thanks.
Fucksake.

Bleurgh. Newbury not opening play parks. Apparently it's just too difficult. Because, germs. 🙄 Very glad to be just over the border in Basingstoke.

M&S usually do a school sale and do skinny fit school trousers, their online service is quite good.

Ah thanks @TheGreatWave and @Orangeblossom78 I will check both those out!

@Cattermole it really isn't your job to bale her out, no

Hello @Theveryhungrymum 😊

@BubbleIsNotAFuckingVerb I'm regularly convinced that I'll be struck down by the Covid because of my careless attitude 😂 Bit o have a tendency to catastrophise.

I should say as well, I'm not a tosser, I generally obey the rules and am not grandiose.

@Cattermole it sounds tough. Definitely not your responsibility. It sounds like you do plenty already.

In (vaguely) positive news I’ve just sold our second car as it hasn’t moved off the drive since March and with DH not back in the office until next year it was unlikely to move before then either. Trying to decide what frivolous shit to spend the cash on (although DH wants a snazzy new fridge freezer 💤)

You're forgiven Littlebelina. As long as it's not your new hobby

I agree on rules vs roolz. I'm a bit of a Hermione Granger type, generally obedient, but happy to deviate in a good cause.

Like school uniform. I can see the sense in a dress code and sense of unity (although I enjoyed my two experiences of non-unform schools) Strict roolz on blazers at all times (especially in heatwaves that one always eroded my respect for SLT) and nitpicking over exact skirts and trousers don't enhance learning and waste huge amounts of time and cause bad feeling.

There was one time that school was having a blitz on uniform and on this day of the week, the class went directly to p1. I asked a girl why she was wearing skinny jeans, got a Vicky Pollard-esque tirade, asked her to make it less obvious by untucking the jumper so some of the non-uniform details were not on display. She kicked off. I issued a detention for non uniform and being arguementative. The parents complained that I was insensitive to her personal circumstances and bullying her citing the other sanctions I issued. We held an enquiry trawling through the consequences given, comparing others, HoD remembered the disruption one day during an observation where she had to wade in because pupil refused to leave after exhausting the sanctions process... then a meeting with pupil and family where I basically promised to just be a good, fair teacher which I am anyway
Hours of stress and aggro all caused because the roolz required me to comment on a non-regulation pair of trousers that did not inhibit learning anyway.

I would love it if all this shit encourages an evaluation of education in this country and a realisation that we don't need a starchy curriculum, teach to the test, death bu OFSTED starchy uniforms etc. I'm not holding my breath...
The biggest things that cripple the system is underfunding and the political data/ testing culture. So much being seen to do the right thing and evidencing it. Data analysis rarely showed what you instinctively observed anyway.
Once we were discussing our pupils' performance and their barriers to learning. One pupil's name was mentioned, and the barriers to learning? The trial about their sibling's murder was coming up. Yep, that's enough to knock most pupils off-kilter really.

What are all your thoughts on theme parks? Will the queues be even longer do you think because half the seats will be empty? I'm desperate to go but the last time I went years ago it was stupidly rammed so we could barely get on anything.

@Orangeblossom78

It just reminded me of the crisps on a bench - what is it about crisps?

just seen this dementing about 'people going out' for the night the next dementoring I guess

"they'll claim mental health and all sorts as factors as to why they should be allowed to go out and drink etc"

Not virtuous. They'll clog your arteries and make you obsese so you'll be hogging too many ventilators.

I had crisps for breakfast. Nice bit of salt and starch for my run

Murdering people used to be easy when I could just do it by running and panting, but now I'll have to up my game and go to the pub

@Cattermole it isn't your job to bail her out at all.

I'm in Oxfordshire slightly more specifically for the table..

@Cattermole I went NC with mum years ago not for alcohol, but that is a factor now I hear. But for my family and my sanity. I deal with the housing association, they phone me when she falls and ask do I want to go round, no I say just call the ambulance. I sound like a dreadful daughter but I was 50 before I said enough, my brothers and their wives had called it a day 20 years before because she was so awful.

Well the caveman diet went like this today for OH, breakfast two eggs and chorizo fried. Lunch four slices of bacon and fried tomatoes. Dinner will be sea bass, vegetables (which he is not keen on) I am having some new potatoes with mine.

I'd guess they'd feel quite normal? Less capacity on rides, but less people allowed in. Queues might look long with distancing but move up much more quickly.

The zoo felt 90% normal. Just overlooking the play areas and lack of indoor enclosures. The one way system was good other than not short cutting to a toilet when the block was closed off two people away from getting in.

@TuckMyWin

Bleurgh. Newbury not opening play parks. Apparently it's just too difficult. Because, germs. 🙄 Very glad to be just over the border in Basingstoke.

Ridiculous. Play areas in Hampshire and Wiltshire are opening thankfully.

However my parents live in the New Forest and the majority of campsites are all owned by one company and they have decided not to open. These arent big sites with swimming pools are communal areas, half of them dont even have toilets! Its literally a bit of forest with a few fresh water taps. How it can be "too dangerous" is baffling and it's going to have a devastating effect on tourism in the area which has already had a huge hit since Easter.

mightbe all being well DS will be going to Alton Towers with his cousins week after next. You've got to book tickets online in advance - they seem a bit cheaper than normal - and numbers are restricted, although think they are only doing every other row on the rides, so queues may be as long as normal.
It's probably a good time to go if you normally find theme parks too busy.

Isn’t the caveman diet about non processed food?

I might have known I'd get sense out of you lot :-)

It's not even a matter of no contact. It's just the constant drip drip drip of neediness. I mean yesterday - you've got to remember here she's pottering about naked except for those net pants you get in hospitals - oh she says, I've got a poo stuck in my bottom. (those words exactly)
WTAF am I supposed to do about that? Really?
Can I come down and make her a drink. She's run out of anti-depressants. She can't find her purse.
I note that despite having a phone next to the bed she hasn't phoned me today to tell me if her key worker has been etc, she's waiting for me to call her.... it's a tiny little if-you-really-loved-me power trip.

I mean I live about 500 yards away, so it's not a massive trip round the houses, it's just...I have one child, he's 10 and he will grow up. I also have a job, a DH, and a right to a life.

@BarkandCheese

👋 to all other Kentish maids and maids of Kent.

DD has an optician appointment today, we have to wear masks for this and it’ll be the very first time I’ve actually worn one despite having made a butt load of them.

I spoke to my sister in Leicester yesterday, she is not happy at having her hair appointment postponed. She lives right on the edge of the “red zone” as well, about as far from the outbreak as you can get. Apparently police are doing spot checks on people and number plates to make sure they’re not breaking the boundaries. I didn’t ever think I’d see something like that in England in my lifetime.

I'm struggling to find any legal basis for this. There's been no change to legislation that I can find to enforce a local lockdown in this way.