ADs getting ready

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Sorry it’s a bit of a lame title.

Bah! We walked to 4 different playgrounds and they were all closed. Then we walked past the heaving local Weatherspoons and witnessed a very drunk man with his trousers at half mast, pissing against a shop window.

We haven’t been anywhere exciting today, it’s been a typical July day - pissing it down. I couldn’t even muster up the energy to go to Wilkos. Instead I have napped for most of the afternoon because there is nothing else to do.

I have managed to book a new cleaner to start a week on Monday so at least I won’t have to clean my own house anymore.

Interesting. It seems that a lot of people in the hospitality industry are very happy to be back (grumbles are more about how all the measures make things much more difficult).

Shop workers, hairdressers / barbers, just taking it on the chin.

@Lickyicelollies coined government muzzle. 😁 I just stole it.

The Bogrolls are currently going round and round on a roundabout in the city's big playground. Between the time and uninspiring (but not unpleasant) weather, it's pleasantly quiet. This place can be heaving, like if I wanted to abandon my children and make it look accidental, this would be the place to do it I didn't dare bring them here on my own until DS2 was school age after realising I made a horrible mistake bringing them when they were toddlers and they just bolted in opposite directions.

The welsh really are batshit, eating outdoors table service from 13th, closing railway stations because platforms too short, pedestrianising the towns so people can shop safely, Powys police patrolling the borders to stop welsh escaping for a pint this weekend.

Noddy and Mr. Plod running the country at the moment.

Have been doing a nice NHS pilates video online for lower back pain which was suprisingly good. Think the tension has been getting to it, as well as slumping over the laptop pretending to be supervising the DC 'schooling' thankfully DH has taken them out.

I am wishing for a week, alone, eating random cereal from a packed and not making meals every 2 hrs (or so it seems)

I'm so relieved town seemed normal today. Living right in the centre in a flat, it makes such a difference. It has felt a bit like PND again being all stuck at home together.

I met a complete stranger in a service station to hand over something.I was selling. He paid in filthy cash. How many deaths am I responsible for? He was on his way home from viewing a horse, I had been to the supermarket in a hotspot borough AND the garden centre. Surely that must cause a second wave?

@AgentCooper true, if the 'rona doesn't get you the pigeon shit will!

A construction company that builds houses is selling off all its show homes bits and pieces, DIL and I are going to the warehouse on Wednesday to see what is worth buying, it is cash only which made me think wow, cash, have not seen that in a long time.

@InsaneInTheViralMembrane thanks for the nod - gees we're a polite bunch!

@orangeblossom78 I have so many knots in my shoulders from the tension of life. Lots of stretching but I've also trained my eldest daughter to give massages. She stands on the bed and grinds her heels into my shoulders - its fabulous. Can't wait to have a proper professional massage though

@Supermarketworker06 I love babies, so gorgeous

[quote Mascotte]@Supermarketworker06 I love babies, so gorgeous[/quote]
I've never had my own babies which is probably a good thing in some ways, because I'd just have spent the whole time sniffing them. It was a sad day when I saw Youngest Nephew for the first time in a few months and his little head had stopped smelling of Essence of Baby.

What is that smell and why do babies smell of it?

The mum of one of DD’s classmates has just had a baby. Despite being completely done with that stage of life I did have a little pang of broody envy at the thought of sniffing a tiny downy head, and that little piglet snuffle newborns do as they snuggle on your chest.

Fuck! Just saw a medium sized rodent in the garden, which I think was a young rat. It walked under the shed...walked, didn't run.

I have never been able to smell that baby smell.

But I do like to squidge a fat baby knee.

@HesterShaw1 I don't know! I got my dcs by accident. I'm not a kid person. But babies just get me. Before they can move or speak

I've never been able to detect that "essence of baby" smell either. Even on my own kids their heads always just smelt of hair and skin to me (is smelt a word?!)

My second baby is 14 weeks now and well and truly out of the scrunchy newborn phase. I'm really sad that nobody else in the family got to see her at that age but sort of glad that I had her all to myself. She isnt cuddly at all now, just wants to be put down even when shes asleep

I am sad that all my grandchildren arrived pretty much together because mums wanted to have a family unit quickly. So I will not get to hold another one.

HesterShaw1 babies smell of milk, Johnson's baby shampoo and, in the bad old days, Johnson's baby talcum powder. They stop smelling of it when they can rub their dinner (or in some cases, shit!) in their hair. Trust me on the shit one!

USA is preparing to say this.

'Learn to live with it': White House prepares to tell the nation that COVID-19 will become a part of life as Trump rails against more lockdowns amid case surge

frugi my first was like that. It is why I get really annoyed with the "always pick them up as soon as they cry" rhetoric, as it would just make her cry even more.

In contrast the 3rd was a bloody limpet, even now at 8 she wants to be touching me all the time.

Smelt is fine, though you might not want to smelt a baby :o
www.dictionary.com/browse/smelt

@justasking111

I am sad that all my grandchildren arrived pretty much together because mums wanted to have a family unit quickly. So I will not get to hold another one.

Unless they have babies? I will just have to hang on for great nieces and nephews now! Unless boyf's daughter becomes a stepdaughter and has some. Though she's adamant she doesn't want kids. Not sure about boy child. He is 16 so does nothing but grunt at the moment

DH cycled to the village pub to collect our takeaway this evening. He said the sound of people in there made him feel quite emotional. The sounds of people socialising and chatting and living.

Given that he is not given to emotion generally, this is quite something!