D = fn + (p x 0) then AD = - fn - (p x 0)

[LadyOfTheImprovisedBath]

New Thread. - Hello.

We’ve had two emails from dd’s school over the last 24 hours. The first confirming proposed arrangements for September. They’re not keeping them in year groups within designated areas of the school, they’re keeping teachers in their own classrooms, and asking them to socially distance in corridors. Which seems fairly impossible in a big secondary. Anyway, it all looked ok to me. They are staggering break and lunch times by year group, but no mention of start times so I have no idea how they are going to facilitate that either. They also said that at present there was no plan for ‘school transport’ and that they were working on it.

So I’m pleased to have received a second email this morning asking me to buy a bus pass ‘as soon as possible’

My dad’s cars were always breaking down. He never had any money so he’d buy the cheapest old wreck he could find, run it into the ground, sell it for scrap when it gave up the ghost the rinse and repeat. It made journeys with him extra exciting because you never knew if you’d actually reach your destination.

DH and I were driving down a twisty, narrow country lane last weekend. We recalled the way our fathers used to drive down lanes like that, at high speed honking their horns on the bends to let oncoming traffic know they were there. It must have been a thing back in those days if they both did it.

I've stopped reading the paper. It used to be a lovely daily ritual : paper, cup of tea, cat on lap. Now it just winds me up.

I'm very selective about what I watch, listen to & read these days. Probably not good from a being informed point of view but better for my mental health.

I just want cosy stuff and a good laugh.

I’m wondering how many of us on this thread are not consumers of much TV News and adverts or other media? Perhaps that is a reason behind AD and add?

That's a good point. I've never, ever watched the daily sadly death report. Even back in March, when BJ did his 'you must all stay home' speech, I only watched the edited highlights. I switch over to the local news 5 mins before the end, so I can catch the weather and pollen count. That's it.

I’ve never watched the Daily Sadly Death show either. Just read the highlights after!

Also on the subject of safeguarding 1970s style, me and my friend were annoying teachers pets and when we were in year 6 (or top juniors as it was known then) we used to run an errand for our teacher (the deputy head) every morning break time. We would go round the corner to the post office/corner shop, bank the takings from the previous day's break snack sales (crisps, sweets, chocolate naturally) then buy our teacher his ham barm for lunch (I'm a northerner by birth) plus 20 silk cut. Aged 10

Flipping Jennie Harries. She looks nearly dead herself. (sorry but she does)

I always think she is Yasmeen from Coronation Street.

I don't watch news at all: I just dip in to the BBC news website once a day, and I DEFINITELY don't watch the briefings.

Long before Covid, I read an article "why news is bad for you", which advocated a total news detox for a month, adding that if something important happened in the world, you would find out one way or another. Although lots of people thought this article was deluded, I think it had very sound advice, and I've been much more relaxed about news ever since.

I don't watch or read much news either. Visit the BBC website once a day for a review of the highlights, but focusing mostly on news that seems to be about interesting things and not politics or COVID, and then that's me done. Unless there's an interesting link on here and even then, if it looks dementorish I stop reading.

I've always been the same. So I'm not the best informed person on the planet, but my mental health is pretty good.

Good news the Zoe app has changed to reporting local figures per million. 424 active cases per million in my area.

I've never watch it either - I just looked the slides & read the highlights. The covid data sites are useful though I avoid the worldometers one because I'm not at all convinced by its reliability.

Once I did see a clip - one with Jennie Harries ... OMG she is the worst kind of nannying schoolmarmy patronising medic imaginable ... immediately put my back up, everything about her is a windup. I imagine she's St Jennie amongst certain circles though.

Oh I am frothing. Just seen the proposals for the school that's not blazed a trail of glory throughout this for September and they're fucking shocking. Kids sat facing one direction for meals with chatter discouraged... 3 year olds taught to practice walking 1m away from each other for the first few weeks of term. Fucking disgraceful. Fucking inhumane.

Oh and uni - we're getting 1 day a fortnight of on-campus teaching. For a patient-facing course as well... placement replaced by "practical activities" (read "try to take a case history from your mate without feeling like a prat and giggling")

I avoid the news and haven't watched any Sadly Death shows, apart from the Lockdown Hurrah show because DD2 wanted to watch it - she is 16 and wanted someone to watch it and discuss it with her. We don't have terrestrial television in this house because the previous tenants cut the cable off to get Virgin and I'm not lining Branson's pockets.

I look at the BBC and (please don't hate me) the Daily Mail once a day. They seem to be opposite ends on the reporting bias so I try to get a hang of what's happening. Most of my news comes from Prof Sikora on Twitter as he's such an optimist and talks sense.

I have found an excellent way to mitigate the effect of the hand sanitiser. I live opposite my supermarket so before I leave the house I wash my hands and then when I get to the shop I only pretend to depress the hand pump and make a show of rubbing my hands together. Partly because I don't like what it does to my skin but mostly, if I'm honest, because I just don't like being told what to do!

Loving all the childhood stories.

I was born in the 60s so 1970s were great times. Out all day eith friends roaming the countryside on bikes, goung to beaches, rivers etc. We went berry picking all of us kids and adults picked up in a transit van, everyone sitting on the floor in the back!
Zooming down the road in a 'bogey' my papa made, long enough for 2 or 3 of us. Climbing trees, tree swings (for one of them the lads used to stand on top of a huge wall and jump off hanging onto the rope I stayed at ground level you could do a running swing high enough😄!)
All normal in rural Scotland but I have seen some hysterics on here when its mentioned our kids were doing the same now! (Not the transit van) I saw a poster claim that thier 11yr old had never crossed a car park without her holding their hand and wouldnt until she was sure they were sensible enough and at high school! Hysterics at kids playing outside in thier own street with each other, never allowed to go to the local park with mates. Wtf happened to childhood?

Oh and I still toot my horn at some places locally as you can't see if something is coming round some of our tight bends in narrow roads.😄

3 year olds taught to practice walking 1m away from each other for the first few weeks of term

Oh no that makes me sad and angry all at once. There is no need for that. It's damaging!

Anyone remember when the news often finished with a lighthearted, heartwarming or funny story after all the doom and gloom? Imagine that now!!

I use flexitol foot and leg lotion for my hands. Also use soap rather than hand-wash, when I can.

@TrustTheGeneGenie

3 year olds taught to practice walking 1m away from each other for the first few weeks of term

Oh no that makes me sad and angry all at once. There is no need for that. It's damaging!

That gives me the rage and sadness too. What the fuck are we doing to our children for the sake of a virus which hardly anyone in the country actually has.

I just can’t understand the madness of it all.

DSs speech therapist has just been. She is so pleased with how well DS’s speech has come on since she last saw him (just before lockdown, then we had a couple of zoom sessions then stopped). And DS was so delighted to see her, and cried when she left.

No malarkey about trying to socially distance from a small child, and she didn’t wear a mask (although did offer to - I said no thanks), just sensible measures like having the windows open for ventilation, we all checked our temperatures before she came and she washed her hands as soon as she came in. All her toys and games are also disinfected between clients - in her bathtub, apparently...!

Felt so good to regain another little piece of normality!

I was brought up watching a lot of news.

Boris terrified me with the if you have the flu vaccine you're at high risk speach as that was DS and I. I was aware before that but doing lots of handwashing and keep distance.

Since then released that a lot of the media are really behind with the information.

Just got cheque through for most of the money for cancelled school trips so that's done.

Now waiting to hear what Welsh educaton minster had to say about schools in September.

My attitude to risk has definitely impacted how I've raised my boys. They climbed absolutely everything. They started going to Booths for me for things like milk when they were about 7 (I do genuinely live a 30 second walk away). I did it very much on purpose ie crossed them over the minor road the first time, watched them the second time etc etc I basically put them in risky situations, which I could monitor from a distance, in order to teach them to judge risk for themselves. Don't know if I would necessarily have done all that if we lived somewhere different, or even had daughters, but living in the centre of a small rural town meant I felt quite comfortable. They started getting the train to school when they went to senior school which wasn't easy to do initially but they adored the freedom of it.

I think I was possibly too lax sometimes but the people at the other end of the spectrum then send their 18 year old to Uni with zero ability to judge a situation for themselves and, in my opinion, those are the ones who go nuts when they get there.

@DominaShantotto I'm sorry about your uni course. The placement situation & lack of patient contact is worrying. We take HCP students on placements and we've had nothing from the unis. We're wondering how to accommodate students but we feel strongly that they need the hands-on experience with real patients.

I'll say no more, but I sincerely hope you complete your course. I am very handy with a laminator, which you mentioned in a previous thread...

I read too much news and probably over share it on here- I'll stop if people are avoiding it. Usually just to laugh at it though if it is particularly dementory or something.

Oh, the primary are telling us they are quarantining the school books for several days before they are taken home and the children are the last to touch it. And the system for signing T shirts (end of primary ritual) all need own pens. wash hands after. etc. All a bit stressful. I guess they may have anxiosu parents. We got a special video before they went back showing us the classrooms and how safe they are etc etc.

DH had a increbeily relaxed to point of dangerous amount of freedom as a child - playing in open coal mines from young age ending up on a house roof at 3- and I had super restricted as first girl which just got more and more older I got.

We try and balance each other out.