AD's! Rishi needs you to Go Down For Your Town

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New thread. Do your civic duty.

@chocolatesweets That’s incredibly hard right now- and no, they’ll probably never stop running in different directions.

Tell a lie, and you’ll do the same as me because you’re on this thread. I took mine to a maze and they both tore off down the hill into the maze. I could’ve run off after them and
Frantically searched. Instead I muttered Ffs, turned on my heel and got a coffee from the gift shop. Not only did they find each other, but they found me again too.

Haven't caught up with the thread but had to post say I'm out! Alone!
Dropped DS2 at his weightlifting club, first one since it shut. They're doing it outside.
I popped into town, managed to pick up some bargains in an open charity shop (most missed activity for me) and am now sitting alone outside a cafe having a coffee. Bliss.
Barbers wasn't busy so may get DS2 in when we're done.

[quote Teateaandmoretea]@Willitneverend the way I look at it is that places like mumsnet show you what really goes on in some people’s heads that we didn’t know about before.[/quote]
Yes to this. For example, I discovered that there are people who deliberately drive in the middle lane as they are not confident of changing lanes, so obviously that's the thing to do.

@LethargicLumpOfLockdownLard weight lifting club sounds good. May I ask how old your dc is?

i discovered that there are people who deliberately drive in the middle lane as they are not confident of changing lanes, so obviously that's the thing to do

What?! As a not very confident driver myself that makes no sense to me. Stay in the bloody left lane don't go in the middle!!

@TrustTheGeneGenie it's nuts. I always assumed people just forgot to pull back in, but no! It seems to a thing.

Morning.

A baked potato wrapped in foil is not an acceptable substitute for cake!

The cake (& I mean a bog-standard sponge slathered with butter cream, with a paper cake-frill & recycled candles from last year balanced on top, & not the fancy-pants creations of Bake-Off standards) was the best bit of a birthday party (even better than the Magic Uncle or the Pass the Parcel sweets).

Once the birthday child had blown out the candles they were re-lit and re-blown out by as many young guests as wanted a turn at blowing.

I'm thinking that there are many adults in their 40s/50s now with healthy immune systems as a result of Cake Germs?

And in the time it's taken for me to type this I have slain 50 pensioners, & if Chris Whitty gets to hear of it he will need a lie-down.

At the start of lockdown it was DD's birthday. She's an adult but we still do cake. She decided not to blow out the candles for the greater good. DH had a birthday a few weeks ago- we lit the candles, we looked at each other & said, "Go for it!"

@chocolatesweets toddler groups saved me. I don't know how anyone is coping without those little lifelines. Hang on in there.

[quote Mascotte]@TrustTheGeneGenie it's nuts. I always assumed people just forgot to pull back in, but no! It seems to a thing.[/quote]
It's one thing I'm not bad at weirdly!

I don't much like motorway driving but it's the wagons pulling alongside me that I don't like. I'm the same as a passenger though it just freaks me out.

It's silly because in my old job I've had to stand in front of a good many wagons and direct them out of small spaces and that never got me? Don't know why.

Bloody hell, I was following that thread last night and couldn’t quite believe the lunacy about a blown-on birthday cake, but I obviously came off before it went really batshit. A potato wrapped in foil has its place, but the place is in the embers at a bonfire party, not at a birthday tea!

@SockYarn to add to the word list, please can we ban adverts etc that say, "We are living in uncertain times."

Life has always been "uncertain", & always will be.

To use a popular expression of my DF's when I'm dithering, "There's only too certainties in life, Orchid, change and death."

It's bad enough when the chip shop fails to hear the word "two" at the start of your order due to the perspex screen and you find yourself with 4 hungry people and one small portion of chips!

Very MN though, we only have one small portion of chips between 4 people

Sat in a pub garden and had a lovely time! I love the table service and lots of extra space 🍷

I've been a lurker on these threads since they started, but I'm delurking after spending my morning reading the horror of the "wear a fucking mask" threads and the cling film on a birthday cake/potato wrapped in foil debacle. I think I'm just going to stay in the safety of these threads for now. Thank you all for reminding me that there are some people who haven't gone completely mad...

Welcome @Shesingsshangrila - one of the things which has discombobulated me the most throughout all this crapness is the feeling that I am totally out of sync with family members, friends, work colleagues. And then I found these threads and realised I wasn’t alone ...

@BogRollBOGOF 😂 you must’ve been stuffed after. Our family of 16 shares a saveloy and chips and I can’t eat the day after.

Shesingsshangrila - welcome!
I thought I was going insane before I found these threads.

Just been to the local shopping park with the smallest to go to Hobbycraft. It was relatively really quiet, 10.45 on a Saturday and loads of empty car parking spaces. People either totally avoiding it or just doing the minimum and leaving I guess. Not good.

A baked potato wrapped in foil is not an acceptable substitute for cake!

It's worse then cheese in coffee as milk substitute.

We've done cake candles and no-one here died or suffered any ill effects.

**A baked potato wrapped in foil is not an acceptable substitute for cake!

But it does make a handy missile...

@BogRollBOGOF my boy and I got two giant fish suppers by accident with his pizza delivery the other night 😃

I rang the shop to say we hadn't ordered them in case someone else was deprived, but they insisted I had, so we just had to eat them 😃

And the baked potato thing is just fucking stupid

Children who would happily accept a baked potato in lieu of birthday cake come from the same fables as children heard in Waitrose asking “can we get more olives and aubergine mummy?”.

I'm quite sad mini masvotte's birthday is past. I'd love to have tried this on him 😂

Story in the local paper where I grew up.

Is it terrible that my first thought was how on Earth are they going to mow the grass? Someone is going to have to pick up all those pebbles or they are going to wreck the lawnmowers.

I bet the council are really cross. If they do send someone in to pick up the pebbles, a load of people will say that they are disrespecting the sadly dead.

@insaneInTheViralMembrane Sat 11-Jul-20 03:24:05

A nod to the over-population- I think we’re well overdue a “population correction”, but covid is not it.

I agree but I do think that maybe 100 / 150 years down the line, if the world is struggling even more with over population and nothing has happened in the meantime, there may be a wish that a larger % of people died from this historical event.