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New thread. Do your civic duty.

It ISNT just haircuts. Sorry. Fat fingers

The baked potato thing is hilarious! Poor poor children, their life really truly is sapped of all joy isn't it! As you say, we've all grown up eating cake that's been effectively spat on by all the children at the party and by some miracle survived!!

Just back from hairdressers, wore a disposable face mask, I bought some from Amazon, did irritate me a bit and pinged off my ear at one stage but I only have a dry cut, where they just wet it down a bit so was only in there for about 15 minutes, cost £20 which was up from about £17 so OK, have booked to go again in 2 months time, glad its been cut as I was starting to look like Worzel Gummage as my hair is curly and had gone frizzyish.

Re the potato birthday cake - I do think it was just for sticking the candles in so the cake wasn't breathed on. Being breathed on is rather worse than being 'darked' on I guess and some can't even tolerate that.

I remember at school we used to have an upturned tin with a cake frill round and candles stuck into plasticine on top.

Someone has done the math Tesco prices up circa 30% depending on how you shop. It is not easy when OH looks at food bills on card and asks what the heck did you buy this month. Well honey the same as usual.

Listening to a dementor fest phone on on Radio 4...that's where they all have gone!

I haven't noticed prices going up as much but there is a dearth of reduced to clear. In normal times, every single item of meat and fish in my freezer has a yellow sticker on it.

My local Asda doesn't seem to have any reduced to clear any more, or perhaps they have just changed the times they put it out. There is still a bay for it in the chilled section, but it's always completely empty in the mornings. Maybe I should go in the afternoon instead. With my muzzle, or course.

@justasking111 that sounds about right. Our weekly (Lidl) shop has gone up from about 90 to 120 a week (plus 20 with the milkman & orders of cat food/coffee/flour etc which is easily another 100 a month). Some of that is dh & dd1 not eating at work but prices have increased generally. £700 a month is insane.

Going down, eating out... we're all at it!

@torydeathdrug, well DS is home from uni. so have to cost in that bottomless pit. But he did not go till September. £700 is about the bill for the three of us on my card and OH is buying bits too.

Well just had a long walk then fish and chips - with no order mishaps.

We've been aware food prices have gone up a bit - we're still not back to any normal shopping pattern yet so bit hard to tell how much as we've swapped shops as well.

Poor poor children, their life really truly is sapped of all joy isn't it!

Why are you looking for joy in a pandemic?

Is joy necessary?

Is it? IS IT?

Yup happiness is definitely non essential.

In fact it is to be discouraged.

Repent & be penitent & the plague might pass you by.

I thought we were all supposed to be "enjoying" home schools with lots of baking depsite fact still can't get all normal ingredients long country walks which we did anyway and lots of other fun activties whcih my kids hate or we don't have time and money to do.

Afternoon all.

Been to the hairdressers with DS today. Customers are not required to wear masks. Salon owner (who cut DS's hair today) wasn't wearing a mask or a visor, though the other two stylists were masked. I have to say, having seen how PPE'd up the other salons in town are, I do think they're risking a bit of trouble if someone reports them. Based on a MN thread I saw the other day, there are plenty who would.

My hairdresser isn't charging for PPE, she is just going to use things that can be washed. I need a mask, but I'm happy to do that, my poor stylist had her wedding cancelled so in the grand scheme it is a minor irritation.

My food shopping has gone up, in part as I am no longer going to where I can get things the cheapest.

Photo of Bozza on front page of The Times (plus ultra dementory headline) wearing a mask.

DH is not pleased: Bozza is wearing the same mask that he's bought. It's like two women wearing the same outfit at a wedding.

Been for a long walk. Found a cafe with a large garden to eat lunch in. Have taken to telling the staff in these venues how much we've enjoyed their calm, organised, proportionate, pleasant set-ups.

@Orangeblossom78 Is that programme "Any Answers"? I heard it last week - it was awful. One male caller made Margaret Thatcher look liberal and compassionate; if I remember rightly, he was saying that Boris had backed himself into a corner with the furlough scheme, and that instead he should have simply said to the families who had lost their income "it is how it is", adding that there's always the welfare state. Even Anita sounded shocked.

One male caller made Margaret Thatcher look liberal and compassionate; if I remember rightly, he was saying that Boris had backed himself into a corner with the furlough scheme, and that instead he should have simply said to the families who had lost their income

He’ll be one of the ones who thinks people shouldn’t have kids that they can’t afford and that abortion should be outlawed.

**IAintentDead
I remember at school we used to have an upturned tin with a cake frill round and candles stuck into plasticine on top.

We had a polystyrene cake at school with holes in so the correct number of candles could be placed on top. The birthday child(ren) that week got to blow out the candles in Friday assembly.

No one was going to eat it, although I must say I thought it looked delicious. But there would still have been germs flying about. As there would be with the baked potato. So if there's that much anxiety why not ban candles altogether? Or only use antique silver candle-snuffers?

I have a sneaky suspicion that those who would use the baked potato have kids who secretly eat their own bogies.

@justasking111 I'd take him elsewhere but he trusts this place and won't consider anywhere else. It's hard enough to get him out of the house, as it is.

The answer is obviously a combination of plexiglass screen and remote controlled LED candles. You set the screen up in front of the birthday girl or boy between them and the cake, use a recording of the happy birthday song (no live singing allowed remember) and at the moment they blow switch off the candles using the remote. Simple .

I've noticed thsylt food special offers a creeping back in. And markses have been selling off their other brand stock that they got in when their own supply chain was struggling. I've stocked up on tilda brown basmati, 50p nicer than their own brand pasta and 65p bottles of fairy liquid! #secondwaveready

[quote Mascotte]@LethargicLumpOfLockdownLard weight lifting club sounds good. May I ask how old your dc is?[/quote]
DS2 is 12. He loves it, it was in a local gym before. They do proper deadlifting and things. Apparently today was a bit more HIIT than weights - as they couldn't cart all the stuff out the field I expect. Still loved it though, he likes his fitness (no idea where it gets it from, certainly not DH or me!).

Got his haircut, had a nice chat with the Turkish barber (Turkey seem to have done a lot better with Covid and are apparently pretty much back to normal).
One barber wearing a mask under his nose, the other wearing a visor tilted up so totally useless as he's looking down on the person being trimmed. Didn't bother me at all, but Dementors would have hated it!

Oh and barbers didn't require DS2 to be muzzled. Not even a suggestion of it. I had taken one just in case. They did ask for us to sign in with name and contact details, but that's fine by me, there was one other customer 2m away so chances of being tracked and traced are very slim.