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@DominaShantotto

Dh has put the news on which is so "woooo face masks are awesome" it's knocked me right down again (good job the GP is ringing tomorrow as my mental health is now quality of life none existent).

And the twits out the back are drinking again so will be loud all night again.

Kids have had such a good weekend sleeping over with their friends though - took a long while for DD2 to not want to hug up on my lap and go interact with other kids as she didn't quite know if she was allowed to or the rules of interacting with them or anything though which was heartbreaking to see. She's normally the kid who can make three friends before she's got in a playground gate.

She'll get it back as her confidence adjusts. Her personality won't change.

Still having trouble getting DS2 to want to see other children past his mental wall, even though really he misses his friends. Bloody men... even when they're 7!

When we saw some friends yesterday I did advice my two no hugging and kissing (they're very eurgh kissing at the moment anyway ) Not that it was an optio.n with our friend acting like we're unclean (despite no school or workplaces). At least we saw them though.

Feel like such a feeble idiot!

I put this on another thread, but I have a face covering like this and it feels maybe a bit less scary... I'm trying. Thinking Scheherazade 😘

@BogRollBOGOF @DominaShantotto Don't worry, I think they will get back to normal. DD2 was edgy about what's "allowed" for a week or so and now she's totally back to normal. To the point where she apparently saw a ballet friend at the park today and they flung their arms round each other and kissed on both cheeks. Lol, I'm surprised I haven't had social services round!

@Jourdain11

Thank you for the tips. I tried the breathing thing and it did help a bit.

I just keep tearing up and it's weird. I barely ever cry!

I had a week like that in June. Most of June was crappy anyway on social restrictions alone without any other life shit involved.

@Mascotte

I put this on another thread, but I have a face covering like this and it feels maybe a bit less scary... I'm trying. Thinking Scheherazade 😘

Oh, and White Stuff - do you know it? - have nice ones! Very Scheherezade!

This crying thing must be a lockdown thing. I never cry but am now often teary.

[quote Jourdain11]**@BogRollBOGOF* @DominaShantotto* Don't worry, I think they will get back to normal. DD2 was edgy about what's "allowed" for a week or so and now she's totally back to normal. To the point where she apparently saw a ballet friend at the park today and they flung their arms round each other and kissed on both cheeks. Lol, I'm surprised I haven't had social services round![/quote]
That's lovely.

I'm so going to cry when I get my children back into school.
Mainly from the aggro of getting them out of the house in the morning after 6 months off.
Then the joy of normality.
Then skipping out of the playground exclaiming "FREEDOM!!!!"

A couple of weeks before lockdown, the headteacher observed how I stand at the playground, watch them go in, and then my shoulders drop with relief as the tension flows out
We're normally in the nick of time despite my best efforts each day, but at least we're not one of the families that abandons at the gates and the child saunters straight to the office assuming that they're late.

And I'll google the White stuff ones.. trying to go for full disguise from my pallid plump Scottish self.

@Mascotte

This crying thing must be a lockdown thing. I never cry but am now often teary.

Honestly, I think it's the isolation. If I think how many people I normally see, spend time with, talk to, in a week... Now I only see DH and the kids, and healthcare professionals who feed poison into my veins 😆

Saw this on the news earlier.

www.itv.com/news/2020-07-12/seriously-ill-children-at-risk-due-to-ventilator-equipment-shortages-charity-warns

Yeah, @Jourdain11 I suppose at least the poison in my veins is self administered 🍷

Vegged out in front of tv watching 'Still Game' and laughing out loud like a crazy person. That show is better than any tonic😀

Don't be so hard on yourself Jourdain11 hells teeth you have much more than most on your plate right now and we are all having days when we can barely move if the sofa or burst into tears over nothing. Hope all the suggestions help. I might try that yoga myself it might help me get to sleep a bit sooner than 2am!

Our council have been doing online birth registrations.

@Mascotte and @Jourdain emotionally all over the place here too. I am another who tends to be 'stoic'. Tend to avoid films etc which will make me whinge. Currently it doesn't matter what it is, the most minor thing seems to set me off. I said on a previous thread that Car Share did it last week. I was literally laughing and crying simultaneously. Today I contacted someone linked to one of dc1's favourite shows and they sent me a lovely response which had me off 🙄 i'm a liability honestly. I think the situation and the isolation have brought emotions much closer to the surface for everyone though, as a fair few people I have spoken to have said they are the same.

@HeIenaDove

I was 12 in 1985.

@PickAChew and the other 80s kids on the thread. Tomorrow ITV4 start repeat runs of Robin of Sherwood and Dempsey and Makepeace.

I don't think DS1 will have any of that.

We've ended up watching amazing spaces because there's a couple converting a vintage Paxton Panorama Elite coach into a holiday home.

YY I know what you mean. I think Robin of Sherwood will have stood the test of time. But i dont think D&M will have aged well.

In the dentists chair last week, I’m sitting there feeling a bit tense. The first needle goes in, okay never pleasant but not exactly like ramming a cattle prod up there.
As it quickly begins to numb , I feel a slight second jab, then nothing as the however many others I had went in.
While the dentist was sorting out what else was needed, I started to dry sob. I could feel the tears welling up at the sides of my eyes., while my body’s having little sobby shakes.
Omg I was so embarrassed..but honestly I could’ve sat and how,ed for England.
I did manage to rein it in and no one noticed , but what a wally I would’ve felt if I’d let go.
I’m convinced it was some sort of fear release from everything that’s gone on these last 4 months, starting with getting evacuated from Tenerife , mid March.

I certainly have felt more tears during this time.

Oh hey 3.30am. Nice to see you.

@Jourdain11 hope you had a better night last night.

@Dowser I bet you wouldn't have been the first or last if you had!

@NothingIsWrong I hope you're asleep now! DH is snoring so loud it's actually hurting my ears so I guess I'd better start some work in the hope of maybe finishing at a decent hour today.

Hope everyone else is doing ok. I went through a phase of being very tearful all the time in June. It's defo a lockdown thing. Not sure my current method of trying not to think too hard about schools/when my kids will get to do any extra curricular/how I'll manage work with patchy schooling and no wraparound/when I'll get to just casually chat with other mums is actually any healthier but there you go!

Please can I have all your collective positive thoughts this morning as I try and get through to the special TUI "we've fucked up your holiday" number.
After yesterday's debacle I wake up this morning to a reply to a social media Message I sent before I realised their call centre is now open at weekends.
They say its not cancelled.
So after the call centre yesterday told me it was cancelled and I should get an email. However the email was supposed to go on friday and it didn't. I'll get it by the end of this week. Which is what was said last week.
In just one week I have been told its cancelled, then its not cancelled, then it may be cancelled, then it is cancelled now they are telling me its not. In the meantime we know our hotel is still closed and won't be opening, all we want to do is have some certainty as we are due to travel in just a few weeks.
This is utterly shocking. The mixed emails and information I have had from them in one week.
All i want to do is change my holiday to have some certainty which I could've done for free last week but not now.
I didnt last week as they told me they were cancelling it anyway.

@LivinLaVidaLoki try Twitter tagging Simon Calder too? Worth a try? Fingers crossed their helpline is actually helpful today

Hi all. I had a lovely normal weekend. Camping and National Trust, both felt normal apart from the toilet queue at the National Trust venue.

Straight back to dementorville today, with mask monitors stood along the platform in case I’m one of the 1533 in a million locally who has the virus. None of them seem particularly well trained and none have been familiar with the ‘get out of mask wearing’ card. It is my civic duty to educate them 😷

Hoping everyone who needs a better day today, has one.

Loki fingers crossed for you.

My Lockdown Crying comes in cycles : utter misery & desperation, then we do something fairly normal like sit on a bench to eat ice cream & life is good, then something happens that's a reminder that it's not normal and off I go again with the tears.

I'm having a lovely time at my Mum's. The change of scene is really helping.

Good luck with the educating @Worldgonecrazy.

It feels like Dispair narrative is becoming the accepted line. I can't even fight it at the moment, just resist it quietly and hope it changes.

Until the media gets bored of this particular hobby horse, they will continue to cause harm.