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

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@PinkFondantFancy
I don't have twitter. Have just received an email from the hotel confirming they are closed, hopefully this will help me in my battle against TUI

Good luck with the holiday battle, Loki.

Seems crazy that they are being so obstructive at a time when convincing people to book holidays despite uncertainty is so important to them.

@LivinLaVidaLoki sounds rubbish, and could you get twitter just for this? I've found it really good for complaints!

On the bright side @Mascotte, the type of face coverings you've shown would cover up the double chins I appear to have gained over lockdown. I have a week of social activity ahead, starting today with a birthday picnic. However, the weather isn't looking great here, so think of me shivering in a damp field later.

Not my birthday, I hasten to add. I'd be celebrating indoors.

@MaudesMum that's no accident 😃

Enjoy your damp picnic...

Dowser after a bad experience as a 5yo I was severely dentist phobic. I bet you never drawn blood biting one, like I did aged 8.

@Dowser don't worry about it I cry almost every time I go to the dentist. I had a really awful one as a child and I've never really got over it. As it happens I can't open my mouth wide enough to go now anyway!

@PinkFondantFancy did you find the data you were looking for? If you look at by specimen date it is actually useful. Nowhere is really alarming - the Hereford spike (an actual spike!) was a bit wtf but that’s the farm).

@NothingIsWrong you & me both :(

Lots of fucking stupid (family related mainly) shite this weekend ... ‘oh he has regressed hasn’t he’ about ds1 losing most of his communication & social skill .... err yes that’s what I’ve been freaking out about for the last 4 months but apparently is no big deal when doh there’s a pandemic on. I’m under a lot of pressure to enjoy myself / book a holiday go camping blah blah - ... ds literally can’t leave the house.

Another week if harassing the NHS - harrowing article in the Torygraph about just how bad it is - have made progress with private. My gynae is actually seeing me on Wednesday - in person !!!! - after triaging me & concluding that I’m very unlikely to die even if I did catch it in the hospital.

I’m in constant pain from my hip now - I managed a few hours sleep with a large amount of codeine but it’s making me slightly insane.

@LivinLaVidaLoki bastards ... I’m crossing everything, one of us ADs needs get out of this lunatic country (it’s like The Great Escape ... obviously hope the outcome is better!). My friend is still in Tuscany ... no plans to come back! She’s Swedish though & has a more robust attitude to life that many.

@Nihiloxica that sounds lovely. WRT my fam helping with dropping dd at uni - they are planning to be in (self imposed) lockdown from September until next May/or vaccine regardless of what BJ says. My brother & his family still haven’t left their house.

Oh & because facial Botox is still verboten I resorted to cutting myself a fringe - I have curly hair so it looks ridiculous but at least I can’t see the bloody scowl lines on my face.

@torydeathdrug blimey what are their reasons for that? Next may?!

@torydeathdrug. If there are children involved surely that’s a major safeguarding issue. Do the family have mental health issues? Actually, that’s a stupid question. Obviously there are massive mental health issues if anyone is really that scared.

@LivinLaVidaLoki hope you get the holiday sorted. We are booked for October and the closer it gets the more worried I am about a late cancellation.

We want to book two holidays for next year but the flights and ferries aren’t up yet.

I was awake for about an hour, then awake again at 5.30. Had to leave at 7 for work, so now I'm rather bleary eyed. Also, I suspect the tail end of the hangover is lingering as well....

My current issue is access to toilets. First site visit was to a building that was locked, the caretaker couldn't even get in so I said I'd come back later when they'd worked out what was up. Second one is to an unoccupied property, so the water is drained down, no luck there. Petrol station says no. Library is closed. McDonald's is drive through only, no toilets. Waitrose might be a possibility but FFS

for everyone who is having such a rough time at the moment. Its when I read posts like yours that I'm actually thankful to have been working almost as normal through the lockdown - I've been keeping our engineering factory going so our key customers get their orders! I hated the fact that I couldn't work from home or be furloughed but now I'm thanking my lucky stars that I've had such a normal routine.

It is getting to me though - why are so many adults incapable of thinking for themselves? I hate the idea of muzzles but will wear one if it becomes A Rule in shops. I will just not go to the shops as much. But on GMB this morning, there was someone berating the lack of clarity about facemasks - should we or shouldn't we wear one? Just be a grown up and make your own effing decision! Why do so many people have to be told what to do? Are we so pathetic that we can't think for ourselves anymore? If you feel better (or want to) then wear a mask. If you don't then don't wear a mask! Its not rocket science. Similarly if you want to go out for a walk in the middle of nowhere then don't wait to be told you're 'allowed' - do your own risk assessment and just go if you feel its sensible/safe!

Sorry for the rant - I'm finding that I'm much more easily irritated these days

The kids are all grown up - 18+ & just as odd about it tbh ... they are all IT geeks working in the family business and barely mix at the best of times ... the ASD genes are strong in my family. They have a huge house/garden/outbuildings & can’t understand why anyone would go out by choice. Brother has had to go out two or three times but my SIL & two of the kids have not left the house since pre lockdown in March. He’s taking my niece back to uni in September, they are planning a convoluted quarantined/testing regime for if she wants to come back for holidays. I think she’ll think fuck it & stay at uni. Plus her uni is tiny in Cornwall & as I said she doesn’t really mix ... if she caught anything I’d be gobsmacked!

My mum & dad are second wavers, though they are so inconsistent it’s funny - yesterday they gave ds2 a hug because he had a sleepover there last week, dd2 is going this week so she’ll be huggable some time next week!

I'm waiting for the GP to phone and I'm going to request the strongest happy pills they have available. I've gone from being in a really good place mental health wise - considering coming off the anti-ds altogether - to being a wreck. My mum thinks we're opening up too fast and just wants to complain about my brother (although she is horrified at the impact this has had on all the children), my brother's the ultimate doom-monger who gave my mum no end of shit about her "corona cut" and how she's not going to know if she's OK until 14 days later when the incubation period has ran out - came to her house to see her and kept shouting at her for not following 2m distancing... in HER garden... and DH is starting to unravel from being the relentlessly optimistic one he confided last night. I told him that actually what I needed right now was someone to agree with me that this is crap, the world's gone to bullshit and just let me fucking vent and join in with it!

The kids have now taken to yelling "chiiiiiiiiin hammock" everytime we drive past someone who is wearing a mask like that as well!

Morning all. 🤞@LivinLaVidaLoki, cannot believe how crap Tui are being. Hope you get somewhere today.
@torydeathdrug even my introverted IT geek DH has been out every day. I honestly cannot conceive a world where I've not left the house for 4 months. I am now out nearly as much as I'm in! Nothing major, coffee with a friend, lunch with another, pop to the shops etc etc but all those micro human interactions are what's making me feel relatively normal again. If they embrace that way of life then who are we to judge I guess, but if it's fear that's a different matter.

@domina whenever you post something about your DD's it makes me smile. You're raising 2 fine rebels there! Good luck with the GP.

The kids have now taken to yelling "chiiiiiiiiin hammock" everytime we drive past someone who is wearing a mask like that as well!

Brilliant!.

@torydeathdrug gosh, that is pretty extreme. It must be very difficult to be around that level of paranoia.

I hope everyone has a good day.

one of us ADs needs get out of this lunatic country

I've escaped to another lunatic country that is obsessed with their good numbers and sacrifices and the risks from filthy foreigners.

It's pretty gross TBH.

I honestly cannot conceive a world where I've not left the house for 4 months.

This is exactly how I feel. The absolute hardest thing for me was the feeling on confinement when we were in the full lockdown. I hated the feeling of being pinned down to such a small area. I was watching Countryfile yesterday and Matt was speaking to people who live on canal boats, and I was thinking how much I’d love that, being able to keep moving, always waking up to a different view. DH loves to travel too but would hate the actual living on a boat part so it’s never going to happen though.

That was my dream was a kid - to live a life where I woke up somewhere different every morning.

I still find it very romantic.

Change of medication so a rough road ahead while I swap over - love the "can you try to get time for yourself" and "have you thought about counselling" (yeah love the NHS is shut, and the wait normally is about a year round here).

Oh yeah and "where do you go to uni"... "Leicester"... "Oh, I see"

I’ve got a bit behind with the thread the past few days, been properly taking advantage of the 5 year old’s birthday to have an actual social life . We’ve had loads of garden visitors which has been lovely, the kids have had loads of friends round playing in the hot tub and we had family round for a BBQ too. I’m exhausted .
@Jourdain11 I’m sorry you’re feeling low. You’re going through so much, a wobble is inevitable. Sending
@LivinLaVidaLoki what an absolute ballache re your holiday. Hope you get it sorted and get to see your family.

Morning all!

Sorry for those who are struggling with holiday problems, and especially Domina. That sounds so tough.

I came on for a sort of light-hearted moan. I'm freelance and work has been either non existent or (at best) very stop-start for several months now. But I bloody KNEW things would need actioning next week, while I'm away on holiday. I bloody KNEW it. And I have been proved right. I've been sat here for months almost begging people to pull their fingers out and now here we are, with jobs requiring urgent action next week.

I am, obviously delighted to have some work to do. We need the money and I genuinely like what I do. It's just Sod's law. I'm going away for the first time in months, to a place with dodgy wifi and I'm going to have to balance the laptop in my lap, as I doubt I'l be able to take up a table in a cafe this time around. Sigh.

Morning all... I’m still in bed 😮 Nothing too major wrong with me, just crippling period pain. I used to get it very badly every month, now it’s just once in a blue moon but buggeration... thankfully it’s a preschool day so DH did the drop off honours and I crawled back into my pit.

I ran out of thread at the weekend so I have to don a mask and go back to the sewing shop at some point... meh. I don’t mind the mask bit too much but the queuing and the little taped boxes on the floor are somewhat wearing. It certainly doesn’t encourage casual browsing or recreational shopping in any way whatsoever, I must say.