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

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New thread. Do your civic duty.

Spent my morning at work printing out posters to tell the adults in our factory to wash their hands regularly, to keep social distancing and oh yes, go home if they feel ill!!! FFS they are bloody adults but I still have to waste time and paper printing out this stuff to satisfy our insurance company and Employment Law advisers! I've put it off as long as I could because I find it incredibly insulting but I know everyone knows its not me putting these stupid posters up but The Roolz!!

My contribution to getting the country going again is limited to me browsing for a folding camper that my car can pull, then checking out which campsites in my favourite area of Cornwall are actually open with facilities. Unfortunately I have no chance of going away this year even if I could afford it and I can't afford the folding camper either 😁 But the intention is there and I would put some money back into the economy if I had any to spend!!

I've read that playground guidance a few times and as far as I can gather the only thing playground owners must do is a covid risk assessment (and if they have less than 5 employees it doesn't even have to be written down). Apart from that there is a lot of "you should consider" or "you could" which allows them to get away with the bare minimum. I think a sign saying piss off if it's busy and wash your hands afterwards is more the adequate for most public playgrounds. If they are fenced in, a maximum capacity sign.

I have some sympathy for councils who want to check playgrounds are safe after being closed so long and need a little time to check but staying closed because of the guidance is, quite frankly, bonkers and implies they are right jobsworths.

@LadyOfTheImprovisedBath

NannyPhlegm sadly not surpised some of DD1 friends, all teen girls, stopped going out even to walk dogs in early days of lockdown as people felt it was alright to scream absuse at them.

Yes, my DC are all close together in age and when they were out people assumed they were a group of mates not siblings

Also, DD2 started doing couch to 5k, but stopped after two weeks as she had had too many shouted comments from men driving or walking past. Pricks. Fucking infuriating. If anyone needs filming and putting on social media it's them FFS.

Doing my bit for the economy, smallest child has broken our TV so we have to buy a new one plus a new unit to make sure we can now fasten it down to avoid it happening again. Should be buying a car soon as well as keeping shops ticking over supplying paint for my redecorating mission.

I've seen plenty of demetoring over the gyms, they will definitely cause the second wave, instant death etc etc. I'll be banging down the door on the day they open I'm that desperate to go. I'm doubting their crèche will be open soon but I hope it can be back up and running by September. My eldest is too old to go now so I can't really make use out of it until he goes back to school after the holidays.

I'm fully determined to make the most of everything I'm able to. I have so much planned for next year, I'm intending to cram as much as possible into 2021 to make up for this year being so crap.

I've seen plenty of demetoring over the gyms, they will definitely cause the second wave, instant death etc etc. I'll be banging down the door on the day they open I'm that desperate to go. I'm doubting their crèche will be open soon but I hope it can be back up and running by September. My eldest is too old to go now so I can't really make use out of it until he goes back to school after the holidays

I’ve literally just this morning joined a gym (family membership), trying to undo all the harm lockdown has caused us with no team sports etc!

I dipped into the coronavirus board today. Wish I hadn't. I really dont know why I torture myself tbh!

I am so sick of the bloody second wavers gleefully rubbing their hands together. If we get locked down again this country will be absolutely fucked but no amount of reasonable debate will persuade them otherwise.

As for the preppers....don't get me started!

I had my hair cut today and I feel Epic! When I booked a few weeks ago, she said I'd need a mask (not keen, but if that was the rules) but today when I got there, she said guidance had changed and it was up to me. I offered to wear it if it made her feel safer and she said it didn't. She had a visor and a mask to hand but I said I wasn't bothered by her not wearing one.

Two more elderly ladies came in later, with their masks and neither put them on after given the option to. I think both were rather relieved, as was I.

In fact the whole visit was a lot more normal thatn I was expecting, and when I came out town was bustling and the sun was shining.

Afternoon ADs :)

I forgot that I am contributing to getting the economy going here. Got a quote from a local company to do a small paving job for me. The guy who came was the dad. He does the office stuff and his sons do the physical job. The did some work for me last year and were fab, so i was more than happy to get them back. He came out the other day to look at the job, and we had a lovely chat. Hopefully getting work done in next few weeks.

Re testing. What really irritates me is knowing that if a dementor was told about UK doing most tests in Europe, all they would say is about how unreliable the tests are (unsaid 'it's all still too dangerous'). Its that permanent negativity that does my head in. And surely the tests can't all be wrong!!

I’m quite a chilled person, I don’t go around fummin’ and raging like so many on SM seem to, but street harassment of women and girls, and especially girls makes me absolutely furious. When I was a teenager I used to get really really upset by it, to the point I didn’t want to go out alone, but I also thought it was somehow my fault that I wasn’t able to laugh it off as “banter”. When the penny finally dropped that the men shouting things were in the wrong I was so angry. My DD is 12 and I know she’s going to start getting harassed now she’s growing up and that makes me feel awful. I don’t know how it could be made a crime, but it absolutely bloody should be.

Sorry, that was an off topic rant. As I say I’m generally chilled, but street harassment pushes my berserk button.

[quote Dowser]@PickAChew
Aww lovely, have a hug. You get yourself off to see you parents.
Life is too short to not do what we really want to do.
I work on the scenario ..if anything happened to a loved one and I didn’t see them when I could’ve done I’d have to live with myself
Another good question to ask is..what’s the worst thing that can happen?
I’d be inclined to announce, right I’m off to see grandparents tomorrow, who is coming?
When the marriage from hell was being played out and I no longer gave a toss about where he stuck his knob ..I booked a holiday to Spain on my own.
He said , oh I won’t be around at the weekend.
I said neither will I, I’m going to Spain
Him..when we’re you going to tell me.
Me..I’m telling you now.

His face was a picture but that was nothing to what he was like when I told him I was going to Cuba..he practically ricocheted off the walls..going Cuba! Cuba! Cuba!
Was hilarious. Wish I’d been able to film it.
( I wish I’d also been saying inside, yes Cuba you knobber, get over it..but I was a lot younger then and a lot less militant 😂)[/quote]
I stopped running things past my ex because he was an EA twat with a tendency to threaten suicide if he thought I was getting too much out of life.

I've had a massive apology off dh, anyhow. We do need to talk but it's difficult with no privacy. We really need to break the cycle of being constantly annoyed with each other, though.

Picked up ds2 from my mum’s - he’s so so happy!

Mum was horrified to discover that their village playpark is still locked up. I don’t think she really believed me when I’ve been telling her how awful it has been for children - she’s barely seen the children for months so wasn’t aware of it first hand.

Anyway she was disgusted, hoiked him over the fence & told him to go & have fun. She’s already called the parish council in disgust (they listen to ‘old rich people’ like her (that’s her description))!

Between that, the hairdresser & Rishi’s meals it is amazing to see my brilliant parents come back rather than the dementors who had occupied their bodies.

My DD is 12 and I know she’s going to start getting harassed now she’s growing up and that makes me feel awful. I don’t know how it could be made a crime, but it absolutely bloody should be.

It is a crime.

But then so is rape, and that's as good as legal too.

Glad you had an apology PickAChew

It's wearing never having any time alone or with just your partner.

The playground at the country park was reopened when I went today, which probably explains why the car park was rammed. It was just me and the dog and she’s not allowed in there and I’m too old so I didn’t go in but it was good to see it open.

@Nihiloxica

My DD is 12 and I know she’s going to start getting harassed now she’s growing up and that makes me feel awful. I don’t know how it could be made a crime, but it absolutely bloody should be.

It is a crime.

But then so is rape, and that's as good as legal too.

Glad you had an apology PickAChew

It's wearing never having any time alone or with just your partner.

Outright threats and abuse are, but “banter” type stuff isn’t. “I was only pulling your leg, don’t you have a sense of humour love?”, being told to smile or being called “Harry Potter” because your wearing glasses I guess? All those little things make me so angry.

Reporting back from big Asda Edinburgh. 1st day mandatory face covering

I didn’t wear mask. No one said anything or cared. Would say 80% wearing coverings
Staff either now wearing masks or visors.

It felt fine

The way some of the lads from our local college behave towards young women (and towards anyone who isn't a man who could easily beat them to a pulp for it, for that matter) is absolutely horrid. Thankfully most aren't (publicly) awful but it only takes one unwelcome comment from an arrogant cock to shake your confidence when you're a young girl.

@BarkandCheese

I don't know, I think adult men "bantering" with adolescent girls could get themselves into a lot of trouble if the banter wasn't welcome.

I mean, they'd be unlucky to be caught, but I think it's risky now in a way it wasn't when I was 12.

But yes, it's gross and it makes me so angry.

Teenage girls are both teenagers AND girls, so they the teenager hate and the hostility to women.

I also have a 12 year old DD. She and her friends are so funny and cool, so beautiful and fragile, so independent and vulnerable.

They need to be out in the world, but I wish it was a better place for them.

www.cebm.net/covid-19/covid-19-death-data-in-england-update-9th-july/

^ Good way of seeing the deaths going down - this is England hospital only. Even the hospital deaths have a log though - a quarter of the 22 reported today died more than a week ago.

previous Friday reported (sad) hospital deaths are - 35, 55, 62, 83, 115, 187, 207, 383, 391, 514, 740

In line with the thread title, this suggestion on the packaging of my dressmaking scissors never fails to make me smirk.

Does anyone remember those days when (as a single woman) pubs felt a bit scary? And does anyone else feel a bit like that again? I've not got anyone else to go to the pub with this weekend (single and nearby friends are more risk averse than me), but would love a lunchtime drink.
However, going through what sounds like quite a complicated process in order to get a drink, is really putting me off. And, in a world of table service and limited numbers, would anyone even want me taking up an entire table??

Has anyone else experienced that feeling of just wanting everyone to leave you alone? The DC are doing my head in and I want something nice for me but I can't think what.

Just back from town, Bath is quite busy today. Boys wanted to go their favourite pizza place. All tables taken outside so we went inside.

Goodness i can see why they have do 'lock up' the Italians, they are so gregarious and chatty, (we were quite near the kitchens) don't social distance at all...no masks or visors and reaching over us to clear tables etc. Which felt a bit strange.

But we still had to order from a website and put in our names etc. Hmm. Bit os a mixed experience. Boys seemed to enjoy their pizza though- youngest was a little quiet to start with. Think school has maybe dementored him. He cheered up after a while and shared some pizza.

Yes feel just like that ISaySteadyOn, exactly.

Chuffing heck, it's 16 weeks since I last picked the DCs up from school.

Not much to report chez Bogroll.
Quite a few plans for next week.
I checked the osteopath after my whinge earlier and it had quietly reopened and I now have an appointment for 10 days. Poor guy. He won't be looking forwards to shifting 4 months of my muscle tension. My calves are legendary, and not for good reasons!

@NannyPhlegm

Wow, I go out of the house to work and I seem to have missed an entire thread!

In the national interest, I've booked haircuts for the entire family and we've got through an appointment for DD1 for braces fitting. I don't think I'll go to local restaurants yet as Wales only allows outdoor seating from Monday, and the weather here is always pants. Not even Rishi can persuade me to get wet while eating out (see what I did there? See? See? )

Yes Nanny, I definitely see what you did