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

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New thread. Do your civic duty.

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Exactly! Perfectly healthy people saying that they arent going anywhere until 2021 wtf?
It's ok for someone else to shop for them, deliver things to them, order stuff online to be delivered etc but they think its too dangerous for them to do it.😠 I just don't get why you would want to stay cooped up indoors for a year with no reason?

Last school pick up today before summer holidays.
The mums that hung about afterwards split neatly into two camps. Those who were practically jizzing at the prospect of a second lockdown, and were preparing for it....and those who said they couldn't believe the misuse of statistics and that they'd need a lot more evidence before submitting to incarceration again. Guess which camp I was in?

This point was made earlier in these threads by I think @Nihiloxica, but a part of me worries that when a really serious disease rears its head, the population won't respond to measures as all trust in the powers above has been lost.

Grumbles about our local Tesco not doing one way system anymore when someone asked they were told well the visitors are allowed into Wales tomorrow so we will be a lot busier. Well that hacked the dementor off no end

Had a good week here, small person back in nursery which gives me a few days to myself a week, hair cut AND coloured (complete with blow dry) and lunch at a lovely pub. Already mentally in a much healthier place than I have been for the last 4mths. Now all I need is for the stupid govt to pull their finger out and let the theatres open properly again so I can go do the job that I love.

My family are almost here!
I will definitely be doing my bit this weekend!

Also, did anyone see, Oxford reckon 14k cases in community now. Down from 25k last week.

I have so much catching up to do so apologies for the non-sequitur but I just had to jump in and say I AM IN A PLAYGROUND!! I can’t see my children it’s so crowded; when they saw the open gate they ran screaming past the sign about maintaining distancing and not entering at busy times

Went into Conwy this afternoon was lovely sunny, breezy. DS and I had a look around the shops he tried a jacket barbour on in one shop but could not see a mirror was told that was because it was in the changing room and he was banned from there. £200 for a jacket and he cannot use a mirror for a look see. She then said it was in the sale now, no idea how much even at £50 you would want to know how it looked on he said.

We went to the ice cream shop, treated ourselves to a lime cheesecake icecream and a ferror rocher one, bloody lovely. Then DS found another quirky shop full of plants so I treated him to a succulent string of hearts for his uni room when he goes back.

Conwy was reassuringly dementor free. Visitors arrive tomorrow, in fact I suspect some are already here.

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Thanks, that’s very interesting.

Apparently it's entirely reasonable to suspend people from work for 2 weeks with no pay because they have been on an (entirely legal) holiday.

FFS.

@BubbleIsNotAFuckingVerb spot on they irritate the hell out of me. Got into a conversation with two school mums who are spending at least an hour disinfecting everything that comes into their house. I mean why? There is so little covid about now. Seems like a massive waste of time and fueling anxiety.

@MaudesMum please go out and have a lovely drink. We went out yesterday and it wasn't as complicated as all that to order a drink. And I feel so much happier for a normal evening out.

Little to report here. Life admin day sorting out clothes and labelling. I'm still hoping the girls get to go on their residential horse riding holiday so they need to have kit organised and ready to go.

My sister and nephew are on their way over for the weekend so looking forward to seeing them.

We went on holiday to Conwy a couple of years ago. We stayed outside Conwy in nice little house in a tiny village, can't remember the name but pub was good for a meal. Only drawback was we couldn't go in the sea due to all the damm jellyfish!
Went all that way from Scotland to bump into someone we knew from home in a tiny shop! 😀😀 Never fails! Saw people from home on our last day in Gran Canaria too😄

@Mrsfrumble

I have so much catching up to do so apologies for the non-sequitur but I just had to jump in and say I AM IN A PLAYGROUND!! I can’t see my children it’s so crowded; when they saw the open gate they ran screaming past the sign about maintaining distancing and not entering at busy times

😁 that is heart-warming! Good for them!

@justasking111 oh noes. Mirrors cause sadly deaths.

Tbh I’m avoiding mine.

OH wants me to go out on the town for Rishi tonight. I'm afraid I have a headache.

Too tired following the black-&-yellow hazard tape someone has plastered down the centre of the corridors at work.

The corridors are no wider than the hallway of a standard Victorian semi, or our 1990s cardboard box house. There is no need to make two lanes out of the corridors, and no actual space to do it without making it look stupid. A colleague pointed out that we've spent 15 weeks -longer actually because we were doing social distancing before most places- being able to let each other pass in the corridors without tape. But as we are not allowed to use common sense, the building is slowly resembling an angry wasp.

The tape isn't sticking very well to the carpet tiles so the risk of tripping over it is much higher than inhaling covid off a passing body.

Also, only one person on the stairs at a time. Technically you can get one person on the bottom step & one on the top step and be more than 2m apart, but that's not allowed.

Cue much naughty behaviour this afternoon with people doing deliberately silly walks across the tape, & mock-shrieking, "DON'T WALK ON THE WRONG SIDE, YOU'LL DIE!"

The ADs were clearly in work today.

Considering all my lockdown weight gain mirrors cause sadly in me right now.

@InsaneInTheViralMembrane it’s brilliant! The sun is shining and it’s quite emotional to see the playground so full and noisy and normal again. DS has gone feral with excitement and discarded his shoes, socks and T-shirt, and is hanging from the top of the huge climbing tower, singing at the top of his voice.

Flaming exhausted here now. I’ve just cut out all the pieces of the dress I’m making. It’s a cocoon dress in olive linen. I’m shattered! Just (ahahahaas ‘just’!) got to see it together now... 😬 I forgot to buy interfacing at the sewing shop but frankly, I’m not sure I can go through all the rigmarole of trying to get in there again so I might see how it is without it... is that mad?

I am not making a mask to match it, you’ll be glad to hear.

@ISaySteadyOn

Thanks, Orangeblossom.

@BogRollBOGOF, it's being alone in the house exactly. Also, can I ask what you do in the situations with your DS? He sounds like DD2 and I have never quite managed to deal with it as well as I would like.

I zone out and don't take it personally

He's 9 now. He had an awful summer of it when he was 7 with a few meltdowns lasting 3-4 hours.
Food/ drink help. He often has Coke after school to pep up his energy. If he's in that simmering mood, he's sent to his room, supplied with food/ drink and given quiet time until he can verbalise rationally. Sometimes he might choose to have me there silent, or me talking, usually alone though.

Keeping energy burned off. There's been times that one of us has driven, dropped DS and the other parent off and scarpered so there is no choice but to walk home. Another simmering stage tactic.

Keeping DS2 well out of his way! He cops it as DS1 wants to assert control on DS2 who makes an easy scape goat. Obviously not a healthy dynamic! Generally though they get on really well. DS2 (7) was already quite autism aware prior to DS1's diagnosis because of a classmate.

Generally zoning out and a bit of humouring.

Today was a bludgeon on as usual moment as we were dojng our "school sports day" activities. DS1 still had a bee in his bonnet about it and was deliberately dicking about to prove a point, and it was better to just ride it out rather than feed it with a confrontation about a decent amount of effort. I'm not going to stress myself over him getting a rubbish score He was sent up to his room for 20 mins after and then had lunch after DS2's. The mood had passed then and they've been fine since.

Diagnosis has helped understanding, and just the realisation a couple of years ago that he probably was ND other than the obvious dyslexia. Diagnosis was a relief, especially as he has a relatively high threshold of function and masks well. School haven't really seen it yet which is frustrating.

@Weneedmusicandtheatre What do you do in theatre? I used to be in LX but have been out for a few years now.

covid deaths England 48. 0 in Wales 0 in Scotland NI 0 = 48

That is good news.

Afternoon all. I have finished year end! yay! much alcohol later (to celebrate and numb the effect of any D's at book club).

@MaudesMum - your phone or a book is how to sit in a pub on your own, it just means you look busy and don't wish to be disturbed.
Rant away @BubbleIsNotAFuckingVerb, your ranting is glorious.

I went out to grab a coffee earlier, my lovely little town was bustling.

Sky news bleating on about the R rate rising. How? Seriously our numbers today are 48 sadly deaths and 512 new cases. It's just bollox.

[quote Mrsfrumble]@InsaneInTheViralMembrane it’s brilliant! The sun is shining and it’s quite emotional to see the playground so full and noisy and normal again. DS has gone feral with excitement and discarded his shoes, socks and T-shirt, and is hanging from the top of the huge climbing tower, singing at the top of his voice.[/quote]
What a brilliant image that creates in my mind. Love it. Pure unadulterated joy.

I can't relax when everyone is constantly at home day in day out. Find it stressful. I always wondered if anyone else felt the same. Mine seem to have no use to go out and see others either just talk at them on headphones over Minecraft. Sounds happy enough though. Humph

That's my kind of child

On playgrounds - dementory comment from the primary asking people not to gather in the park next to school. Bit it is a playground and those are open now.

@LivinLaVidaLoki god I genuinely read that as 14k cases IN Oxford

Anyone take a wild guess where is my nearest city? Anyone?

That would be for the whole country I'm assuming!