ADs, Corvids and the sequacious masses

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Had the school leavers service in the church and it was sad really, they were not allowed to sing, so just had to stand there as they played music and words to their 'leavers song' I was a bit tearful, as they showed photos of their time at school doing normal things. Were not allowed to gather afterwards, which at least may be for the best as just wanted to come home after.

Oh Bubble, I love you

My snooze button is being well used again. Some people lasted about 2 weeks which was some kind of progress.
A couple of people have been unfollowed after snoozing more than DH.

@SomewhereEast

Any north of England (especially Yorkshire) people have recommendations for attractions which are just really normal right now? I'm a bit surprised at the number which still have playgrounds shut up or whatever. We were looking at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park but the kids love their playgrounds and half are still shut while the other half steem to have some weird one-child-on-each-thing-at-a-time rule. I just don't want to pay money for a dreary experience

Cannon Hall - is quite good generally, got a petting farm, it's open but I don't know 'how' open.

Elsecar Heritage centre similar,

Wentworth Garden Centre again has a great petting farm area and some brilliant playgrounds but not sure how normal at the moment.

If you did Elsecar and Wentworth, they are only just over a mile apart and there are a couple of decent pubs doing outdoor service between them. The Rockingham Arms and the George and Dragon (which is my favourite)

I'm getting the rage today. I really have to stay away from the news. It's full of 'second wave could be a gazillion times worse than the first and we might all die' claims. Well yes. And an asteroid could hit the earth tomorrow and we might all go the way of the dinosaurs, but that's hardly 'news' is it?

"Someone on one of the generic Covid threads was saying that people are not entitled to measure risks for themselves, because we are not virologists, epidemiologists etc etc. I see this argument everywhere."

How about the epidemiologist Donald A Henderson, who is credited with eradicating smallpox. Maybe he knows a thing or two about epidemics? His study about dealing with pandemics concludes:

"An overriding principle. Experience has shown that communities faced with epidemics or other adverse events respond best and with the least anxiety when the normal social functioning of the community is least disrupted."

It's an interesting read.

No parensts allowed at the Y6 leaver assembly here - but I'm just glad they have some fun things planned for them.

Oh yes on that subject, teens. Teens teens teens. FML as they would say grin I bundled my hair into a giant quiff this morning as it needs washing blush and DH asked if my hair had been blown backward from the winds caused by all the teenage sighing this morning wink

I'm still not being spoken to grunts and huffs by DD1 or completely ignored this is from Sunday nights homework- DS being nice though as is DD2.

My parents had poor medical news - mismangement of a condition plus delays and continuing delays for treatment - their pretty upset and left in poorly managed pain and keep having to buy equipment that should be provided but there's no-one there who can perscribe it.

It was quite strange they had all the parents in the church. Had 4 different groups so did two classes of 30 each today. Poor teachers and vicar!

Children got to light a candle and they had prayers etc. Which was quite nice. We had to keep a pew apart.

amicissimma That is indeed an interesting article. Closing borders and airports is not effective then. Wonder where that will leave New Zealand over the coming months/years.

Bubbles
Right on the nail as always.
Now where's my clean sock?

My ds2 is off out with friends😁😁😁😁😁😁 First time they have been out together for bloody ages. Of cycling to another friends house bloody miles away😀 Doing what teens should be doing at fucking last.

I am swithering about taking myself down to the beach just to sit and read my book and perhaps have a paddle😉 I can get a good coffee too so win win.
Forced myself to prep tea and run hoover around and clear up the cupboard where boiler is as the guy is coming to service it tomorrow. Someone in my house!!!! Oh lawks a mighty how frivolous!

@amicissimma

"Someone on one of the generic Covid threads was saying that people are not entitled to measure risks for themselves, because we are not virologists, epidemiologists etc etc. I see this argument everywhere."

How about the epidemiologist Donald A Henderson, who is credited with eradicating smallpox. Maybe he knows a thing or two about epidemics? His study about dealing with pandemics concludes:

"An overriding principle. Experience has shown that communities faced with epidemics or other adverse events respond best and with the least anxiety when the normal social functioning of the community is least disrupted."

It's an interesting read.

Oh dont be daft that doesn't suit the hysterics so it must be wrong!

Saw this and felt I had to share...

Nicola Sturgeon said in her sadly daily (no) death show today that she doesn’t have an anti-English bone in her body.

The poor y6’s, it was DDs leavers assembly this time last year. That last half term of y6 was so important to the transition into secondary and all the things they’d looked forward to since yR, like the y6 show and the inflatables the school hired for the y6s to play on on their last day.

If I gave my DD a choice of staying at home in September or going in wearing a mask she’d have a mask on and be out of the door faster than a rat up a drainpipe. She’s that desperate to go back to school (and to be honest probably get away from me).

@Drivingdownthe101

Nicola Sturgeon said in her sadly daily (no) death show today that she doesn’t have an anti-English bone in her body.

As we used to say back when I was at school, chinny reckon .

Just done some maths of my own. In my area at the moment, there are predicted to be 12 people with COVID. 12! For goodness sake!

Back from a trip to the zoo with DS this morning. It was awesome. His little face was just smiles all the way around. He was so good about the indoor bits being closed, we had an ice cream and then discovered that the playground was open! They had put lots of handgel dispensers out and it was open season. It was amazing 😮 DS was beside himself, he’d been so grownup about the playground being closed and saying ‘That’s ok Mummy’ and then for it to be open... brilliant.

NZ is never going to end well. With all this experience of low and asymptomatic cases we have probably all or mostly been exposed to the virus to a greater or lesser extent and our bodies will have done their bit and gone about working out how best to counter it.

It's not flu - it's closer to the common cold. We don't get lasting immunity to any one strain of that but we do build up resistance by having a healthy immune system that is challenged regularly. Obviously can't be sure that it will become just another cold virus but I think there is cause to think it may.

As we said previously, communities not previously having cold infections around could be killed by the virus. I don't think there is evidence that this won't follow this path - although it may take a year or two. I don't think the virus is going anywhere but a key factor of a virus is that it is parasitic and doesn't want to kill it's host.

Oh thank god. Email from the school. Back to normal hours in September, and they are doing double class bubbles to allow for less convoluted playtimes, more teachers per bubble, and easier organisation of breakfast and after school clubs, which will be starting ASAP. No staggered drop offs/starts- they've just made the drop off in the morning longer to spread people out a bit more. I could cry with relief.

just felt SAD when I ordered my muzzles of etsy this morning. DS has been homeschooled since last september and I`m glad we did it when we did! I am another that will be reduced to essential shops/ online.

If anyone had told me what 2020 would be like this time last year Id have laughed in your face! I feel like Im in some weird disaster movie.

@DominaShantotto I deleted the Facebook app and kept Messenger, so I can still message people. I can log in to actual Facebook if I need to, on my laptop, but I popped on this afternoon for a bit and ran away again after all the stupid made me ragey again!

Urgh. Just had an ‘altercation’ with a parish council member on Facebook on the subject of playgrounds.
They’ve put an aggressive message up with their new ‘rules’, ending with ‘use it safely or lose it. We won’t hesitate to lock them up again’.
I may have had a little rant.

@Drivingdownthe101 time for some photos of masked disease vectors licking the equipment.

I'm thinking Venom style.

Like this

@Mascotte

Like this

now there’s an idea.

Urgh. Twat. Problem is the bloke is one of my dads best friends so I might be in trouble when my dad sees the rant

We've got staggered drop off/ pick-up times next year. Both DSs on different slots 10 minutes apart.

For a couple of years I've looked after a friend's child too, and they are a different year again which stretches it another 10 minutes each time so that's 2x 20 minutes apart each day. Their parents are still WFH at present so it's not an imminent concern...

It's going to be interesting enough to get my DCs arses into gear after 5.5 months off anyway without having to do it 10 minutes earlier and then pissing around for 10 & 20 minutes for 3 different drop-off times. I live too close to justify even thinking about moving the car and sitting in it (I'd end up outside my house anyway!), but with the one-way system extending the walk into school, it's now tight to even walk to and fro shuttling them in.

The other thing is about minimal equipment. DS1 is supposed to use a computer for his dyspraxia/ dyslexia and if we could be faced with a shut down at any moment, he is going to need to shuttle it back and forth so the DCs both have access to a computer. Then there's other things like special scissors.

If Covid 19 is going to enter my house, it's most likely to be from a child breathing on me, not a bloody laptop!

@BogRollBOGOF

We've got staggered drop off/ pick-up times next year. Both DSs on different slots 10 minutes apart.

For a couple of years I've looked after a friend's child too, and they are a different year again which stretches it another 10 minutes each time so that's 2x 20 minutes apart each day. Their parents are still WFH at present so it's not an imminent concern...

It's going to be interesting enough to get my DCs arses into gear after 5.5 months off anyway without having to do it 10 minutes earlier and then pissing around for 10 & 20 minutes for 3 different drop-off times. I live too close to justify even thinking about moving the car and sitting in it (I'd end up outside my house anyway!), but with the one-way system extending the walk into school, it's now tight to even walk to and fro shuttling them in.

The other thing is about minimal equipment. DS1 is supposed to use a computer for his dyspraxia/ dyslexia and if we could be faced with a shut down at any moment, he is going to need to shuttle it back and forth so the DCs both have access to a computer. Then there's other things like special scissors.

If Covid 19 is going to enter my house, it's most likely to be from a child breathing on me, not a bloody laptop!

Our school has sensibly organised things so that siblings can be dropped off at the same time so no one is hanging around/to-ing and fro-ing.