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@TrustTheGeneGenie 12 pages for me too. Annopying work gets in the way doesn't it. I don't go on Mumsnet during the day I'd never get anything done if I did!

Resigned about masks I'll shop if I have to but as quickly as possible.

In other news all of the BakewellTarts household had haircuts yesterday. And I got a colour! Yeah feel vaguely human.

Good email from school about September. All really as mentioned by other posters above and they do seem positive about the return. I just don't know how I'm going to get the girls there as school transport isn't running. I guess we can drive but that will be shit for the environment both from a pollution and congestion point of view. Still needs must and I'd do whatever is needed to get the girls back to school.

@BarkandCheese quite. While the self-proclaimed saviours of Greece are busy patting themselves on the back (when I strongly suspect the real reason they aren’t going is because they’re fucking terrified) there are people out there wondering how they will feed their families over winter.

I went to Greece a few years ago and was chatting to a waiter in a restaurant one evening. He said the money he earns from May-Sep keeps him and his family all winter. He worked 12 hours a day, 7 days a week over the holiday season. I’m sure he wasn’t the only one who did that to survive.

Thanks everyone!

I just feel right down about it all. Were trying to do "normal" things so we're going out for a meal this weekend and going to the forbidden corner next weekend with Ds.

I probably won't be going shopping (other than supermarket) any time soon. I don't want to wear a mask any longer than I have to.

If I thought it was a trade off for more freedom then perhaps. But it's not is it. It's an extra regulation.

@BarkandCheese

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).

I have to say that my youngests school is doing an excellent job with her and the rest of their Year 6 in trying circumstances. Since half term they have been having fun and focusing on transition. Every week they have been on a well being walk exploring the highways and byways of the village and surrounding countryside. Its been as good as it could be. They are having a party outside on their last day and we are having a leavers assembly socially distanced outside with parents invited.

And her new school have also been trying really hard with transition. Yes it's all been virtual so far but they have planned an extra day at the start of term for the new Year 7s. I have everything crossed that it goes well.

Its not at all what we wanted or would have chosen buit its been better than I expected / feared.

Both DDs would wear masks if it meant that they could go to school (and might have to if they catch a bus but its not looking like any of the school buses wiull be running in the autumn term).

Jeez I've just strayed onto some of the other threads. Some people are mad! I'm staying here if you don't mind.

I've just ordered some masks from me and DH. We've figured we might as well go with the flow, especially if we've both got to go back into work over the next few weeks. DH has strongly resisted anything coloured or patterned and demanded plain black. I've got pink. I told him he could share mine if he needs to. I got what my Mum would call a very 'old fashioned look' as he disappeared to do the washing up.

Work has kept me away too!

I have an interview friday morning for a promotion. It's only for 6 months and I'm still fairly new in the company (8 months) but thought it would be a good chance for some new experience. So wish me luck!

I kind of feel with masks and shit that we are just going to have to get on with it. I fucking hate it but I also feel like if I focus on the shit I'll start to loose my shit. I need to accept and move on for my mental health.

Masks in schools though can fuck right off!!

Just had the email from the DCs' primary school. Class bubbles obviously amd staggered this, that & the other, but nothing terrible. They've really done their best so far though, so I'm optimistic it'll be as calm as possible. The staggered drop.iff does seem counterproductive though - surely parents of multiple children will just end up hanging round outside the school gates Not Socially Distancing (the horror!).

Awww that’s fab @TrustTheGeneGenie really pleased to hear it’s going well.

Had a lovely day with dd1 - went for a walk, lunch & shopping (some bits for uni & topshop sale!). Even survived the doom-zoom intact ;) dd2 is going for a sleepover with my parents tomorrow & we’re planning to go & see MIL this weekend.

Do feel like I might never get my life back though if you know what I mean. Like what's to stop them keeping this shit forever?

Me too. 2020 was meant to be the start of getting my old old life back. We've had more than our fair share of shit in this family- on paper we look alright but we've dealt with some serious stuff that would look far-fetched in Take A Break.

We've done counting our blessings, being grateful for small mercies, & making the most of going for a walk in the park in lieu of anything more adventurous. We've put our lives on hold and cancelled stuff last minute to deal with crisis after crisis.

It looked like this year was going to be different & we might get to do what normal people do. But no. It wouldn't be so bad if life felt easier at this stage in the covid game, but it doesn't.

Now I don't feel like there is any end to it again.

FIL is ill now, GP is talking about possible hospital admission. I think that would be a good thing clinically, & I'm trying to be encouraging, but his local hospital ain't great anyway and we all know it. Have a sense of, "here we go again," with knobs on.

Our school have basically said they’ll give us more info later as they’re too knackered to think about it now . Which is fair enough, they’ve had every single kid in the school back in the past few weeks (except those who didn’t think it was safe). I’m sure they’ll be sensible about it though, they’ve been fab so far.

I’m trying to let it all wash over me today - I feel pretty fatalistic - there are some really truly awful people around & I’m just glad I’m not like them.

[quote LivinLaVidaLoki]@bakewelltarts
Sorry couldn't tag you on the last thread. Was a bit late to the game.

After being in a queue for 4 and a half hours with TUI yesterday I got through and a lovely lovely woman sorted my holiday out, she was so patient and listened to me complaining (nicely...I never lose my temper with shop staff or call centre staff, my problems are not their fault) and she even gave me a few extras. Tbh I was amazed.

However I've not had my confirmation email yet and my old holiday is still on my app.....I'm hoping its a technical glitch and things have stopped going wrong and I can get excited about seeing my family again!!![/quote]
Oh thats fab news. Well done TUI lady. Have you got your confirmation now?

Oh @LivinLaVidaLoki have you had your confirmation yet?

I ventured onto a school thread, to see a "don't give a shit about kids with communication issues" comment and I'm immediately having another fucking panic attack.

This is the year both of mine will be at primary and health permitting was hoping to be able to possibly go back to work. Now no idea if would be any, and / or school situation really. And mentally taking quite a nose dive.

Everything seems stressful- pubs / cafes / swimming- have worry of contact tracing- needing to stay home for weeks.

Shopping- have the masks

In practice it all means for me will avoid most of that- do online food shopping anyway but then a top up shop to co-op with the mask I guess
and swim and hope not to get called for the contact tracing.

It's similar to still being in lockdown really I think, but with extra hassle on top...

@DominaShantotto I ventured onto a school thread, to see a "don't give a shit about kids with communication issues" comment and I'm immediately having another fucking panic attack.

Please be assured there are plenty of us out there who do care about kids- and adults- with communication issues. Am quietly chipping away at pointing out to people in the real world how mask-wearing & social distancing is having a really negative impact on them, in a disability discrimination way.

I can see from your comments about your involvement with your kids' school that you are a great advocate too.

But the attitudes of others who just don't get it, or who appear to be deliberately inflammatory, is the reason why you won't find me on other threads on here.

@NoisyBrain

Argh I am so sick of sanctimonious, virtue-signalling twats in the travel group I frequent on FB!!

Picture the scene: the stage is dark and silent, before a lone spotlight illuminates the hero as they clear their throat, put their palm flat to their chest, and outstretch their other arm to the crowd, before proclaiming, Shakespearean-style, “ I shall be staying at home this year, to protect the people of Greece!” Followed by the reasons why anyone considering a holiday is the plague-ridden spawn of Satan. Poster then awaits giving of medals.

Are people really so desperate for the approval of strangers?! That being a rhetorical question of course...

Really boiled my piss today it has.

I laughed out loud at this description @NoisyBrain Beautifully written

I got into conversation with a taxi driver in Sorrento and he was saying the same as a PP mentioned...that he worked every hour God gave May-Sep because there was no work over winter. I have to push aside the thought of what families like that will be going through while sanctimonious arseholes polish their halos. It's just too much otherwise

There seems to be a lack of being able to look at the whole picture, pros and coms...I guess it is fear and only thinking of one thing...it is really not that simple is it. I find the lack of understanding of mental health and psychological aspects quite sad, as well.

There has always been that virtue signalling on here, well in recent times anyway, it would have been stuff like being vegan, or thin, or a perfect parent prior to this. It has just morphed into covid virtue now...

The school stuff - it's broken me. Policies for an infant school of adults hovering over kids at adult height 2m away - I don't give a fuck about the guidance - you cannot teach infants like that. Books quarrantined for 72 hours, no weekly star assemblies that the kids adore, no singing, disinfected PE equipment after a child's touched it - for a kid who already was incredibly anxious - that's going to send them over the edge ... if parents send them in at all - a few of the ones who have kids more reluctant to go into school as a general rule, whose parents egg it on a bit to keep them home for company, have started muttering about not sending them back (ran into a few over the weekend).

DD2 because of all her issues is a very tactile, sensory creature with no spatial awareness - she's going to fall foul of things so badly in September. Thankfully she's built a bit of a relationship with the new teacher as they're currently teaching her sister - but the bubbles shite hit her today (her sister and buddy are in the year above- her year group is dominated by nasty cliquey mums who egg the kids on to exclude her) that she's going to have no friends as she doesn't tend to have friends in her year group. School are aware at least - and I'm hoping the novelty of seeing each other again tides things over a bit to start with - but for kids like her, whose friends tend to be in the year above and below, are going to be fucked.

My nightly glass of wine is back... and increasing - I'd knocked the lockdown drinking on the head. I think I've ran out of "cope" now.

Domina I feel for your daughter. I think this a problem with the bubbles idea. It's fine if you have friends in your bubble, but it isn't like that for everyone. I was that kid, not part of a clique (still like that now, but can cope with it- mostly!).

A lot of the lovely things that make primary school a happy community like the singing and assemblies, well, without that it all sounds so clinical. No wonder you are finding it tough.

Our primary did a lot of mixing up year groups, getting the older ones to buddy up with the little ones at playtime. It's such a shame that all those social skills are being left out. It feels very dystopian. As for all the wiping and quarantining of objects...

Glad we only have a year of school left. Guidelines for September are due for us this week.

I'm now starting to report mask threads as belonging in the CV topic. If the dementors want telltales, that's what they shall get. There were some good fun threads recently (unusual family behaviours), but many of them are inactive.

@wanderings

I'm now starting to report mask threads as belonging in the CV topic. If the dementors want telltales, that's what they shall get. There were some good fun threads recently (unusual family behaviours), but many of them are inactive.

Please also report any anti disability threads as hate speech too remember. Remind mnhq about their nice little virtue signal PR “this is my child” campaign and highlight what a cesspit of morality devoid of compassion the masked warriors are on here right now.

Sorry I’ve brought the tone right down and me-railed a lot. I shall try to stop