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[quote Mrsfrumble]@PinkFondantFancy DH isn’t remotely dementory and his holiday reluctance isn’t driven by anxiety. I’m not sure why he’s been such an Eeyore, other than he’s turning into a grumpy old man at 44.

It’s nice to hear you’re enjoying London @NannyPhlegm. I think the fact that Londoners are so good at minding our own bloody business makes us seem more chilled out than other parts of the country right now. Also it’s harder to be fearful of being around other people when there are 7 million (or is it 8 these days?) of us crammed in together.

Sorry to hear you’re feeling rubbish @InsaneInTheViralMembrane and @NothingIsWrong. The sun has just come out here, so hopefully it will start to shine where you are too. I understand about the relentlessness of the children demanding attention. Mine stand outside the bathroom door and talk to me while I’m on the loo! I hate to wish away time, but I keep fantasising about their first day back at school in September and having a silent, empty flat to myself.[/quote]
I misread that last sentence as " but I keep fantasising about their first day back at school in September and having a silent, empty fart to myself."

I need to sort myself out for a smear test. I got the letter in early March...
I'm normally quite on the ball with them (and fell in the age group that could have them from 20 before it went back up), but first I need to suss out the new booking systems. Then it's the having to be in there with a covered face particularly at the rummaging around stage

@TheOrchidKiller, sorry you also have an anxious DM. Mine is often her own worst enemy: she’s old-ish but not clinically vulnerable in any other way, but she’s been hiding in her house since March as if death was guaranteed if she set foot outside the front door. In that time she’s lost fitness and mobility and put on weight- basically it’s aged her by 5-10 years. My sister lives nearby and is trying to persuade her to get out a bit, but getting nowhere.

@Mrsfrumble yes to that about Londoners and also the art of understatement: we were there the weekend if the terror attacks and the one concession heading to the Tube was a handwritten sign saying "London Bridge Station is closed".

My boy and I still remember that as an antidote to hysteria.

I can't wait to get back, but don't fancy five fours in the train with a mask on.

The zoe app numbers have almost doubled

@SpnBaby1967

The zoe app numbers have almost doubled

Yes I just noticed that. Weird when the ONS figures have gone down and the daily diagnoses cases aren’t increasing. Which is why all these numbers are a bit pointless. It’s all so contradictory.

@SpnBaby1967

The zoe app numbers have almost doubled

Is zoe still reporting people with symptoms rather than actual tests?

@LivinLaVidaLoki I’d have ended up in a full blown argument there. Well done you.

[quote theThreeofWeevils]@LadyOfTheImprovisedBath, that's appalling. I'm so sorry and hope he is now getting the treatment he needs to make a good recovery.[/quote]
He's feeling slightly better now hospital have started some treatments but he still being assessed overall.

We're hoping it will also lead to home assessment before discharge which long term would be very useful.

I've been trying to get them to complain for a while but they didn't feel up to it and didn't want rest of family doing it on their behalf and we hadn't been told everything either.

I have pretty much given up trying to keep up with all the numbers. I'm not the most mathematically gifted person anyway (understatement!) and all the various different numbers seem to contradict each other! Add to that the shit with PHE counting everyone who ever had a sniffle as a Covid death, the R number becoming useless as cases decline, pillar 1 and pillar 2, it's all just turning to soup in my brain.

I do wonder a little if this is deliberate. If the public can't understand the data, it's easier to get us to just accept whatever they tell us is needed to keep us 'safe'.

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OH lost half a stone in three days, caveman diet, plus whatever he lost before was too scared to jump on scales before that.

Afternoon all! I've just had a haircut so am feeling chipper! He's persuaded me to go a lot shorter and embrace my curly girl self and I like it.

My hairdresser is lovely but somehow I knew he'd be a dementor. And his wife is worse apparently. They wear masks all the time, won't go to shops or restaurants.... you get the picture.

So today he's wearing the full visor. Lifts it up, takes his hanky out of his pocket, blows his nose, puts the hanky away and visor back in place and carries on cutting my hair no hsndwashing, no hand gel. Nowt.

Friend last night admitted being lonely just goes to shops in full gear, solo walks on deserted beaches. She invented hand sanitisers I reckon 15 years ago her dcs were sanitised hourly, covered in factor 50 from April to October, so risk averse. She does work in health and safety. She has no idea her teenage kids are meeting up with friends with gay abandon and have been through lockdown.

Just read an online article from a Spanish newspaper about mandatory mask wearing. Interestingly at least half of the comments (from Spanish people living in Spain) are from people saying they’re useless as people don’t wear them properly etc.
So to everyone on MN who says ‘everyone in other countries just get on with it without moaning’ are wrong. They definitely moan about it in Spain

@justasking111 that's actually a fairly common theme re teenagers generally. The number of people I know who are 'so grateful my teen never went through that stage' re drink, drugs, hook ups etc etc. Because one of mine was an absolute nightmare we were all too aware of what he got up to - which means I also knew what their precious darlings were doing too! Instead I had to listen to them in their smug twattery despite the fact that I had, on my phone, a pic of their child smoking the fattest joint you've ever seen!

Ibake sounds like mine! She isn't a night mare she is quite good but she and her mates do get up to a bit. She tells me loads of it and then swears me to secrecy. I know I don't hear the worst but I've still got a long list of things I'm not allowed to mention

Dropped my germy library books off in The Quarantine Bin of Death outside the library door. There was no one in the queue but they still wanted me to follow the arrows.

High street bustling -I live somewhere where people have some disposable income & there are lots of cafes & "artisan"-everything. (Artisan, my arse!) Massive queues because its Saturday. All I wanted was a loaf of sliced Warburtons, not a flipping rustic home-crafted sourdough boule. I wasn't queuing for either.

DH wants us to go out. I want to go out but I've got a headache & can't think of anywhere to go that doesn't involve queues.

They moan about masks in Portugal as well, not many masks are worn properly either. Chin masks, or just mouth covered, not the nose.

@Ibake we have seen the pictures of their DCs who unlike mine who have somewhat rebellious parents so are more careful than us lol. I would not dream of telling her though.

@Drivingdownthe101

Just read an online article from a Spanish newspaper about mandatory mask wearing. Interestingly at least half of the comments (from Spanish people living in Spain) are from people saying they’re useless as people don’t wear them properly etc. So to everyone on MN who says ‘everyone in other countries just get on with it without moaning’ are wrong. They definitely moan about it in Spain

@drivingdownthe101 Its almost like a kind of reverse colonialism. Instead of being superior to everyone else, we are fucking it up the most.

That bloody library bin, they post it up on FB as if it was wonderful. Nope will stick to kindle offers thank you. The shops around them are open but nope not the hallowed library.

Been peeking at expat spain forums, very interesting.

Ha ha Justasking & Ibake! I have a friend who told me her student son, home for lockdown, is taking social distancing very seriously when he goes out with friends drinking at night to a local beauty spot. I love my friend but she can be quite naiive.

My DD has stuff on him

Morning (or should I say afternoon, now) Dh has taken the boys out so have that slight lifting feeling - still in nightwear but going to have a quiet shower in a minute. Had to listen to DH going on about how he had been up in the night with a terrible headache, he has snaffled some of my co-codomols which left him all high and chatty not the most restful thing first thing in the morning. He's worried about his self employment so going on a lot about that as well. anyway! quite grey here today. hope to try and do a bit of yoga to sort my back out.

On smear tests was there not some talk of a kit to do those yourself? maybe it has not come out yet.

I have a friend that is still very dementorish. She still washes her shopping and logs 'symptoms' onto her Zoe app everyday. At one point she was sent a test and was almost disappointed it was negative. She also informed me people our age are all going to have strokes