ADs seek spontaneous cake in 1984

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New thread mash up title hope ok

Found it thanks SirSamuel 😀

@InsaneInTheViralMembrane

Btw, there’s no need to run 50km. Petrol is very Cheap right now and there are various bike recycling schemes should you prefer.

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@RubberDinghyRapids, I feel your pain. We're well past the stage of regular awful sleep (DD is nearly 10!) but she was a terrible sleeper for years and I was a grey zombie. Even now she still has odd nights when she comes and gets in with me in the middle of the night. There's a reason she's an only child...

@InsaneInTheViralMembrane

Btw, there’s no need to run 50km. Petrol is very Cheap right now and there are various bike recycling schemes should you prefer.

@RubberDinghyRapids

Checking in from my pit. DD has been a terrible sleeper the last few nights and I'm a broken woman.

Solidarity fist bumps. Here is a tail of our sleeping woes... DD1 first slept through the night at 3.5. We had DD2 when she was 19 months old. So we had nearly two years of them both waking every couple of hours in the night. Alternate hours, of course. I don’t know how I survived it to be honest. We had about 2 months after they both started sleeping through before we had DC3. He’s now 18 months and started sleeping through about a month ago. Still gets up at 5.30am, but it’s fucking bliss. No more children.

@SirSamuelVimesBlackboardMonito that thread is wonderful. A reminder to us all of how MN used to be, and will be again once this madness is over.
@wanderings thanks for the update, I was wondering how you had found it.

Huge sleep deprivation solidarity here too. Thankfully those days seem to be over but man they were brutal at the time!!

Thanks @wanderings v interesting. I think that's the trouble with these things - it all gets co-mingled with wider ideas that you might or might not agree with and the message gets diluted and it makes it easier for others to bucket it under "conspiracy theory" rather than giving it any consideration.

@wanderings

Travelling to the events at Speaker's Corner today, I rebelliously wore a visor while travelling today, instead of a fabric muzzle. So I shall await the Dementor's Kiss!

I also saw people wearing a few T-shirts that I liked. For example, one which said:
Fear is the virus
The people's reaction is the pandemic
Common sense is the solution

Love that T shirt wording

May have to put that as a status on FB.

Kind of predictable that extremists would feature I guess.

Not a Boris lover by any means but thank fuck it wasn't Jeremy

I don't think it going to become 'a flu'

I really think it is going to become 'a cold'. I talked ages back about reading about previously isolated Amazon tribes being killed if exposed to 'a cold' and someone else said they had read the same about isolated eskimo tribes.

Some ITU professionals have already talked about the serious cases being less serious.

I hope I'm right, I clearly might not be but fingers crossed that is the way it will go.

My bunch at beach. 💃💃💃💃

Scearming running shouting laughing. Omg so normal.

Someone explain if I'm a sicko for finding it quite funny that there's a covid outbreak at... a Scottish coronavirus contact tracing centre. It's almost like ... nobody gets this perfect. All the disruption, all the soc-distancing... and still there they spread the germ. (For those of us that enjoy grim irony) 2020 truly is the year that keeps on giving.

I posted on the other lard-losing thread, but just realised we're keeping general chatter on this one.

I've had an amazing weekend, meeting my mum in London. First time since Christmas! It's done me soooo much good to see her and my brother popped over as well, so it felt like such a pivotal moment. My soul actually feels lighter, not just as a figure of speech but actually lighter, like I'm not carrying lead weights in my shoes any more.

London is simply ace. There were no crowds anywhere, but enough people milling about so it didn't feel like a zombie set. Portobello Market had been shut to traffic, so was pedestrian only, and it was a much better experience for it. DDs bought so many posters and accessories from the stalls; more than in regular times. Hey, not like I've spent money on anything in the last 4 months.

The lack of international tourists and City workers was very much visible. There were plenty of locals wandering about as well as domestic tourists. But the sites were still sparse. We had a great time as a result, but I'm keenly aware the lack of consumers on the street isn't good for the economy in general.

I think I may have found my new favourite judgy meme. Move over giant doctor judgy....

@LivinLaVidaLoki

I think I may have found my new favourite judgy meme. Move over giant doctor judgy....

😂 oof! A new level of performance!

@LivinLaVidaLoki

@yeOldeTrout I also enjoyed the irony of the "CV outbreak" at the CV tracing centre - you really couldn't make this shit up.

Any thoughts on when Queen Nicola might move us into phase 4? Obvs we have to be "safe" with that enormous rise of 21 cases from 16000 tests in a population of over 5 million . I think I need to come to terms with the likelihood that my birthday party at the beginning of September is not going to be allowed to happen. I know #firstworldproblems - it's just that I've had a totally shit year not just due to covid but huge difficulties in my personal and professional life, so I've been clinging on to the thought of being able to celebrate normally. It's not going to happen is it?

@LivinLaVidaLoki. I need that sign in my life. I think I would actually make a point of using it to check my hair.

I love how the Covid death repointing thing HAS to be the government trying to hide how bad things still are versus the government realising they and the population have completely over reacted to a virus that is not as bad as we first thought. It’s still a killer of those at risk the same way influenza or sepsis or any of the other myriad of diseases is, but we already have better understanding of treatment, and of course the large proportion of the population have an immune system which can easily deal with the virus.

Back to dementorville today after a lovely weekend. Managed a nice 6K run without too much pain.

And sorry to all those with bad sleeers. I have been blessed with a good sleeper though she does sleep through smoke alarms so it has its downsides 😴

Morning lovely ADs. I'm just putting off weighing myself for the lardarse thread.

I saw something on FB about the ONS revising their numbers from 45k to 29k but can find a decent news story on it - anyone know?

I'm going on a playground mission today. Our council website says they were reopening from the 4th but apparently our nearest is still chained up. So going to go on a reccie and then call the council and get really fucking angry at them if it's still shut.

Depending on how that goes I might be ordering some bolt cutters from Screwfix this afternoon as well.

@Lickyicelollies
"Any thoughts on when Queen Nicola might move us into phase 4? "

You are never moving on from the outbreak at the SCOTTISH track & trace centre, NEVER!

Nicola will be out there at lunchtime, delivering a speech in full hazmat suit. No doubt saying it's because of people shopping in shops and going out in daylight.

Oh well, at least tracing the contacts of those testing positive should be easy. Right??

Glad NannyPhlegm had a lovely time with your mum.

Oh bloody hell, sorry Licky I didn't mean my attempt at a joke to add to your woes.

I hope you get to celebrate your birthday. This is the pisser with all these restrictions- uncertainty & a lack of light at the end of the tunnel.

Oh wow that mask sign is something else!!

Isn't funny how all the memes/posts, whether it's about masks or staying at home or shopping for essentials, all imply that they are so caring and anyone else isn't 🤔

@SirSamuelVimesBlackboardMonito

Morning lovely ADs. I'm just putting off weighing myself for the lardarse thread.

I saw something on FB about the ONS revising their numbers from 45k to 29k but can find a decent news story on it - anyone know?

I'm going on a playground mission today. Our council website says they were reopening from the 4th but apparently our nearest is still chained up. So going to go on a reccie and then call the council and get really fucking angry at them if it's still shut.

Depending on how that goes I might be ordering some bolt cutters from Screwfix this afternoon as well.

Ooh where is the lardarse thread?

Stayed up way too late last night drinking red wine with DH in the hot tub. Got two of the DD’s friends coming today while their mum works (no summer childcare round here so Boris will have to stick it) and they’re LOUD. My head hurts.

Any thoughts on when Queen Nicola might move us into phase 4?

Maybe dependent on how many good little nationalists stood on their doorsteps in their masks and clapped for the Glorious Leader's birthday last night?

www.scotsman.com/health/coronavirus/when-phase-4-scotland-date-scottish-government-could-announce-next-stage-route-map-out-lockdown-2908941

Says - when the virus is no longer considered a serious threat to public health - but of course no definition of what a serious threat means.

We had the best bit of dementoring ever when I went back to volunteering at my charity shop last week - as expected there were lots of rules. Some sensible like getting people to pay contactless and spreading stuf out in the shop so there's more room to circulate. Others totally over the top - wash your hands every 15 minutes, quarantine donations for 72 hours, sanitise the kettle after you've touched it. But the absolute gem was:

"If the fire alarm goes off, you MUST maintain social distancing when evacuating the shop".

We pointed out that if the building is on fire, that's a bit more of a risk than Covid. Nope, maintain social distance. That customer in a wheelchair or volunteer with mobility problems can just burn.

And it won't be a "sadly died" either as it won't be from Covid.

@Drivingdownthe101 lockdown lardarse thread here www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/3972546-The-ADs-lose-the-lockdown-lardarse-club

"If the fire alarm goes off, you MUST maintain social distancing when evacuating the shop".

I can confirm that social distancing went out the window when the fire alarm went off at work the other week!

They've since implemented a "one person only on the stairs" rule. Not in a fire, mate!