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I had to laugh at the irony of this

www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/bus-governments-stay-alert-sign-4351078

[quote PickAChew]I had to laugh at the irony of this

www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/bus-governments-stay-alert-sign-4351078[/quote]
😂😂😂😂

Pickachew
That bus! I'm checking the date. Not April 1st is it?

That bus driver might have been 'shaken' but he'll definitely be stirred by his mates for the next few years 🤣🤣🤣

A few lovely things to help me know that normal is on its way-

My neighbour had her parents over to stay in her house and we had a lovely chat in the garden.

I love the folk show on radio 2, it was moved from a very reasonable time of 9pm to 11pm-12am during 'the unprecidented times' which made it impossible to listen directly to, as I had work the next day. It's back to 9pm!

Exemption lanyards have arrived for my autistic son, he will probably be ok to wear a buff covering but he is up and down on fabric sensitivity, so I got them just in case. He is quite open about being autistic and chats about it, but will not react in a brilliant way if he is 'publicly shamed' by a randon stranger with no empathy.

Going out to the shops tomorrow to get a few bits and to breathe freely for the last time. Last time I went into town a few days ago, less than 10% were wearing them. I think masks will either be here for a month, or a year+. Maybe we should all have a sweepstake on when UnMuzzle Day officially happens?

Will have to venture out again tomorrow as forgot a gro-bag for my tomato plants.😤

Loving that bus!🤣🤣

Kids are both utterly fed up with their bubbles now. DD1 has a real shite in hers who has singled her out as the youngest in there for giving grief... DD2 just misses her friends. Feel bad as this is the best I can get for them right now (we don't break up till this Friday) and I had to fight tooth and nail to get that.

Fuck's sake. Made a concerted effort to buy second hand to avoid fast fashion. eBay shorts arrived and I can barely get them past my bum, let alone do them up. Why am I a comfortable 12 in some shops and an 18 in others???
Did my last jaunt into town today, think I'll avoid it for a while to protect my purse, and well, if I can't remember try stuff on then what's the bloody point?

Can't remember who it is that does wild swimming but BBC4 has a programme about it on just now. Very nature orientated too.

@DominaShantotto

Kids are both utterly fed up with their bubbles now. DD1 has a real shite in hers who has singled her out as the youngest in there for giving grief... DD2 just misses her friends. Feel bad as this is the best I can get for them right now (we don't break up till this Friday) and I had to fight tooth and nail to get that.

2 days left. Just 2 days left

We have a socially distanced gathering in the park opposite school at the end of the (last) school day tomorrow. It should do DS2 some good.

DS2 (7) is driving us round the bend. He's being very rude and defiant. I suspect it is significantly due to having very little life for 4 long months (including an early lockdown birthday which was hard) While I'm sympathetic to it being an emotional fightback, he can't be indulged with it either and he really doesn't give a shit at the moment. He's making DS1 look easy... abd there's a child who needs a very psycological approach to parenting.
I know DS2 is really missing his friends, but he's shut it all down to the point where he doesn't want to randomly see them which doesn't help. Children 5 months younger than him got the chance to spend 7 weeks in school.

Oh and lovebombing is not the answer, he kind of does that for himself. When we camped in the garden a few weeks ago he was literally lying on my hair with his face smooshed up against mine

I feel for all of you with younger children. All that stress of no school, then some but very unusual school but not for everyone, "bubbles", and all the usual end-of-year stress, fatigue, & fall-out. All knowing that there's 6 weeks to fill with stuff you've done over & over for last 90 million weeks already.

@Willow2017

Can't remember who it is that does wild swimming but BBC4 has a programme about it on just now. Very nature orientated too.

That’s me, thank you I’ll check it out. Hoping to FLOCK to a fife beach on Friday for a dook.

We're planning wild, river swimming after my next fitness class. It's next to the instructor's base and is well used by locals.
Not had a wild swim for years

There's another one on now!

My post just vanished my phone is going nuts!!

BogRoll that must be hard. Do you think that once the pressure of missing out on school is past he might mellow?

My ds2 is out in town with friends. Got bus in and getting a lift back with a parent but I would have expected him.back by now. Should I txt or is that embarrassing mum territory?

Behold this gem from my Facebook! It’s the giant despairing doctor in prose form. Person who shared it is not a frontline or keyworker.

@Willow2017 I'm an embarrassing mum. I'd wait 10 mins then text an "Are you on your way back?" No response after another 10 mins results in the ultimate embarrassment of a phone call.

He's probably absorbed in what he's doing & has forgotten to text. They know where they are, don't they?!

Mrsfrumble
Behold this gem from my Facebook! It’s the giant despairing doctor in prose form. Person who shared it is not a frontline or keyworker.

A lot of us keyworkers, in fact a lot of people in general, are knackered. Doesn't stop us having a sense of humour or raising an eyebrow at some of the more wappy ideas about how we should live though.

I have full respect for anyone traumatised or stressed by this situation. You don't have to be a Giant Doctor holding a "societal umbrella" to feel that.

@Mrsfrumble

Behold this gem from my Facebook! It’s the giant despairing doctor in prose form. Person who shared it is not a frontline or keyworker.

The only answer is

'Fuck Off - you aren't doing it for me or mine and the world doesn't need any more martyrs

I know several doctors, some of whom actually worked in Covid wards. They have a brilliantly dark sense of humour and none of them have either a God complex or a martyr complex (both of which seem to be attributed to them, depending on what the situation is at the time). They're just human, and know very well that they signed up to this, and found the Thursday claps very cringey.

All of them have barely suppressed anger towards the Government for not providing them with enough PPE when they desperately needed it.

TheOrchidKiller
There was a blip and I couldn't post so by the time it appeared I had txt him.😄 He was close to home hanging out with his friend. Was home in 10 minutes. Not happy as his friends mum who was supposed to be getting them was working and ended up with his dad getting them after ds2 pointed out they were not walking 7 miles on an A road home! 😤 He has been reminded to txt me when they get back here in future. Next time i want proof of the lift being definate not maybe! Kids!

MrsF good gravy are they holding back the fecking Persians at Thermopylae? I am a 'keyworker' apparently and am knackered too but I don't seek a round of applause (Maybe more staff than the cheapskates will provide😉) . I can have good and bad days at work same as every one else who has worked through all this wherever they are.

This deification of people is incomprehensible. Yes it must have been tough at times, we don't need to be told that in these cringey memes every few days, but that's the nature of the job. But it hasn't been like that for quite a while now so can we just stop acting like the nhs staff have saved the bloody planet? It's tough a lot of the time in many areas of medicine, (been there done That!) People forget that not all nhs staff had anything to do with covid. Many had nothing to do at all for months. I fully support NHS in getting proper conditions to work in but I know for a fact they are not all 'gods'.

I left the NHS after qualifying 1976 because I didn't like the chief - indian ratio

Even in the 70s there was a dichotomy between the black humor (but would do whatever was needed) and the martyr (this is not my job and the world is ending)

I know where my loyalties lay (and still do)

@TheOrchidKiller

Mrsfrumble Behold this gem from my Facebook! It’s the giant despairing doctor in prose form. Person who shared it is not a frontline or keyworker.

A lot of us keyworkers, in fact a lot of people in general, are knackered. Doesn't stop us having a sense of humour or raising an eyebrow at some of the more wappy ideas about how we should live though.

I have full respect for anyone traumatised or stressed by this situation. You don't have to be a Giant Doctor holding a "societal umbrella" to feel that.

I'm exhausted from living with my nearest and dearest constantly!

I don't think DS2's been thinking about some being in school. I'm open about stuff and he knows y1 and under were in. I've not drawn much attention to the y2s-5s.

I've spotted that there's some places on football courses so in the morning I'll ask if he wants to spend a week doing that. It's the same provider that does his after school training. I hope he wants to do it. It would be good physically and socially.
He ran/walked nearly 5k with me to get the car back from the garage earlier. It's down in town. The uphill after dropping the car off was much tougher!

I wonder if they have the keyworker thing in Sweden? DH has been doing lots of work for Swedish transport infrastructure, so there must be some kickback, surely? A wee badge, at least? Maybe a free ikea meatball or two?

What i don't understand about those kind of memes/poems/shite, is the idea that us keyworkers are shattered and crying because we are doing our bit and you are being selfish by not being sat at home 23 hours a day with a mask on (well, that's the gist).
But in my experience, a lot of us that have been out and about and sending our kids to school have a more realistic idea of risk and understand that we manage our own risk and couldn't give a shiny shite what anyone else does. Its bizarre how people sat at home for the last 3 months, scared of their own shadow are talking about managing risk???

Though the deification of keyworkers ends with the idea of school. They won't send their kids as it isn't safe, they'll pick up the virus, spread it and kill half their family. They can't put their family at such risk.
But it's OK for us to put ours at risk so you can access medical care, essential services and food?

Selfless on one hand, selfish in the other.