ADs seek spontaneous cake in 1984

[Mascotte]

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They’re school buses, not public buses, but usually used by 2-3 schools.

@AnxiousElephant77 I thought it looked promising for the wedding!

I was made up when I heard the announcement but everyone is so negative that it starts to infiltrate you a bit.

@AnxiousElephant77

I was made up when I heard the announcement but everyone is so negative that it starts to infiltrate you a bit.

It’s not really everyone though, it’s a vocal minority. No one I know in real life is a died in the wool dementor, most of them just want normal life back and accept their is a small risk involved in that.

Afternoon.

The comments about university & career options have cheered me up. I wish I'd found you 2 years ago!
SeaOtter
The school were useless and pretty unsupportive of anyone not applying to university. That was, & still is our experience, to the point of them being dementors about it.

for those of you with children struggling with mental health. That was us for a number of years. Things are better now. It's bad enough having anxiety & depression yourself, but when it's your child it's a punch to the gut.

I've been providing moral support to DD today. She was a witness to something unpleasant a while back & had to go to court to give evidence for the prosecution.I can't praise the court witness team enough- in fact I'm going to email my thanks later.There was social distancing but nothing OTT, & they were very kind. I was allowed to wait with her too. It was quite chilled, given where we were. Glad it's done though.

Do any of you feel fine - fine - fine - SUDDEN ANXIETY CRASH WITH NO WARNING?

I'm managing OK, but it was terrifying when it happened.

@NothingIsWrong I was getting that but you be honest I'm now just really flat and down. Can't even be arsed being excited about my holiday.

This stuff messes with your head!

What is an AD? Genuine question. I keep seeing it and can't come up with a single idea!

Orchid sounds scary. I'm glad it was do-able.

Be excited about your wedding anxiouselephant !

In entertaining news, I've been to my mum's and she has been demanding I give her my advice about which masks to buy. This follows on from a call yesterday when I refused because I thought they were all rubbish unless clinical grade, and probably even the given the conditions she's likely to wear them in. Today she had a sheaf of ads out for me to review and decide on.

She is very dischuffed that I have no preference, having never worn one

@JustMeAndMyTins AD is anti dementor. “Dementors” being those who spread doom, gloom and panic.

Panic, particularly relating to COVID and how we're all going to die

@wanderings Blimey! I’d NEVER have figured that out! 😂 Thank you!

@Allflightscancelled

Panic, particularly relating to COVID and how we're all going to die

This is my big feeling right now. Just panic about what the hell my children are inheriting

I guess we just have to keep going

AnxiousElephant77 be excited about your wedding and tune all the negativity out.

NothingIsWrong One day at a time. Or even just one hour at a time.
Kids are resilient. If they've got you, they'll be OK

@JustMeAndMyTins Dementors are negative, want to see the worst outcome in everything, pounce on the worst statistic or statement and ignore anything that points towards hope and a better future. They, like the creatures from Harry Potter, suck the will to live out of those who resist.

We are the Resistance. We are ANTI dementors.
We don't deny that sometimes things are bad, but we look at statistics and graphs with a clear rational eye and hope for a future where joy isn't rationed

We had the secondary school plans last night.

Today they had to change them due to last minute welsh governement advice they've had this happen a few times now which must be frustrating for them.

It affects only one child - instead of mixing with entire year staying in one class group all day - they don't seem to bothered about it. Eldest GCSE year should still be mixing with her entire year and having all her classes so that's fine.

NothingIsWrong
Allflightscancelled
Panic, particularly relating to COVID and how we're all going to die

This is my big feeling right now. Just panic about what the hell my children are inheriting

I guess we just have to keep going

DD was 5 months old when 9/11 happened. I remember ringing my mum and crying and asking what sort of a world had I brought my baby into? She said she'd thought the same when my DB was a baby and there was a crisis at the time. I can only guess at my grandparents' worries at having war time babies.

I suppose that panic about the future for your children has been there since time began, and we care so much because they are our children and we want the best for them.

It's not helped by people banging on about "the new normal", and how all the things we hold dear and that make life worthwhile are being dismissed as unimportant. It's no wonder we feel panic, and lost.

I have no thoughts on how we make this better, other than to agree that we keep going. We instill kindness & a sense of proportion in our own children. We need to look after ourselves too, the best we can.

I hope that doesn't sound trite. I'm no stranger to the panicky, "oh my god, what if this is it now?" feelings.

Place marking so that I can find you later. Currently in a playground, sitting under a tree with my book ignoring my children.

Realistically @Mascotte they may hike the costs of the face masks to make up for the loss.

Found you so in my workplace tea room (in a hospital) about a third of the seats were removed for social distancing today. This is a team of about 30 keywords who have been working closely together all year with just one off with covid symptoms ever. How UTTERLY pointless to take the seats out of the tea room now.

What I try to remember when overcome with health worry over it, is that we are lucky with the young people with this one, as opposed to something like Spanish flu which went for the young people. It gets it in perspective a little. It could be much worse.

@Lickyicelollies

Found you so in my workplace tea room (in a hospital) about a third of the seats were removed for social distancing today. This is a team of about 30 keywords who have been working closely together all year with just one off with covid symptoms ever. How UTTERLY pointless to take the seats out of the tea room now.

My mum works for the NHS. They’ve basically carried on as normal for months. 2 weeks ago her boss told the team they have to stay 2m apart at all times, moved all the desks to make sure they’re 2m apart and removed chairs from their tea room. He basically admitted to doing it only so he didn’t lose staff through track and trace.

Still does not help with the other outcomes of it though, but it is something