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Phew!

[quote Waleshasgonecompletelycrazy]@TheOrchidKiller (e) burn the house down. It’s the safest way[/quote]
Was going to say the same. Surely the only sensible course of action!!

Reasons to not make the DCs wear masks other than ASD and asthma...
... it's traumatic enough just getting them to find and put on a fucking pair of socks (I say pair... I no linger care if they even actually match, just one for each foot will do) without having to remember a new object.

Then DS2 will discover he can slingshot it across a shop. DS1 will chomp on his and turn it into a sodden stinking rag.

It really is for The Greater Good (and my blood pressure) that.we just don't go there

[quote TheOrchidKiller]@InsaneInTheViralMembrane at We Will Rock You!

As for tea dances, how about those dances they had in Georgian times, where no one touched anyone & the ladies could hide behind fans? They'd be popular today amongst certain circles.

Just spotted DH's mask (he only has the one) on the floor in the hall, resting against the sole of his shoe, all ready for his next shopping trip, which is where he dropped it after his last shopping trip.

Do I (a) decontaminate the mask in case it's got covid on it?
(b) decontaminate the mask, & the shoe which might have caught covid off the mask?
(c) decontaminate the mask, the shoe, the carpet, & just to be on the safe side, the cat?
(d) decide life's too short & put the kettle on?[/quote]
Assume the husband is already sterilised??? 😜😜

@BogRollBOGOF

Reasons to not make the DCs wear masks other than ASD and asthma... ... it's traumatic enough just getting them to find and put on a fucking pair of socks (I say pair... I no linger care if they even actually match, just one for each foot will do) without having to remember a new object.

Then DS2 will discover he can slingshot it across a shop. DS1 will chomp on his and turn it into a sodden stinking rag.

It really is for The Greater Good (and my blood pressure) that.we just don't go there

Oh my God, kids and masks... I am very, very not keen to do it and mine are under 11 anyway, so we're just skipping on that for now. Mind you, some pokenose woman told DH that DDs should be wearing them the other day when they were in the shop. DD1 got in a stress and DD2 poked her tongue out at the woman's back, apparently. So that was a great success of an intervention! Considering DH tears his off with an immense flourish the second he gets out of the shop, he is certainly unlikely to get the kids wearing them...

Hmmmmmm Chinese takeaway delivered to my door. Heaven😄

Decided to treat myself to a new book or 2 for holiday but I cant seem to think of one. Its like my mind has gone blank.

I will generally read anything, I love everything from Stephen King to Janet Evanovich and a good autobiography/biography and even found I couldn't put "The Road to Jonestown" down.

What are you all reading? Any recommendations?

@LivinLaVidaLoki

Decided to treat myself to a new book or 2 for holiday but I cant seem to think of one. Its like my mind has gone blank.

I will generally read anything, I love everything from Stephen King to Janet Evanovich and a good autobiography/biography and even found I couldn't put "The Road to Jonestown" down.

What are you all reading? Any recommendations?

I have just finished, and loved, this. I bawled my eyes out. I must admit I do cry at books but my reaction to this was a tad OTT so I think it was also a good old cathartic cry that I was clearly in need of. 99p on kindle at the moment. She's quite Jodi Piccoult in writing style.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Secrets-Strangers-Charity-Norman-ebook/dp/B081DCTWLY/ref=sxtsentityyrecbsxxsdeffw00ttaufl?cvcttcx=charity+norman&dchild=1&keywords=charity+norman&pdrddi=B081DCTWLY&pdrddr=76a1f678-d603-4fc0-960a-5daf061ad782&pdrddw=ZDyT6&pdrddwg=i3v4w&pfrddp=e26a7f62-85ae-4b55-ae2c-31020e57051f&pfrdd_r=KDG0STF6DA69FD82R0ST&qid=1595786378&sprefix=charity&sr=1-1-5e8a3801-7d56-49d0-924a-2edbd14ef2c0

@LivinLaVidaLoki

Decided to treat myself to a new book or 2 for holiday but I cant seem to think of one. Its like my mind has gone blank.

I will generally read anything, I love everything from Stephen King to Janet Evanovich and a good autobiography/biography and even found I couldn't put "The Road to Jonestown" down.

What are you all reading? Any recommendations?

Have you tried Jasper Fforde? Or the ever reliably funny Terry Pratchett?

Did I tell you about our fab day in Helmsley Today
Usually it’s buzzing on a weekend but today was double buzzing
Walked straight into a pub doing Sunday lunch
Fan dabby dozy
And got a 400 count Egyptian Cotton sheet down from £60 or £70 to £18-50
And bargain of the day..a super king feather duvet down from £150 to £55
Gawd I was tempted but I’m not a lover of feathers and we don’t have a super king
But £100 off..mental.

I have been up to York for my Mum's birthday as a surprise, was awesome. We had a picnic, went for a walk, had an Indian. Came home via Sunday lunch in a nice restaurant with another friend. Not totally normal, but I feel good.

@BakewellTarts I was very close to you, took the road from Sheffield through Bamford and Hope and Buxton. LOVE that drive, although it was very MAMIL heavy. Cars everywhere so hopefully money returning to the High Peak...

@LivinLaVidaLoki I'm reading the Robert Galbraith ones, JK Rowling by another name. Very much enjoying the first one.

@LivinLaVidaLoki

Decided to treat myself to a new book or 2 for holiday but I cant seem to think of one. Its like my mind has gone blank.

I will generally read anything, I love everything from Stephen King to Janet Evanovich and a good autobiography/biography and even found I couldn't put "The Road to Jonestown" down.

What are you all reading? Any recommendations?

I’ve just finished Three Hours by Rosamund Lupton, which is very gripping. About a school siege.

@pollyhemlock I love Rosamund Lupton, missed catching that at 99p but now you've said that I might just pay normal price for it.

Evening folks!!

We've had a really good weekend. Bought the new car that I wanted so have been spending the weekend getting to grips with that. The place we bought it from was really good, sensible with the mask regulations and super helpful. And I LOVE my new car (I may not enjoy paying for it though over the next 5 years )

My 9 year old son has been in and out of the house every 5 minutes as and when a pokemon appears at the park behind us. At least he's getting exercise & fresh air unlike my girls who are both hibernating in their bedroom with the curtains permanently closed. I did get DD11 out to karate for a couple of hours this morning though.

I've been on annual leave all week, back to it tomorrow. I'm normally really excited to get back to work but there are some corporate changes a foot & I'm not sure I'm going to like them 🤷‍♀️ wait and see I guess.

It's my 13th wedding anniversary this week too, clearly unlucky 13

I am reading Have His Carcase by Dorothy Sayers (waves to @110APiccadilly).

And, to the DC, The Lives of Christopher Chant by Diana Wynne Jones.

If we're doing booK recs, can anyone recommend a good book about zoology or animal behaviour?

I've just had an entirely normal afternoon with friends. I was invited round for Sunday lunch, which we had indoors, around a table, with shared food and wine. I used the loo without feeling I was contaminating their house. We then walked round to one of their friends, who I know a bit, to admire her newly decorated house, and had a cup of tea there. It was bloody lovely!

@LivinLaVidaLoki - I've just finished "Where the Crawdads Sing" by Delia Owens - set in the deep South of the USA and a sort of murder mystery but really about nature and all sorts of stuff. Highly recommended!

Who was it who painted their front door a lovely pink?

I finally got around to painting my front door and I'm rather chuffed with it

I think it was doing the rounds here well before Christmas - I think it was out in the wild before it was noted as being something "different" even in China.

I'm at uni and there's a lot of bottle necks where you're passing very very close to people, and we also had (god knows how admission numbers have changed now) a lot of students from overseas - especially China as well. I had something before Christmas that knocked me absolutely flat (and normally I have an incredibly good immune system) and went right onto the chest as well - to the point that, after I'd climbed a flight of stairs and was struggling to catch my breath - I had to fend off one endearingly overzealous paramedic student who had spotted the potential for some practical-based learning!

It was definitely somewhere in the league table above the common really shitty cold and it knocked my breathing rather than me being a dripping ball of snot like colds normally get me (and then fucked sinuses for the rest of the winter).

I'd been commuting in on packed trains as well - and in the city that's been the poster boy for Corona Misery - so I do tend to wonder (when I can be bothered to devote time to wondering).

Kids finished school now and go to my parents end of this week so I can get my uni exams done - parents are under orders to keep them the fuck away from my idiot brother who has lost it completely and was telling my mother she'd be dead from covid within 14 days of having a "corona cut" at the hairdressers! I've done a lot of work getting the kids' anxiety levels down to somewhere approaching manageable - I'm not blowing that.

@TheOrchidKiller f) decide lifes too short and open a nice bottle of wine? Our masks will and have been chucked in the wash with everything else.

@Shodan love that blue.

@NothingIsWrong glad you had a lovely time. That area is still home even though I've now lived away longer than I lived there.

@DominaShantotto I wonder too. I get a biannual (every other year) health assessment / review through work which is now due. When I booked it I was asked if I wanted an antibody test so I said yes so I guess I'll find out. I work in London. 2 colleagues diagnosed with a test and several others with symptoms. I obviously also commute in sardine tins (think shouting everyone move down as we get closer to London. And if we were in Hong Kong they would have been using guards in white jackets to push people in! So rather busy). I did not have any instance of feeling ill though.

@Shodan

Who was it who painted their front door a lovely pink?

I finally got around to painting my front door and I'm rather chuffed with it

It was me!

That looks fab! Lovely colour

@LivinLaVidaLoki I would not recommend the book I just finished. "The Passage" an end of the world dystopia featuring a vampire virus. With hindsight not a good choice at the moment. Someone recommende "The Bolter" which I have bought but not yet started.

From Amazon:
Synopsis
On Friday 25th May, 1934, a forty-one-year-old woman walked into the lobby of Claridge's Hotel to meet the nineteen-year-old son whose face she did not know. Fifteen years earlier, as the First World War ended, Idina Sackville shocked high society by leaving his multimillionaire father to run off to Africa with a near penniless man. An inspiration for Nancy Mitford's character The Bolter, painted by William Orpen, and photographed by Cecil Beaton, Sackville went on to divorce a total of five times, yet died with a picture of her first love by her bed. Her struggle to reinvent her life with each new marriage left one husband murdered and branded her the 'high priestess' of White Mischief's bed-hopping Happy Valley in Kenya. Sackville's life was so scandalous that it was kept a secret from her great-granddaughter Frances Osborne. Now, Osborne tells the moving tale of betrayal and heartbreak behind Sackville's road to scandal and return, painting a dazzling portrait of high society in the early twentieth century. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Once the kids come back from my mum's I'm going to carry on trying to badger the NHS departments that have shut down to listen to me - DD2 had another bad headache with her vision going funny again today. I'm coping with all of this while knowing there's fuck all GP service out there (phonecall in a fortnight's time) and that's adding to my stress. I'm all coped-out at the moment.

@LivinLaVidaLoki

Decided to treat myself to a new book or 2 for holiday but I cant seem to think of one. Its like my mind has gone blank.

I will generally read anything, I love everything from Stephen King to Janet Evanovich and a good autobiography/biography and even found I couldn't put "The Road to Jonestown" down.

What are you all reading? Any recommendations?

I see you like Stephen King (so do I). I just read a couple of books by Mark Edwards I enjoyed - The Magpies and Follow You Home.

I’ve just read ‘The Ladies of Grace Adieu’ by Susanna Clarke - it’s a collection of short stories set in the same alternate England of ‘Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell’ - she’s got a new novel out in September (that’s two in two decades so she’s not exactly prolific!) and I’m really looking forward to reading it.

Currently reading ‘Home Going’ by Yaa Gyasi which is about the west African slave trade (book group choice). The setting and history are fascinating but so far none of the characters has really come to life. Book group’s been brought forward a week so I need to get a move on...