ADs don't want the greater good, give us our crusty jugglers!

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Here you go all, thought it might be my turn again.

For all of the people still insisting that caring about the economy is not a priority, I wonder how many are paying attention to the fact that projects like this are struggling.
www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/auckland-project-job-cuts-coronavirus-18678985

Crook Hall and Gardens has gone bust. A lot of people had weddings booked there, too.

I got some of these from Sea salt which seem a bit easier than masks, still not great though. Might be Ok in winter when colder. Can just wear it round neck like a scarf then pull up if needed for a shop..

www.seasaltcornwall.co.uk/accessories/handyband-headbands?cm_re=HP--B6--HandybandsFL&cm_sp=PR--HandybandsFL--HPB6

I’m gutted about Crook Hall. I love a nice garden and tea room

On our travels around I’m still seeing a lot of cafes and pubs not yet open The restaurant we went to on Sunday had 3 tables inside and one outside taken when we sat down. The food was gorgeous, and the staff lovely. We have a fussy veggie and a fussy coeliac plus a dog and nothing was too much trouble. I really hope they survive.

Yet the horror at work when I mentioned that we’d been out for lunch. I’ve realised I work with dementors. They are also horrified that we go for days out, they are still working to the one walk a day and that must be local rule

@TheOrchidKiller

DH says he tried to apply for the govt £50 bike voucher scheme (he cycles to work when the office is open).

An hour after trying to apply & getting nowhere, the site crashed. He says, without a word of a lie, the message that popped onto the screen to explain why the bike scheme page had crashed read, "This page is not working due to high levels of traffic."

Only 50,000 available, all gone now I think.

Gee shucks thanks @InsaneInTheViralMembrane! Although you've def confused me with someone else re nannies - I wish! Although I did book them into every pre-school place I could get for them the minute they were old enough. They went from 0-60 at 7 sessions a week - no gentle build up to get them used to being away from mummy!

@countrygirl99 really interesting re housing benefit. How could they not know? That tells me they didn't pay any attention to the news or current affairs. If you have a first from Oxbridge but never pick up a newspaper then, to my mind, you're only academically clever but you're certainly not well rounded in your education or thinking skills.

We talk endlessly on here about critical thinking skills and I think it's a true AD characteristic. Our education levels may well be quite varied by traditional standards but every single regular poster on here strikes me as being clever and well read.

Only 50,000 available, all gone now I think.

Thanks. I'll tell him to give up now!

I've actually learned a lot about how to critically think from MN. It's influenced how I want to teach my DC to think.

So thank you all for that

Oh deal got embroiled in a school thread again. You can learn a lot about non critical thinking as well...

They don't like the idea teachers could catch it from other teachers do they...

I would expect to catch it from a colleague way before I worried about small children. Follow the science as the governments are wont to say.

Ibake
@countrygirl99 really interesting re housing benefit. How could they not know? That tells me they didn't pay any attention to the news or current affairs. If you have a first from Oxbridge but never pick up a newspaper then, to my mind, you're only academically clever but you're certainly not well rounded in your education or thinking skills.

I know someone who tutors privately & some of their very priviledged students are not allowed to read the papers, to shield them from all the terrible things out there.

When DD was doing Sociology at school she was often getting into arguments with a couple of boys in her class who just didn't see why anyone should live in poverty or not be able to get a well-paying job. I know these kids' parents had the same attitude. They are given everything on a plate & whilst I'm not criticising anyone's parenting or circumstances, I think it's wrong to assume that we are all in a position to do the same.

If you live in a nice area & have everything you want, & are surrounded by other people like that I think it's easy, & more comfortable, to forget or deny the existence of people not like you.

@Orangeblossom78 they certainly don't!

On the subject of testing. DT2 has just joined the testing team. Our level of capability is actually huge at the moment and very under utilised but I'm quite impressed that they're investing heavily in a system now so that we're ready for the autumn. Pay is great too although it's dead boring - standing in a car park all day waiting for people to rock up for their swab is not how I'd want to spend my working day. He's just focussed on the dosh though!

I know schools and teachers work closely in teams, have meetings and staffrooms, share toilets, hopefully they will distance from each other, maybe wear visors to protect themselves if needs be.

Does sound boring but maybe they can chat to the other young people and money sounds useful Ibake

MN has taught me a lot about boundaries and what is - and is not, acceptable within a relationship.

It’s also shown me that there are swathes of the population really haven’t got a fucking clue about life outside their self-congratulatory supper-club circles.

DS got back into work on Monday he has 7 weeks of earning before back to uni. So boring or not he has to crack on with it.

That's shocking @orchidkiller. Precisely because we're quite comfortable I've been really tough on my boys, they have had to learn the value of money. Jobs as soon as they were old enough. Allowance that had to pay for everything (clothes, travel, phone, entertainment) so they had to budget - and it also wasn't that generous! For example it would pay for a fleece from mountain warehouse but if they wanted a fleece from North Face they needed how to work out how to pay the difference. Cue lots of negotiations re Xmas and birthdays!

I always think of a story from my childhood. It was my birthday and I was having a party. This was late 70's where you wore a long dress. My mum made my clothes so I had a few party dresses. One of the mums had rung my mum to decline the invitation because she didn't have a dress. My mum offered one of mine and threatened me with pain of death that I was not to tell anyone that my friend was wearing one of my dresses. I think it was the first time I realised not everyone had the same standard of living. I was about 8 and it's stayed with me forever.

Why on earth would you want to 'protect' your child from learning about disparity? No wonder some children are so horribly entitled when they're so sheltered, that's not actually their fault but their parents!

@TheOrchidKiller

Only 50,000 available, all gone now I think.

Thanks. I'll tell him to give up now!

I read it on SM so don't take my word for it.

Having just had a quick look on the government site it looks like 500,000 so I can't see how the have all gone

They haven't released them all at once and the first release has all gone

@Ibake it stunned me. Years later having mixed wiyh some very wealthy people through horsey activities I realised that poverty issues just don't register with some people even though they have read about it. It's like z doesn't affect me so doesn't matter so don't need to remember it. Bit like when they put the cost of school buses for 6th formers up to £1000 a few years ago a lot of the pony club mums just couldn't understand how some people couldn't afford to buy and run a car for their 17yo. It was well you just buy an old banger instead of something brand new with a puzzled expression.

[quote Orangeblossom78]I got some of these from Sea salt which seem a bit easier than masks, still not great though. Might be Ok in winter when colder. Can just wear it round neck like a scarf then pull up if needed for a shop..

www.seasaltcornwall.co.uk/accessories/handyband-headbands?cm_re=HP--B6--HandybandsFL&cm_sp=PR--HandybandsFL--HPB6[/quote]
I have these - they are pretty comfortable.

In other news - we are at Blackgang Chine!

Lots of sanitiser stations but few people in masks.

@CruCru

In other news - we are at Blackgang Chine!

Lots of sanitiser stations but few people in masks.

That looks fun.

@Ibake similar here - both wearing the long dress to 1970s parties (your mum sounds lovely), & not automatically giving our DCs everything.

We live on the fringes of a very affluent area - we got very lucky when we were house-hunting. But the attitudes of some of the wealthier people here are astoundingly ignorant, not just about money, but also about disability, mental illness, women, racism etc.

One of my children hasn't gone to uni & has a minimum wage job. To many people round here, this is an utter disaster. To us it is a major success.