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.

Usual suspects on the school threads I see. I don't see the point in engaging, their view point is set. I don't disagree that it's difficult and that (especially for secondary) gong back in bubbles isn't ideal but I don't see how part time school works with the way our society is set up. Surely teacher's children would need full time to enable the teachers to go to work and I don't think running full time schools/childcare for some not others is acceptable next term.

Bloody bbc pissed me off today as well with 83 people have died in the last 24 hours. That's not how the (sadly) daily died figure works and they should know that.

That looks lovely dowser, paddle boarding is on my to do list.

That looks great fun Dowser, although the last time I tried that genre of water sport, I ended up in a French hospital having my face stitched

@Littlebelina

Usual suspects on the school threads I see. I don't see the point in engaging, their view point is set. I don't disagree that it's difficult and that (especially for secondary) gong back in bubbles isn't ideal but I don't see how part time school works with the way our society is set up. Surely teacher's children would need full time to enable the teachers to go to work and I don't think running full time schools/childcare for some not others is acceptable next term.

Bloody bbc pissed me off today as well with 83 people have died in the last 24 hours. That's not how the (sadly) daily died figure works and they should know that.

I am avoiding the school threads. DD1 is going into year 10 and needs this year to stand a chance at decent GCSEs. She's super bright but needs social support. DD2 is going into year 7, tough time to be transitioning. Still I'm impressed with how the seconday they go to has handled everything so far so will have to trust them to do the right thing for all. My DDs are in the very fotunate position that we have the resources to support them. I'm well aware that not every child is in their position.

How lovely @Dowser. I am shockingly bad at paddle boarding, inner ear probs mean poor balance. At least I was in the warm sea in Turkey. Maybe I'd have tried harder if it was the North Sea I was falling into!

@Dowser glad you had a great day looks lovely.

@TrustTheGeneGenie
My son and family is in the same category
There’s no money in the pot for frivolity.
In fact I saw him tonight and he looked shattered, he hadn’t been off for 12 days and does 14-16 hour shifts. He’d got in early( 7pm) for once
He can’t afford to be ill and they only managed a holiday abroad from a small legacy from his nana.
It does worry me that they sail so close to the wind.

OMG have discovered Nuii icecream. Dark chocolate with blueberries is sheer poetry. I may be a while..................................................

@BogRollBOGOF

Omg 😱 what happened?

@ibake
Yes one thing my grandsons had in common was they all agreed it was chilly on the water.
Not my lovely dd..I think she’s made of girders 😂

Ibake

@BakewellTarts
I have one of those examples. Went to get a coffee at Maccie's this morning. I don't need a cupholder, they insist you take the holder as it's their h&s roolz. I don't want unnecessary cardboard that will then need recycling. I want them to hand me the coffee in the holder and I take the coffee but not the holder iyswim? But no, I have to take the holder too. Up until that point I have not touched the holder just the cup. But they have touched the holder. My way is minimal contact, their way we've both touched the same item. Aargh! My wheels may have spun slightly as I drove off!

This with bells on! Pre-lockdown it was about tutting at anyone who didn't buy a coffee without using their own reusable cup. Save the planet!

Now it's all, ooh no, it's not safe to let customers bring their own cups! They might have covid on the cup.

But if the staff have covid on their hands (or plastic gloves) they're potentially going to give it to the customer whatever type of bloody cup they use!

On the financial thing... I guess we’re the sort of family that this thread people say ‘it’s alright if you’ve got a high earner and a SAHM and can afford to be at home for months on end’. We can afford it but it’s absolutely not what I want for any of us (I do completely understand why people say it though, or generally is that demographic which is calling for prolonged lockdown because they’re alright, jack). We’re not loaded by any means as DH essentially supports 5 of us (I’d only just got back into my freelance work when all this shit kicked off so not making big bucks).
I have friends in all sorts of circumstances though so like to think I’m not an entitled twat.

Had family round this evening, my young niece has cancer and telling me about how her chemo is going, (she needs to go alone and wear a face mask and the chemo patients are spaced out) She is no stranger to a ventilator having been on it twice in the past. So matter of fact about it, the way she is facing things. The consultant and physio appts are over the internet / zoom / Skype or something like that

She is only in her 20s. Not too bothered about the virus just being sensible, we had a meal together and it got all the drama into perspective.

I'm an SAHP (pre-Covic plan was to start job hunting in September now all DCs are settled in school) and I still desparately want the DCs in school for their own sake ok maybe my sake a bit too They both really missed their friends in lockdown and the youngest was soooo excited when he got to go back in June. Obviously I love my children but I'm not meant to be their whole world.

Bakewell yours are the same year groups as mine too. keeping my fingers crossed. I need mine off the computer.

@Orangeblossom78
I’m so sorry to hear about your brother.
Such an awful worry
I’m so relieved my son got this job in care, which he loves as there’s plenty( too many hours)
I can pick up the slack and treat him and the kids ...but supporting another family would be impossible

I was telling my grandsons tonight, how my nana had to go into an orphanage with her sisters when my g grandfather died as their mother couldn’t afford to feed them..the look on their faces 😱

Thank goodness we now have a safety net, even though it’s never enough. I do hope they can manage and another/ better job comes along soon.

@Drivingdownthe101 I'm unsure that a lot of this demographic is calling for a prolonged lockdown. Pretty much all my colleagues are in this category (I probably am too). All are desperate for this to end. All are now getting out and living.

Thanks Dowser, he should be ok, they have some savings and do live in a not to expensive place which helps. He got redundancy pay too. Just the same for many others I suppose, his wife is a nurse and doing some extra shifts.

@Orangeblossom78 your poor niece seems to be going through the mill best of luck to her with the treatment.

And yes it is not good for our kids to be on their computers so much.

@SomewhereEast Obviously I love my children but I'm not meant to be their whole world. Could not agree more. If we do our job right as parents our kids leave home and build successful lives independently. It becomes even more important as they get older. My teen and tween shouldn't be spending so much time hanging out with their olds they need their peer group.

[quote Dowser]@BogRollBOGOF

Omg 😱 what happened?[/quote]
We were on wave/body boards and were paddling out having just gone ashore to get helmets as it suddenly went a bit choppy, when a wave came in that was a bit bigger than the rest and washed another board onto my helmet/ face tearing the skin next to my eye.

My first thought was YEOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My second thought was that I sound like the cat

Of course heads/faces bleed easily and being wet, it spread instantly so we all got called in. It felt instantly bruised, but I hadn't realised how dramatic it looked until I was sitting and realised that blood was dripping off me.

In the end, the scar is only about half an inch and sits in the smile lines. I'm pretty sure I was concussed from it as I was dopey for days, had the mother of all black eyes and struggled to eat or talk due to a bad combination of swelling and stitched skin.

It was handy experience for the time I was teaching PE and a county player blasted a classmate across the eyebrow with a hockey ball

@Orangeblossom78
Oh no, your poor niece too..gosh you’re family is having it rough right now.
Covid just pales into insignificance when your back is against the wall. Doesn’t it?

I really lost my shit today with a woman while my family was paddle boarding.
I really can’t bear whingers and yep, I’ve got a tight fuse right now.
So I go up to the dock wall to take a photo of my grandsons who were right underneath it.
So, I’m sorting the camera out and this old bat who is a good metre to my right says really aggressively ..would you step away from me, you’re too close.
Now there’s one way to treat me, ask me politely and I’ll be nice back, but shout and be aggressive and I’m afraid the hulk comes out.
So, I said in an annoyed tone, I’m just taking a photo of my grandsons ..there was acres of space to the right of her if she was that worried

So she started again and then started whinging at me and then she thought she would move in front of me to block my view
Well that did it.
She got it with both barrels.
If she thought she’d get any sympathy from me, as it was her first day out of lockdown she had another think coming.

No doubt she’ll be telling all her mates on zoom about the horrible old bag at the beach..lol

It’s ok..it didn’t spoil my day 😂

My niece astounds me, she has lived with cancer her whole life, had a brain tumour as a baby and was a miracle recovery. then another cancer in her 20s. She just gets on with it because it is all she has even known. She just raises her eyebrows at the virus stuff. Her cancer is not as treatable now, anymore and the chemo is tough.

@BakewellTarts I've noticed that the parents who were very into the "So happy that we're just all home together AND SAFE" blather in lockdown were also the ones who never quite want their children to grow up generally? Its definitely a type

@SomewhereEast yes you are completely right. Don't get me wrong I will miss them when they leave but it's how life should be. And I've enjoyed each of the stages of their childhood but would hate it if it went on forever.

@BogRollBOGOF
Wow..that was pretty dramatic and very scary
( good job I didn’t read this before I took my grandsons)

It’s true about heads bleeding
When my son was 2 , our next door neighbours son 2 year old son was playing with a circular saw blade and cut my sons head open.

My son came in screaming and all you could see was blood everywhere. I couldn’t even tell what was bleeding.
My mother was furious, grabbed him by the arm and marched him round to the neighbours house, who went white when she saw the state of my son ..well who wouldn’t , he was a mess..and no doubt delivered a few choice words
Anyway we all piled into the car and I took him to hospital, where when the blood was cleaned up and he was stitched, it was only a cut about an inch long along the top of his head and not his eye gouged out like I was catastrophising.

Anyway, once the situation was calm I drove down to whitby with mum and kids for the day and we got home fairly late.

I think the neighbour must’ve thought he’d ended up in intensive care or worse. Must’ve given her a hell of a shock
Course the kids played as happy as Larry the next day