Anti Ds We might be locked out of last thread,..but we will never be totally locked dow 👍

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How did that happen?
Taking one for the team 👍

I don't think people are protesting because they're just broken basically - they've had the hope of it improving pulled away from them and they're all now so terrified schools won't open they're just surviving... and don't have the energy to fight it anymore.

I know I'm there.

I know it's been mentioned before, but perhaps it's timely to say again that there is a petition to end lockdown and it needs 10,000 signatures to get a response from the government. It's at 8,260-odd signatures right now. Although the lockdown national lockdown has been eased, getting the numbers up might be useful still, to show the government that we don't want to be locked down again? I don't know, but if you are interested it is here (Isigned already)
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/315979

Re mandatory muzzles - my material arrived and I have made a bicycle one for my dh (who is forever out on his bike) and a 'fuck' one for me.
The forecast for the end of week and weekend is for it to be very hot. Oh god, there is just going to be the usual thing of 'there are selfish people on the beach who aren't socially distancing' etc, etc and so on ad fucking infinitum.
I cannot believe the compliance so far of the population. How long will this last? I love kicking against the pricks, but we are so tied down and restricted there is only so much kicking I can do, so instead I just feel angry a lot of the time.
Anyway, a pic of my masks.

So even with our aberdonian pub “super-spreader” and the greetin’ - Scotland still can’t do better than 23 new cases today.

@DominaShantotto my kids are away and I should be catching up with work. Instead I’m slowly putting the house back to rights and enjoying the silence.

If I weren’t needing to bring money in, I’m sure I’d be less stressed.

I LOVE the 'fuck' fabric, Reddwarbler

It IS hard to kick when we're so restricted, I agree. I don't think 58 year old me shouting swear words in my local city centre is going too ave much effect. It's already full of druggies and drunks doing much the same thing, only with less of a political motive

Reedwarbler sorry. Should proof read

I love a bit of mapping. Lucky, really, given looking at plans is my job.

No one really knows where all the underground services are - not even the utility companies and certainly not Councils - and it is really common for a developer to come back to us and have to change a scheme because they have found a sewer.

Historic maps are the best to lose yourself for hours in and the Library of Scotland has pretty much all of them online (not just Scotland) and an overlay transparency feature so you can pinpoint to today’s satellite imagery. It’s ace.

@Allflightscancelled

I LOVE the 'fuck' fabric, Reddwarbler

It IS hard to kick when we're so restricted, I agree. I don't think 58 year old me shouting swear words in my local city centre is going too ave much effect. It's already full of druggies and drunks doing much the same thing, only with less of a political motive

Sounds like my town

At least the chuggers have buggered off.

I went off town several years back when it became impossible to walk in a straight line down the street without people clambering for attention or dodging foul mouthed people spoiling for a fight.

INTU is excpecting a third of units to be empty by the end of the year. Well it doesn't help if people can't breathe in the sodding place!

I also managed to make an idiot of myself in a shop yesterday. I went in because DH is refusing to wear a mask other than his underpants over his head as a protest. That’s up to him, but I’m not being seen with him doing it.

Anyway, panic about mask, etc before I went in. I forgot to take my sunglasses off. I wondered why people were giving me a very wide berth - I must have looked like a total lunatic. I only realised when I came back out, ripped my mask off and knocked my sunglasses off with it. 😳

chocolatesweets, tell your DH that One-Sided Assessment is a fallacy of omission - it wouldn't pass muster in a high-school debate.

Mind you, given the whole world seems to have embraced this particular rhetorical fallacy, one can't blame him.

The tone on schools is ominously changing back to "if" they go back rather than "when" - I think we're being prepared for a u-turn. No idea what the hell I'm going to do if that happens - the kids can't cope and I can't cope and uni will just be fucked.

Oh, I want to wear my pants on my head Magda. I think I'd love your DH.

Especially if it was a thong, so I'd just have an ineffectual strip of fabric up the middle of my face

I feel everything is an 'if', we're at the mercy.

[quote Allflightscancelled]Oh, I want to wear my pants on my head Magda. I think I'd love your DH.

Especially if it was a thong, so I'd just have an ineffectual strip of fabric up the middle of my face

@MagdaS

I also managed to make an idiot of myself in a shop yesterday. I went in because DH is refusing to wear a mask other than his underpants over his head as a protest. That’s up to him, but I’m not being seen with him doing it.

Anyway, panic about mask, etc before I went in. I forgot to take my sunglasses off. I wondered why people were giving me a very wide berth - I must have looked like a total lunatic. I only realised when I came back out, ripped my mask off and knocked my sunglasses off with it. 😳

My glasses are photosensitive. Have managed to avoid going anywhere needing the nappy yet but I will look the same when I do if the sun is shining.

Signed the petition.

My siblings and their partners are all entitled dementors and I have 5 of them (10 inc partners). 3 millionaires and the other 2 very comfortable.

I am the black sheep, divorced and existing on not much more than the state pension.

I got accused of wanting them dead yesterday when I suggested that young people had had enough of their life taken away and things should get back to normal for them.

They don't do any form of social media. Thet watch the BBC news once a day and don't know much more about the situation, in their large homes with large gardens.

It's easy to be content is a setting like that, with money in the bank. But that doesn't excuse their lack of empathy

@IAintentDead

They don't do any form of social media. Thet watch the BBC news once a day and don't know much more about the situation, in their large homes with large gardens.

This is the trouble, the people screaming for another harsher lockdown are entirely blinkered. They are anti social, have a private outside space and a secure job. They don't see what the issue is and why people are struggling. I think my husband is one of them, we have our own house with a garden, his job is secure and he knows it won't be him home schooling if necessary. He doesn't do much in the way of socialising so being kept apart doesn't bother him. It's me that won't have a job, money to spend on my gym hobby or the gym at all and I'll be the one attempting to juggle homeschooling a year 1 child whilst looking after a 3 year old as well as the housework. I'll have no adult interaction with anyone but him and I'm supposed to be fine with it?

I honestly can't cope if schools don't go back, I'll probably end up having a breakdown.

I honestly can't cope if schools don't go back, I'll probably end up having a breakdown.

This is the fear that's got hold of me at the moment too. You can see my uni marks fall off a cliff edge in the hardest subject when schools closed and I was trying to just finish up the year along with doing the schooling thing for the kids. That was March and we were onto our last couple of weeks of lectures (our teaching term only runs two terms and the last term is exams/drinking)... doing that, while trying to run through a full lecture and workshop timetable wouldn't be viable at all - and for all DH's lipservice about helping - he's a bit shit... I asked him to be on hand a few times to help one child while I was working with the other and he'd usually fall asleep.

The only thing I can think of is that I'd have to get my mum to basically move in on our sofa to do the kids while I tried to do uni - but that would be putting mum's life on hold for weeks on end and me and my mum together are not a good combination for prolonged periods of time. We also have no bloody space in this house - the kids can get on PCs - but then there's nowhere for me to work or vice versa - short of converting the leaky summer house we don't have many options really!

@DominaShantotto I think they’re warming us up for a u-turn too. Hence my scrambling this week. Mine are due to start school ft next week - However I’ve bought no uniform and I won’t believe it until they’re through the gates and at their seats.

Given the u-turn a day before official summer hols, we’ll see.

I am so thankful my dad has stepped in this week. But he lives a 9 hour drive away and is in his 70s, this will not be a regular occurrence.

I’ve just put my desk in the greenhouse to free up space. Given I can’t work “properly”, it means the dining table is freed up for all of us to semi-work - and room for a bigger fridge-freezer.

This is not how I saw 2020 going.

Yes, also prepping for a u-turn on schools

Allflightscancelled and chocolatesweetsyou are welcome to him. If you can manage an uncommunicative bugger with absolutely no shame. He is very very anti-dementor though, thinks the whole thing is lunacy. And assesses risk for a living, so has some idea.

Oh no, if there's a u-turn on schools I think my DD will have a meltdown. She is 17 and desperate to get back to her A-levels and normal life. I don't think doing extra hours at Sainsbury's and having driving lessons is going to sustain her much beyond the end of August, she's already quite depressed.

Of course I totally get this is much worse for those of you who have to try and home school younger ones, I honestly despair for you all. I've got neighbours with a 9 year old and a 5 year old and I swear they've gone greyer and look about five years older since spring.

Magda I'm liking him more and more. And I'm used to uncommunicative, I've lived for the last 30 years with one of those. I have no idea what's going on in his head half the time. And he doesn't listen to me either.

They can't do a u-turn on schools - the pupils going into Y13 and Y11 - like DD1 would be completely fucked and they'd have to think about re-sitting entire years.

It like poster going on chirtmas will be 8 weeks on that school thread - there are GCSE exams in January - at least in wales - you can't just shurg and not deal with those.

Scotland schools go back soon - next week I think I suspect it just that setting dementors off.

Stopping and starting schools in certain areas if they hit high levels at certian times - that I could see happening but I'd hope the schools would be planning for that possiblity and that it will be rare.

I've bought uniform a while ago - still have shoes and possibly shirts to go - ideally I'd get a bit more but can always do that bit later.