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

[Dowser]

How did that happen?
Taking one for the team 👍

@Allflightscancelled My DS must be the same age as your DD.

He said he needs to "attend" some virtual open days for unis. I said crack on. Not sure how you tell if you're going to like living in a place for 3 years without actually visiting in person.

He would prefer to do an apprenticeship but who knows what might be available. I know from bitter past experience school will be pushing them to apply to uni (I'm all for kids achieving their potential but school does like to talk at open evenings about how many "good" uni places their students took up
& not mention those like DD who didn't make it)

Not keen on contributing to accommodation costs if he's not going to be living there full-time. He's talking about getting a job next year instead.

@HelenaDove people would pay serious money for that ombre hair.

@HeIenaDove

"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 feel totally dehumanized. Cant get a facial wax yet men can get their nose hairs plucked. Hair colour grown out but i dont think end product will look too bad.

World gets smaller and smaller so people end up treating themselves to food and wine etc

Feeling dehumanized and pissed off is not the right mindset for losing weight which is what Shit for Brains wants us to do.

I'm a bit like this too. I feel I've told my parents. They think doing this is what's best for everyone. Keeping everyone safe. My in-laws are also thankful for the government for keeping us safe.

I'm not safe. I've never felt so unsafe, unsupported, unseen in all of my life. I've stopped going on about it. I've given up trying to convince them. Whatever happens will happen and we'll deal with it then, but I was banging my head against a brick wall.

I don't know when I'll get "a life" again. Feel alive, have interesting discussions, be inspired.

My sister understands but she's away for two weeks with her dh. I'll miss her so much. My friends are also in agreement that this is the best thing to do. I feel people think I'm, a) hormonal, b) extreme, c) selfish. Words thrown at me.

I dreamt dh and I were able to check our toddlers into residential care (makes no sense) last night. They're beautiful, healthy, relatively easy going kids. But they're kids. My parents offered to take them this afternoon. I'm glad they had a great time.

World gets smaller and smaller so people end up treating themselves to food and wine etc

Exactly! Early on in lockdown, buying food & getting takeaways was the only treat many people had. Comfort eating is tied up with misery.

I have a secret stash in case we have to isolate. In that situation we will bloody need treats, & carrots & kale juice won't cut it. (Not that we do kale etc anyway)

@chocolatesweets I know we can't see you, but you are not unseen, as it were, on here. Keep talking.

[quote TheOrchidKiller]@chocolatesweets I know we can't see you, but you are not unseen, as it were, on here. Keep talking.[/quote]
Thank you

[quote Dowser]@TrustTheGeneGenie

Slight change of topic
My grandson had the therapy work on his TMJ today
His legs were out of sync, one longer than the other, a small scoliosis In his back and then he had lots of cranial work
The therapist explains everything he’s doing
When he’d finished there was just 1/2 tooth overlapping which is quite minor to how he started

It takes a little while to settle , so will see how we get on

It may need a bit more work later on but we haven’t made a follow up appointment yet
One thing the therapist did mention was not to have an operation
It’s like locking the Stable door when the horse is bolted.

My oesaphagal Sphincter ( the valve into the stomach was a bit out) and he worked on my digestive system again and my joints
So am a bit tired and achey right now

Hope you can find someone similar or you can trek up here if you feel so inclimed[/quote]
Thanks @Dowser that's so interesting! I definitely need to see someone about it!

@TheOrchidKiller our kids are the same year, then. Dd isn't t taken with the idea of virtual tours and nor am I. I'm also not keen on paying all those fees for no tuition and no university life. Not to mention accommodation. A friend of ours has had to pay for accommodation all through lockdown even though his son was sent home months ago. Not a chance of a refund. It's surreal.

I think my dd should have some kind of gap year after a levels and then review it. In all honesty she'll probably be more mature and able to cope then anyway. I'm not sure she's emotionally ready for moving out of home so this might be a silver lining. The only one I've spotted so far 😒

Yep, we can hear you chocolatesweets. Stay here with the rest of us

@chocolatesweets you are definately in the right place for like minded folk.

Absolutely @chocolatesweets we're all ages and stages here - but with a common thread that unites. Can just about remember my DT's at that age, mine are now 19 and come with a different set of challenges!

YY @TheOrchidKiller You would not believe the amount of crisps i ate. And i wasnt a big crisp eater pre lockdown either.

Thank You re hair, I had no idea i had any of my natural dark hair left as ive been having it coloured every 5/6 weeks since 2006. It was jet black as a child/teen then i hit my twenties and it became more of a dark brown with bits of grey/silver, Now ive got jet black hairs coming through at 47. My late MIL got dark hair coming through in her 80s. Hair is weird.

@chocolatesweets Yep I hear you

I don’t post much but I can hear you too. Vent away!

Had a miserable trip out to Osbourne house today. Booked tickets on website, mentioned masks in gift shop but no where else, turn up and masks are to be worn in house- cue fumbling around and DH wearing a hanky. No interpretation boards, just whistle on through and downstairs only. Then walked to the beach, there's a toilet monitor making sure no one passes by in a corridor (was exactly like being at school) and a massive queue for the cafe, where one of the servers kept shouting at the queue to stay apart. And to top it off no Knickerbocker Glorys . We really seemed to have squeezed as much fun out of life as we can.

@profpoopsnagle

Had a miserable trip out to Osbourne house today. Booked tickets on website, mentioned masks in gift shop but no where else, turn up and masks are to be worn in house- cue fumbling around and DH wearing a hanky. No interpretation boards, just whistle on through and downstairs only. Then walked to the beach, there's a toilet monitor making sure no one passes by in a corridor (was exactly like being at school) and a massive queue for the cafe, where one of the servers kept shouting at the queue to stay apart. And to top it off no Knickerbocker Glorys . We really seemed to have squeezed as much fun out of life as we can.

I loved Osbourne house when I visited a few years ago. It sounds utterly miserable now

I haven’t got a single grey hair on my head. My eyebrows are sprouting though - I’m going for the reverse alistair darling. I’m sure it’s fashionable in LA. clutches at straws

I’ve got a friend coming around for coffee on Friday. She’s a breast-cancer survivor so not sure if she’d have had a shielding letter. But she came around 8 weeks ago (her idea) and is working in a restaurant - HAPPILY!

This world is so fucked up. Women trapped at home. Many scared to go out. Students paying for accommodation they can’t use. Virtual open days. No fish in the rivers my dad is taking the kids to - and anyway they seem to prefer watching OTHER people okay games on YT. Should I just up my Valium and mainline Netflix?

My brother went to a similar place on Sunday, My niece went with him and his partner, They timed it well as mask rule is coming in this coming weekend.

@InsaneInTheViralMembrane

I haven’t got a single grey hair on my head. My eyebrows are sprouting though - I’m going for the reverse alistair darling. I’m sure it’s fashionable in LA. clutches at straws

I’ve got a friend coming around for coffee on Friday. She’s a breast-cancer survivor so not sure if she’d have had a shielding letter. But she came around 8 weeks ago (her idea) and is working in a restaurant - HAPPILY!

This world is so fucked up. Women trapped at home. Many scared to go out. Students paying for accommodation they can’t use. Virtual open days. No fish in the rivers my dad is taking the kids to - and anyway they seem to prefer watching OTHER people okay games on YT. Should I just up my Valium and mainline Netflix?

Same here! No grey on my head but I keep finding little white eyebrow hairs

I just can’t be arsed to go anywhere apart from restaurants as it’s all so fucking miserable.

@Drivingdownthe101 😂 one’s odd, two’s a trend!

I can’t stop eating crisps either Helena and they’ve never been my poison.

Eyebrows here are jet black.

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Chocolatesweets, if nothing else we're a good place for random conversation.

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Hotels will be rubbing their hands with glee😄😄

Utterly bonkers.

Our new office regime will last until at least the end of this year - so realistically I’ll be wfh full time for the foreseeable future and I’m not 100% convinced I’ll ever properly work in an office again ... I didn’t love my commute (although I cycled so it was built-in exercise for the day), and was very happy wfh at times but all the time feels weird. It’s like my horizons are shrinking...

DD’s about to go into Y13 - her academic performance has plummeted in the last few months - from getting all 9s and 8s at GCSE she’s now on target to get B,B,C next summer and she’s lost her motivation. She’s spent the entire summer at the yard - she has a part time job at a riding school escorting punters on hacks and the rest of the time she’s riding her horse and getting paid to ride other people’s. Going to university in the current circumstances holds zero appeal ...