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

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Dowser · 01/08/2020 13:56

How did that happen?
Taking one for the team 👍

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PinkFondantFancy · 02/08/2020 08:12

@Ibake

My mum's 70's kids pudding was chocolate Rice Krispie mixture placed between 2 bowls to set so that it then formed a shallow bowl iyswim and then you put Butterscotch Angel Delight, topped with whipped cream and cooking chocolate grated on the top to decorate. Thinking back it was like a chavvy Banoffee before those got invented. We bloody loved it!
I'm considering going to the shops today specifically to buy the ingredients for this. It sounds amazing!
InsaneInTheViralMembrane · 02/08/2020 08:19

My kids don’t like butterscotch angel delight. The little freaks.

Operation freedom is live. In 5 hours I’m leaving the house and will return WITHOUT children! 🥂

InsaneInTheViralMembrane · 02/08/2020 08:21

We’re full of (a) coronavirus here. My youngest has had Rivers of snot since last night.

Bodes well for infection control.

PinkFondantFancy · 02/08/2020 08:22

Oh wow @InsaneInTheViralMembrane where are you off to? Enjoy!!

Drivingdownthe101 · 02/08/2020 08:22

I don’t like butterscotch angel delight Blush. I love the strawberry one though, and brought my kids some in great delight a few weeks ago thinking they’d love it... no. Both had a mouthful and said ‘it’s ok but don’t get it again’ Grin

Drivingdownthe101 · 02/08/2020 08:23

@InsaneInTheViralMembrane

We’re full of (a) coronavirus here. My youngest has had Rivers of snot since last night.

Bodes well for infection control.

We all had a streaming cold last week!
Ibake · 02/08/2020 08:25

Awww @PinkFondantFancy my mum (long dead bless her) would be delighted to hear this!

SpnBaby1967 · 02/08/2020 08:26

I'm finding my opinions keep being skewed by the media. I bumble along feeling okay and that we're not doing so bad and then suddenly I read the news and think "shit, have I got it all wrong?"

My town had no cases for over a month, then 1 case a day for a few days then suddenly 3 cases in one day. Our media (and the comments) are all 2nd wave and lockdown. But really, since March we've had a little over 800 cases for almost 300,000. We are surrounded on all sides by towns that are on the watch list though so I do expect it to go up.

I dunno, I just feel like I cant keep my head on straight with it all right now. I darent go elsewhere on MN because my mood is struggling enough already. All this Spanish quarantine and peoples joy that those who dared a holiday in a pandemic has to quarantine just feels so unseemly.

I'm probably not making any sense. I just cant shift this black cloud at the moment.

wanderings · 02/08/2020 08:33

@DominaShantotto I hope that incident was reported. One way we can fight back against this madness is to make sure that stories of vigilante mask-shaming are shared far and wide, along with any more incidents of robbers hiding behind Boris's magic masks.

InsaneInTheViralMembrane · 02/08/2020 08:36

@PinkFondantFancy

Oh wow *@InsaneInTheViralMembrane* where are you off to? Enjoy!!
They’re going on a fishing trip with my dad up in the mountains and I’m meeting him halfway for handover. Not that I’m excited or anything.

@Drivingdownthe101 yep, these things come for us all.

@SpnBaby1967 I do the same. Wonder if I should just lock myself up. But it’s no life.

LivinLaVidaLoki · 02/08/2020 08:44

Picked DS up from holiday club on Friday with a streaming snotty nose. He's absolutely fine just bunged up.
We are popping out later to get some supplies (and fresh air), im fully expecting him to get doused in holy water.....

BakewellTarts · 02/08/2020 08:44

Morning all. The sun is shining and its going to be a lovely day. Noone is going to get me down!

BamboozledandBefuddled · 02/08/2020 08:46

@SpnBaby1967 Yes, my news feed was full of local doom and misery Sad

I was in your part of the area last week. 10 am on a weekday morning and it was like something from a sci-fi film. I was the 5th car in a car park where you normally have to do a 500 point shunt to get in the only space and I literally saw only 2 people in the High Street. What this is doing is horrible.

PinkFondantFancy · 02/08/2020 09:02

@SpnBaby1967 thing is numbers are so low, going from 1 to 3 makes it look like a huge spike. We had similar and everyone was clutching their pearls and panicking and then it turns out it was all in one care home. Obviously not good for the care home but very different to community transmission

glotterbug · 02/08/2020 09:10

Angel delight was a firm favourite in our house growing up. My best mate used to love coming to tea as she wasn't allowed it at her house.
Used to have a variation on guide camp, butterscotch with sliced up mars bars in it! Amazing

BogRollBOGOF · 02/08/2020 09:23

We've had 4 in the city (250,000) reported which is more than usual. It had been looking like binary 0110010110 with the odd 2 mixed in Wink But across this week, it does average out as more than it's been in a while.

We were an early hotspot of cases right at the start, which after that calmed down has been of some reassurance. I don't like a (slight) local uptick coinciding with the general doomy outlook from Valhalla/ Olympus (this government feels like a bunch of tetchy ancient gods Grin )

I'm only just feeling like our family is out of lockdown. The summer holidays means that it is now normal for the DCs to not be at school, and we are doing some "normal" holidays stuff. We are going away in an adapted form (caravan not camping, different location so we could drive in one sitting if necessary). DS2 is having some sports club days. We are doing some day out type stuff. Some options are impractical, unenticing or not on offer and we are more institutionalised to being home and done in with selected parks. It's not truely normal, but it's normal enough to pass the uncanny valley effect.

I think the real underlying issue is an increase in normal social mixing, which God knows people need, but it's the informal side not the formal pubs/ sports. That's not going to be pushed back in the bottle, especually if you are setting up blackmail choices of schools vs pubs. Both have a social need.

I think June came very close to social unrest. We were "fortunate" that the BLM protests channelled that mood in a focused manner and were largely well managed and that the anti-social element of society took to "flocking" to beaches and beauty spots and leaving them looking like landfill. But if pubs are closed not only does that write off another swathe of businesses struggling to exist, but it also is highly unlikely to curtail social gatherings and produce the desired effect on numbers. Masks are probably undermining social distancing and the message probably needs to be about reinforcing outside space over indoors, keeping your distance most of the time and give people a craft one-hug allowence (avoid breathing in faces) Grin

Summer with all the UV and vitamin D is better at supressing a wave of more serious cases than once we get to October or beyond. And late autumn does concern me. I hate winter anyway and the last 12 months have been tough (last summer had turned to shit at this point and was either torrential rain or scorching sun, then Sept to Nov was 13oC and pissing rain, then Dec to March was colder with pissing rain and occasional gales mixed in too)

I hate feeling pessamistic (and I'm not in a NOTHING will be NORMAL until 2023 kind of way) but there isn't much to feel realistically positive about other than enjoying a couple of days out of the house per week and pretending it's the summer holidays (week 21 about to commence...)

SirSamuelVimesBlackboardMonito · 02/08/2020 09:25

Sorry in advance, but... I bloody detest angel delight. My mum loved it, I was made to suffer it a lot as a child. Disgusting gloop!

Just trying to work out a plan for the day in the Vimes house. DH and I have both got lockdown lethargy back now that he has been re-furloughed. Can't be bothered to do anything but then feel bad at just wasting days. Dds are 1 and 6 so the age gap can make days out quite difficult anyway. I don't want to go anywhere that needs masks. DH thinks I'm being unreasonable on that, though he hasn't said so. Just huffs and puffs when I say I'm not going to the shop and he'll have to go instead. Weather's a bit changeable so don't know how wise it is to plan a day outside. Gah!! Sometimes wish I lived alone so I could just sleep through this whole thing. I know it would be appalling for my mental health (have had anxiety and depression before) but I still want to just go to bed, live off of crisps and wine, and disengage from the world.

Willow2017 · 02/08/2020 09:28

Love angel delight and so do the kids.

But several years ago they appeared to change the ingredients and we discovered ds1 reacted to it. He was doing the 'wall of death' for hours after like a maniac! So we had to stop getting it. We use supermarket brand now once in a while when i remember to buy it.
Also had evaporated milk in jelly as a child. Wonderful. Condensed milk is something different to me used for making sweets and eating with a spoon out the tin before you use it.😄

Had a fab day visiting my aunt yesterday. Scones and cake and Chinese for tea and copious cups of coffee and chat.
Back to work today but off next week.

Hope that nasty cow in boots was told to leave the store for aggression towards thier customers. It never ceases to.amaze me just how awful people can be to others especially when everyone is having to deal with this shit, which is really sad to acknowledge.

Mrsfrumble · 02/08/2020 09:37

Do any of you lovely people know what the situation is with shoe shopping at the moment? Can we try them on? Children and I need new walking boots.

The vigilante mask shaming is depressing and all too predictable. I keep banging on about this, but there should have been a proper public information campaign about masks before they were made mandatory; telling people how to wear them properly, how to dispose of them and NOT to harass exempt people. There’s something particularly galling about disposable masks worn under the nose, knowing that they be clogging up landfill (or the sea) for god knows how long until they biodegrade, and for nothing because even when they were worn they were entirely useless.

justasking111 · 02/08/2020 09:52

We have 64 patients in Wrexham Maelor hospital with covid which is grim. Wonder if the meat plant outbreak is to blame.

InsaneInTheViralMembrane · 02/08/2020 10:31

@Mrsfrumble I have heard mountain warehouse are pretty non-D.

TheOrchidKiller · 02/08/2020 10:34

@Mrsfrumble I bought shoes last week. Was allowed to try them on & everything. Have also touched the shoes in Clarks!

@SirSamuelVimesBlackboardMonitor I've had days like that where I want to go somewhere because I'm bored but don't want to go anywhere with track & trace or masks, or outside. The other week, pre-mask, the only place that fit those criteria was M&S Cafe!

DH has gone to see PILs. I think there is disappointment that I haven't gone. In the nicest possible way, PILs are full-on & I just can't do the cheery visiting thing. I'm going to try to get out for a walk this morning though. Apathy is not my friend.

For those of you Angel Delight & condensed milk fans, have you had Gypsy Tart? You'd like that. I think Scottish tablet lovers might like it too. It was my favourite school pudding. It's a wonder any child from Kent left school with their teeth. Not so keen on that over-sweet stuff now, & a good thing too!

Mrsfrumble · 02/08/2020 10:59

Ahhh great, thank you lovelies! Was planning on Mountain Warehouse for the kids as there’s one nearby and they usually have great offers on (am not keen on paying full price when the children outgrow them so quickly!)

We’re going (flocking!) to the seaside for a few days next week. I did as advised a few threads ago, and told DH I was thinking of taking the children by myself to “give him some peace and quiet”, and sure enough FOMO kicked in and now he’s coming with us Grin

Orangeblossom777 · 02/08/2020 11:06

Morning! Sunny one here, DCs and DH out to the car boot sale, grandparents rang to say it is a good one so get there quick!

In the Times today on about different ideas for the winter which basically seem to be

Locking down London at the M25
Locking down the over 50s (no mention of how to support this financially or practically though)
Primary schools opening normally but secondaries on a rota
Quarantining all flight arrivals

www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/millions-more-could-be-told-to-stay-at-home-and-shield-5w76wxlhs

Orangeblossom777 · 02/08/2020 11:08

"...A No 10 source said: “Another national lockdown is like our nuclear deterrent — we will never rule it out but it should be the very last resort in the fight against Covid.

That is why the PM ordered officials to deliver a menu of policy options. Where there are smaller outbreaks, like we saw in the northwest this week, there should be fast, targeted, local action.

However, if this fails we need other options, so officials have been told to work up measures such as enhanced shielding and tough quarantine.”