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Hello Girls..it’s me again.

Hope your all out and about enjoying this glorious Saturday.

Bloody love mushrooms. Out with aubergines in with the mushrooms.

Bit bored at the moment. My world has really shrunk with WFH. Thank god I am lucky to have a nice garden to mooch about in.

Having moved about lots never kept many close friends and family have all died. We are going out for a meal soon with some friends but I have realised that I don't actually have many and typically socialise with work colleagues who are now dispersed all over the place.

Sudden realisation that this is probably my world now for months. It's nice don't get me wrong but I do feel like I am semi retired even though I am still working full time iykwim.

@torydeathdrug

“Just sayin’”

Has anyone who isn’t a moron ever said that? Just pondering’

Only when I'm taking the Mick. Like when I used the phrase new normal yesterday when someone was complaining that if people didn't go to the shops because of masks they would close. I said well, that's the new normal.

@TeetotalKoala welcome!
@TheOrchidKiller how's your head??

Lost track of who said what in the last buzillion pages since last night but a locked down halls of 94 people sounds like the most epic 2 week long house party. Maybe no freshers week is no bad thing, this is way better!

That aubergine is something else!

@BogRollBOGOF sorry about the panic attack, it must have been horrible.

Aubergines, mushrooms, tomatoes and halloumi - Chop and fry until it’s crispy and smother with chipotle flakes. Low-carb food of the gods. Runny fried egg on top if you fancy.

“ADs are deflowering male cucumbers” - love it!

Any other Scottish ADs quivering with excitement for this week?

Morning everyone.

The BiL's birthday bbq went very well yesterday. I'm feeling a tad delicate today, so please no shouting.

I was really enjoying this thread, rhought i had found my people until someone said mushrooms were the food of the gods 🤢 devil more like!
Uniform ironed and laid out already and kids dont go back to friday! Cant wait.

Mushrooms need to be crispy. Cook them until they resemble kernels. Floppy mushies are yuck.

Mine say they don’t want to go back - at the same time they’re excited to see friends who don’t live in the village. Uniform is optional for term 1 - so they can wear what they’ve got for now. They’re quite happy with no cooked school dinners - although have asked why and so I told them it’s because the dinner ladies lick all the utensils.

Anyone got any good ideas for chickpeas. We inherited a stash when DS2 went to Finland. I've got some soaking for houmous but only I eat that and I could be making houmous until Christmas.

Dried or tinned?

This is absolutely lovely cookingonabootstrap.com/2019/11/05/peach-chickpea-curry-recipe/

Tell me about these crispy fried mushrooms. Do you chop them really small first?

@PinkFondantFancy about the size of a button mushroom quartered - any smaller than that and they’ll disappear. I tend to just throw them in a pan on a medium heat and leave them for 30 minutes stirring when I can remember.

For chickpeas I’d make a curry with some tatties and spinach - or a cold salad with chopped tomatoes and deflowered boy cucumbers and tossed in lemon, olive oil (not extra virgin!) and either oregano... or chilli flakes.

Morning all. @InsaneInTheViralMembrane that halloumi veg combo sounds gorgeous.

We had a really good day out in Lincoln yesterday (and a really good lunch). I did eye roll at the staff's enthusiasm for maintaining social distancing up on Lincoln Castle ramparts, that well-known enclosed space....but otherwise the city was really normal

Just checking in, been very much MIA. Another day of joy and happiness awaits.

Good evening from Melbourne. The Premier here said yesterday, 'Until we get the vaccine, it is going to be part of our lives, but it is not about going back to normal, it is about finding COVID-normal.' Interestingly, I've just read that Fauci will authorise the FDA to approve any vaccine which shows a 50% efficacy!

Thus speak the Masters of the Universe.

It was also reported yesterday that there's been a 33% in people under 18 requiring emergency care here, after self harming. Staff are traumatised.

We had a pretty good day. DM had a serious mental breakdown 6 weeks ago, so I can visit her and dad daily under the 'care and caregiving' exemption, because she is under active medical supervision. Lovely DH cooked a gorgeous meal for them.

We are allowed outside for an hour per day. DS is autistic, and we live in a 2 bed flat. One hour per day doesn't touch the sides. He spends most of the evenings totally distressed and dysregulated. I'm so... fucked off that his only value to society is as a walking immune system.

I've thought from the beginning that lockdowns are middle class, ableist brutality.

If we can get DS to bed before 1am tonight, we're going to catch up with Motherland. I adore Graham Linehan.

A happy day to you all.

I meant to say 33% increase. Poor kids.

PinkFondantFancy
@TheOrchidKiller how's your head??

Strangely very OK! I tell you, the tonic water neutralises the aperol poison.

Just as well really as it's DS's birthday. Going out for a late lunch. At last, one of the four of us is having a reasonably normal corona-birthday!

We've gone from DD's a week into lockdown where I'd squirrelled away food because the world had gone mad, & she'd cried, to mine & DH's, where nothing was properly open & we shivered on benches eating picnics.

I put bunting up for DD's & left it up, thinking it was cheerful and it could come down when this was over. Didn't think we'd still be stuck like this in August. I'm taking it down tomorrow. Maybe. It's probably hiding cobwebs!

Ooh, the birthday boy is awake!

Hey everyone, had a lovely day out yesterday but I'm so shattered with everything. I've had 3 panic attacks since lockdown (had one before in uni 15 years ago).

Had a nightmare last night that all my friends were leaving to go somewhere and I kept asking them where they were going and nobody acknowledged me. It was like I was a ghost and nobody could see me. Dh woke me up as I was shaking the bed (this can't be healthy 🙈).

I want to be left alone but I'm also longing for connection. A weird combination. When I try and connect with dh , he keeps saying , "what are you/what do you want me to do about it?" And I keep saying I don't know ,and the conversation ends there.

Hoping to get somewhere with job search so I can have a few minutes peace. I feel so unappreciative of the strong and healthy toddlers I have but it's seriously making me feel 😑 emotionally flat day in day out.

Finding it difficult to live with the threat of lockdown too. Want to plan a mini break with a friend. Scared of being disappointed.

I forgot to say, my FB is full of Melbournians expressing adoration for the Premier (seriously, there's a 'give the premier a virtual hug', and 'write dan a letter of thanks' bullshit all over the place.) I couldn't help but ascribe it to this phenomenon:

Stockholm syndrome has been defined as a condition in which hostages develop a psychological alliance with their captors during captivity.[1] Emotional bonds may be formed between captor and captives, during intimate time together, but these are generally considered irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims.

@Skeptile
That sounds very tough. I'm sorry about your DM- I have been there as the carer. When all that's going on you need the other bits of your life to be running to normal-normal, & not covid-normal.

@skeptile that sounds absolutely horrific in every respect. I'm so sorry. How is Melbourne so different from the rest of Aus? Or is it not really? "Covid normal", there's a phrase to make you shudder.

Cleaning the oven out in this heat was bloody hard. What was I thinking?

DH has gone out for his exercise so I thought I would tackle the oven door so I could actually see through the glass

@chocolatesweets do you have any girlfriends you could call? I read somewhere that the reason we find things like that hard is that men think we're asking them for a solution, the answer to fix something whereas actually what we're looking for is to talk around it, have some empathy etc. Gross generalisation but it does make some sense

Butter you utter loon. Does it look like now though?