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Hello Girls..it’s me again.

Hope your all out and about enjoying this glorious Saturday.

Can I join too. Been lurking for ages
Being married to a dementor is doing my head in

Also, I grew an aubergine once but a greedy slug ate a tunnel right thru the middle of it from one side to the other. Bastard.

And I have little cucumbers about 2 inches long. 👍😁

Hi all.
Sorry to hear some are struggling with all this. Had a quick read through you gave all been very chatty so it's taken a while.
I went to bed last night to stay out of more trouble! Feeling a tad fragile today. 3 glasses of wine! Never again, wine bad! I am such a lightweight😃
Need to crack on with neglected house today..But ds2 making me a bacon and egg butty hope I can stomach it am starving. (Didn't eat much yesterday at all)
Loving the veg posts. Variety and all that. Not had aubergine in years mushrooms once in a blue moon I get them. I love the feel of fresh ones. Ds2 eats them raw!

Lots of tomatoes in greenhouse finally. The lettuce the slugs demolished despite all our efforts.

In voluntary lockdown today, the old dog is reet poorly, vertigo he has trouble with his ears. I have ear drops from the vets so twice a day am syringing the stuff down. The heat is not helping had to carry him down to the garden just now he could not manage the steps.

Looking on FB lockdown aint so bad. The roads are crammed with tourists all looking for a spot on the sand or in the forests, mountains. OH has taken DS and family out on the boat do do a bit of crabbing, fishing, and if not too rough they will get the biscuit out and do some boarding with it.

A bit jealous to be honest, but cannot leave the dog he is fifteen this month so every day is a bonus.

I’m very envious of the organised sport activities. My usual go-tos for when I absolutely MUST have p&q only opened very recently and with schools back (ha!) no time now.

New fridge started beeping like mad this morning. Didn’t know an alarm would go off if the door wasn’t shut. Funny how it wasn’t activated when I was home alone...

I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I’ve just had a good week of reasonable energy , but now the kids have been home 24 hrs and all I want to do is crawl into bed.

Was so hot yesterday I gave up in the garden and lay on the bed with the window open, it is exhausting @InsaneInTheViralMembrane

I look at people I know who have family & friends to pop round to at the drop of a hat, or people to go on holiday with. I wouldn't want to live in someone's pocket but sometimes it would be nice to have a bit of that.

I do know what you mean.

We move when pg with first and it was hard but three years later I knew so many people and had people to pop places with and come over and do stuff with. It was great.

Then we had to move for work and I assumed it would be similar - and we ended up in one of the most unfriendly places I've ever lived and I kept trying for years.

People are friendlier here - but DH workplace is first not to socialise outside of work he's ever had - unlike all mine and kids were older so harder to meet and make friends of other parents.

Upside kids seem to want to spend time with us and generally we get on. As we get older though I think we'll have to make huge effort to get out and have some kind social life.

I've threatened mine with practise at getting out the house at set time.

Usually we're out and about all summer for booked things so while September school getting up is bit harder it's not that hard - think this Septemebr will be a huge shock to them.

Better now. DH took smaller ones off. DD1 and I hanging out. We made a raspberry/strawberry smoothie and about to go watch the last episode of Life in the Undergrowth.

Still frustrated by all this but it is back down to normal levels and not despairing ones.

@justasking111

Was so hot yesterday I gave up in the garden and lay on the bed with the window open, it is exhausting *@InsaneInTheViralMembrane*

I’m in Scotland. I’m currently under a fleece blanket on the couch. 😂 too hot to function is a rare occurrence.

Mine are not great at leaving promptly. (I can't believe I haven't bellowed "IT'S 8:52!!!" for nearly 5 months. 8:52 is a critical point in the morning because if the front door is not locked and children on the pavement by 8:54, they will run out of time to sprint to school and around the buildings for 8:57 when the back doors close for 9am leaving us with the walk of shame to the front, doubly vexing as the 8:59ers who don't care saunter into the front doors by default and overtake those that had made frantic attempts to use the correct entry. (Double drop-offs will be fuuuun...)

DS2 did not go to the museum with us last month as he did not meet the conditions set for going. He was in 'I don't care' mode until I dropped the word McDonalds, and unfortunately he exploded. I'd like to think he learned a lesson... but this is DS2 who is very... errr... resiliant stubborn and is the child who had to get dressed in an empty playground in yR so he didn't make DS1 late for his early intervention group, and has had to brush his teeth in the playground last year.

Saying that, DH had to take DS2 to his 6th birthday party on his own while DS1 had a meltdown over brushing his teeth resulting in us being 45 minutes late and missing the majority of the activity.

So far with the pre-booked stuff, especially as much of it is in 30 minute windows they've done OK. This is where DH WFH is an advantage as I will simply go and leave behind anyone who is not ready or in a stinking mood, and I have form for doing it.
The choice of sitting tech-free, quietly with a workbook in with DH or going out seems to have gone my way since the museum incident...
I'm viewing it as a sunk cost after booking. I'll go and enjoy it, and it's up to them if they want a nice outing to break up months of monotony. It's a bit of a financial risk, but it's better for my state of mind!

@InsaneInTheViralMembrane

I’m very envious of the organised sport activities. My usual go-tos for when I absolutely MUST have p&q only opened very recently and with schools back (ha!) no time now.

New fridge started beeping like mad this morning. Didn’t know an alarm would go off if the door wasn’t shut. Funny how it wasn’t activated when I was home alone...

I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I’ve just had a good week of reasonable energy , but now the kids have been home 24 hrs and all I want to do is crawl into bed.

The clue is in the part where you say "the kids have been home 24 hours" I know mine would do it to me. I'll swear DS2 drains my lide force. He has so much energy and mine is somewhat depleted!

It must be hard for people who have jobs where you actually go there and socialise with people, then you get told to work from home and bang! the socialising is gone. Having to teach kiddies on top must be a nightmare, so my sympathies are with you all. You're all doing a grand job, so well done.
I'm lucky I suppose (?) as I've been working throughout, so my life has been relatively "normal" in that respect. (Apart from an increase in arsehole customers!) However, my non working life is different, as in no school run with the grandson, no time with the grandkids, especially in the school holidays when I'd look after them for their parents to work. No popping down the shops for a mooch, meeting friends for a coffee etc. I know I can but it's just such a fag I can't be bothered.
I'm trying to be as upbeat as I can, but the thought of having to mask up every 5 minutes, possibly having to quarantine if I got phoned by track and trace, is very wearing, as we don't know how long this is going on for.
I don't know, I'm sure I should be grateful that things could be worse, but this whole situation has sucked the joy out of life at the moment. My mil is elderly and she can't get out without us taking her out, she's getting fed up, bless her. My neighbour is a similar age, I'm doing her shopping and banking for her, she's fed up too. She can go out and does, but she's nearly blind so needs someone to go with her, which she can do with her friend now people can meet up. It seems like life is on pause, with no indication of when it'll restart.
Sorry that was a bit of a moan, I'm usually a very positive person but this is getting on my wick now.

It's a weird irony. I'm lonely. But I'm missing my privacy. I have had the house to myself for approximately 2hours since the end of March.

No one is any trouble, it's just that they are there all the time.

For any hot & tropical ladies out there, I have conducted my own highly scientific experiment & taken my temperature a few times mid-hot flush.

All normal.

Hope that reassures anyone who might have to encounter a temperature check in order to gain entry somewhere.

I had an extra 10 minutes with DD2 walking into school when DS started secondary -we spent first few weeks being very early or hanging around to leave.

Even last possible leaving hosue time had extra time built in.

DD1 would just leave without him so Y7 he was better - Y8 he cared less about walking in with her so lots of time shouting though he wasn't ever actually late in the end. But he did get dressed few time on way into school in early school years.

I think he just conditioned me to build in extra time - and lots of count downs and reminders.

We have no one around, either. Not even school parents as the boys' schools aren't local. Ds1's was 50 miles away! DH is from this county but his parents died a few years ago and his sister is more dependent than helpful. Eg she needed a rug washing. She wanted to borrow our carpet cleaner. We need it, with a toilet training boy, so dh suggested she brought the rug round as he's not driving past her town on his way to work anymore. Radio silence. MIL did most of her shopping until she got too frail to manage it.

My parents and sister are 100 or so miles away.

And yeah, I'm both fed up of never being properly alone but lonely, at the same time.

Haven't left the house since I went food shopping on Thursday. Going to force myself to take a walk to the big coop, later, even though it's boring - fresh coriander will liven up tonight's curry a bit.

@PickAChew

And yeah, I'm both fed up of never being properly alone but lonely, at the same time.

Haven't left the house since I went food shopping on Thursday. Going to force myself to take a walk to the big coop, later, even though it's boring - fresh coriander will liven up tonight's curry a bit.

That's how I feel too. Glad we're not alone in that sense.

I'm both fed up of never being properly alone but lonely, at the same time.

I said similar to DH - that I loved having the all around more in early months but felt like this now. He said yea - but good thing is we took months to feel like that.

I think some of that is the house - enough rooms to seperate plus cat antics to talk about - even so some days and weeks have been hard.

I remember when the children were babies I missed grown up talk, girlfriends etc. the only adults in my life were family or checkout operators, it is like that now. I want to see my friends again have a laugh, meal together.

Covid deaths 10, all in England. The positive cases are up 1062 which is a bit of a worry, but hey ho.

The nearby village playground is open

DS2 ignored the wide open gate, ran in a straight line and vaulted straight over the fence like PC Angel

Got collared by a member of the parish council earlier. In retaliation I pressed them on when the fuck they are planning on opening the playground. Next week was promised. I'll believe it when I see it quite frankly

See the media are all "uk scientists says we'll be back in full lockdown by september"

#FunTimes 🙄

@NothingIsWrong i cannot believe your playground is still shut. That is one thing that the govt got right here in Scotland- all were allowed to open on 29 June. To keep them closed is just cruel.

My dad’s 66th birthday today and my wee DS was on great form, he made his grandad’s day.