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Hello Girls..it’s me again.

Hope your all out and about enjoying this glorious Saturday.

DH has just read that to me @SpnBaby1967

We have a planned holiday to Portugal in September. Have been looking around for alternatives in case they don't lift the current FCO travel advice , but I'm wondering if we are completely wasting our time I hope at least we will still be able to travel around in the UK .

@TheOrchidKiller and @BogRollBOGOF and others who said similar, we have similar social set up as well. I think it becomes increasingly difficult to make friends when you are older esp when children have got past the baby stage

Dashed down to home bargains for our muesli ingredients my lovely 86 year old Irish friend rang just as we were going into the shop ( 20 mins till closing) so I just had my conversation with him for about 10 minutes. No one challenged me, filthy, dirty maskless person that I am.

Maybe you can put an ear bud in and chat to yourself on your mobile if you’re self conscious about not wearing a mask. You have to laugh a fair bit or you could pretend you’re having an argument .

After that, West and had a drink down by the canal which was lovely if a bit cool breezy
We haven’t had that heatwave today that most of you are experiencing

Then we dashed back for our Sunday dinner delivery.
And very nice it was too, delivered to our caravan by the husband of the chef, who was immaculately dressed in charcoal trousers and waistcoat and burgundy shirt
See if I can post a pic of our dinner lamb with 5 veg, roasties and gf mash and stuffing

Looks like it's Sir David King from "Independent" Sage they are quoting. They seem to like grabbing headlines and if we can get criticised for our thread titles I think I can say that calling themselves a name which closely aligns with the actual government advisory group is a little misleading.

that was is reply to @SpnBaby1967

@Justgivemewine

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. 👍😁

Welcome Justgivemewine!

Couldn’t post pic from phone
So here’s from iPad

Yum @Dowser that looks delish

Have had a lovely day out in the garden. For a very small area it is incredibly untidy but as I filled the green waste bin yesterday I could ignore all the work that needs doing and concentrate on making some garden sculpture instead.

Hello all. Back to normality (for this thread anyway) now?

Mixed in the Tarts household. Had a lovely break in Derbyshire rel iving my childhood.

However we have gotten increasingly worried about DD1s obession with food and exercise and whether its slipping into an eating disorder. Have decided to find her a counsellor to talk to. I feel its entirely down to social isolation and this is the only area of her life she can control. She really needs to go back to school.

Reporting from Aberdeen lockdown central here.

Except it’s not really a lockdown for us as we were never going to go to the pub anyway and the cafes and restaurants are such a ruddy faff I can’t be arsed.

What got to me, and got to the very heart of me was the other day when snails pace DS was trundling on his scooter and we fell into step with an older man (this is relevant) who was chatting about the latest and mentioned his daughters and granddaughters who he’s not seen in 15 months were all set to come to Aberdeen from London but couldn’t now and were frustratingly only down the road in Pitlochry - which he them actually cried about.

My god, it sounds so trite but seeing a man of about 75 crying outside the local shop actually broke my heart.

People here haven’t gone as nuts as they did when the mandated mask wearing was brought in - my social barometer is Sainsburys and it’s been ok tbf but I wonder if that’s because everyone is so absolutely fed up that compliance and acceptance is the only way to NOT go mad.

As I said on another thread I’m already counting down and looking forward to Christmas as at least

1. there won’t be all this semi gleeful “second wave” Cassandra-ing as - well - we’ll know by then
2. the NHS always gets fucked in December; it’s winter pressures innit so in theory there should be no need to return to March levels of chaos as surely they’ll have had some time to prep
3. I will be travelling again for work and apparently London is as good as normal as can be, fingers crossed it’s almost at pre-March normal by the time December rolls round

If we lock down in winter again, it will kill me. I am hanging on by a rapidly fraying thread. But if it kills me, it won't count because it won't be covid. This is the only safe place to say that.

Sorry to hear that about your DD, Bakewell. Hope everyone who needs help for their child gets what they need. That was us for a few years & it's the hardest thing.

Had a nice birthday late lunch for DS. He has grown a moustache.

Today has felt normal.

@TheOrchidKiller

Sorry to hear that about your DD, Bakewell. Hope everyone who needs help for their child gets what they need. That was us for a few years & it's the hardest thing.

Had a nice birthday late lunch for DS. He has grown a moustache.

Today has felt normal.

Thanks. I am glad we have started but its daunting process. We have little idea how to find the right counsellor. And yes all the kids aggected by this need support to get them through this.

affected even!!!

I am also sorry to hear about your DD, Bakewell. I hope it all turns out ok.

@ISaySteadyOn

If we lock down in winter again, it will kill me. I am hanging on by a rapidly fraying thread. But if it kills me, it won't count because it won't be covid. This is the only safe place to say that.

We are a thick thread Plenty more threads in us to keep eachother going.

My optimism is not at its highest, but next winter will not be a repeat of last winter.
Just the hygiene focus, and distancing will keep general contagious infections down. Then the infrastructure should be prepared for it.

Admittedly my concern is more about the public reaction than the actual virus.

Hopefully schools phasing in through the country in the next few weeks without bringing another round of the apocalypse should shut a lot of dementors up. They were particularly vile prior to the primary years going back in June and lost steam, then had a bit of bile left for Primark queues.

We've had a good afternoon. After DS2 vaulting into the playground, he had enough energy for a 5 mile walk to the shop for icecream, and I managed 3 minutes in the shop without incident, better than yesterday

Admittedly my concern is more about the public reaction than the actual virus.
Indeed. At one of the protest events, I saw somebody wearing a T-shirt saying:
Fear is the virus.
The public reaction is the pandemic.
Common sense is the solution.

I went to a delightfully normal garden centre today. The carpark was crowded, mainly due to people going there for what smelt like the most amazing cooked breakfasts. The cafe had spread its tables out over part of the garden centre, but there was still lots of space left for plants. No one way system, no hand sanitiser on the way in, and on the way out you did have to queue at 2 m distances before going into the indoor area where you paid, but the nice man behind the till didn't seem to be very bothered if you wore masks or not. As a result, I spent rather more on plants and stuff than I needed to, and will definitely go back...

I'm not sure I would make it thought a winter lockdown. My kids are being vile. I have to visit my mother next week. It's too hot. In complete opposition to my user name, everything I touch turns to shit

Well it was my birthday yesterday. Went out for tea with Ds and dp. Sat outside in the sunshine. Non dementory. Excellent food. Felt mostly normal.

Today, have been doing garden diy which is my least favourite thing. But it's a shit hole and it needs sorting. Unfortunately this was the first job in a very long line of jobs that need doing in there

Also been talking about postponed wedding and how we are still not sure it'll happen in July next year. We've decided if by January things aren't "normal" as in proper normal, allowed near other people, no drop of a hat lockdowns then were cancelling it. We don't want to bloody postpone again and if we leave it any later we'll lose our money. If we can't do it we are just gonna elope. Which is weirdly what I wanted in the first place but almost feels sad now!

@wanderings
Was there many there
If they do one in york next week I’m hoping to go along

@dowser the one I went to was 2-3 weeks ago, there were about 200 people or more.

@ISaySteadyOn

If we lock down in winter again, it will kill me. I am hanging on by a rapidly fraying thread. But if it kills me, it won't count because it won't be covid. This is the only safe place to say that.

Keep talking on here. We are listening.