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Hello Girls..it’s me again.

Hope your all out and about enjoying this glorious Saturday.

@Vintagelovingmum

Hi, hoping I can join, having had my second baby in lockdown and managed to keep my toddler semi entertained through it i thought the nursery holidays would be easy. How wrong I was! I think it's the heat that's done it. Counting down the days until she can go back now. Also finding mask wearing a struggle as my anxiety has suddenly come back with a vengeance and I seem to have some frightening memories that have suddenly resurfaced which I haven't thought about for 10 years. The problem is my anxiety is just as bad going maskless in a shop because I don't want to be yelled at for not wearing one. My baby started pulling it down too trying to see if I was smiling and it broke my heart that she couldn't see my face when I know how important it is for infants to read facial expressions. I just know it's a result of the times and some days I have great days it's just been a few crappy days recently.

Just to add we planted 10 carrots at the beginning and finally harvested the single carrot that actually grew! I also love hedgehogs but unfortunately discovered a few years ago the fact we have badgers round here means we won't have hedgehogs!

Welcome @Vintagelovingmum

I feel the same as you I have a reason why I find masks intolerable and it's to do with past trauma and anxiety

However when I have to go in a shop I do wear one even though it makes me feel awful. honestly hate myself for doing this because I'm bowing down to the mask bullies but I'm too scared of someone saying something

I refuse to wear a lanyard as well because I just think why should people have to mark themselves out as different. And tbh I've heard of lanyard wearers still getting abuse

I too was one of the hard-faced baffled about Diana ones. 😂

Dramatic morning north of the wall when a neighbour collapsed. No power, no phones, no 999. Another neighbour drove to the GP to beg one to come out. I answered the door to the plastic penguin and he looked genuinely terrified - even though she was at the surgery yesterday and clearly NOT covid.

Given the current list of potential covid symptoms though, it’s a ducking miracle anyone gets through triage.

She’ll be spending about 6 hours getting to hospital today in a LOt if pain because the roads are fucked. She won’t die - a heart attack victim might not last 6 hours. Life isn’t just covid...

@Vintagelovingmum

Hi, hoping I can join, having had my second baby in lockdown and managed to keep my toddler semi entertained through it i thought the nursery holidays would be easy. How wrong I was! I think it's the heat that's done it. Counting down the days until she can go back now. Also finding mask wearing a struggle as my anxiety has suddenly come back with a vengeance and I seem to have some frightening memories that have suddenly resurfaced which I haven't thought about for 10 years. The problem is my anxiety is just as bad going maskless in a shop because I don't want to be yelled at for not wearing one. My baby started pulling it down too trying to see if I was smiling and it broke my heart that she couldn't see my face when I know how important it is for infants to read facial expressions. I just know it's a result of the times and some days I have great days it's just been a few crappy days recently.

Just to add we planted 10 carrots at the beginning and finally harvested the single carrot that actually grew! I also love hedgehogs but unfortunately discovered a few years ago the fact we have badgers round here means we won't have hedgehogs!

Welcome.

I posted about it at the weekend, but I had a panic attack in the supermarket before I'd even mastered the first aisle of Aldi. I powered on to Morrisons and didn't pull my Buff up, lost it again near the checkouts and the queue supervisor was lovely and helpful.

I used to find the summer holidays with infants to be a drag when everything closed up, and that was just the normal 6 week break. I struggled to get out with a 2yo (with undiagnosed ASD) when heavily pregant/ recovering from birth i.e. about 6 months! I really don't envy new/ toddler mums through this debacle, especially now adults are largely back at work declaring that life is normal and refusing to accept that for families, it really, really isn't.

I've got a sports massage later. More covering back, but being a quiet, calm environment helps and I can lie back and attempt to think of England. At least odd breathing and panting is normal there. And I'm just in a bra and pants

Right now for DH, an air conditioned, nearly empty office is far safer than all the huffing and puffing from him cooking in a south facing bedroom and getting annoyed by us trying to get a breeze in downstairs and letting the heat upstairs. Coronavirus is nothing compared to what one of us might do if overheated too far...

Time for a short run/ sauna methinks...

Insane that's awful. Poor woman.

I've got to try and get my 90 year old mum an audiology appointment because she's having terrible trouble with her ears and throat. She thinks she has a bug but whatever it is her hearing has got a lot worse.

The GP had a phone consult with her and prescribed something or other, but it's obviously pure guesswork. It wasn't even a video call because my mum just couldn't begin to try that (I was on holiday). So really the GP has stuck a pin in the possibilities and guessed a potential solution. Or at very least, got her off his caseload for the day.

If we go to get an audiology appointment at Boots, at least someone will have the gumption to look in her flipping ears and test the level of impairment we're talking about.

The health service currently is a disgrace. I don't blame the frontline workers, of course, they're only able to do what they're allowed to. Perhaps the service deserved all the mindless (IMHO) clapping a few months ago, but it bloody well doesn't now. Not unless you've got COVID of course. And nowt else counts.

Insane The GP looked terrified? What have we come to.

Online physio. For a 9 yo. W.ith dyspraxia. You have to laugh.
At least there was something functioning in the system.
The world is mad, and too few peope seem to see it.

In lighter news apparently we have had a few sightings of a lobster walking down the high street this morning. We couldn't be further from the sea and I doubt the local weatherspoons have started serving fresh lobster so no idea where it's come from.

The world is mad, and too few peope seem to see it

I think this. Sometimes I feel I'm looking at the world totally differently to everyone else. Like when DH's dad was dying and all his family said he was unresponsive. When I went to see him with them, I could see his eyes following us, and a tear fall from one eye. Everyone else seemed oblivious. This sort of thing has happened to me a few times, and I always think I must be imagining what I'm seeing. I feel much the same about COVID, so it's a huge comfort to me to be here, with other people, who also see things differently. and to you all.

An actual lobster, not someone in a lobster suit?

@bogrollbogoff my 93yo dad with arthritis, osteoporosis and balance problems is having balance clinic sessions by phone. Utterly useless.

I've just seen that article I think HelenaDove posted, the rape survivor speaking up about being abused for not wearing a mask, on a feminist Facebook page and the comments! Basically saying they need to suck it up and wear one, for the greater good! God is there no escape from the dementors! I braved taking my dds out yesterday for the first time in 2 weeks, the vacant judging eyes really aren't helping my paranoia so I won't be doing that again

@Welcometothelifeboatparty

An actual lobster, not someone in a lobster suit?

Apparently an actual lobster of the fishy variety

I reckon the only thing that could cheer me up today would be seeing a lobster trot/crawl/walk(?) down our street, over 100 miles from the sea.

@Drivingdownthe101 so sorry to hear you're feeling crap. You've been on these threads for ages and often causes me to laugh or feel like I'm not going mad... I'm freelance too so totally understand your worry. Have you tried a few online platforms - there's one called worksome that looks promising. (Not sure what you do but it covers a range of things)

My mental image of the inland lobster is quite funny. But I hope someone's picked the poor little guy up and put him in sone seawater now.

drivingdownthe101 fellow freelancer here and it is shit.. My DH is self employed too. A lot of big companies have put freelance bans in place here (we live overseas).

We have no government assistance at all. It is terrifying. We are living off meagre savings, which won't last long.

I've been interviewing for full time positions. One I was told I didn't have enough experience for (over 20 years working!) one I was too expensive and overqualified for.

Once furlough ends in the UK I fear the shit will really hit the fan, like it has elsewhere.

And for what??? It's like living in a parallel universe where only you lovely people get it.

@Drivingdownthe101 awww don’t be hard on yourself.
Having little ones is such a difficult time in normal circumstances, lovely but difficult.
It won’t help if you’re baking in your neck of the woods either.

Masks are just horrible.

Dd and I had a conversation yesterday, how many women really don’t like them, feel anxious etc and some men almost seem on a power trip in them.
She’s been wearing a buff occasionally and taking it off when in the shop.

There were a few unmasked free rangers yesterday in the enclosed shopping centre including me and my granddaughter and we had great fun.
We hate the coronavirus announcements and just talk louder when they’re on.
In fact I find them the worst thing.

I didn’t like my free spirited ten year old wondering what she’s going to do re masks when she turns 11 in October.

Shows how bloody stupid it is. I just said don’t wear one..simple.

@ISaySteadyOn thank you! I haven't ventured out too far yet, found wearing a scarf is slightly better than a mask but then it doesn't always stay up and I find I touch my face about 100 times more when I'm wearing either anyway. Mine are 2 yr and 4 months so anytime you want to talk I'm generally around.

@Welcometothelifeboatparty
The only positive I've managed to find with masks is that my toddler doesn't see me mouthing swear words when she has a meltdown because we went to aldi and not tesco! With my baby it just breaks my heart that she's looking at me for reassurance but can't see me properly and without knowing how long this is going to go on for.
Apparently badgers eat hedgehogs so that was interesting to find out!
@Drivingdownthe101
I'm so sorry it's so hard for you! I went into all this with such expectations of doing fun activities, let's just say they're all sitting in drawers in our conservatory and I haven't had the energy. Thank goodness for Disney plus at the moment, watched frozen 2 about a million times already.

@DominaShantotto thanks for the link, will have to have a look at that!

Unfortunately a lot of people don't actually get that a poor economy affects everyone.

Less money from tax, more people unemployed, less to spend on services. It will hit everyone no matter how protected they feel in their lockdown eager bubble. It might take a while to filter through to them but it will but then they will forget that they were shouting for everything to close and jobs don't matter.

It's shit.

Dd and I had a conversation yesterday, how many women really don’t like them, feel anxious etc and some men almost seem on a power trip in them

Yes, this does seem to be the case. All the videos I've seen posted on SM of people being abused for not having a mask on, its always male on female aggression.

@soberfabulous

At our dowsing meeting last night we were talking about parallel lives. Someone mentioned the film sliding doors, which I’d like to see again as I’ve forgotten most of it but I was thinking of a parallel u inverse.
Has there been a tome shift and we e been catapulted into the future.

I struggle with concepts like this to be fair.
Films that whizz your back and forth between the future, present and past leave my head in a spin.
Added to the fact that I have a problem with facial recognition I struggle with plots anyway.

Time

I was actually feeling a bit better this morning, after my friend messaged to arrange meeting for a Rishi Dishy at lunch time.

Then the post came. GP surgery demanding I have my HRT reviewed (yet again). I go through this crap with them every few months, where they bully me into stopping it and make me cry and beg to keep it. I thought at least covid would give me a bit of bloody respite this year.

@ButterMeCrumpets - I completely agree with you. Poverty can reduce your life expectancy by decades, but no-one seems bothered by the fact we're heading into a horrendous recession. It's all so messed up.

I remember when Diana died and everyone kept saying how young she was. I didn't think she was young - I was 13 so 37 seemed quite old. The hysteria over it seemed very odd. Shame we can't have a funeral for covid and just carry on as we were.