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Hello Girls..it’s me again.

Hope your all out and about enjoying this glorious Saturday.

@thenightsky I have a friend who campaign a lot on HRT issues. She wrote a book called Me and My Menopausal Vagina. It might be useful.

@ILoveTotoro
I'm fed up of hearing how people should just put up with it really. I have one friend who really get on with who is british and lives in america and she keeps telling me how they should have made masks mandatory earlier and I just want to shout about the people who might not be disabled but suffer anxiety from it being vilified by others. I looked into lanyards but then I felt like I would be a fraud wearing one and also why should people who have an'excuse' be made to label themselves or prove it to somebody else!

@IAintentDead, I poked my nose onto your thread. Only one reply, but pretty much in the vein you would expect.

I gave my head a brief smack against the wall as politely as I could and left.

@Drivingdownthe101

This week our surestart centre as announced it won’t be reopening ‘for the foreseeable future’, so no baby/toddler groups. The Parish council have today announced that all events for 2020 have been cancelled. Even outdoor, extremely low risk ones. All I can see ahead of me is spending every single day at home with an 18 month old (who is already petrified of other people after not seeing anyone for months during lockdown), with absolutely nothing to look forward to. I’ve lost all my clients (I’m freelance) as I couldn’t work when schools were closed. For the first time today I actually feel complete and utter despair. I don’t want to be here anymore.

Is your surestart centre held on church premises?

Re: outdoor, well I would bite the bullet start a FB group for mums and do your own thing, pushchair walks, park meets, etc.

@wanderings

Has anyone realised that the mask policy has sweeping consequences for us, but it has actually cost the government next to NOTHING?

They barely needed to spend any money on it. It was an easy headline grab, causes lots of public division (of which MN is proof), makes the government appear to be doing something, people have to wear the masks like badges of compliance; a bit like plastering "I believe in Father Christmas the virus" to your face. Also, I think the fact that they made the practicalities about enforcement so woolly and vague means that they secretly don't value it that much; they're content to let the public fight about it, as they've seen this works a treat for keeping them distracted. The fact that they decided not to implement a costly system of official exemptions speaks volumes.

I'm clutching at straws that this lack of seriousness means it is a temporary measure which they don't want to spend money on, even though the government have said NOTHING about it being temporary, or even when it might be up for review. If we hear something about it, I might actually treat it with some respect; but meanwhile, I shall refuse to spend my money in muzzle-up situations. I shall continue to make noise about it, because we don't want it becoming permanent by stealth, which I think could easily happen if we let it.

I said this yesterday. Have they imposed this soft mask-up to see how compliant we are over the summer in readiness for the hard mask- up in autumn in time for the extra colds s, chills and flu coming our way.

It just feels odd right now.

I just wish I didn’t have this nagging sensation that I’m right.

Is your surestart centre held on church premises?

No, council run premises. There is another group we used to go to that was run by the Methodist church but no news on whether that will be going ahead, and if it does it would have to be with masks for the adults.

Thank you for your support everyone, I was/am just having a wobble I think.
It’s all just so fucking relentless. And when i read other people on threads chirping happily about how their lives have gone back to normal, it makes me a tad murderous!
Anyway the toddler is napping and the older children are watching some tripe on TV so I’m going to eat an ice lolly with my feet in the paddling pool and wallow for a bit.

It really is relentless.

Was on FB this morning. Friend from NZ posted a link about how the 4 cases in Aukland are being 'investigated' as having come from packaging some seafood was in. Her mates there were all posting about how they're bleaching everything that comes into their house and ordering their spouses to strip naked upon entering and going straight into the shower whilst their clothes were hot washed.

That's just fucking unhinged.

Also, driving August is usually a pretty quiet month for freelancing anyway, so cut yourself some slack for a few weeks and keep licking those lollies

I think I was tipped over the edge by one of my friends (lovely, but very different to me) saying she’d had her ‘best year yet’.

@Allshoppingcancelled

I et salad most days, it's a legacy of some hypnotherapy I had a couple of years ago to help me lose weight. I got hypnotised to prefer salad, essentially, and to opt for it in preference for a big plate of fish and chips. Did to work? Oh yes, I eat salad most days. Did I lose weight? Only briefly

You changed your name all flights?😂

@InDeoEstMeaFiducia
Unhinged certainly
Sometimes I’m just glad we’re in the uk

...and the sun is out
So no more grey skies
Yeeha!
Downside, we are going shopping

And we are at home , so never gets too hot in my house
The caravan is a different story

@Drivingdownthe101

I think I was tipped over the edge by one of my friends (lovely, but very different to me) saying she’d had her ‘best year yet’.

Entirely understandable.would have tipped me over too.

Best year yet? Well she can fucking do one, can't she.

Right, two tangents are about to collide: gardening and recipes. I'm trying to grow tomatoes in the garden, just three plants in a fairly small trough so they're a bit squashed together really. I've got a decent number of toms on the plants but while they are getting bigger they are showing no signs of going red.

Is there something I ought to be doing to hasten redness?

If they aren't doing to, what can I make with green tomatoes? Chutney maybe?

Advise me, oh wise ones.

And when i read other people on threads chirping happily about how their lives have gone back to normal, it makes me a tad murderous!

I have no idea how anyone's life is back to normal unless they never go out. I too am a bit when I read people saying it's no different now.

@ButterMeCrumpets

And when i read other people on threads chirping happily about how their lives have gone back to normal, it makes me a tad murderous!

I have no idea how anyone's life is back to normal unless they never go out. I too am a bit when I read people saying it's no different now.

I got drawn into a thread on that, which was stupid. Another poster said that only someone who never engaged in their community could possibly think things were anywhere near normal, which seems a good point well made. And the lack of empathy, on a parenting site, for people going through this with small kids...

Gosh you lot have been chatty!
Driving it must be bloody hard for you but just KBO and ranting about it on here.

Not done much today, catching up with the never ending fb stuff from work and trying to get new stuff to stay in my little brain!

At least the sun is shining now instead of raining. Have to brave the shop to get cream I forgot yesterday for the rasps and strawbs for tea, grrr muzzle up! Might dip my feet in the sea while I am down there. I really wish it wasnt so damm cold so I could actually go in properly my stupid auto-immune makes me feel the cold worse than ever so I would probably just freeze to death. My ds2 was in the other day and he was a wreck when he got home!

Had the electric meter guy here earlier, the meter is nearest the back door so he said he would go round there. I wsnt worried about him coming in but it kept even more dirt of the carpets . Opened all the doors for him and he came out the cupboard with his hands in front of him saying "I didnt touch anything" Told him I didnt care a bit what he touched and I wasnt paranoid about the damm virus. And he laughed and said neither was he but many customers were ott. Must be such a pia trying not to touch anything in every house he goes into, his elbows could seize up at his sides and he will look like a praying mantis if this keeps up!

I think I was tipped over the edge by one of my friends (lovely, but very different to me) saying she’d had her ‘best year yet’.
What load of bull, who is she kidding, herself? Her life must have been pretty crap before if this is the best yet!

Hi to Vintagelovingmum welcome to the crazy gang.

Hi all - I've been on a few threads in the past but deregistered from MN due to the utter vitriol and downright head cases on some of the Covid threads and gave myself a break for a few weeks. But I missed you all so re-registered with a different name and am back. Glad to see you're all here.

Still struggling with the whole mask-wearing lunacy that seems to be going on but in general most people that I come into contact with seem fairly sanguine about it all. I have arranged some counselling for my DS for his anxiety (not Covid related - that's about the only bloody thing he isn't anxious about!) as he's starting secondary blah blah and I asked them re. the whole mask situation. She seemed quite shocked and said "oh no you don't need to do anything like that" so I was very relieved.

Anyway, just touching base, thanks for flying the flag and still being here, you sane lot.

Afternoon all.

SirSamuelVimesBlackboardMonito, in answer to the tomato dilemma...if you pick them and place them on a sunny window sill for a day or 2 they start to go red...or at least the ones FiL give us do.

What load of bull, who is she kidding, herself? Her life must have been pretty crap before if this is the best yet!

Scarily I think she genuinely means it! 4 kids who she’s always wanted to homeschool but her DH wasn’t keen, so she’s been in her element. Trained herself to run a marathon. Furloughed from her part time job that she didn’t particularly enjoy anyway. Spending her days crafting/baking/cycling with the children... all the things she likes best.

SirSamuelVimesBlackboardMonito It's a bit soon to do this I think - but remember DGF doing this in his windowsills later in year- though often with an apple rather than bannana.

After temperatures have started to dip, remove all the tomatoes from your plant and keep them in a drawer or paper bag with a banana. The banana will release ethylene, a hormone associated with the ripening of fruit. Check the drawer or bag regularly and remove ripened tomatoes as and when you find them.

Gardners world how to ripen tomatoes

Otherwise I'd give them a bit longer and more sun.

There’s a headline in the Times “Flu kills five times more than Covid”. Supposedly more people are dying of flu at home, possibly because they are afraid to go to hospital.

I ws surprise how many people were dying of flu in the summer - couldn't work out of it was more than usual.

Though if you can't get past temp checks to get seen at GP or hospital I suspect that wouldn't be helping.