ADs deflower male cucumbers for the Greater Good. All phallic aubergines welcome .

[BogRollBOGOF]

Because bitter male cucumbers don't bring joy, but phallic aubergines can raise an irreverent smile.

AD chat continues about life, the universe and everything. We know the answer is 42 but what is the question?
6x7?
How many roads must a man walk down?
How many unsadly reincarnations have PHE put into the database?

As no one else is coming out to p,ay, I’m off to bed
( flounces)
I won’t let the door hit me on the way out?
hope you haven’t all been banned and I wake up to a new Armageddon in the morning
Eek!

@Dowser Your last reply was rather late at night! But thanks for the heads up about the protest on 29th August.

And here I am again ..argh..why can’t I get my 7 or 8 hours all in one go
I’m heading off for another sleep shortly.

@wanderings
Apparently there was a protest in London last Saturday with about 500 people attending.

I feel like I’m living in a parallel universe. I’m reading about protests in cities here and abroad. I’m reading about people’s personal protests and none mask wearing. Then there’s all the other rabbit holes like the bill gates stuff, that I just haven’t time for..and then I see a notification on my caravan chat group

I’m thinking of changing the fixed seating..is there anything I need to know..and I’m like
What?

It’s like my brain is divided into two separate halves..one half deals with the world I used to live in and the other half is still trying to grasp with the world we’ve been catapulted into.

There seems to be no middle ground at the moment.
And with that rather uncomfortable thought..I’m going to try for my second sleep.🤞

Big day here today....
After 5 months I am back in the office today (1 day a week for now, increasing to 3 in a couple of weeks). Im so excited. DH doesn't get it as he has been in throughout. But I am looking forward to going.
I no longer feel like I am working at home, I feel I am living at work. My job can be quite stressful and I miss the buffer that the drive home creates.
I'm also off to the gym tonight after work!

I interacted with a dementor on social media last night.

There was a poll by our local rag "would you report anyone you know for going away and not quarantining?"

Someone I work with (kind of, in the same office space but different dept) called anyone who's been away selfish. "This disease won't go away until we all just stay in one place" ending with "I understand people want to go away but....."

I just responded "First off, its a virus not a disease. Secondly 'I understand people want to go away', coming from someone who never goes anywhere, ever shows that actually you can't even begin to understand people who do. Im so sick of the people least affected by this demanding it goes on and on and sick of all the "I've not left my house in 6 months why can't you stay at home" people being so bloody virtuous when they never bloody go out anyway"

I'm not sure my rant made much sense but it made me feel better.

Thank you sea swimmers. I won’t feel so bad with my breaststroke when people are shooting past doing crawl.

Thanks also for the Charlie Mcloud recommendation.

Great rant @LivinLaVidaLoki

The most dementoring insufferable stay at homes have all been the ones who are happy to sit at home all day anyway.

@Worldgonecrazy

Great rant *@LivinLaVidaLoki*

The most dementoring insufferable stay at homes have all been the ones who are happy to sit at home all day anyway.

I think there is a lot of truth in that. They project this fear of a scary world out there and everyone needs to stay at home to be safe.

That's fine if you don't need to go outside to work or be educated. But the world has always been an unsafe scary thing and actually I am bloody fed up being 'safe' and wrapped up in cotton wool.

Livin spot on. There isnt a one size fits all life and am sick of people who think there is.

Due to circumstances and finances my life is pretty boring compared to some these days but I wouldn't presume that everyone should do the same. It's crazy.

Have a great day back at the office hope it's not too stressful. Hope there isn't miles if hazzard tape and colleagues frothing about Armageddon.

Dowser me too. Awake 1- 3.30 so not happy. Once ds2 off to school am having a nap am working later till 8pm. 😄

I agree. The funny thing is that I always thought of myself as a stay at homer but really, I am more of a stay in my city er.

I go out quite a lot to libraries, the zoo, museums, parks, gardens, etc. I really miss that. I think Dementors tend to be literally at home maybe. I don't know though.

God help me, I'm on a mask thread. Upside, there's a fair few people on there questioning the effectiveness of masks, cloth masks in particular, and they aren't names I recognise from on here, so we aren't the only ones!

I'm usually a bit of a homebody. But I still don't appreciate the lack of freedom to decide to do something else! Plus I have a 6 year old about to go into year two and no idea what her schooling is going to be like come September, and an almost two year old who I was looking forward to getting into childcare so that I could (hopefully) find a job. As it stands, that plan is totally fucked because the jobs market is going to be a disaster, childcare is going to be unreliable if schools or bubbles have to close, and I'm never ever going to get interviews because I'm trying to change career (left teaching) and have been at home for nearly three years - who would shortlist me when there's going to be hundreds of applicants per post? If I can't work, we can't remortgage to get an extension built on the house, which means we're stuck with the tiny galley kitchen which is falling apart.

So despite my not normally being a globe trotting jet-setter, my life is most definitely still not bloody normal!

@LivinLaVidaLoki have a good day at the office! Our colleagues who have been shielding are enjoying coming back in to work. It's the company they have missed.

@Dowser I hope you slept eventually. That was me not sleeping on Monday night. Too much going round my head.

I nearly fell apart yesterday, & I think I have Lockdown Burnout. It's the relentlessness of everything being wrong & rubbish, with the usual crap life throws us, and throws at women in particular, heaped on top.

Have decided I have to look after myself a bit better.

@SirSamuelVimesBlackboardMonito
God help me, I'm on a mask thread. Upside, there's a fair few people on there questioning the effectiveness of masks, cloth masks in particular, and they aren't names I recognise from on here, so we aren't the only ones!

I went on there too but I don't think I posted. I've generally post if I can get in within the first 20 or so posts. (Except when I go on a rant )

Here, in the soggy midlands, my fears about autumn/winter are really growing. On a sunny warm day I can cope, temporarily, and even feel moderately cheerful. Despite the boredom and wrongness of it all.

But today, a very wet day, trying to work as the rain hammers on the rooflight above my desk, I can feel my mood dropping fast. In autumn and winter, when it's the same weather day after day, cold and dark for most of the time I am not going to make it through. I'm serious, and I know that generally I'm more buoyant than many people who have it much tougher than I do. It's a massive worry and I don't know what's being done to address it. Well I do. Nothing.

@welcometothelifeboatparty
I don't do too well in the winter either. The past few years I've felt like hibernating within days of the clocks going back, & my mood lifts (usually) once we get lighter evenings back. I bought a daylight alarm clock which has helped a bit with getting out of bed in the winter.

All this, "outdoors good, indoors bad," with regards to social distancing is fine on a nice day but it won't work in the cold or wet. Telling us to wrap up & get on with it is all very well but decent coats & shoes cost money, & it's not easy to dry them quickly. I'm not averse to getting a bit wet sometimes, but if that's happening day after day to kids going to school its not conducive to learning if they're in damp clothes. It's all very well saying cycle to work but if you're wet & not allowed to shower or change when you get there, what do you do?

My anxious friend only feels safe meeting up outside & has already said we can continue to do so during the winter. I'm not so keen.

We're rained into the caravan at the moment. There's rain and there's rain, and this is the blasting sideways off the coast version. Although the forecast is generally dreadful all over, so we're no worse for being down here than we would be at home.

By the time we looked into it yesterday, the tank museum was sold out for the day. Perfect for DS1. I'd have a quiet day at base as no way am I masking up to look at tanks for hours, and as much as I do truly love my DCs, I have now had 5 continuous months of their excited monologuing at me. DH is more interested and willing to take the hit on that one

I think it is supposed to ease off later this afternoon, so we're just slobbing around for now.

BogRollBOGOF
We're rained into the caravan at the moment.

You have my deepest sympathy. We once spent a wet afternoon playing hopscotch in an underpass under a road bridge because it was the only thing to do, & too wet to leave.

Just started to rain here - which is great except I'm in the middle of doing my deferred phonetics exams and the only work space in our tiny house is in the conservatory so if it doesn't stop in the next 10 minutes - doing my intonation one (I struggle like mad with intonation) is going to suck!

@TheOrchidKiller

BogRollBOGOF We're rained into the caravan at the moment.

You have my deepest sympathy. We once spent a wet afternoon playing hopscotch in an underpass under a road bridge because it was the only thing to do, & too wet to leave.

That's made me laugh. We were on a 5-6 mile walk in early June and got a sudden thinderstorm for which we were unprepared the type that has you soaked to your pants in 30 seconds and takes two minutes to turn a gritty track into a raging river. If we'd set off about 10 minutes later, we could have sheltered under the A38. There was no point in trudging back down as we'd have been drenched long before gerting to it, so we just used DH's jumper as a shelter instead

It was one of those that after being terrified as lightning and thunder were crashing around 3 secs apart (plus we were in woodland, but at least off the crest of the hill) the sun did come out and warm and mostly dry us off.

Another breast stroker. That sounds wrong. I much prefer a dip and the social aspect and enjoying the cold and surroundings and slowly learning about the conditions and what my body can do, rather than getting in and ploughing off. I also don't like putting my face in the water.

My youngest child is gaining a lot of independence since I send them into shops now, rather than run the mask gauntlet.

Remember when we weren't meant to bring children into supermarkets in case they touch things and forget to distance? Ah well... Can't be helped!

Weather forecast for Dorset is much better later today, BogRoll. Changes so fast by the sea. But blimey, it's always such WET rain. Soaks you through in moments.

@DominaShantotto

Just started to rain here - which is great except I'm in the middle of doing my deferred phonetics exams and the only work space in our tiny house is in the conservatory so if it doesn't stop in the next 10 minutes - doing my intonation one (I struggle like mad with intonation) is going to suck!

That'll be louder than the caravan! We've had it since the early hours as it sweeps up northwards. It's varying in intensity a bit, but generally pretty heavy. Not boding well for the exam I'm afraid

We might head west mid-afternoon and hunt for fossils. It should be interesting enough to keep the kids happy if we're still on the dregs of it and keep most of the masses away.

We had a Rishi's dishy last night. Food was meh, but so nice to be out and about.

Pea soup here first thing damp and miserable and cold. Sun now trying to get though and burn off the fog. Been wet off and on for days.

Had a snooze and now very busy..watching Animal Cops Arizona😄😄
Someone give me a push😉