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

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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?

@chocolatesweets so sorry it's really crap for you. I'm always around if you want to chat, I've got a 2.5yr old and a 4 month old and feel exactly the same. All the groups I did with my first I've lost out on this time and it's certainly not looking like anything will be back on this year, by that time my dd2 will be almost a year old. We've been managing to meet up with some friends locally in gardens or for walks with the parents staying apart but the children playing and it has really helped my toddlers behaviour.
Problem is everytime I go out normally it just infuriates me further, stupid rules which have been implemented for no real reason whatsoever, tried to buy some swan food and was told that you could only pay with cash 2 weeks ago so my daughter took her £1 in with me and the lady told us we had to go and get a card as they're a cashless site now, jabbing at the sign on her perspex screen with her finger as if I was stupid! Then my daughter wasn't allowed to run around under a tree as it was a bit windy and I just keep wondering when did children stop being allowed to be children. When my dh and I grew up we still had tree climbing and the ability to assess our own risk. I think that's my problem at the moment,nowhere allows you to assess your own risk anymore, every risk is worked out from every situation and banned immediately when filling out risk assessments

I’m seeing three different households inside today. Noooooooo! Dooooooommmmmm!

I’ve stopped caring. I wear a mask and stand away from people to save any aggro. But I don’t believe any of it.

@FluffyKittensinabasket that's where I'm at.

Got a lovely message from friends in another part of the country, tentatively suggesting a visit if we didn't mind that they'd seen other people. Basically sounding us out to see if we were Dementors. As we are not, our lovely friends and their charming dog will be coming to stay.

@FluffyKittensinabasket

I’ve stopped caring. I wear a mask and stand away from people to save any aggro. But I don’t believe any of it.

Yep same here.

@FluffyKittensinabasket

I’ve stopped caring. I wear a mask and stand away from people to save any aggro. But I don’t believe any of it.

Me too. Luckily most of my friends seem to be the same

@FluffyKittensinabasket

I’ve stopped caring. I wear a mask and stand away from people to save any aggro. But I don’t believe any of it.

Me too, and more and more people I know.

Chocolatesweets I'm so sorry, I hope my post didn't make you feel worse.

I'm due in December - we found out a few days after lockdown started and we said, "Well, at least this madness should be over by then." What fools we were! Obviously we're still looking forward to baby arriving but stuff like ongoing restrictions on partners at the birth are making me pretty nervy. (And, no I have not had full maternity care, including being referred to a team who refused to take the referral because Covid).

@110APicadilly
Congratulations on your pregnancy. But that's awful about maternity care & your referral being rejected.

I share your thoughts over "all the madness being over by then." I've been thinking it since the beginning, & then we reach the point where I thought it would be over & it's obviously not.

The WHO think the pandemic might be over in 2 years. That's an unbearably long time. I hope that when they say the pandemic might be over it means that we can lift restrictions & do normal things way before then. Surely we need to be doing so, otherwise how can you tell if its over with the population not going near each other for that long?

110APiccadilly
That's terrible. How on earth do they expect pregnant women to go 9 months without someone checking on them at some point? Makes me so mad everything else has been dumped by the wayside in many hospitals because of this. You expect a hospital to be the best place to be able to manage infection and contsin jt to one area so other areas can function.!!!

@Willow2017 To be fair to the NHS, I will be seeing the midwife (a bit less often than pre Covid but there are appointments). It's a pregnancy related specialist referral that the team refuse to take.

@110APiccadilly

Chocolatesweets I'm so sorry, I hope my post didn't make you feel worse.

I'm due in December - we found out a few days after lockdown started and we said, "Well, at least this madness should be over by then." What fools we were! Obviously we're still looking forward to baby arriving but stuff like ongoing restrictions on partners at the birth are making me pretty nervy. (And, no I have not had full maternity care, including being referred to a team who refused to take the referral because Covid).

Oh not at all. It's the truth. You'll be fine with your pregnancy. You are strong enough. Don't be a hero. I worry about those that think they'll be ok and don't realise what's going.

Sorry I sent my post before I should. Sorry you've not received proper maternity care. I hope there are enough caring people around you.

Just been for a little look around the rest of the site. Fair warning to anyone thinking of doing the same - there are lots of people out there who are the Only Ones Following the Rules and a huge number of people Despairing!

@justasking111

Oh joy, Austria, Croatia and Trinidad on the banned list now get home by Saturday. But you can go to Portugal.

We have a holiday to Portugal in September we booked at the beginning of the year - so brilliant for us.

What is so confusing with all the ins and outs of quarantine is that we've been expecting to have to cancel Portugal and Croatia was somewhere we'd looked at as an alternative!

[quote 110APiccadilly]@Willow2017 To be fair to the NHS, I will be seeing the midwife (a bit less often than pre Covid but there are appointments). It's a pregnancy related specialist referral that the team refuse to take.[/quote]
Have you tried a complaint to hopsital head/service head - so complaint gets past down?

We've found that worked a few times - not that I complain regularly but last place we lived there were quite a few NHS issues.

Very least having a written record of them not alowing a referral - might make a few mangers think twiceespceially with currently virus levels and hospital admissions being low.

Coronavirus 'not in top ten' causes of deaths in Wales

The number of people dying with coronavirus has fallen for the third month in a row, figures show.

In July, 70 people died with coronavirus, making up 2.7% of all deaths in Wales, according to Office for National Statistics data.

While coronavirus was the eighth highest cause of death in England, in Wales it was not in the top ten.

I’m just very tired today.
Blocked ears and a cough
The world can turn without me today ☹️

@Dowser It sounds like you need a day off from World-turning duties.
Hope you feel better soon.

I’m fed up today, weather is rubbish, very windy. I agree lots of people have given up. I only work part time in an office and have had to go to work all the time. Just learnt a new task and needed help and a colleague needed to show me the screen, and I was trying to stay away from her, and she told me not to be silly and get closer so I could see.
When I said COVID she just laughed and rolled her eyes. Another colleague insisted I come in tea kitchen same time as her instead of standing in corridor, so we could have a little chat.The only people doing the jump out of the way are the people who have just come back. It’s not like we hug each other ever! So I think we are safe.

@99victoria Oh yes, lots of "despairing" around the site, and the fourth or fifth thread asking if SD has been abandoned.

But on the plus side, some of the MN favourites are back: there have been several "shoes off in the house" threads. And on a toilet thread, I got told to "bog off"!

Thanks @LadyOfTheImprovisedBath, that isn't actually something I'd thought of. I am planning to take it up with the midwife when I finally manage to get hold of her but if that gets me nowhere I'll try a complaint.

It's hard in a way because when I have managed to speak to the midwife she's actually been lovely! It's just getting anything taken further that seems to be impossible. And of course I don't want to get cross with the lovely midwife, who no more makes the rules than I do.

I had a post lockdown smear test yesterday. Now they are not renown for being the height of fun anyway, but it was a pretty rubbish experience. It was the first time I had been to my docs since they've closed the doors in March. Waited outside and a receptionist dressed in over-proportionate PPE came and took my temperature with one of those guns before I was allowed in. One other patient in the whole doctors. One. I suspect that if there was a way to do a telephone smear by now, I wouldn't be even allowed in for that.

I have a retroverted uterus and a cervix that plays hard to get, so all my smear tests involve an intense amount of deep breathing to relax, fists under the arse, that kind of thing, so it was super hard trying to do this under a mask with specs on. Anyway after about 5 mins of squirming and some close panic attacks the nurse found the damn thing and did her stuff.

I might buy one of those temperature guns, and if people want to take my temperature, then it's only fair that I take theirs 'to protect me'. I'm half surprised they haven't introduced an entry sniff test to see if people have lost the sense of smell. You could have different smells in a box.

I also had a case of eye-rolling from someone when I took my mask off outside a shop. Now I don't like wearing them and don't agree with them but I do follow the rules. But the rules don't say we have to wear them outside a shop. I am not wearing the damn thing any longer than I am required to.

The wind is a bit nippy, today, though I did manage to get a pissy duvet washed and dried before the rain landed.

I might buy one of those temperature guns, and if people want to take my temperature, then it's only fair that I take theirs 'to protect me'. I'm half surprised they haven't introduced an entry sniff test to see if people have lost the sense of smell. You could have different smells in a box.

Shhh, @profpoopsnagle! You 'll be giving people ideas!
I am laughing though at the thought of an overly-PPE'd receptionist pointing her gun at your forehead, & you reaching for your thermometer & shouting, "Reach for the sky, Buster! Let's see who's below 37.8C now!"

I predict a whole new market in thermometer gun holster-wear. With side-pockets for little bottles of lemon oil or pine tree air fresheners.

If someone gets a bit coughy in the queue for Tesco the security guards can swarm forwards, parting the socially-distanced crowds with heroic cries of, "Let me through! I've got a lavender bag!"

I am laughing though at the thought of an overly-PPE'd receptionist pointing her gun at your forehead

Damn it! Would the laser thermometer measure properly if she's wearing a visor? I need to know!