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

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BogRollBOGOF · 14/08/2020 00:27

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?

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ISaySteadyOn · 14/08/2020 17:30

Right! Smile

We have been having an Andy's Adventures marathon. I find them v comforting, I guess cos I know what to expect.

SirSamuelVimesBlackboardMonito · 14/08/2020 17:38

I love Andy's adventures. Dd liked the Andy's Adventures exercise videos during lockdown too, when Joe Wicks was a bit too much!

NothingIsWrong · 14/08/2020 17:41

@Drivingdownthe101

I usually aim for the children of mothers who are happy to drink wine on play dates.
We need to meet up.
MaudesMum · 14/08/2020 17:50

@Vintagelovingmum Indeed! - there's just been an interview on the PM programme, where they seem to be agreeing that the spikes in infections isn't being followed by hospital admissions, and this might be because the people being infected are younger and therefore less likely to get ill. I swear I heard the interviewer say, that this could perhaps lead to a change in policy, but I might have been dreaming.

SirSamuelVimesBlackboardMonito · 14/08/2020 17:52

[quote MaudesMum]@Vintagelovingmum Indeed! - there's just been an interview on the PM programme, where they seem to be agreeing that the spikes in infections isn't being followed by hospital admissions, and this might be because the people being infected are younger and therefore less likely to get ill. I swear I heard the interviewer say, that this could perhaps lead to a change in policy, but I might have been dreaming.[/quote]
Wouldn't that be lovely? Smile

TheOrchidKiller · 14/08/2020 17:54

"I wouldn't know what to do with a marrow - I think I was fed them as a child and didn't like them."

Marrows are evil. I was hit on the head with one as a small child. It was on the parcel shelf of the car, dad braked sharply at some traffic lights, & SMACK!

This explains a lot about me.

Loved the photo of the cat in the pot. Until I started typing this my cat was sitting inside a large brown paper bag, but he's moved now, so sorry, no photo.

I managed just under an hour at work before bursting into tears. The quarantine list set me off. I'm not going to France, I'm not going anywhere, but it's just another thing on the list of "Thou shalt not.." Everyone else in work seemed to feel the same today, & there was lots of muttering about how stupid its got, & how fed up we all are.

We are not alone.

ISaySteadyOn · 14/08/2020 18:08

I drink wine on playdates. And I have a dream of renting a field for all us ADs to have a giant picnic on.

@TheOrchidKiller, don't worry about crying. I have not managed a single day without crying for the past month. That was the reason for the Andy marathon.

99victoria · 14/08/2020 18:10

Phew - found you all again! Thought I had lost my people for a minute there.

Thank goodness it's a little cooler today. Out this evening to meet up with 4 of my girlfriends for Friday gins in the garden. Might even need a cardi :)

Waiting to hear if France carry out their 'reciprocity' quarantine threat. If they do then I fear its Game Over for the wedding but we're all keeping our fingers crossed. Five weeks to go so the situation could change several times between now and then!

LadyOfTheImprovisedBath · 14/08/2020 18:13

Read that a few teachers and pupils families are desperately trying to get back from France so they don't miss the start of the school term here.

I can't quite belive there are only two weeks left of the summer holiday as it's all merged toegther with lockdown term. I've got three weeks with eldest left and two and half with youngest. We're rapidly coming up to the third and last child's birthday in that time and were still in mainly the local area with very little other than shops open though increasing numbers of them are closing.

Welcometothelifeboatparty · 14/08/2020 18:13

My dd is too old for play dates but I never ever went on a play date where wine was offered, or hosted one with a parent who I'd have DARED offer wine to. They were a Puritan bunch at dd's school.

Now she's older and I did invite one mum to stay and drink vodka with me when she dropped her dd off for an all nighter round the fire pit earlier this summer. She seemed quite keen but her dd said she couldn't stay and bundled her out the door.

In my world even the kids are Puritan Angry

justasking111 · 14/08/2020 18:23

Well our hospital no new deaths no admissions, I guess they have either cured or killed them. No joke this hospital is the pits for infection control of any kind and has been for years. All the deaths in the last couple of weeks in Wales have come out of there. Are there hospitals in England like this?

justasking111 · 14/08/2020 18:25

Our play dates, birthday parties were very boozy, parents cars parked up overnight in our field. The dads would come after work, it meant catering for two groups. Are we odd in Wales do you think?

SodomyNonSapiens · 14/08/2020 18:26

Name changed - the most suitable one I could find

TheOrchidKiller · 14/08/2020 18:29

ISaySteadyOn

I drink wine on playdates. And I have a dream of renting a field for all us ADs to have a giant picnic on.

@TheOrchidKiller don't worry about crying. I have not managed a single day without crying for the past month. That was the reason for the Andy marathon.

I just googled Andy's Adventures. We are too old for it here. Though my 17 year old & 19 year old changed into pjs to watch Jungle Book (the original version) the other night & we had a dance to The Bear Necessities.

A picnic would be good. There'd be plenty of veg, anyway!

As well as the news on the way to work I was greeted by an email reminding all staff to make sure we limit our out-of-work contacts with others because we could spread covid by bringing it into the workplace. It's an insult. I have no social life & haven't seen family at all this year. Colleagues who are meeting with family & friends have described how they're following the guidelines, no one is going on any illegal raves.

From the start of this I've been dreading some sort of edict that health & care staff will be banned from going anywhere other than work & home. I doubt they can do it, but nothing surprises me anymore.

justasking111 · 14/08/2020 18:35

@TheOrchidKiller are you in an environment where you come into contact with patients? Even then my neighbour is in charge of the MRI/scanning department at our local hospital, she is certainly not locked up at home when not at work.

ISaySteadyOn · 14/08/2020 18:39

You're never too old for Andy! Your overanalysis of it just varies! Smile.

DominaShantotto · 14/08/2020 18:40

Exam was OK-ish... the online format really sucked though - none of the answers lined up with the tick boxes.

Not at all sure I'm going to continue on with the course though - can't get a bloody answer about masks.

Booked the hairdresser after she's assured me that they won't judge me for not being able to wear one!

SirSamuelVimesBlackboardMonito · 14/08/2020 18:43

@DominaShantotto don't give up on it yet. Advice is changing all the time. Hold off making any big decisions.

SirSamuelVimesBlackboardMonito · 14/08/2020 18:44

@justasking111

Our play dates, birthday parties were very boozy, parents cars parked up overnight in our field. The dads would come after work, it meant catering for two groups. Are we odd in Wales do you think?
Can I come and play at your house please??
justasking111 · 14/08/2020 18:54

@SirSamuelVimesBlackboardMonito well I could ask the new owners, the villagers say they are a lot noiser than we were, their parties going on till the early hours of the morning Grin

Welcometothelifeboatparty · 14/08/2020 18:57

Well Sodomy you've got me stumped. Not a scooby

NannyPhlegm · 14/08/2020 19:00

@justasking111

No you all know me and how I have raged at Dripford being so slow to ease things. To my shame I am coming around to his way of slowly, slowly, he has delayed households again, but still no masks, he was agin travel abroad, and look how that has turned out. The story of the hare and the tortoise comes to mind.

I really think the yep you can do this today and the u turns tomorrow are more infuriating than the actually we are not going to do this yet.

We now have friends who have to get back from their own home in France in the next 24 hours or so, I would not like to be in their shoes.

Just back from Conwy, no masks but people doing the avoidance distancing dance still. Seems chilled all things considered.

Me too re Drakeford! I last week made exactly the same analogy with The Tortoise and The Hare. His approach was excruciating back in May, but I am now so glad that we are moving forward steadily, without any U-turns or hysteria. I don't think this makes me a hypocrite, just someone who has changed her mind.

I've always become best mates with the mums of my kids' best mates. Not on purpose, we've just hit it off. I suppose the parenting qualities that makes our kids gravitate to each other makes us adults gravitate to each other too! And wine features heavily, obviously 🤪

SodomyNonSapiens · 14/08/2020 19:13

@Welcometothelifeboatparty

Well Sodomy you've got me stumped. Not a scooby
It is used by my favourite author in a book but is otherwise a reasonably well known phrase I think.

Albert said it in 'Mort' (Terry Pratchett)

Ibake · 14/08/2020 19:14

@bakingcupcakes I went on a school geography field trip to Berlin the year before the wall came down. I've got a photo of my spray painting the word 'why?' in a very deep and meaningful way on it.

Came back from the trip and told my parents I didn't think it would be up much longer. Their response was that there was no way it was ever coming down as they could remember the devastation it caused going up.

Only reason I did geography A level is because everyone knew the Berlin field trip was legendary (and mixed with the boys' division - way hey!)

TheOrchidKiller · 14/08/2020 19:15

justasking111

@TheOrchidKiller are you in an environment where you come into contact with patients? Even then my neighbour is in charge of the MRI/scanning department at our local hospital, she is certainly not locked up at home when not at work.

Yes, all PPE'd up with patients & SD everywhere else. The message was that NHS staff had tested positive & had been SD etc in work so therefore they must've got it from out of work. Hmm
Now, I can understand that if someone tests positive that could decimate a department with quarantining. But most of us are doing pretty boring stuff outside of work like food shopping, & we're following guidelines if we are out having fun.

So we're not locked up, but it shocked me to be told to behave as it were. When there are cases of things like norovirus or whatever we're not told to minimise going out if we're asymptomatic. But you know, this is covid.

@DominaShantotto don't give up! We need you!