ADs dream of 'bum' tomatoes, gin and tonic sorbet and next year's holidays

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The one with the phallic aubergines

MagdaS
Happy Birthday.🎂🥂
Can you order somethjng for tea save you cooking?

MaudsMum
Sounds very suspicious to me too.
Of course there will still be brexit headlining then so who us going to remember new flu bags?

MagdaS Happy Birthday! hope it improves for you xx

For those worrying about the upcoming autumn/winter bugs I highly recommend Echinacea drops - the drops not the tablets - they taste like pond water but really do help your immune system cope with the low level bugs. I take 15 drops twice a day in as little water as I can bear for 3 weeks then stop them for a couple of weeks then take for 3 weeks again. Children can have it too but half the number of drops. Admittedly I didn't think I'd need them with it being summer but I've become very run down and ended up with a nasty recurring skin infection flaring up so back on my drops already. Hopefully it will clear up quickly and I can also get some energy back!! Have had to resign myself to no exercise for a few days - my body could clearly cope with gym in the morning and cycling after work but not alongside the shockingly bad sleep patterns of the past few weeks (thanks hormones) as well as the extra few tonnes of stress so I'm just exhausted. Dr Blobby will be self-medicating with wine and gin and episodes 3-8 of Lucifer S5 this weekend

@Vintagelovingmum hm.. I’ve booked a few toddler classes (rhyme time / sensory things) for when they start again in September and I am assuming they’ll be mask-free because otherwise what’s the point? I’m second guessing myself now and wonder if I should check. Maybe they use that lip-reading clause to get out of it? Or maybe they count as education..

So I am making an effort to get out and spend or use services because otherwise places we like to go will shut down.
I’m a bit concerned that libraries won’t survive unscathed because it’s probably money that councils could do without spending going forward but honestly I have no interest in going and showing my support if I have to browse books with a toddler in a mask. Same with museums sadly. I’ve happily worn a mask at the hairdressers and while getting a beauty appointment and in shops but that’s fine because it’s just me I’m inconveniencing.

@BogRollBOGOF

Whoop on the soft play!

, , for the birthday.

I've survived the osteopath again. It's marginally more tolerable covering my face there as it's a quieter, calmer environment and I'm lying still although when I breathing out through a "deep pass of the calves" and having the air crushed out of my lungs by having my back and pelvis adjusted, it's not the greatest. It's still unpleasant, but much less panicky than the shops. At least I get the benefit of keeping mobile from the experience!

Oh god, I miss my osteopath. What I wouldn’t give for his enormous elbow (and full body weight) in the top of my spine right now... sadly he moved overseas (pre-Covid) and I hadn’t got around to finding a new one. So hard to trust someone to do that to your back.

Re: libraries I am baffled I can go into Waterstones etc. look at and buy books, but my library is a different matter. Order online collect and return to a drop box. Are library users a higher risk than book shop customers?

@zigaziga I didn't think of that! Unfortunately they're not running many near us, there's a few Spanish groups running but outdoors so obviously it inevitably gets cancelled when it rains.
I wore a mask chasing my toddler at soft play and swore I wouldn't be back soon, don't understand how that's different from exercising which they advise against wearing a mask for!

We had 4 month jabs yesterday and she was so upset but they rushed me out so quickly I could barely get my boob back in I was trying to comfort her with. Couldn't understand a word she was asking me so when I said sorry? She thought I didn't even know if I was dds mother!

Thought you might like this one

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/08/27/europe-last-waking-lockdown-folly/

@Pixel7777 yes, I did enjoy reading that. Thanks!

Crumbs. I’ve just had a look at some of the rest of the site. Ugh.

Made use of my time sat in the car in the rain to send an email to dd's school. Have praised them for their sensible response to the Covid situation so far and their sept plans and asked for reassurance that masks won't be introduced. It's primary but I'm worried it will be a trickle down.

I like this thread though

@CruCru must have been good it appears to have gone

@CruCru

I like this thread though

It's a good AD style thread

Feeling meh now. Another month, another menstrual cycle, post osteopath fatigue and pissing rain.

I need to face the supermarkets tonight.With having been away for a week, it's been nearly 3 weeks since we bought food into the house.

countrygirl99, bizarrely the link wouldn't work when I was signed in, but did when I signed out.

It's Coronavirus: Anyone else just worn down by illogic?

Yes the roolz thread is still there, quite funny.

Oh God now the BBC is going on about 'how to go indoors' on it's site. i must not look at these either.

Both the swimming pool and Co-op would be not allowed unless I checked their air filters? Right...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-53917432

I have given the DCs back to school haircuts though... I hope some other children go back in with mum-dos

DS1 is fairly easy as it's basically a shoulder length bob with an outgrown fringe. DS2 is more shaggy. It's difficult to get the fringe right as like mine, it bobs back up after cutting so it's hard to get out of the eyes without it going too short, which it probably is. I'm quite pleased with the choppy back. At least there's a week for the fringe to sprout. I'm normally a bit rubbish about being organised at the best of times. At least I'll soon see our usual hairdresser on the school run. We normally go to her house so I don't know if the roolz are different to a salon. Particularly as we could just go to her house for a playdate anyway.

DS1 here (15) looks like a long haired hippy, must try and sort that out as school has strict hair roolz (must be on the collar and not shorter than no 2 or something)

[quote Pixel7777]Yes the roolz thread is still there, quite funny.

Oh God now the BBC is going on about 'how to go indoors' on it's site. i must not look at these either.

Both the swimming pool and Co-op would be not allowed unless I checked their air filters? Right...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-53917432[/quote]
#1 stuffy air: the main tipping point for my mask issues.
Oh the irony...

School have just announced their after school care provider has pulled out. There's a stop gap in place till Christmas but no word after that.

I had another awful turn in Tesco trying yet another mask to get around without being judged - got completely overwhelmed by panic and nearly passed out in the chorizo.

Pretty much resigned to giving up my uni degree now. Even if I do get clarification on their facemasks in lectures ruling then I'll have placements to do which at the moment require PPE and then I'll have to get the train everyday and now childcare has collapsed as well. It's just a mess.

Covid has fucked everything. Not even Covid - but all these random rules and interpretations of the rules and social toxicity is what's fucked everything. I'm just a prisoner at home.

@Pixel7777

DS1 here (15) looks like a long haired hippy, must try and sort that out as school has strict hair roolz (must be on the collar and not shorter than no 2 or something)

DS1 is risk averse to scissors, knives and general sharp things. Hair cuts are not his favourite pass time, hence accidentally ending up as shoulder length due to being somewhat intermittent at hair cutting. It probably is now just up to his collar, and while his school is not fussy, he finally relents to a trim when he reaches the threshold that he'd need to tie it up. He actually looks neater with long hair. It's thick, quick growing and has tufty cowslicks and crowns that don't match up. He can't grow a fringe as it gapes in a particular spot, and it just spirals off in all directions without the weight of the length making it cooperate with gravity. At least long looks cool rather than like he's been dragged through a bush! Plus his trouser aversion, he has a distinctive sense of style...

Secondary worries me. I was hoping to do open evenings this autumn (y5) to work out where I want him to go in two years. Our catchment school strives and struggles to be good. SEN was particularly criticised in the last OFSTED which strongly applies to us (No EHCP yet, thanks lockdown) and I think it's a school very much for round pegs, and DS1 definitely has some awkward obtuse angles
I don't really know where I want him to go that will gentky and supportively push him without him finding it too stressful.

@DominaShantotto

School have just announced their after school care provider has pulled out. There's a stop gap in place till Christmas but no word after that.

I had another awful turn in Tesco trying yet another mask to get around without being judged - got completely overwhelmed by panic and nearly passed out in the chorizo.

Pretty much resigned to giving up my uni degree now. Even if I do get clarification on their facemasks in lectures ruling then I'll have placements to do which at the moment require PPE and then I'll have to get the train everyday and now childcare has collapsed as well. It's just a mess.

Covid has fucked everything. Not even Covid - but all these random rules and interpretations of the rules and social toxicity is what's fucked everything. I'm just a prisoner at home.

Can they let you defer? You've had some fabulous results so they'd be bonkers to let you go easily over stupid face rags

At this stage the cure, (or more accurately the prevention) is so much more damaging to society than the bloody illness.
We seem to have fallen into a pit of sunk costs fallacy on disproportionate measures and reactions.

There really is no escape. 5 months mostly based at home, and then its a rock and a hardplace with all the stupid restrictions when you do go out.

Domina can you use one of those visors or get one of the lanyard things? Or you don;t have to wear them if they are too stressful, that is the roolz...

@Pixel7777

Domina can you use one of those visors or get one of the lanyard things? Or you don;t have to wear them if they are too stressful, that is the roolz...

I have a lanyard - it doesn't stop the filthy looks and wondering loudly what's wrong with her - she doesn't look like she's got anything wrong must be making it up - type stuff you see on here.

The shop staff are absolutely lovely - I'm well known in there (cos I'm in there too fucking much cos it's round the corner from school) and they know I get panic attacks.

Maybe you could report any nasty comments to the university or something? It's not fair they should comment like that