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Oh that bloody depressing poem has popped up on my FB page posted by someone who runs a big group informing us of events around and about for the little ones. So tempted to put up the alternative but I would be booted out.

My alarm has gone off... operation re-set little Bogrolls' bodyclocks continues for the great return to school. If they are ready by 9, they get a McBreakfast (prior to a 7.5 mile walk )

Morning all. FFS this story has made me cross 'unis set to become the care homes of the second wave'.

Well, possibly from a cases point of view but ignoring the fact that they're 60 years younger than the care home residents and therefore not exactly likely to get ill. God I'm so sick of irrational fear mixed with stupidity.

news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-fears-over-covid-19-spread-in-universities-as-students-set-to-make-uks-biggest-annual-migration-12059250

I thought the same. I said to DH that unis are hardly the next care homes given the age and health differences.

Project fear just won't go away.

Fucking hell, people survive much more dangerous things than covid at uni.

Newspapers can bore off. I am done with this shit. I'm happy to continue to wash my hands and distance from strangers but everything else can get fucked.

The Avon lady came to the door yesterday. She’s in her 50s and in her final year. I was telling her about domina’s freshers week including MAKING PANCAKES and ZOOM BINGO.

she said she hoped they’d rebel and stick notes under doors and agree to meet off campus and go wild.

Tbf though. My immune system was hammered at uni - becoming captain of the women’s drinking team is one of my proudest life achievements though. 😁

@TrustTheGeneGenie

Fucking hell, people survive much more dangerous things than covid at uni.

Newspapers can bore off. I am done with this shit. I'm happy to continue to wash my hands and distance from strangers but everything else can get fucked.

Yes. Me too. And hearteningly, from some conversations with others, it seems we’re not alone and the tide might be turning. People are fed up.

@BogRollBOGOF

My alarm has gone off... operation re-set little Bogrolls' bodyclocks continues for the great return to school. If they are ready by 9, they get a McBreakfast (prior to a 7.5 mile walk )

Oh my... I have been planning to do this every day for the last week. All of us still slept in! Must start to do this from tomorrow

I did see one interview on TV this morning asking the uni union rep about the 'extreme' language they used comparing it to care homes given the obvious age and risk difference. No apologies whatsoever from them about the comparison. Crazy.

Our uni society in one week had a full mountain rescue crew out and two other trips to A&E, one medical, one concussion following a nasty slip on a wet rock while pulling up his trousers and pants after posing for a WI style calendar photo. We never did get round to assembling the calander, but we got some amazing artistic photos of strategically covered body parts. It's cold enough on Ben Nevis even when wearing more than your boots and socks.

Before we even left town, a mini bus window disintegrated when the door was closed so we had to get to Carlisle on a grim day over the M62 with a missing window. Then on the outskirts of Glasgow the fuel tank had to be drained after a 4* error.

Those were the days
These days half of us are married to each other with sprogs!
That was the best week of my life.

@BogRollBOGOF 😂

That uni article says unis have no track & trace in place.
They know this for certain, do they? I'm sure a uni can get student names & phone numbers.

The care homes comparison is silly anyway - students might be "bubbled" but I very much doubt they will be forced to stay in the same building without seeing family for 5 months, like some care home residents have had to.

@BogRollBOGOF Up so early, that's impressive! I need to work on that myself. Still in pjs again, lacking in motivation. Whilst the walk to school was stressful it did get me out of the house at a reasonable time. I sort of miss it.

The only hope I have is when people like the uni rep say things like that on TV it might make more people think it's completely daft and start to question all these rules about keeping everyone 'safe'.

@TrustTheGeneGenie

Fucking hell, people survive much more dangerous things than covid at uni.

Newspapers can bore off. I am done with this shit. I'm happy to continue to wash my hands and distance from strangers but everything else can get fucked.

Ditto.

Any of you Swallows and Amazons fans? I was walking home and saw a black cat on a wall in the sun. I stop to talk to any cat I meet and I looked at her tag. She was called Nancy.

“Better drowned than duffers, if not duffers won’t drown”

One of my favourite quotations ever😃 @ISaySteadyOn

@ISaySteadyOn I suppose Nancy is a better cat name than Titty.

I was amused because I read it as Nancy Black Cat (Blackett). I know explaining takes the humour out but I wanted to anyhow.

@BogRollBOGOF

My alarm has gone off... operation re-set little Bogrolls' bodyclocks continues for the great return to school. If they are ready by 9, they get a McBreakfast (prior to a 7.5 mile walk )

My kids are bloody set to 6.30am whatever I fucking do with them - they're ALWAYS up at that time. At the start of lockdown we installed a Sky box in their room so they could watch telly in bed to a bit more of a reasonable time. It didn't work... 7am at the latest the little one bangs on our door and demands daddy gets in the shower to make them breakfast.

As for unis not being able to track and trace... we have to electronically swipe in at every lecture or seminar to monitor attendance, swipe in to get through the barriers to enter the library and one of the self-study areas, and the other one has now implemented a paper sign in sheet toward the end of last term - the only places we're not fecking tracked are in the food hall type areas!

UCU (the university union whining that students are the latest harbingers of doom) are fucking knobs. I was revising for my deferred exams and went through my notes (and this is shit like the anatomy of the larynx which is kind of bloody important for the degree I'm doing) - and we had, out of one part of the module of 11 weeks of lectures - 4 lost to UCU strikes where basically we got (eventually) given a previous year's powerpoints and recordings that didn't match up to ours and I ended up sitting going through the required knowledge for the exam summary and doing bullet points and diagrams of everything we needed to know for our course group to get us through it, then we had 2 where after the 4 weeks of strikes were finished and our lecturer immediately coughed once and had to self-isolate... and then the final scheduled week was after the Covid shutdown. We taught ourselves that bloody subject basically!

I’ve never had to set an alarm here since having kids. They’ve slept past 8 fewer than 10 times in 10 years.

The only time they ever do show signs of sleeping in is if we have to be somewhere at 7am.

I’m an early bird. But I want my fucking coffee on my own and without a whining running commentary.

And when they DO sleep in - you're worried they're ill or dead and you wake up regardless!

@InsaneInTheViralMembrane

The Avon lady came to the door yesterday. She’s in her 50s and in her final year. I was telling her about domina’s freshers week including MAKING PANCAKES and ZOOM BINGO.

she said she hoped they’d rebel and stick notes under doors and agree to meet off campus and go wild.

Tbf though. My immune system was hammered at uni - becoming captain of the women’s drinking team is one of my proudest life achievements though. 😁

Impressive achievement Insane - do you use that in interviews?

We decided to support a local pub yesterday. It's a 5 mile walk away, outside the city, by the river. It was badly affected by floods back in February so wasn't ready to reopen on 4th July and when it did it didn't immediately resume hot food with slightly reduced menu. But we had seen on Facebook that it was doing hot food again so we told the kids they could have fish / sausages and chips and arrived there just before 12 to get a table in the garden and order food. But it seems the kitchen is now not open until 1.
So we walked on for another mile and ate somewhere else, no way were the kids (or us) going to wait for an hour!

I love Swallows and Amazons.

Unis need to bear in mind that the greatest risk to students' lives is suicide. Reducing Covid risks while increasing suicide risks by isolating them is an extremely stupid idea for this age group. Obviously they should put things in place for vulnerable students or staff, but the bulk of the students need to have as normal lives as possible.

Found some good news hidden away, sorry if this has already been posted.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53951764

Have been trying to persuade DH to go into the office perhaps one day a week, he is a major dementor. He does get more done at home and it saves a bit on petrol, but it would be good for him to interact with some other humans and what we save on petrol, he spends on boiling the kettle!

Does anyone else have a dementor for a partner?

I did see one interview on TV this morning asking the uni union rep about the 'extreme' language they used comparing it to care homes given the obvious age and risk difference.

BBC article on it at botton had a journalist doing the same.

Spoke to DH about it a university lecture - this stuff been on their radar up and down mangement since March he said he can't understand why they aren't pushing back on all the extra work demands.

DH subject is very well placed to manage lab sessions on-line, which due to subject has worked well for the sudents as well, but the management suggestion of socially distance lab sessions just weren't feasible - they had same amount of labs and staff and expecting one lab session to morph into 8-10 with no extra resources.

We went on a train yesterday - first time sicne March for DH and pre Chistmas fo rest of us - wasn't to bad even with masks being needed.
We saw sea walked on a pier and beach and had an ice cream. Not the same as a holiday but at least something - and out of local area.

Just came on here to mention about the same one- the unis one, totally OTT and unfair to young people, the uni dementing is annoying me no end!

The Times is depressing again isn't it. It seems quite out of touch with the atmosphere here, my town is busy today, both cafes and shops...no different to a usual weekend really.

Local magazine and newspaper pretty normal and upbeat as well.

I think i might just totally ignore the news as it feels a bit like someone with neurosis who has a fit over anything else happening - schools, then unis, ...it will just continue..