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@justasking111

Rishis last day reading of three hour long queues to eat, ffs go tomorrow. DH just home from marina the restaurant there meant people parked half a mile away to walk to the restaurant before even starting to queue. Idiots. Hundreds waiting to eat indifferent food at best.

It's been unbelievable! Like a Biblical plague of bloody locusts!

Perfectly willing to queue for 40 minutes then wait half an hour for fish and chips you could rustle up at home in half an hour!
We run out of things daily, useless store doesn't send the right deliveries if any at all. It's a total embarrassment. Small cafe kitchens aren't designed for several hundreds of people a day all complaining that they have to wait! I mean if you join a queue 30 people deep wtf do you expect?
We have had to close at some point every day just to catch up on clearing tables, doing dishes and restocking hot food, cups, juice, cakes, etc. And we have people timing us to make sure we take exactly the approx time we told them we were closed for! People leaving because "they are in a hurry and can't wait all day" well dont join a bloody long queue then!!!

Greedy impatient people give me the rage😠

The local cash and carry has not been able to keep up with the surge in traders needs food wise. Saw one cafe owner tear up the road to the spar and clear the shelves of fruit shoots last week.

Just read about the guy who bought 8 portions of take out fish and chips so he could have them for tea over the next week. Mad as a box of frogs.

@justasking111

Just read about the guy who bought 8 portions of take out fish and chips so he could have them for tea over the next week. Mad as a box of frogs.

Takeout isn't in the deal!!!

@SpnBaby1967 im a social housing tenant and my opposite neighbour is a bit like you describe.

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8682121/Rita-Simons-says-deaf-daughter-14-no-idea-people-face-masks-saying.html

That Spanish doctor is brilliant and it really does show how manipulative the media can be.

WHAT????
NS hinting at restricting household meetings again as numbers are gking up! Well Duh! More testing you twit.

Considering the number is 0.9% of people tested and in 11 heath boards there are 9 people in hosp with the great god Covid wtf are we hiding from?
She can FTFOTTFSOFTFOSM. (Many posters saying the same.

@Willow2017 ffs. I haven’t seen this but she can fuck off, I’m doing no more.

What has she said?

Rarrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

That's all. As you were.

Good luck to you if you have children heading back to school this week. I hope the transition goes smoothly.

Hi everyone 😊 people in this group have been so kind to me throughout this. Thank you. Hope you're all ok.

There's fighting everywhere isn't there? Social media is comment after comment of fighting.

Good luck to those returning to school today. I feel for parents that have been scared to death that are now being threatened with fines.

I'm still at home. No toddler groups available still - hoping to hear from playgroup soon. Have contacted them. I just want something for my two.

Wished a couple of friends luck with returning back to school as teachers yesterday. Both were dreading it but not in a covid way. In a , "we have to work" now way. They didn't ask how I was doing and they haven't done throughout this pandemic. They don't have kids so can't empathise but I'm really starting to get fed up now. They think being at home is a walk in a park. I enjoy my "job" of being a sahm but there is zero support anywhere. There wasn't much before this pandemic.

It's like caring in general has completely been forgotten about.

@chocolatesweets
I hope something gets going for toddlers soon.

Trying to work at home this morning because of SD in the office. DH also "working" from home. This seems to involve him watching Mamma Mia 2. I've told him he needs to hassle his boss for time in the office & he can take Cher & her awful version of "Fernando" with him, or I won't be responsible for my actions!

@chocolatesweets some of the more organised activity type toddler groups are starting round here, the ones that expect you to stump up cash and book in advance (sign and rhyme, baby yoga sort). I know that quickly gets expensive with twins but worth having a look around at things you wouldn't usually do? My usual Friday playgroups I go to aren't restarting yet but have heard of a couple of more class type things I might try that will let me book one week at a time.

@chocolatesweets I really feel for you. People without kids dont realise what a lifesaver those kinds of groups can be.

But also just the freedom to take them places easily, I used to take mine to Pets at Home to see the animals

Hi, @chocolatesweets I agree about the not caring and general horribleness everywhere just now. It must just be such a drudge home with littje DCs all the time. Much as you love them! Time out at groups really did keep me sane and made the day shorter.

I agree with maybe looking for private groups/services if you could possibly afford them? Or even things like local churches? I went to a little music group at one although I’m not religious. It was also partly cos they had underfloor heating 😃

I’ve had to join a private gym as my council one is not opening for ages. It’s all just so frustrating. Oh, and ask on Facebook if anything on locally?

@chocolatesweets My friend is in a similar position to you (although not with twins) with none of the local groups running again yet. I didn't really use groups but my break was my job. I found it very hard being alone with DS with no break during this year and he was 5 so should have been easier to handle!

We go back to work&school tomorrow. Both of us are nervous about how it's all going to fit. I'm dreading the mask. I have mints and my own hand sanitizer. I find most of the sanatizers set my eczema off badly.

Has anyone got any suggestions for what I can send DS as a morning snack. He wants a second bag of crisps and I don't want him having those. So far the lunchbox will have bread, chicken, fruit, crisps and possibly a biscuit. I'm still cross school won't be doing hot meals. Not their fault as such but he always did well off a cooked dinner. Cold food is a nightmare as he won't eat a sandwich, cold pastry etc. Also school lunch provison is still free this year so I'm now paying to provide the food a year earlier than I was expecting.

I've lost track of what is still to open. Community/ social groups like the toddler groups, youth groups, sports seem to be a mess.
Obviously mass participation/ spectating (theatre, conventions, concerts)
It's been so long now it's easy to lose sight of the gaps.

We have school on Thursday. My planned activity for the day is a walk to the greasy burger van and back. Normally we'd walk to McDonald's but it's drive thru only as it's a bit small to be worth opening in a socially distanced manner.

Our Karate looks to be back soonish as the sports hall in the leisure centre should be able to accommodate it.
My Girl Guiding group is going for outside only. If the weather is atrocious, we'll just defer to the next week.
My scouting group is not resuming this side of half term. There are two major families through the group that have had close bereavements, one Covid related, the other that involved long term illness that may have been affected by NHS changes at the final stages. As a group, they're not ready to resume with the level of guidence/ restrictions/ adaptions in place.
Swimming... who knows. They've phased in some of parent type sessions. Why they can't bring it all back, I don't know.

Solidarity @chocolatesweets

I have an almost 3 year old DS and everything for toddlers is still off/closed here too. The National Museum of Scotland and the Museum of Rural Life, both of which DS loves, are now open but with the interactive bits for young children still shut. I still can’t believe I could take him into a pub but not the glasshouse in the park (still closed). No offence to pubs but fuck, nobody cares about young children and their parents.

And that is because the main parent who takes care of small children is the mother. Mothers do not matter. They are supposed to give and give and when they break, well, they just weren't good enough were they? It makes me so angry .

Totally agree with everybody about parents with young children being totally forgotten about. Classes online on zoom or skype are just not a good enough replacement, you need to get out of the same 4 walls of your house and I used to find it a great incentive to get out for a nice cup of tea and biscuit at the local baby and toddler groups. At the moment there's only really expensive classes running and honestly we can't afford it at the moment so I think I'll miss out on it with dd2, not planning another baby so I'm a bit pissed off about it all.
Also agree with people seeming to care about each other less, normally people would be lovely in the shops to me and chat to me about DC, now everybody seems to have blinkers on and only look ahead. Sometimes that was the only adult contact I'd have all day!

I know this probably isn't the worst thing in the world but I had an awful experience in the supermarket when halfway round dd1 decided she needed the toilet, cue a mad dash round the one way system and get to the end to find a queue of 4 people with huge trolleys full, all I needed was a tube of tomato puree. One of the people in the queue worked there and asked one of the other checkout workers ask if we could use the toilet. The lady working on the other checkout just kept yelling across the shop 'no we're not allowed to at the moment' whilst my daughter was doing the poo dance! Then the lady stares directly at me and tells me 'you're not allowed to use the toilet because of 'the virus'
Well I saw red, just fed up of poor service and unreasonable behaviour being excused just because of the stupid virus. So I had to bundle the toddler under my arm with the baby strapped to my front and rush them to the car to use the emergency toilet! It was such a silly thing to push me over the edge but in that moment I just wanted to yell out and scream at all the stupidity
So sorry for the rant

@bakingcupcakes
Would he have cheese and crackers? Or some sort of protein on crackers? Cheesy oatcakes are nice. Rice cakes? Or the mini flavoured ones.

Could you bake sometimes some substantial cupcakes with nuts and seeds in? Ground up nuts if he's not keen. Shove some almond flour in? Courgette?

You could make mini omelette type things, ...like a quiche in a baking tray.

Or mini picnic eggs etc.

@bakingcupcakes bag of mini breadsticks? Mini cheeses?

Mine used to take cold pasta in tomato sauce? Lethal on the polo shirts though 😃

Or could you sometimes put something hot in a Thermos bowl for him for lunch?
Something with noodles perhaps.
Spaghetti Bolognese might work. Seperates little portion of grated cheese to put on.

@Vintagelovingmum

Totally agree with everybody about parents with young children being totally forgotten about. Classes online on zoom or skype are just not a good enough replacement, you need to get out of the same 4 walls of your house and I used to find it a great incentive to get out for a nice cup of tea and biscuit at the local baby and toddler groups. At the moment there's only really expensive classes running and honestly we can't afford it at the moment so I think I'll miss out on it with dd2, not planning another baby so I'm a bit pissed off about it all. Also agree with people seeming to care about each other less, normally people would be lovely in the shops to me and chat to me about DC, now everybody seems to have blinkers on and only look ahead. Sometimes that was the only adult contact I'd have all day!

I know this probably isn't the worst thing in the world but I had an awful experience in the supermarket when halfway round dd1 decided she needed the toilet, cue a mad dash round the one way system and get to the end to find a queue of 4 people with huge trolleys full, all I needed was a tube of tomato puree. One of the people in the queue worked there and asked one of the other checkout workers ask if we could use the toilet. The lady working on the other checkout just kept yelling across the shop 'no we're not allowed to at the moment' whilst my daughter was doing the poo dance! Then the lady stares directly at me and tells me 'you're not allowed to use the toilet because of 'the virus'
Well I saw red, just fed up of poor service and unreasonable behaviour being excused just because of the stupid virus. So I had to bundle the toddler under my arm with the baby strapped to my front and rush them to the car to use the emergency toilet! It was such a silly thing to push me over the edge but in that moment I just wanted to yell out and scream at all the stupidity
So sorry for the rant

Don't apologise. In the acronymic phrasing of another part of the site, YWNBU .