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@AgentCooper that is so sad. I am lucky that most people I know are back mingling and doing play dates but two of my friends are still keeping their kids isolated. I have kind of given up on them really and I know that’s a shame but I do kind of judge it (particularly the one that has been back out to the pub herself!).

Cleaning toys at playgroups makes sense I think (at the end, not during). I was at a playgroup a week before lockdown and they handed out instruments and toys as normal but then asked us to make sure the babies and toddlers didn’t put them in their mouths ... I handed mine back at that point. Giving a child a plastic shaker and asking them not to mouth it is the same as handing me a glass of wine and asking me not to drink it.
I’ve seen a few groups also specify that toddlers should stay on parents laps throughout new sessions. How on earth can anyone stop a toddler from wandering off? And should you even? Is there any point of socialising toddlers if they can’t even really socialise?

Within a couple of hours of posting about swimming I got a call for the all clear for DS1 resuming on Monday. I asked about DS2, that was last Monday, so the brief dismissive email reply I got a few days ago was wrong

Lesson 1 4pm. Lesson 2 5:30.
School finish is now slightly later at 3.20.
We live 30 mins away.
They certainly will not be arriving pool ready unless they spend the school day in their trunks.

Hopefully when numbers are stabilised in a few weeks they can reopen levelling up. DS1 should have levelled up in January but there hasn't been space since then. DS2 was levelled up on the final night in March.

It was all a bit of a PITA anyway, but as DS1 is just getting confident with lengths, it makes sense to stay with the 25m pool and not change venue to a smaller one, and DS2 is only one stage away from deeper water.

Anyway, our entertainment for the day was walking a 5 mile round trip to an industrial estate for a juicy, greasy burger and back via a couple of playgrounds
#lockdownmemories
#livingmybestlife

@zigaziga two of my friends are the same. They were like this before though. I stopped making the effort and they haven't contacted.

Some people are happy not mixing and being in their own bubbles and that's fine.

I love being sociable though. I love going to groups and experiencing as much as I can. My kids are the same and I love them doing as much as they can.

Well I missed this.

Get your Covid-19 jab at the vet: Thousands of physiotherapists, dentists and even animal doctors will be trained to give injections in time for first coronavirus vaccination to be approved

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8673393/UK-prepares-fast-track-coronavirus-vaccine-train-army-health-workers.html

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/08/28/student-doctors-vets-could-administer-covid-19-vaccine-government/

Oh and if it goes wrong tough!!

Students, dentists and even vets could be recruited to administer a new coronavirus vaccine, under plans to rush out millions of doses.

The government announced on Friday it wants to change the law to dramatically increase the size of the workforce entitled to issue injections.

Ministers also plan to alter the rules on legal liability to make it harder for patients to sue healthcare workers if something goes wrong.

" It was also partly cos they had underfloor heating 😃"

I love that! When we had a hot summer and everything had stopped for the school holidays I used to take my DC to wander round Homebase as they had aircon, so at least we could be cool and bored. Unfortunately it had no educational merit as they don't exhibit any DIY skills.

As a long-term SAHM I really sympathise with the reliance on having people to meet up with. Also those little touches: hand-on-arm or pat on shoulder to express solidarity with a mum having a hard day. They speak a thousand words. My social life was organised with military precision or we'd be stuck at home climbing the walls (me, the DC weren't so bothered).

I've just done a little foray into the 'other' threads (will I never learn?). When I read that nothing has been said about how safe the return to school is for teachers my eyebrows nearly went into space. I seem to have heard about little else for weeks and I don't even have school-age DC, so not really paying attention. I really want to ask what condition all these vulnerable teachers have that leaves them uniquely vulnerable to Covid, but apparently not to the other diseases that circulate in this country. But I'm not brave enough.

It's like toilets. Why do they need special, risky, cleaning for just one pathogen that isn't as bad as some of the nasties that are around from time-to-time?

Oh yes, justasking11. IIRC there's a little bit tucked away in the the Corona Virus Act which prevents patients suing for problems related to Covid.

@amicissimma

Oh yes, justasking11. IIRC there's a little bit tucked away in the the Corona Virus Act which prevents patients suing for problems related to Covid.

That wouldn't inspire me to get vaccinated.

@zigaziga I think unfortunately my closest friends with young kids just happen to be folk who are especially worried about the virus I don’t get it, and really have to keep my trap shut when the conversation turns that way. Walks are great but it’s rained every time we’ve gone, the past two times really heavily and tbh it’s just a bit shite!

I agree that washing toys at toddler group is sensible considering they’re germy wee buggers anyway but washing and then anti bac wipes seems a bit overkill. One or the other wouldn’t do? I kind of think it’s been suggested by toddler group dementor in chief to put everyone else off from coming back so she can just continue to be miserable in her own house.

Me neither.

I volunteer at a toddler group & we painstakingly washed all the toys after our last pre-lockdown session ready for the next week, which of course never came. The church running it really want to get it going again, but the guidelines are a mare.

Just been practicing the walk to the new secondary school for DS2 who is quite a young 11 year old. Thankfully they are not making them wear masks to their school but my main concerns are things like can he cross the busy roads safely, know the route, are his friends going etc. An emotional time when your last child leaves primary. Feeling that today, but a bit odd as should be worrying about the virus like others (?)

Town very busy again. Queues for Wagamamas, thought that scheme had stopped now.

Anyway my excitement is that I went for a Coronavirus test this morning. I'm 99.99% sure its just a cold but it just about ticks two of the three Covid symptom boxes so thought I'd get it checked out. Luckily we've had a quiet time recently thanks shitty weather so I won't be setting off an epic track & trace chain of doom if I do get a positive.

I booked something to do with dd1 at a role play town thing before dd2 came along and it was obviously cancelled but just been emailed the list of rules to rebook for a session and it is absolutely ridiculous, you have to wear masks whenever you are not sitting away eating with your child,you're also supposed to make the children understand about giving other children and families social distance, these are under 5s! Anything that is mouthed has to be put in a special box immediately to be disinfected and cleaned to then be returned. Honestly I can't imagine anything worse at the moment. @zigaziga it sounds great there are baby groups where you don't have to wear masks

Dh has been back at work a few weeks and I am so bloody jealous of him,all I want to do is talk to grown ups in real life. Slowly starting to run out of things to do as the weather changes too, national trust gardens won't be as lovely as they've been once the summer is over!

@SomewhereEast

I volunteer at a toddler group & we painstakingly washed all the toys after our last pre-lockdown session ready for the next week, which of course never came. The church running it really want to get it going again, but the guidelines are a mare.

Can't those toddlers quit being toddlers and control their teething and potty training?

So many guidelines seem to me to boil down to 'stop breathing, you selfish idiot, don't you know breathing kills?'.

Sorry, I am just particularly annoyed today.

Dd2 is going for her first settling in session (1hr) tomorrow at preschool! She's almost 3. I'm so excited. Even she's super excited, seeing where her big sister goes every day(it's attached to the school).
She'll be going 4 mornings a week. I'm studying post grad but not working so I'm the worst kind of Sahm farming my kid out to childcare :-) but I need to pass my exams and get a job next year ASAP.
@chocolatesweets
Solidarity
I have a 2yo and 4yo (starting reception) and when I'm at home with them I also organise our days and weeks with military precision, with lots of outings to keep them entertained and happy and not bored. I found it very hard during lockdown.

@AgentCooper why do one thing when you can do two though? That means you take it twice as seriously, right?

This seems to be how everything works these days anyway.. if you want to re- open a service you need to list the amount of changes you’ve made to that service even if the changes just cost time and money and are counter productive. The longer the list the better.

I am in a Mums Facebook group and one of the Mums was furious about the school re-opening advice the other week and just did not think the school was doing enough. She didn’t seem to have any specific issues, just a general view that there was NOT. ENOUGH. BEING. DONE. I suspect she just wanted a longer email and a longer list of changes.

@RobinHobb I must be one of the worst too, not currently working and quit my job after my first. No family around us though so if I don't send her off to nursery I'd go mad! I found it so difficult not going into every week with a plan and it all arranged in my mind, have been really enjoying recently when I've actually been able to plan our weeks again

@SomewhereEast, I'm sorry, I just realised what I wrote could have come across as a go at you. I wasn't.

I was having a go at the guidelines that are making things hard for you. Volunteers like you saved my life in the early days and I wish I could make things easier!

Schools are waiting on Council to decide if mask will be needed here in common school areas - Welsh Government left it up to those bodies.

So we'll be told the day before first one goes back though they've made many other changes so avoid mixing as much as they can and increase hand washing.

www.redonline.co.uk/beauty/beauty-advice/a32964782/maskne-face-mask-acne/?utm_campaign=socialflowFBRed&utm_medium=social-media&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR1B4lIlK8o119jHeMgsW2JVI6DmL_d3o8b7AUif14BU7LfPN6yqwwy2B8Q

@amicissimma

Oh yes, justasking11. IIRC there's a little bit tucked away in the the Corona Virus Act which prevents patients suing for problems related to Covid.

If the government want to make us all into anti-vax conspiracy theorists, they're going the right way about it.

@LadyOfTheImprovisedBath

Schools are waiting on Council to decide if mask will be needed here in common school areas - Welsh Government left it up to those bodies.

So we'll be told the day before first one goes back though they've made many other changes so avoid mixing as much as they can and increase hand washing.

Our school 13 year secondary have not been told about masks, they go back on Thursday. The council have not spoken yet. Ye gods...

www.telegraph.co.uk/education-and-careers/2020/09/01/back-school-not-daughters-year-six-class-victims-covid-closure/

Hmm sounds about right. Wonder how long it will take.

Arrgh! Been catching up, typed a reply to everything & stupid thumb slipped & deleted the lot!

I think I said I would happily volunteer to help at the ADs Stay & Play so that you could all drink your tea whilst it was still hot. That made all the difference to me when we did baby & toddler groups.

@Pixel7777 ahh, practising the walk to school! That is plenty to worry about, & it's fine to worry more about other things than the virus. Life goes on regardless.

When it comes to vaccinations I recall being asked to volunteer to give swine flu jabs back in the good old days. Enough of us refused for them to agree it was a daft suggestion. To be fair I've had a couple of flu jabs off pharmacists & survived. I'd be ok with a dentist doing it (but it would be better if dentists were doing actual dentistry). Would be ok with a vet too. So long as they don't jab it in my neck & try to take my temperature

Saw a diagram today of reactions to the pandemic. It described the different stages we're supposed to go through, like shock, grief etc. At the end it said "The New Normal" & there was a smiley face.
They can bog off with that!