ADs skipping to school - and that's only the parents

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I’ve just had the much fabled telephone GP spot. You know, the one where they’ll phone between 8 and 11. But they’ll time it so you’re on the throne

Yes, I know it well. Although jammy DH not only got a quick call back yesterday (he was mowing the lawn), he now has an actual appointment down the surgery! (I think he's making a fuss about nothing really).

Re hedgehog houses - great news that there's a hog in the house! Perhaps you need to make a teeny laminated sign for the house, to remind it to only have 5 other hogs in there, max.

DF gets lots of hegdehogs in the garden. Apparently they push & shove each other around the "feeding station" (old plate), & there's no social distancing!

No veg here but my sunflower finally has a flower!
DS1 is on day 3 of being off school. I forgot to phone to tell them yesterday and got a phone call to check. Funnily they did not ask about symptoms. I suspect they don't want to know.

With picture this time hopefully!

@InsaneInTheViralMembrane

I’ve just had the much fabled telephone GP spot. You know, the one where they’ll phone between 8 and 11. But they’ll time it so you’re on the throne. 😳

Aww poor you😶 I am waiting for my hospital Dr one and have just been to the loo' to avoid that very scenario.😄

From my bedroom window this morning. Not great as just grabbed my phone and I missed the little one when someone spooked them but lively to see.

X posted! Lovely sunflower

We had a hedgehog in our garage - DH got all excited and built a hog house (out of old wine boxes ), the DC named it Hedgie. We haven’t seen it since

Morning people. It's all just mad nonsense isn't it. I'm not specifically following or breaking rules, if there are 7 of us inside or out then that's fine, if there are 2 then that's also fine. We will distance as we deem appropriate which in reality just means your standard personal space. If on the rare occasions a hug is required then I'll do that too.

Had a bit of an issue with my eldest last night, he randomly developed a croupy cough in the night and was so wheezy. He's woken up fine so he's gone to school, we think it could be mild asthma or something, he's been prone to night time coughing which actually stopped just before covid hit. It's not the first time he's been wheezy, as a baby he had croup and then at 2 he was at the doctors on a nebuliser. If he had woken up feeling rough I would have kept him off for today but not mentioned the cough because I know it's not covid and I don't need anybody demanding I get him tested or school going into panic mode.

Couldn't get 2 of mine in today. The restrictions are too distressing for them which is what I told the school.

It was difficult for me to ring and say that and yet very easy. I was polite and firm and, well, a little bit icy, I think. The lady on the phone was not surprised at all. I think I am not the only one.

I feel guilty for feeling a tiny bit resentful at having them home again though. I was just getting back on top of things and I really struggle to do things with children home.

Morning all, feeling a little calmer today. I said to DH that I hadn’t realised you could have more than 6 people over anyway. He said sometimes ignorance is bliss which is very true in this case. I see from all the headlines that they are screaming that Boris has cancelled Christmas. He won’t like that- he doesn’t like being unpopular as we know. I’ll give it a few weeks and then we’ll have one of his famous u-turns.

There are an increasing number clinging to parents who don't normally at ours as well ISaySteadyOn I took mine out early before schools closed as they just weren't coping with the fear of it all and how heavily school had come down on the new rules - but they've coped with it since - probably because at home we poke fun at the new rules and how silly it is they're running around with anti-bacterial wipes when it's a virus but it's a hoop we've got to jump through to be back with our friends. DD1 in particular is a master now at shrugging her shoulders and commenting "it's all a bit bonkers but it's what I've got to do to go to school"

The poor grandparents were horrified when, upon asking how aware the kids were of things, they got a reply from DD1 (she's 8) about how it's a virus, it's called corona because of this and the differences between viruses and bacteria. Think she might have told them it was a RNA virus as well - which I'm not sure is true and she's bloody got from the obsessive reading of human body for kids type books! Grandad looked stunned.

Then she's come back from the grandparents and somewhere she's read a book about types of speech sounds and came back lecturing me about how some sounds were fricative sounds and did I know what they were yet mummy. I'm considering sending her to my phonetics lecturer!

I’m focusing on the things I can do and both my toddler and my school age child will now be enjoying quite a few extra curriculars, so I’ll be going to toddler classes several times a week which is also a nice bit of socialisation for me. What with that and chatting to people at school drop off and pick up actually life seems fairly normal.

We weren’t having massive dinner parties anyway so...

All this talk of a curfew ... I haven’t been out late for many years (!!) due to young children but it’s still annoying even if just in principle.

I'll admit I did secretly slightly rejoice in the 6 person rule cos it stops my arsehole neighbour having ANY noisy garden pissups this year at all for once!

Well I've sent ds2 back today.
He's feeling better, eating like a horse sleeping well.
No temp at any point, no loss of taste or smell and no dry persistent cough.
The Y7s were dropping like flies on Monday :(

DD2 takes your approach, @DominaShantotto and skips in happily.

In fairness, the other two were never big fans of school anyway and this has made it worse. I am going to have to reevaluate schooling for them sooner than I planned to anyway.

Well I was feeling more positive but I've just read at another secondary school in this city has sent an entire year group after a positive test. Really hope that doesn't happen to DD1 - other two in younger secondary years we'd copy better with.

DH says he'll get a firepit and toasting forks - and I'm slowly adding to my store of hallowean and bonfire night things. I think I'll take some ideas from this -
www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/gingerbread-haunted-house but don't like the whole.

We've realised we weren't watching much TV - so got in touch with sky to try and reduce bill and got updated for free/reduced rates - so we now get netflicks through them and a whole load of other stuff so we'll find stuff to watch this winter.

Just done my first fitness class in the park since 19th March. It's supposed to be postnatal, but I'm just part of the furniture now after 9 years.

I know I've posted them before but they always make me smile

I buy hedgehog food from Amazon. A bag last a couple of months so it costs about 15p a day for a smile every night. Watching them bumble about is so relaxing.

I haven't got a proper house for them but there is a wood pile, which I am going to have to move before they settle down for the winter. Once the wood has been moved it can stay there until next spring at least. I might even try and knock some sort of house up but I know there are at least 3 different ones around at the moment.

I am lucky because I can see my decking through the patio doors from where I sit in the evening so I rarely miss them.

Can I rejoin you? Latest developments are really getting me down and I need some positivity.

I'm back in the office full time with 60 other people from 60 different households which I'm fine with, but feeling severely pissed off that it's simultaneously bloody illegal for my family to meet up with my sister's family because reasons.

We have hedgehogs which pootle past the back door at dusk.

We also now have a fox. My boys dug a massive hole in the back garden as entertainment during lockdown, and we didn’t get round to filling it in. A fox has tunnelled down the back of it and turned it into a den. Not surprising really, but ooops.

More bizarrely DH refused to accept it might be an urban fox, despite the fact we live in a big city. Adjoining the Green Belt on one side makes us rural, apparently.

@rosettesforjill

Can I rejoin you? Latest developments are really getting me down and I need some positivity.

I'm back in the office full time with 60 other people from 60 different households which I'm fine with, but feeling severely pissed off that it's simultaneously bloody illegal for my family to meet up with my sister's family because reasons.

Welcome back, @rosettesforjill. It's all a bit fucking shit isn't it? Hopefully hedgehog talk does it for you, and if we're lucky we might cycle back round to bum tomatoes and cock cucumbers soon!

I'm relieved that dd's rainbows can carry on. A family member has shifted an upcoming kids birthday party forward to this Sunday to avoid De Rules so will hopefully be going to that - it's a bit of traveling that we normally wouldn't bother with but it feels a bit like this might be our last chance to see extended family for a while.

I'm struggling today. Partly because of the Internal Market Bill, which is a massive 'fuck you' to the rule of law, and partly because I had planned a couple of nice lunches with other families in the next month that I'm going to have to cancel (I was relaxed about ignoring the guidance, but I'm senior public sector, I can't break the law).

It's the lack of anything to look forward to that's getting to me, and not being able to make any plans because they'll be snatched away if I do. It's only DD and DH who are keeping me here at the moment, I've been thinking of ways to end it for a few weeks.

I wish we had hedgehogs- we only have foxes, which come and crap in front of the bike shed, just where I'll tread in it as I get my bike out

I'm sure we must have hedgehogs in our garden as it is an untended tip very wildlife friendly but I've never seen one. We have got slow worms, toads and newts though, and I saw bats for the first time a couple of nights ago. The neighbours will be thinking I'm gathering my Familiars...

Well what a morning. Had to pick up prescription and stuff for DS to take back to uni. paracetamol etc. lol. So called in at local bakery, florist to thank them for flowers DIL organised on birthday and hairdressers. Well hairdressers, just trim it please to save time for you. 1st October for a quick visit. She explained all the roolz to me, should have known when I had to knock on the door and wait for someone to answer it and we are talking about a big salon that does hair, nails, beauty stuff.

Then florist lovely people, who have school age kids, they are adamant they will not lock down again for the sake of their kids, themselves.

Then bakery, who will not lock down again, they will just crack on with masks etc.

So cheering to know that the welsh who have pretty much been pre-warned by Boris have had enough. Their opinion of marshals is well we saw off Kingdom Security who were trying to catch folk walking dogs wrong zone or (shit) dropping fag ends, toddlers tossing a sweet wrapper out of a pushchair off.

The welsh have been bloody compliant in the main a huge main, but never again. Lock up fine the stupid but leave the rest of us the fuck alone.

@ISaySteadyOn sounds like you've had a tough time this morning. DD used to regularly not manage to pass through the school gates due to anxiety. It's really hard explaining to other people that it is not as simple as just "making" your child go in to school. Since leaving education the anxiety has reduced so much.

@DominaShantotto about your DD's grasp of phonetics.

@Willow2017 that's some view from your window!

I have had a proper hair cut! I'm knackered, I think it's the stress of willing it to go ahead & not get cancelled. It feels like an achievement.

DIL cannot get a smear test. She has had three abnormal results and an ablation is it to remove bad cells. She is going private.

This afternoon I am going to book mammogram, smear and eye test, in case it all goes tits up again, excuse the pun.