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

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RealityExistsInTheHumanMind · 03/09/2020 09:58

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Willow2017 · 12/09/2020 22:47

I wonder if I have some in my secret stash? That's the secret stash that has nothing to do with covid & self-isolation, & everything to do with teenagers that get through food like a plague of locusts unless the good stuff gets hidden.

Ha ha me too although nothing left just now the buggers keep finding it!

Willow2017 · 12/09/2020 22:49

Justasking11 is getting ready to rumbbbaaal
Sorry it was too much of a temptation.😶

PickAChew · 13/09/2020 00:14

Tea is on the long list of things that I rarely touch because it gives me the shits.

Was actually pissed off with dh, almost 17 years ago, as on the morning I had to get up at about 5am to go for my induction with DS1, he made me fucking chamomile. 8 love chamomile, but not first thing in the morning. At that point my poison to keep me semi regular was dragonfly green or white tea with my breakfast.

Ended up having a "small enema" which didn't even achieve shite all.

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PickAChew · 13/09/2020 00:15

@RealityExistsInTheHumanMind

Some wine has just gone down the wrong way

It has made me cough

AIBU to think I don't need a Covid Test?

Or do I have to isolate for 14 days.

I do have enough food in - I can live on beans, boiled rice, cooked pasta (bought as soon as it became available) and I have some porridge oats BUT will anyone help me get more wine.

Waitrose cellar. You deserve it.
BogRollBOGOF · 13/09/2020 00:48

@Willow2017

Justasking11 is getting ready to rumbbbaaal Sorry it was too much of a temptation.😶
Sounds like inspiration for the next thread ADs get ready to rumble then have a nice cup of tea Grin
HeIenaDove · 13/09/2020 01:00

@StareyCat Im so sorry for your loss.

InsaneInTheViralMembrane · 13/09/2020 01:49

I can’t do tea but you know what it’s like - once in a while you get given a cup you need to force down - eg ambassador’s residence or elderly neighbour type scenario.

But even I know that when an American friend in FB delights in showing off her box of Twinings - it’s WRONG!

French press woman here. It’s METAL! Never again will I stand over a sink full of shards and no hot caffeine in my belly.

My sleeping has gone to shit again as i move back to the adrenaline cortisol two-step.

chocolatesweets · 13/09/2020 07:08

It's been 5 days of nursing a virus with my two. I'm so done with all of this. I feel like I'm going into winter on 5% battery.

LivinLaVidaLoki · 13/09/2020 08:55

Just saw this advertised on Facebook.
It can fuck right off. I'd burn my tree down first.

ADs skipping to school - and that's only the parents
wanderings · 13/09/2020 09:10

@LivinLaVidaLoki I saw it too. It's not going on my tree!

I'm with a poster who said some time ago that she will not take any photos of her children wearing masks. This is a year we do not want to remember.

JamSarnie · 13/09/2020 09:16

This is a year we do not want to remember

Too bloody right. And the sad thing is that we won't get this time back. It has been a rubbish year but my fear is that 2021 won't be much better unless something drastic changes 😭

chocolatesweets · 13/09/2020 09:17

@LivinLaVidaLoki i'm not the only one 😂

Bollss · 13/09/2020 09:44

[quote wanderings]@LivinLaVidaLoki I saw it too. It's not going on my tree!

I'm with a poster who said some time ago that she will not take any photos of her children wearing masks. This is a year we do not want to remember.[/quote]
I said that to dp last night. Like when Facebook shoes you your memories I wonder if there's a way to tell it to ignore anything I posted in 2020 cos frankly I wanna forget it ever happened.

BogRollBOGOF · 13/09/2020 10:01

The only masky photos here were because the invisible boy took the "face covering" too literally and wore the buff over his entire head and face for his medical appointment.
Followed by doing the same on an open decked boat in Storm Ellen when the DCs were moaning about the spray and wind in their faces.

We didn't do anything indoors on holiday that required face rags for more than a few perfunctoray minutes. DH is far more moderate than me, but he's hardly rushing to wear the blighters if it's more than 5 mins.

Early lockdown, I did get lots of beautiful countryside walk photos of the spring. I like those. I was already worn down by 6 months of grim, dull, sodden autumn/ winter weather. I'm happy to hold onto silver linings like that.

With DCs of 7 & 9, they're at a gorgeous stage of childhood. The toddler years were a slog with the world's most tantrummy toddler (now I know it was the ASD, god bless hindsight) and he was still going strong when DS2 hit the kamikaze bolt and climb stage. So I don't want to forget this stage of their lives as they are a lovely balance of playful and easy to keep alive.

My life? Well not much memorable has occurred for some reason Grin
I'm finding the year fuzzing in my head already and actually this discussion helps to keep it clear when someone throws up something like crisps on a bench, or candles in a potato. It reminds me what the world was like and that it happened for other people too.

TheOrchidKiller · 13/09/2020 10:17

My brain didn't quite compute that Christmas decoration photo.

I noticed the toilet roll.

But I also saw 3 ducks (masks= beaks) in Santa hats standing behind a ship's steering wheel (I presume it's a knitted coronavirus?)

Yes, I have had my eyes tested & I am wearing the correct glasses.

StareyCat · 13/09/2020 10:40

Thanks all. I have, for the record, followed the rules about 99% of the time despite everything.

LadyOfTheImprovisedBath · 13/09/2020 11:00

I do have enough food in - I can live on beans, boiled rice, cooked pasta (bought as soon as it became available) and I have some porridge oats BUT will anyone help me get more wine.

I've spoken few times on these threads about our delight in Morrisons food boxes - as part of their current range they have four different wine boxes, one gin gift box and two craft beer boxes.

Clearly they must be thinking of my fellow Mumetters.

We can get to the shops now but still find them useful every so often.

It's vey much a typical Sunday here which we haven't had for a while- me chasing the kids to get them to start their homework and then getting them bathed and showered for the week and uniform washed and ironed and DH just doing a bit of work.

Bollss · 13/09/2020 11:32

@StareyCat

Thanks all. I have, for the record, followed the rules about 99% of the time despite everything.
Sorry to hear about your relative Flowers
Willow2017 · 13/09/2020 11:50

Sounds like inspiration for the next thread
ADs get ready to rumble then have a nice cup of tea grin
😄😄😄

Reedwarbler · 13/09/2020 12:08

It has just struck me, with people writing about not bothering with taking pics much this year, that I have stopped keeping a personal diary. I have kept private diaries for over 30 years, and occasionally spend a wet afternoon having a trip down memory lane. I kept writing my diary up until June time, when I realised that every daily entry was exactly the same. For a while I actually used to write 'ditto', but even that became pointless. My diary sits unwritten on the side by my bed, the year will pass by unrecorded...lets face it, it is not really worth remembering, is it?

Willow2017 · 13/09/2020 12:10

Have had a lazy Sunday so far. Long lie catching up on missed sleep. Ds2 has made me a a fry up sarnie plus a bit of fried bread, heaven😄
Need to go to garden centre to get compost for my pots but its blowy outside and I need a push. Ds2 coming to lug the compost around but his friends are asking him to meet at 1 so i need to move I suppose.

Otherwise it's become blatantly obvious that I have completely run out of my lifetime supply of patience for whinging complaining peolle who expect food to miraculously appear within minutes and haute cuisine in a typical cafe run by young people with sfa support not to mention expecting people to wait on them hand and foot. I had to leave the till a few times yesterday to.deal with a question customers had and pass bits and bobs to them. Customer wanted the manager to report me for leaving the till so she had to wait 5 whole minutes! Told her no problem crack on. She shut up when her credit card was declined.🤣🤣🤣
I used to always look for the best in people now its just a pleasant surprise if i find it.

WouldBeGood · 13/09/2020 12:39

@Willow2017 it’s now become clear that most people are total entitled fuckwits 😂

Supermarketworker06 · 13/09/2020 12:58

[quote WouldBeGood]@Willow2017 it’s now become clear that most people are total entitled fuckwits 😂[/quote]
The most true thing I've ever read!

InsaneInTheViralMembrane · 13/09/2020 13:32

@Willow2017 I worked in a supermarket cafe 30 years ago. I came to hate people more than is potentially necessary. I ended up booking a one-way flight to Asia and doing a runner.

It was a truly hateful job.

justasking111 · 13/09/2020 13:36

Looks like over 50, overweight, health issues, stay locked up and let the rest of the UK crack on. Well one problem with that the retirement age is 67 and employers are not on board.