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

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It does feel horribly precarious here, @MxEWeatherwax - the retail park was pretty quiet, this morning.

I have one at school and one doing his usual thing of weighing down the furniture in the front room. DH is wfh for the foreseeable, but at leas I have the dining room to myself. Tackling the ironing mountain while watching the coal tits and trying to ignore neighbour practicing his golf swing on his perfectly manicured front lawn.

My Y9 is being sent home early from school as they've had a positive case in his year group.

At least it's not my Y11 yet.

My understanding of dementia (some training through work but no expert) is that individuals living with dementia may not know who is visiting but they do know that is someone who cares for them. A bit like babies needing regular touch and someone talking to them, it doesn't have to be their mum but someone who genuinely cares about them. I've often thought there are a lot of parallels between babies and elderly people. Both should be treated with basic respect, for example not leaving them in soiled nappies / incontinence wear even if they can't complain about it.

It strikes me that any bolshy with more than half a brain cell teen who would rather still be staying in bed late and gaming is going to work out that, with the current testing difficulties, they could fake a cough very easily and gain an extra fortnight of doing nothing. I wonder how much of the "excess demand" that accounts for,.

“All lives are sacred” seems a somewhat hollow cry when at the same time you decree “dementia patients won’t even notice they’ve been abandoned”. How utterly wicked.

I broke new rules this morning. Gleefully.

My eldest has given up the chanter (bagpipes) so I took the instrument back to his tutor - whose business has fallen on its arse because his bread and butter money comes from weddings. And it turns out he’s not had to do NEARLY as many funerals as you might’ve been led to believe...

@PickAChew, I have been avoiding that shopping centre because of McDonald’s. The drive through keeps blocking road, nightmare. I’m getting my M&S fix from Ocado now.
I see Matt Hancock has been visiting our local hospital today. Our rate is 22 in 100000 I’ll take them odds. I’m crafting today for autumn, so should probably leave mumsnet. It’s cheering me up, god I’m a sad individual.

I got halfway to a baby group before I realised I didn't want to pay for the privilege of wearing a mask to walk around but can sit on a mat 1m+ from somebody else maskless but if we do the parachute at the end everybody has to mask up with the lady wearing a visor and at times a mask too. I feel like such an idiot for booking onto it in the first place! So I came home and finished off making christmas puddings instead. I'm just not comfortable at the moment in that kind of environment and the added knowledge that one of those people in that room might test positive and because of track and trace we'd all have to self isolate which my husband just can't afford to do at the moment.
We're planning a family trip to see grandparents/greatgrandparents, one of whom has recently been diagnosed with alzheimer's and dementia for them to meet our new daughter but I'm now just dreading making any plans whatsoever!

Well, that's a shame. Mad keen theatre attender here - so I've been on a couple of websites now theatres have been opening up with socially distanced audiences. Of course, what they've done is put seats in nice little bubbles of two, or three or four. Which is fine in normal times, as one would usually go to the theatre with a friend or two. BUT you can only now buy tickets for your "household bubble" - and I'm a sad single. Just counted one auditorium which has 200 seats for sale, and only two of those are for single people - weirdly enough they'd both been sold.

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Well, that's a shame. Mad keen theatre attender here - so I've been on a couple of websites now theatres have been opening up with socially distanced audiences. Of course, what they've done is put seats in nice little bubbles of two, or three or four. Which is fine in normal times, as one would usually go to the theatre with a friend or two. BUT you can only now buy tickets for your "household bubble" - and I'm a sad single. Just counted one auditorium which has 200 seats for sale, and only two of those are for single people - weirdly enough they'd both been sold.

Probably worth letting them know that there is demand for more singles. I'd have thought that they could ill afford to turn away a potential audience.

That reminds me about yesterday. Elaine Paige was gushing on about going going to a "Covid Secure" performance on her R2 musicals show. Fair enough, encourage audiences back... then the sanctimonious cow started shaming that it was "very disappointing that some members of the audience were not masked. How dare she. She is not privy to knowing people's motivations and state of health so has no right to make any moral judgement about it. I should get my butt into gear and complain to the BBC.
The air in the car went blue- fortunately I was already safely pulled up on the drive.

And therein lies one of the great problems of 2020. Unless you become a hermit, there is no safe escape from this crap (and if you were the type to find hermiting around attractive, you'd be less likely to be bothered.)

I think my clinical psychologist may be an AD. We had a (Zoom) chat earlier and I was talking about the new restrictions in Glasgow and said ‘of course I know it’s all for a good reason’ as you do, and she rolled her eyes and said ‘is it?’ She told me every single one of her appointments is someone whose mental health has taken a fresh beating the past few weeks.

Just seen some photos on the news. A little girl missed her grandma so much that she made her in paper form so she could sit next to her.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-54146755?at_campaign=64&at_custom4=3868EDD2-F693-11EA-B107-ED8796E8478F&at_custom2=twitter&at_medium=custom7&at_custom1=%5Bpost+type%5D&at_custom3=%40WalesPolitics

Coronavirus: 18,000 test results published by mistake
The details of more than 18,000 people who tested positive for coronavirus were published online by mistake by Public Health Wales

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“All lives are sacred” seems a somewhat hollow cry when at the same time you decree “dementia patients won’t even notice they’ve been abandoned”. How utterly wicked.

I broke new rules this morning. Gleefully.

My eldest has given up the chanter (bagpipes) so I took the instrument back to his tutor - whose business has fallen on its arse because his bread and butter money comes from weddings. And it turns out he’s not had to do NEARLY as many funerals as you might’ve been led to believe...

I live opposite an undertakers and they have not been rushed off their feet.

[quote MxEWeatherwax]@PickAChew, I have been avoiding that shopping centre because of McDonald’s. The drive through keeps blocking road, nightmare. I’m getting my M&S fix from Ocado now.
I see Matt Hancock has been visiting our local hospital today. Our rate is 22 in 100000 I’ll take them odds. I’m crafting today for autumn, so should probably leave mumsnet. It’s cheering me up, god I’m a sad individual.[/quote]
Unsurprisingly, there's hardly been a queue since the kids went back to school. We were ending up heading over to the smyths end and leaving that way.

I've been enjoying the ocado deliveries, too, though I have one booked for waitrose, in a couple of weeks, as I can't see myself catching the bus up there for a while and there's a few things that I like that only they do. I headed up, last week, for some fabric, but I think that's me done with buses until things settle down. Need to pop into town, tomorrow, so hoping it's not too hot for the walk back up.

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