The ADs get ready to rumble then have a nice cuppa tea

[BogRollBOGOF]

Watch us wreck the mike, watch us wreck the mike, watch us wreck the mike.
Psych.

Now gather nicely in groups of no more than six...
Unless you're outdoors in Wales...

Oh well, come on in whatever the laws where you are. Plenty of space in this bubble of sanity

Checking in.

Massive Aragorn fan too. I had the nicest poster of him on my wall for years - that brings back memories.

Well, this is fun isn't it? (current state of affairs). I am considering taking up hard drugs and alcoholism.

Poor Gollum, I always felt he was a misunderstood character especially seeing as it was the rings fault he was that way
@DominaShantotto I've got quite good at slamming the radio off in the car as soon as one of their adverts comes on!
Our whole household has been hit by this return to nursery/school cold, of course dh is suffering the worst, added to his lack of patience normally he's just a nightmare so I'm avoiding him tomorrow and going to try and buy some colin the caterpillars at m and s

@TheAdventuresoftheWishingChair I'm going to admit I had an Elijah wood picture up in my room when it first came out but I think I was about 10 or 11, now I've matured i have realised that sometimes you need a real man

Hello all. I am also an Aragorn fan, but because I'm a weirdo highly cultured person, my favourite version of Aragorn is from the BBC radio adaptation.

I'm glad DH avoided the sniffles.
He still isn't forgiven for the "hayfever" a decade ago when I was pregnant, feeling as nauseous as hell, barely ate for 4 months and he was loafing miserably in bed the day I fainted in front of y7, costing me a nice casual weekly supply arrangement.

He was afflicted by some weird viral thing spring 2019 that had him moping for 3 weeks. Maybe he was patient zero.

Red Riding Hood would be fine in England. But too many households for Scotland

@BogRollBOGOF DP and DS are convinced I was patient zero: had a respiratory infection with all the symptoms which floored me for a while last February 😃

Oooh did somebody mention Aaragon? 😍 (stupid auto correct changed that to Sarah in !!!!!)

Have given up trying to justify why my ds can be with his friends all day in school but can't play out together after school. It just doesn't compute. And he is ranting that it's madness too.😂

I'm trying to not even think about October half term. Was planning on visiting my parents, again. If we make it, might turn it into an early Christmas. Last visit was late Easter.

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I only like Aragorn when he looks rough, when he’s cleaned up at end of film, no just no. Last team building/ training, I was on someone forgot to turn their mic off. His breathing was so loud.
Where I live they are desperate to go back into lockdown. I can see only work and food shopping in my future. It’s so depressing, so much for flattening the bloody curve.

My priority in the flattening the curve stakes is my abdomen caused by lockdown in the first place

Got my university induction today. Via Teams....
I have to admit I don't understand why, if the NHS isn't getting overwhelmed we are having to suffer through this bullshit. After all, that is the aim is it not?

Oh and the massively long "I've been working in ICU watching hundreds of people die of covid, just please do as you're told" social media posts have started up again.
One long winded one from a HCA who oy started in a hospital in Jan in a hospital that's seen less than 100 in hospital in total and a tiny amount in ICU.
(I know how bitchy that sounds but I'm now on dealing with my second suicide thanks to this mess so she can fuck off)

Checking in. Even though I'm a huge virus cynic, I've been asking one of my pupils who lives in a town with "high cases" Saint Boris's made up figures to have lessons with me online, instead of face to face. Gah. It's against my principles to do this, but selfishly, I don't want to be out of action for two weeks if something goes wrong. As others have said, it feels worse than lockdown right now: we have vaguely more freedom than we did in April, but it could be snatched away at any moment. Saint Boris the Clown and his merry men are waving the "fear" card in our faces as much as they possibly can: they've decided the plebs are not frightened enough of the virus any more, so they're trying to make us afraid of them, the politicians. They're our SERVANTS, for fuck's sake. WE PAY THEIR WAGES. They should be GROVELLING, not bossing us around like children.

Shortage of tests? Duh. All that "Get a Test" propaganda? All that deliberately terrifying people into thinking "sniffles could lead to a fate worse than death"?

I'm resigning from a voluntary role at my church, because I'm fed up with being part of the nanny state (I'm surprised that hasn't been more of a buzz phrase lately; it feels a lot more fitting now than it did during the Tony Bliar era), where paperwork has now doubled; and I'm not the sort of person to enforce red tape; I tend to whisper "it's all nonsense, anyway".

I’m pissed off with “ICU staff” crying and shaking because people die in ICU. In other news, dairy farmer wellies smell of shite.

I think the voluntary sector will be hit hard. All that time off then all the extra red tape to get going again.

I'll move on from Beavers with my youngest, but always would have done anyway. Cubs overlaps on the same time slot in a different venue so I normally have to leave halfway through or set up arrangements anyway and doing it for 2 Cubs when I don't have a Beaver would be plain daft. I got them through a temporary leader crisis and was always clear that I'd pass through with the DCs.

We have to make sure we have our Brownie risk assessment printed off and avaliable to any passing self-appointed Covid Marshall busybodying twat who passes and is concerned that we illegally have children having fun in groups exceding six. (Not me doing the paperwork, that's our Leader-in-Charge whose day job it is to run a significant subsidary organisation within the NHS- she should be clapped! Clapped I say! )

When I was a moody teenager, I used to make grandiose predictions about the end of civilisation as we know it. Didn't see this one coming though. Talk about "not with a bang, but with a whimper."

Last night I questioned the narrative on FB again. Got told off by my octogenarian aunt... who has actually had more people in her house than I have - including a masseuse... but she did come around when I told her it was now illegal for me to bag a munro with 6 friends even if we’d rocked up in 7 cars. I don’t think she’d realised quite how bonkers things have become here.

I read today that domestic abuse cases in this country have now topped 100,000. But it's only women so who cares?

I am very angry about this but what can I do?

@LivinLaVidaLoki

Got my university induction today. Via Teams.... I have to admit I don't understand why, if the NHS isn't getting overwhelmed we are having to suffer through this bullshit. After all, that is the aim is it not?

That’s what we thought the aim was, didn’t we? And now it’s like nobody knows. I was watching something I’d recorded off the telly back in April the other day and there was an advert for the army, showing them building the Nightingale hospital. Did that even get used? Well seeing that advert’s not on anymore...

@InsaneInTheViralMembrane

I’m pissed off with “ICU staff” crying and shaking because people die in ICU. In other news, dairy farmer wellies smell of shite.

@InsaneInTheViralMembrane

I’m pissed off with “ICU staff” crying and shaking because people die in ICU. In other news, dairy farmer wellies smell of shite.

😁😂😂😂 But we are not allowed to voice this outside of this thread....or there'll be calls for us to be denied any treatment.

@InsaneInTheViralMembrane

I’m pissed off with “ICU staff” crying and shaking because people die in ICU. In other news, dairy farmer wellies smell of shite.

Also @insaneintheviralmembrane do they not get visibly upset at people in ICU who are dying of other stuff? This fetishism of all nhs workers as covid frontline angels battling in the awful war against an invisible killer doesn't sit right with me and I can't put my finger on why.

I’m just astounded anyone over the age of 3 takes a job in “care” and has never reconciled themselves with DEATH.

unless the ICU wards have been manned by professionals from the verruca clinic.

Checking in.
Am more of a lurker lately due to being so busy with the return to teaching after maternity.