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

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BogRollBOGOF · 14/09/2020 19:34

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 Wink

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LadyOfTheImprovisedBath · 15/09/2020 12:50

It might be Apple Maggot though they don't look brown or not enough water - or something else which I know is helpful.

Our carrots seem to be all tops - it's looking like that might be down to the hot weather and how dry it was despite us remember sometimes to water.

One of our cats has been going mad certain time of night -they're indoor but have a catio into garden -and we went out to water and found we have a new hedgehog getting into our very nearly enclosed garden - had a previous one which died it was out front one morning already dead. It's amazing the distance they have to travel down public footpath then along our drive to find our garden so it's really surprising they find it.

RealityExistsInTheHumanMind · 15/09/2020 13:05

@BogRollBOGOF

I think my apple tree has haemoroids Grin I've had some good ones, but quite a lot are stunted and seriously underdeveloped like these. Do I need to test it for Covid? Wink If anyone does know what caused it (I think some kind of pest) that would be cool. Save me a trip to the Gardening section and forgetting to check for replies 😆
I suspect it was either too much or too little water at a critical time. Possibly one followed by the other. Shouldn't affect the apples though.
Pinkflipflop85 · 15/09/2020 13:24

Interestingly my facebook memories is full of me moaning about small children giving me lurgies. Years of me doing it at this time of year.

But hey, its 2020, could be covid so I'm at home twiddling my thumbs instead of teaching my class....

Taswama · 15/09/2020 13:35

Off sick today thanks to DS giving me vomiting bug.
Plus ça change.

What's a catio?

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BogRollBOGOF · 15/09/2020 13:49

We did veer from the ridiculously wet with puddles in the lawn all winter, to cracks in the ground rather sharply.

It's naturally the wettest point of the garden, but the neighbours have a hungry hazel nearby so my plants have been slow to become established.

If it is wet/ dry, at least that should resolve for next year

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DominaShantotto · 15/09/2020 14:20

Anyone else got that horrible feeling of impending doom hanging over them again now? I can't help but feel Shit Is Coming.... Again. About to go pick up the kids but it's always this feeling of "what am I going to go out to encounter?"

Cubs restarts tonight - they've split them by school into two groups as we've got a roughly 50/50 split between two of them... DD1 is sooooo excited because she gets to... be with the kids she's with all day anyway!

LadyOfTheImprovisedBath · 15/09/2020 14:30

What's a catio?

It's an enclosure usually tacked onto a house door/window that means cats can go outside but not be free roaming. It's a portmanteau of cat + patio. Next step up is enclosing the entire garden which we can't quite do though I'd love to.

Ours has various things in they can play/climb in and pots of grass for them. They can sit in it and watch birds coming to garden feerder and now hedgehogs.

They also have cat trees and cat highway all round the kichen with wall cat beds - so they can walk around the kitchen without touching the floor so they have more space and can get away from us.

It's more a US thing that's coming over here - but we've dogs both sides - including a whippet at end of road duel carriage way several unneutered toms who fight and many cats seem to go missing and previous areas we've lived cats were targetted and hurt by people - so we prefer they stay in and they seem okay with that.

Also means they bring in no rats - which are common here and we don't have to worry about rats being poisoned.

flower11 · 15/09/2020 14:41

I have had to sit on my hands this morning in response to those memes . I wanted to rant about mental health and the two people I know who have committed suicide due to lockdown.

Someone I know posted the following on Facebook
Just because someone isn't scared of covid, doesn't mean they don't believe it exists. They understand the risk, but choose to live life over fear .
Wish more people would come out and say this. They work for the NHS too.

ISaySteadyOn · 15/09/2020 15:05

Vivir con miedo es como vivir a medias

ISaySteadyOn · 15/09/2020 15:06

In heartening news, I had an eye test today. They were all masked but they didn't remotely care that I wasn't. I wore my lanyard but even if I hadn't, I think they still would have treated me respectfully.

NeedWineNow · 15/09/2020 15:09

Found you again!

justasking111 · 15/09/2020 15:10

Oh I have the rage again. Re: testing being unavailable so they are looking for students to fill this role. Well they threw my DS out in March, he has mostly online teaching this year. So they can do one if they think they can use mine for this. There are plenty of people out of work according to them.

justasking111 · 15/09/2020 15:12

So far this week I have read that apart from being fat, over 50, or other health issues. Now we have been told if we snore we are 3x more likely to die. Vaping 3x more likely to die. Todays gem if we drink too much alcohol we are 35% more likely to die.

It really is a daily scare story now.

JamSarnie · 15/09/2020 15:22

@justasking111

So far this week I have read that apart from being fat, over 50, or other health issues. Now we have been told if we snore we are 3x more likely to die. Vaping 3x more likely to die. Todays gem if we drink too much alcohol we are 35% more likely to die.

It really is a daily scare story now.

The only thing that is certain in life is death Grin
Littlebelina · 15/09/2020 15:27

@justasking111

So far this week I have read that apart from being fat, over 50, or other health issues. Now we have been told if we snore we are 3x more likely to die. Vaping 3x more likely to die. Todays gem if we drink too much alcohol we are 35% more likely to die.

It really is a daily scare story now.

They can prise my gin out of my cold dead hands.....oh Grin
Blobby10 · 15/09/2020 15:27

Re the Nightingale hospitals - I was told by 'someone' who is in contact with another 'someone' who is really high up in the actual Govt department organising all this (ps please read this in a sarcastic voice as that's how I'm typing it!) that the whole shutdown at the start was a practice run for the winter as they are didn't want to overwhelm the NHS and not be able to cope with it so they did a trial run. However, as this is the same person who categorically stated three years ago that they knew someone closely connected to the Royal Family and that Prince Phillip was definitely stage 4 cancer and only had weeks to live, I'm not putting a whole lot of faith in this information! Grin

HeIenaDove · 15/09/2020 16:11

Just recieved a letter for a cervical screening. I find them INCREDIBLY painful. Part of the reason my last one was in November 2014. There is no way i could deal with it while wearing a mask. So its not going to happen. Im not sexually active so im low risk Not the same as no risk. No one is. But im willing to take those odds. I still woudnt be going if masks wernt involved because its too excrutiatingly painful. But add a mask in as well...............no. Ive been put through enough stress this year. Im not accepting any more of it than i have to.

Taswama · 15/09/2020 16:28

I know what you mean about a sense of doom. A text message from the school just popped up. My first thought - oh no, they are sending the class home. Nope, just a reminder to return some paperwork.

wanderings · 15/09/2020 16:29

@Blobby10 Prince Phillip was definitely stage 4 cancer and only had weeks to live
It's ironic, because one of the many silly things Prince Philip said (some years ago) was:

"I would like to be reincarnated as a deadly virus, to do something about overpopulation".

Willow2017 · 15/09/2020 16:31

[quote countrygirl99]@InsaneInTheViralMembrane every time I see one of those posts I can't help thinking that if you can't cope with people dying maybe a job in ICU isn't for you. I haven't dared post that yet though.[/quote]
If you cant cope with people dying then nursing isnt for you full stop! 😄

ISaySteadyOn · 15/09/2020 16:35

Does anyone remember Scrubs? I think they all had an episode where they had to deal with a patient death and it followed the same lines. The doctor would be upset and then they would come to understand that death is a part of being in the medical profession and accept it. What happened to that?

RealityExistsInTheHumanMind · 15/09/2020 16:36

@justasking111

So far this week I have read that apart from being fat, over 50, or other health issues. Now we have been told if we snore we are 3x more likely to die. Vaping 3x more likely to die. Todays gem if we drink too much alcohol we are 35% more likely to die.

It really is a daily scare story now.

So if you have 1 in 2,000 chance of getting Covid at all. That's 0.05 chance of catching it. (currently). And if a healthy, not old person, catches it then they have 0.5 approx chance of dying so you currently have a 0.0025 chance of dying from Covid. So even if that is doubled or trebled it is still brilliant odds.

If taken from the point that you have it then you have a 0.5 chance of dying - or 5 in a thousand. So again even if this is increased as in my case. I'm 65, overweight and I drink too much. I'm still much more likely to live than die - (The maths have got too complicated for me but probably between 1 and 2% chance of dying.) Which I think I push the other way by the large dose of vitamin D I take. (Being overweight and drinking alcohol both increase your chances of being vitamin D deficient and a large proportion of deaths have been found to be in people who are vitamin D deficient.)

starfish88 · 15/09/2020 16:37

Today I tripped over a social distancing sticker that had peeled away on one edge. As a white woman in her early 30s with no preconditions I think I was probably in more danger from that than covid!

thenightsky · 15/09/2020 16:43

@HeIenaDove

Just recieved a letter for a cervical screening. I find them INCREDIBLY painful. Part of the reason my last one was in November 2014. There is no way i could deal with it while wearing a mask. So its not going to happen. Im not sexually active so im low risk Not the same as no risk. No one is. But im willing to take those odds. I still woudnt be going if masks wernt involved because its too excrutiatingly painful. But add a mask in as well...............no. Ive been put through enough stress this year. Im not accepting any more of it than i have to.
They must be rounding us up, because I've had the same letter arrive yesterday. Bugger.
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BogRollBOGOF · 15/09/2020 16:51

@HeIenaDove

Just recieved a letter for a cervical screening. I find them INCREDIBLY painful. Part of the reason my last one was in November 2014. There is no way i could deal with it while wearing a mask. So its not going to happen. Im not sexually active so im low risk Not the same as no risk. No one is. But im willing to take those odds. I still woudnt be going if masks wernt involved because its too excrutiatingly painful. But add a mask in as well...............no. Ive been put through enough stress this year. Im not accepting any more of it than i have to.
I'm procrastinating on mine. Fortunately I don't find them too bad in themselves, but a stuffy, overheated surgery is a great place to initiate a mask-related panic attack, and I'd much rather see the face of the person rummaging around inside me given my history of giving birth in unanticipated operating theatres and an assault many years ago.

Lets just say, in the absence of any messenger angels I have not been creating opportunities for any baby Bogrolls. 5 months surrounded by DH and the two I have already is already plenty enough blessings to be endowed with Grin

I suspect a lot more first babies to have been produced through lockdown than siblings. We'll have to see what happens to the birthrate around Christmas/ New Year Wink

It's not great giving birth in the pre-Christmas surge anyway. DS1 was spontaneous and a couple of days early amongst the surge of pre-Christmas planned births. I got bumped out of HDU early to free up the MWs for a straining main maternity ward then abandoned to it on the main ward. The difference with DS2 with far more sensible staff/ patient ratios made so much difference!

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