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

Lots of mingling going on here tonight - garden out the back are having a piss up, next door had about 7-8 people in there for a beer earlier.

People have reached the point of zero fucks I think - compliance was never strong with either garden making a fucking racket though.

@HeIenaDove

I bet the cunts will shut the salons again.

I went to hairdressers last week to book an appointment 1st October so am worried about this. My fault I let all the women who said they were desperate etc. go ahead of me. Should have said sod them, they have probably had two hair appointments already. My hair is long but not coloured, the thing is the split ends are causing awful tangles.

My hairdresser's self-isolating as she can't get a covid test for her kid.

I was due my roots done.

@AgentCooper I know 😢
Solidarity.
❤️

@AgentCooper dementor in chief here too

So he is contemplating asking GPs to act as gatekeepers to the testing system, which would mean those wanting a test could only get one if their local doctor were to authorise it.

And that will happen how, exactly?
I can see the GPs being thrilled at that prospect. And what if you actually do have covid but you can't get through to the surgery because everyone who is worried about their cough is ringing, & your symptoms get worse...?

@InsaneInTheViralMembrane

I have never understood how a woman can perform a smear test and deliver such pain. 😔 caring profession my arse.

I’ve been thinking about this lockdown business and I’ve changed my tune.

I had Lyme last year and it could’ve turned into Long Lyme - in fact scam any dementory Lyme fb group and people will blame stubbing a tie or returning a library book late on Long Lyme.

I digress. I was Poorly for about 6 weeks and I think if everyone would just stay at home this winter then we could eradicate ticks.

Whaddya mean it doesn’t work like that?

I might have been known to grumble about Lyme Disease and walking in long grass not being banned.

I've had ticks twice. Fortunately both spotted before they'd feasted far too enthusuastically on my blood.

Just don't let your mates remove the blighters with a fag. Fuck that hurt and I have a fine scar! I've never necked vodka back so enthusiastically afterwards.
To add insult to literal injury both burning and inebriating the tick off is a high risk for it vomiting the disease into you, but we didn't realise that at the time. I now have tick tweezers!

I'm just so edible. I had leeches on honeymoon!

@DominaShantotto

Just started organising stuff for my online Uni... totally fucking depressing. This year is going to be such a grind - lonely and relentless and with DH giggling at TV shows on his PC (with headphones on) and the annoying yapping barking dog going for hours at a time... and I think the army are firing tonight judging from the bangs I can hear.

First thing on the uni stuff... the importance of finding yourself a quiet dedicated workspace where you won't be disturbed. They obviously have never lived in my house.

That's like telling you to rest when pregnant - and it's not your first.

Oh yes, and "sleep before the baby comes"
FFS. I woke up every single hour with the carpal tunnel and SPD and had to labouriously heave my body over, reactivate my dead side and repeat an hour later.
It was bliss to have a newborn baby that indulged me with two hours sleep at a time

There's not many options for working other than a cafe is there? Not even blooming libraries.

This version of the world is weird. It superficially looks something vaguely normal on the surface but all the details are so fucked up for just about everything.

@chocolatesweets thank you ❤️

This sounds petty but it is really pissing me off that said dementor in chief is a childminder who brings her minded kids to the group. She gets to give them back at the end of the day whereas everyone else who comes to the group has their toddlers all day and all night, now with fuck all open to take them to. She’s the one who communicates with the church whose hall we use and she has basically said we’re not opening, despite exercise classes already having started in the hall. And nobody wants to argue for fear of looking like an evil granny killer, obviously.

DH giggling at TV shows on his PC (with headphones on)

My DH does that. Makes me feel quite murderous, sometimes.

I never in my wildest nightmares envisioned a world where I couldn't access a library. And here we are.

Some of the rules at the schools that im seeing on the Us For Them fb page are batshit.

@ISaySteadyOn

I never in my wildest nightmares envisioned a world where I couldn't access a library. And here we are.

I know. I spent all summer telling DS the library would be open again soon and obviously that’s made me a liar. It wouldn’t be open to him anyway, he wouldn’t be able to pick out books or colour in or go to Bounce and Rhyme.

So shocked at the folk who get tested because of the sniffles, those that got tested because they were going on holiday all this has led to a breakdown in the service. So now it is to be rationed. The worried well have morphed from clogging up surgeries to clogging up testing centres. Of course if your child is sent home it must be tempting to drag the whole family off to get tested so you can get your child back into school.

I said to OH right at the beginning until we have a test we can pick up at chemists, supermarkets and pop in the cupboard with paracetamol like a pregnancy test, we are going to be at the mercy of the health system.

I did have a lovely moment today. We went to local pub for lunch, sat outside in the sunshine. At the next table were four elderly ladies chatting like school girls and laughing. I suddenly realised I knew one my old friends mother who is 90. I went over to say hello to her. She then told me she had not seen her friends since February, their March lunch having been cancelled. The ladies were giddy with the fact that they were all together again. They said crosswords, quizzes, reading were all very well for keeping their minds sharp but not being with friends had ground them down. So there were four very merry widows in my neck of the woods today.

@BogRollBOGOF you are one sexy beast! Leeches you say! 😍

@TheOrchidKiller

I've had this earworm on & off for months. Googled it, it's "Change" by The Lightning Seeds :

"The world is full of fools
Who never get it right
You don't know what to do
So you do anything you like"

Funny, that...

@TheOrchidKiller My favourite is: "When the futures architectured By a carnival of idiots on show You better lie low"

Violet Hill by Coldplay.

@Willow2017 I bet you're right. Are the headlines "no tests available" because Saint Boris the Clown has finally realised that more testing = more positive cases, and he's screaming "HELP!!! What can I do to get the case numbers down?.... I know, scare people away from being tested!"

And once again, the politicians are ACTIVELY ENCOURAGING people to dob each other in. Keep the public divided, turn them against each other, as has been the agenda since March. They can't say "we're all in this together" any more, since togetherness is forbidden.

The lack of tests just means people who actually probably should get tested won't bother.

DD1 has a cough this morning... can we fuck get a test?!

I saw people referred to as 'Covid carriers' today. How dehumanising.

@ISaySteadyOn It's especially children who are being labelled as such, killing their poor teachers; now it seems that we mustn't say "children don't suffer from the disease".

I've been listening to radio 4 this morning and kept hearing figures 70% of people with covid-19 have no symptoms - but even in a winter with no covid I think it was half a million people per day have symptoms that match covid symptoms.

There was also a head of labs saying they can't just pick up the pace.

I think they must be hoping those spit tests that they keep talking about being tested on the news come on line soon or other quick tests.

I thnk pertty much everyone we know at the minute had a cold - it's that time of year and everyone is finger crossing hoping there no temp or cough developing or loss of taste.

But coughs and colds go merrily hand in hand skipping down the lane. We're never getting out of this, are we?