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I'm certain that Saint Boris is shuffling his cards with the exact intention of being able to say "Actually, you're having Christmas after all": about the only thing he is capable of planning. It's about the only ace he does have up his sleeve: imposing impossibly unworkable roolz, so he can appear to be reasonable by climbing down from them later. He's so painfully transparent with that, even if his clowns won't tell us anything else.

I can see the headlines already: the buffoon in a Santa outfit to make this announcement. No doubt we'll see some Grinch or Scrooge pictures of him before then.

@wanderings

I'm certain that Saint Boris is shuffling his cards with the exact intention of being able to say "Actually, you're having Christmas after all": about the only thing he is capable of planning. It's about the only ace he does have up his sleeve: imposing impossibly unworkable roolz, so he can appear to be reasonable by climbing down from them later. He's so painfully transparent with that, even if his clowns won't tell us anything else.

I can see the headlines already: the buffoon in a Santa outfit to make this announcement. No doubt we'll see some Grinch or Scrooge pictures of him before then.

Oh, I fear you may be right... 😩

Boris has an ego the size of a planet - he will never allow himself to go down in history as the man who called off Christmas.

@DominaShantotto

The students in Manchester who had made the post-it notes signs on their windows (which I admired in the use of all the new stationery mum's packed them off to uni with) have been told they must remove them and not communicate in that lighthearted way with the outside world now.

They are quite literally being kept prisoner.

Who's told them that? I would be putting posts it's up about how I'd been forbidden to put post it's up.

@DominaShantotto

Boris has an ego the size of a planet - he will never allow himself to go down in history as the man who called off Christmas.

This is my thought too. Wasn't the last person to cancel Christmas Oliver Cromwell? I doubt BoJo the clown wants to share a sentence in the history books with him.

He won't want strong restrictions for xmas. It's too unpopular even amongst a lot of those wanting lockdown.

I am seeing a slight change in reporting now about what if a vaccine doesn't come and how lockdowns don't work. I am hoping this is the turning corner where we start talking about long term rather than lockdown, arbitrary restrictions and closing huge sections of the economy.

HelenaDove
That's freaking horrendous. Where were the staff? I am the world's biggest wuss but I would have had to wade in. I am sick to death of bullies thinking they are god almighty in this.

Only seen it once at our cafe but I know the guy and he is quite capable of telling them to mind thier own business. One customer started moaning to me about someone and I very politely told her about exemptions and the more she whinged the more polite I was while suggesting some empathy wouldn't go amiss😄

Those poor students make me so angry. How dare they dictate how people express their situation? If they dont want the world to know how they are treating them maybe they should think again about what they are doing? If you are embarrassed about your actions then maybe they are wrong?

Blooming cold and breezy this morning and my free sat can't find signals which is annoying me as its been like that for days. Need to get the guy out and see if i can get an extended pole put up for sat dish. Trees at back of house block the signal especially if its windy. I would love to get them lopped but i doubt If council would agree😃😃 Oh Well i don't have an excuse to sit on sofa watching sat kitchen now so i really should do something constructive. Damm.

Tbh xmas won't be much different for us. Ex comes to see kids xmas day but have no other family to see except we visit my aunt but otherwise it's just us 3. Have got one present for ds1 and will get another i know he will like. Need to ask them what they want I suspect it will be money towards computer stuff / going out and clothes..😄

Ds2 ffs stupid phone have no idea fir ds1!!!

I'm dreading that the rule of 6 might mean my parents have to come to us instead of my brother who they luve close to. They don't drive and won't stay overnight due to their elderly cat so that would mean 2 x 2 hour round trips on Christmas Day. My mother doesn't possess an oven, just a hob and microwave - she hates cooking- so going to them isn't desirable either. Would also mean we had to leave the dog on his own all day and arrange for someone to get the horse in at night.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=06yja21V7xg

Paul Weston brilliantly exposing the false positive lies the gov are telling us. They dont know how the damm thing works and are pulling numbers out of thin air. Also arguing with news reader about thier own official death figures in specific areas saying she is wrong! Arrogant men isn't a strong enough description for them. They hate being proved wrong by a woman.

@countrygirl99 I’d send them some tasty food and leave them there. Driving round like that would be shite at Christmas.

WouldBeGood
Sounds a great idea. No way would I spend xmas day driving for 4 hours!
Nor paying for dog sitter (or leaving dog on its own all day) and horse wrangler.😀
It would be selfish of them if they expected you tp do all that
Surely your brother could pop round with xmas dinner for them?

I haven't got the plague!! Literally skipping out for a walk in the sun (before it pisses it down all next week 🙄)

@countrygirl99

I'm dreading that the rule of 6 might mean my parents have to come to us instead of my brother who they luve close to. They don't drive and won't stay overnight due to their elderly cat so that would mean 2 x 2 hour round trips on Christmas Day. My mother doesn't possess an oven, just a hob and microwave - she hates cooking- so going to them isn't desirable either. Would also mean we had to leave the dog on his own all day and arrange for someone to get the horse in at night.

Stick the cat in a basket, give it a quiet area and a litter box.

@DorsetBlueMovie

I haven't got the plague!! Literally skipping out for a walk in the sun (before it pisses it down all next week 🙄)

Ah, good news!

@Willow2017 thanks for that you tube clip. The fact that Matt Handjob didn't know how many people were in hospital in a certain area was telling. I just know we are being fed a load of bull. Surely though, if we get to Christmas and the numbers in hospital are still comparatively low, do you think they (the government) will change tack?

My prediction for next year? Boris resigns, citing health problems, and Rishi takes over.
Also, why can't they speak to someone who understands statistics? God, Hancock and Shapps. What a pair of idiots. Apparently Hancock is into horses, which is why he is so chummy with Dido Harding (an ex jockey). Dido Harding, Queen of Talk Talk and also Thomas Cook. Everything she touches turns to shit!

My dad is 93 and very frail. Twice this year I've had to face the prospect of losing him. I hate the thought that they were spending what might be his last Christmas by themselves. My brother has done his bit for years and takes the biggest burden of supporting them but he has 4 DC. All adult now with other halves and there are 3 GC. They will be having shuffle their own family around as it is, even without Covid rules. And it would get us out of having the ILs over. We did that 2 years ago, disaster, poor DH was running to Sainsburys at 3pm on Christmas Eve having to completely re-plan the catering and that was just the start. He said never again and meant it but since then one BIL has had to move to a much smaller house and can't fit them in and the other BILs wife won't have FIL in the house.

ReedWarbler
I think the gov will become the big benevolent Santa Clause and say about a week before Xmas that we can now have it for being good little boys and girls. 😠
Boris doesn't want any more nicknames, The Grinch is a step too far😉

DorsetBlueMovie

Great news. I hope you are going to flock somewhere nice😉

countrygirl99

Aww that changes things a bit. In that case I would be having them for Xmas. It's a tough day if you have to drive twice but can you get the cat into a cattery for the 2 days and take them home boxing day? Or bring the cat and they keep it in thier bedroom? They could compromise a bit to get to spend xmas with you?

@Reedwarbler
And yet he kept insisting she was wrong. "I don't know the answer but you're wrong" 🤦‍♀️

I think we will just have to grin and bear it. Not sure I would want to put an 18yo cat into a cattery for the first time. Hopefully things will relax and they can go to my brother and we can go round Boxing Day as usual and take some cold cuts for lunch - my mum's catering is renowned but not for good reasons.

"Help us; send beer" it said on the students' post-it notes. Hardly contraversial.

If a large secondary school, like ours, can manage to contact-trace & isolate small numbers of students & staff, then surely a university hall can manage it?
You zone your hall up by floor/ corridors & ask those who can wear masks to wear them in communal areas (seeing as that is how everything else is being done). If the students mix outside of the hall then well, that is what school kids & workers do, they leave their homes to go to school & work, & get shopping, & sometimes go out elsewhere.

If one of them tests positive you only ask the people living in their zone/ close contacts to self-isolate. No need to keep them all in.

I suspect that thanks to the general grumbling that students spread disease, the universities are keen to be seen to be doing something to placate local communities. (Forgetting how much financially students contribute to those communities)

As for Christmas, that's too far off for me to consider. I can imagine that if we are allowed to mix households we will then be all told off & subject to strict restrictions in January. But as I say, it's too far off to think about. Seeing as how pretty much everything I've planned this year has been cancelled...

@TheOrchidKiller if I was a student in those halls I would be setting up mass parties so very soon virtually everyone who is going to catch would have had it and positive tests would be a thing of the past. I can't imagine that clinically vulnerable students would be in halls this year.

Oh thank god! My cold & sore throat accompanied by mild throat-clearing & occasional but not persistant cough is not covid!
Just got my weekly test result back.

I was pretty sure it was all related to the cold but lay awake in the night worrying.