ADs crave hotel breakfasts garnished with phallic strawberries

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Oh for the good old days of a breakfast buffet.

Back when you could make plans and reasonably expect them to happen. When you could turn up spontaneously and browse or linger at your leisure. When you could meet whoever you like and give them a hug

But until those days return, here's some more AD chat about life, the universe and phallic fruits...

@Taswama

On the positive news front - DS2 came home with loads of stickers on his school sweatshirt. I just said to DP, I'm not sure how they did that while keeping 2m distance. DS2 overheard and said - "its 1 metre now!". Scouting seems to be a local decision *@BogRollBOGOF* Cubs have restarted, just alternating weeks and outside if at all possible. The kids and adults are socially distanced and they've done risk assessments (seen on OSM although not actually bothered to read). .

Guiding is local too. We're an active unit anyway. Others are doing their own thing. The church isn't letting those two groups in yet, mind you that room is far less airy than our usual venue which has a 20 person cap. One unit is always sedate and are just Zooming, but most are trying to get to some face to face contact.

The Scouters have had a harder lockdown. A few families dominate the group members and two had bereavements, one Covid, one was a long term illness (don't know if Covid affected care. I can understand some reticence, but it's frustrating when they missed the better window in September, and my DCs just don't find Zoom accessible. Like the blasted home learning, they need to be in the setting, with proper leaders/ teachers and their peers.

School are expecting pupils to log in for online teaching if/when that situation occurs... I used to physically carry DS2 to the computer and keep retrieving him for the class zoom until July. Maybe I should just leave it with a view of their empty chair... DS1 now comes halfway up my neck and is getting too leggy to scoop up and carry!

You have got to laugh, a goat and a papaya tested positive for covid.

news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-tanzania-testing-kits-questioned-after-goat-and-papaya-test-positive-11982864

@SirSamuelVimes Because a populist PM thinks its a good idea to emulate the X Factor. Fucking prick.

news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-tanzania-testing-kits-questioned-after-goat-and-papaya-test-positive-11982864

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Oh good, glad we're successfully exporting tests. International trade and all that

It wont just be Peacocks who go to the wall either. No Christmas parties means no party dresses or sparkly tops being bought ........from anywhere.

@SirSamuelVimes I know, it's so awful "big announcement in a few days' time", which might be a total whitewash, like last time, or the other extreme. Probably one reason is because they haven't yet flipped the coin to decide what it's going to be, or the boys in Whitehall are squabbling over who is going to do it.

It's awful.

And the clowns expect us to respect them.

Bring on the mass civil disobedience and riots.

I anticipate the Monday fixture of doom and gloom will be presenting the three tiers with Whitty and co ramping up the apocalyptic predictions.

I have a feeling the specifics like the criteria for moving to the top one won't be finalised by then leaving lots of areas in the North still in an anxious waiting state.

I wonder how much money the make-up companies are losing. I think Ive worn make-up 6 times in 7 months.
Never used to leave the house without it!

@HeIenaDove

It wont just be Peacocks who go to the wall either. No Christmas parties means no party dresses or sparkly tops being bought ........from anywhere.

Next have got all their sparkly Xmas tops out which did make me raise an eyebrow

I have bought a few things as my t shirts were wearing thin but there is no way I am buying anything sparkly for Christmas. I was going to buy some wine advent calendars but scraped that as well as I am now thinking saving rather than spending is the right thing to do given the government is insistent on killing the economy.

I've decided we are all having matching Christmas pjs this year. No need for a party dress, but if we are going to have a day the 4 of us, new jimjams and spend the day in them!

I always have a new dress or smart outfit for Christmas day, not sure if I'll bother this year. Certainly not going getting my eyelashes done or a bouncy blow dry.

It might be a sparkle free Christmas, which is crap. I might sit in my own home in cocktail dress and slippers, refusing to let Mr Hancock lower my standards just because he wants a joyless less festive period.

Honestly wtf is happening? The Telegraph is reporting 20% of infections happening in hospitals, the big clusters are clearly students, which will inevitably die down, the BMA is asking for mask wearing outside, there's scare tactics about the number of people in hospital being the same as in March even though the rate of increase is drastically different, and DD says their cafe is really quiet again because people are really scared even though we are in a market town without a particularly high number of people infected. My work has been f**ked for a while now. I know I should just step away from the news and the stats for my own mental health, but it's difficult when everything is just so bonkers.

Mask wearing outside? They can get to fuck

I was raised on the Authorised Version of the Bible. (Still a Christian, but now use a more modern translation!)

Anyway... it's got some great turns of phrase in it (which if you're exposed to it as a child, I don't think you ever forget). Here's one to describe our government (and various others):

"God shall send them a strong delusion, that they shall believe a lie..."

Otherwise known as the sunk costs fallacy, I think. Giving up now means most of the last six months were pointless. They don't want to admit that to themselves and can't afford to admit it to the electorate.

Mask wearing outside www.thetimes.co.uk/article/083164d6-0a5d-11eb-9ac5-9d2cf4a10c9f?shareToken=65cef95193d4108d9c3b4d84cd1164bd

Well I suppose mask wearing in shops and enclosed areas has been such a roaring success then the next logical step is to wear them outside as well....! Weren’t masks supposed to save us all or was that just bullshit ... oh wait!
I have a feeling that Monday will just be our world beating incompetent twat of a PM and his posse of po faced pricks spouting the same crap. None of which appears to be currently working.

[quote TabbyStar]Mask wearing outside www.thetimes.co.uk/article/083164d6-0a5d-11eb-9ac5-9d2cf4a10c9f?shareToken=65cef95193d4108d9c3b4d84cd1164bd[/quote]
Oh god that just made me cry. No school runs - my one interaction... no going to walk the dog - just masked eyes everywhere.

For those of us with trauma around masked faces - this would destroy us. Mine isn't assault related like many - mine comes from awake surgery where I was terribly treated.

Please no. Although considering as mask wearing causes extreme distress to most of us, we are all exempt. Masks outside are stupid, pointless and dangerous to both lung function and mental health.

Morning all. Having my trip away at last. Trouble is its in hospital😂
Getting stupid infusion of stupid platelets today. All drama yesterday Drs trying to get hold of me. Have to admire gp determination to get hold of me. God that covid test is awful! So if its neg and I have it next week I know where I got it despite all thier precautions😉. Staff are good though so no complaints there.
Didn't trip over any bodybags or people dying in corridors. Hopefully get home pm if bloods are ok. One good thing is I don't have to wear mask in the ward. Not wearing them outside sod off with that.

TabbyStar our cafes are quiet again this week. Slightly busier in shop but not heaving as usual. Think folks are fed up with the tighter restrictions. We have 2 security on door yet they barely need to stop anyone going in now as numbers are down so much.

For those of us with trauma around masked faces - this would destroy us. Mine isn't assault related like many - mine comes from awake surgery where I was terribly treated.

Sorry now I'm worried that I'm being a dementor by raising it . I don't think it will happen, comments below the line are fairly robust, and it should be obvious that the loss to mental and physical health will be greater than any covid benefit as we know transmission outside is negligible.

to anyone struggling with mask wearing. I've mostly coped okay as time's gone on, but sometimes struggle because of assault too.

Clearly anyone suggesting masks outside is not a lone woman runner.

OK, I'm absolutely no enthusiast of the blasted things anywhere, but when I'm out and about on my own, especially when in quieter places, it's a point of personal safety. I'm constantly risk assessing who is around me, give a cheery smile and hello and observe who is around for my own personal safety.

Winter is coming. When the only description you can give is that he was tall (at 5'2, 95% of men are tall!) Slim/ broad, wearing a hoodie and a surgical style mask it creates a terrifying environment for people with malicious intent to exploit.

Outside is a very low rate of transmission in the first place. Parkrun evaluated it as safe to return in a few weeks, the main reason for the change of heart is that the increasing previlence of local lockdowns is too complex, and the rule of six meaning you can run with a few hundred people but not meet a family afterwards is a disconnect. Not that it is dangerous to be outside. 3% difference from a standard facerag does not make any meaningful difference compared to the social and environmental costs.

I use a visor in most indoor spaces (can't do it for swimming though). I would make no token effort for outdoors.

Clearly anyone suggesting masks outside is not a lone woman runner.

Yeah I'm a runner too (and a swimmer) and that was one of the first things I thought, there's no way I'd be able to run in a mask, though I think in places where it has been introduced exercise is an exemption.

@Willow2017 hope it goes well.

I really, really disagree with masks outside.

The only thing that makes it slightly tolerable for me is that I often wrap a scarf round my face in winter to keep warm, so I might concede to doing that. But I doubt it's hygenic because my nose drips a lot in cold weather.

So has anyone considered the logic behind wearing a mask whilst walking home from the shops on an empty street in the dark in December? (Have they shite?!)

Another mask-outdoors thought: It's the UK. It rains a lot. How useful is a wet mask?

(Already tested it out when accidentally forgot to take mine off on leaving a shop in a shower last week).

No doubt someone will invent a waterproof mask & tell me to get over it. Cue you-tube videos of How To Make A Mask By Cutting Up A Spare Umbrella.

Fuck off.