ADs crave hotel breakfasts garnished with phallic strawberries

[BogRollBOGOF]

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...

Glad to see I'm not the only one who glanced at Bogrolls new year activities and was slightly shocked because they didn't read them properly! I hate monopoly, if ever there was a board game designed to cause arguments

@Evenstar Theatre is starting up again, although cautiously and with a lot of social distancing in place in the auditorium. I've just booked to see two plays over the next month or so. Of course the rules may change before then and local lockdowns might stop one of them, but I'm going to give it a go...

Honest opinions please ADs.

Postponed wedding is now cancelled as venue has shut down. Fab.

Do we think we will be restriction free by Nov / Dec 2021?

We've discussed just getting married but we don't want to as Ds wouldn't be allowed to be there (they're only letting couple and 2 witnesses in register office and if we get bigger room his parents will kick off that they weren't invited and I aint got time for that!) So we've come to the conclusion of planning a whole nother non weddingy wedding next winter.

But will it be ok?! Do we go early 2022? Are we going to ever have weddings again?!

I feel so on edge for Monday- can’t detach from it like I usually manage to do. My mental health reserves are absolutely gone now- I think I’m a strong person (albeit with my demons) so if I’m like this - what are other people feeling like?!

@TrustTheGeneGenie

Honest opinions please ADs.

Postponed wedding is now cancelled as venue has shut down. Fab.

Do we think we will be restriction free by Nov / Dec 2021?

We've discussed just getting married but we don't want to as Ds wouldn't be allowed to be there (they're only letting couple and 2 witnesses in register office and if we get bigger room his parents will kick off that they weren't invited and I aint got time for that!) So we've come to the conclusion of planning a whole nother non weddingy wedding next winter.

But will it be ok?! Do we go early 2022? Are we going to ever have weddings again?!

I would like to think that this madness would have ended by then and we would just be sensible even without a vaccine but most things open.

BUT honestly I wouldn't be setting myself up for any more disappointments. We normally book and plan holidays one year in advance and we have decided not to bother at all for 2021 as I just don't trust the government to lift restrictions even with a few infections.

This is my thinking. I'm thinking early 2022 possibly. It's not gonna be a big, expensive do. But even still it's the organising and re organising that I cannot face!! Equally I don't want to wait and organise it because every man and his dog who've also postponed are gonna be squishing weddings in left right and centre aren't they!

I've booked literally nothing for next year. Makes me sad. Usually book out holiday as soon as we get back.

Why, in charts of weekly deaths, do they only ever show covid deaths, and no comparison with other deaths? (If anyone has seen such a chart, please point me to it).
My point is that around 11000 people die each week in the UK, and I would like to see a comparison with other causes of death. I have a feeling that if you did this, coronavirus deaths would be so tiny, bumping along the bottom of the chart, you would need a magnifying glass to see them.
On a completely different subject, I have just received a marketing e mail from Dunelm. In it, it asks that all customers wear masks - fair enough. But it then goes on to say that if you can't wear a mask, they will find a way of getting what you want brought to you. The implication is that it is 'no mask, no entry', which seems to be prejudicial to some people to me, and totally wrong. I think I might e mail them and find out, but having read their extensive rules for shopping, I really shan't bother to go there now (always visit before christmas as I like their decs. and stocking fillers.)

Also a runner here, and the masks outdoors thing would freak me out. I often run alone and rurally, I've never really felt unsafe, but I'm not sure I would continue though.

Mind you I'm running nowhere today as I did my first ultramarathon yesterday and I'm a wee bit sore...

@Reedwarbler
Probably because that doesn’t fit with the narrative of how deadly we’re supposed to think this virus is!
There have been no sadly COVID deaths at our local hospital for a while yet four people have died in the local roads in the last week.
The scary thing is how accepting people are becoming over this total control of our lives.

There's a poll in the Sunday Times today, "Are lockdowns worth the damage they cause?" and it's currently on 58% no - I'm pretty sure this is a reversal on previous similar questions, so the public's (or a subsection of it) mood is moving more with us.

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/councils-argue-about-where-they-sit-in-new-lockdown-tiers-ldzq5wdxl?shareToken=0fef027b2200c311530c064b048309ad

My Dunelm took no notice of my visor when I went a few weeks back. I've not had any bother with that. No one has said anything about swimming yet where I do go bare-faced, but with a university in the same borough affecting localised data, I hope it stays that way...

My 2021 predictions based on my random observations of 2020... I think we're in the shit until rates naturally fall off in April-May. I'm optomistic about the summer months, and think restrictions on outdoor and social events for example will ease far quicker than they did this year. September/ Oct onwards, I don't know. Hopefully people will be beyond pissed off with 18m of this crap and there won't be demand for prohibitive controls like there is now. Plus society's immunity will be in a better state either naturally from herd immunity or targeted vaccine. April-May 2022 onwards is much more safe to assume normality. I am more pessamistic than I had been a few months ago when I would have assumed working back to normal from April 2021, I prefer that scenario, I'm just not sure how reliable it is to get through another autumn/ winter with the way this one's started.

But this is life and we're not sitting in suspended animation until the fabled vaccine and the government wakes up.

It was important to me to get married and have a full wedding and have my family after. I got engaged at 26, married at 28 there were some loose ends being tied up in that time hence a longer engagement. If I'd found that I was then being deferred for a couple of years until I was 30, I don't know if I would have held off to do what I want and incurr the risks of delaying family life, or just quietly go and get the paperwork done. The current 15 arrangements plus being masked up has nearly as much appeal as a bucket of sick, and with large families, I'd hate having to pick one from here and one from there, although in reality few of the Irish contingent would come over.

It's real lives being stuck in this shit. I know I do a lot of venting and whinging around on here. I am quietly appreciative that I'm at a stable and dull life stage that's fairly unaffected by many of these impositions. One of my dear friends has cancelled what sounded like a fabulous alternative wedding for next spring and is just going to get the deed done. I was really looking forwards to it, but she needs to do what is right for her to keep moving on in life.

@NothingIsWrong well done on the ultramarathon!

I’m at the airport on my way to Rhodes. The plf form thing is very complicated and I’m an administrator by trade! It is incredibly quiet and the staff seem genuinely pleased to have passengers. My next check in will be from near the hot tub in Greece. Not in the hot tub as on my last visit to the country I managed to have a little pool accident with my phone, which also contained all my PIN numbers for credit cards we only use abroad. I ended up having to pay currency conversion on every single transaction as I had to use my UK card. Oops!

@BogRollBOGOF we are lucky in that we aren't waiting until marriage to buy a house or have kids. We did it all backwards BUT in reality it is putting some things off simply because of the money side of it. We've held back money for now two cancelled weddings and I think oh, our garden could have been done, the windows could have been replaced instead. All boring things but things that need doing none the less.

In normal times going to the reg office with two witnesses and ds would have been fine and now we can't even do that. It's a total pain in the arse and I don't know what to do at all!

@Willow2017
I hope you got some sleep. Hospitals provide the worst conditions for sleeping, which is ironic.

That's interesting about Dunelm, @Reedwarbler. Was going to have a look in there for something but didn't because there was a queue outside. Made me wonder if they were doing track & trace or something, in which case, they're not worth the risk of self-isolation.

@NothingIsWrong wow, what's an ultramarathon? It sounds long & difficult, so congratulations on completing it!

@DominaShantotto also dreading tomorrow - overwhelmed with work, worried that DD's work will be shut down, & I'm cross all the time atm. Boris on the TV again will be the final straw. I'm going to cook a roast dinner tomorrow night which we are all excited about.

Mind you, I dreamt I cooked a roast dinner & that FIL "helped" (would be a first) by dumping the potatoes in a big jug of gravy. Then I went outside in the dream & saw 3 Prue Leiths pass each other at the same time (they were all riding purple bikes), & I thought, "this is like one of those creepy-things-that-have-happened-to-you-threads, & I must post it on mumsnet!"

@TheOrchidKiller ultra is anything longer than a full marathon. This one was 50km

I had to put 50 km into a miles converter! Well done Nothingiswrong! That's quite an achievement.

I think it's about 32 miles?

Just catching up. Had about 1.5hrs sleep so if i miss anything sorry.

Sorry about the wedding Genie what a disappointment. I hope you can wait it out and have the wedding you want not what someone thinks you should have just now.

Ultramarathon! I ferl sick at the thought well done Nothing.

BGT on tv in the ward last pm i stuck ot out as they had a big musical finale by CM. After it they said they were in rehearsals for a musical (didnt catch the name due to noise in ward) and they were hoping it was the start of musical theatre being allowed to get going again everywhere. And a quick dig to gov about how important it is😄 yeah Cameron and Micheal Ball😄

Orchid sounds like one of the weird dreams i have!

Well more fun and frolics here. Was moved wards at 5 30 this am. They needed the beds as A&E full. So now in a surgical ward. At least the night lights were actually really dim instead of spotlight levels😄 Have seen the advanced nurse/medical practitioner who has taken my blood and will chase up the haemo Dr. I am supposed to get steroids but they are waiting for blood result and dr prescribing them. Fingers crossed they are great and i can finally get out of here. Had about 1.5 hrs sleep so looking forward to crashing out at home😄

Have a good sunday all.

You know it struck me that the other beds except one were full of older people who had taken ill, had become increasingly confused or had fallen from mobility problems at home. And the 2 patients brought in before i moved were also old confused ladies.
I wonder if staff have had an increase in admissions lately due to the elderly being isolated. One was supposed to go home but they couldnt get support in place yesterday. Maybe just being cynical?🤔

@NothingIsWrong congratulations on your first ultra! My brother runs those too and last weekend completed his first 100 mile yes MILE run! He ran for 25 hours and 13 minutes - the bloke who finished first ran it in under 19 hours! I have so much respect and admiration for anyone who has the strength and determination and inner grit to run longer distances!

@Willow2017 I bet you are right about the admission of a lot of elderly people. They are no longer getting any attention from their gp's. It seems to me as long as you are breathing and not complaining, all the gp does now is refill your prescription and leave you to it. There is no one checking if they are okay on a regular/daily basis (assuming they have no family), and older people don't like to make a fuss or feel they are being a burden. My fil is currently on a surgical ward, but his fellow patients are all very elderly men, so it seems more like a geriatric ward.
Hope you get home soon.

No @Willow2017, I think you are spot on about people being more confused due to social isolation, & falling through a lack of physical exercise, whether through cancelled physio or a lack of opportunities to walk anywhere, which leads to them becoming deconditioned. I see it in my work (we have to pick up the pieces) & I have a relative in a mess because of it.

Wouldn't be surprised if A&E was busy last night- people going for a last hurrah before Monday, perhaps?

DH made me watch BGT final. I think Michael Ball said they want to do the singing-only version of Les Mis as that was probably do-able, with the restrictions. Also saw an ad for a panto in London- would love to go but travelling there could be dodgy. Really hope they can get these shows off the ground.

Orchid i went through A&E a couple of times last night to go outside and there were no drunks at all. I think they were just full of 'normal injuries/illnessea' plus several OAPs needing beds. Got someone brought in this morning who was in hosp just a few days ago apparently sent home and now back in, another OAP.

God they're trembling in anticipation of whatever Monday is going to bring. Sick fucks - they're pretty much getting off on it.