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...

@HelenaDove, I’m trying to contact you but apparently you can’t receive PMs- is there any way we can get in touch about something not related to this website?

@Willow2017 GP friend said as much to DH last week. She is very concerned about her elderly patients who are losing mobility through lack of activity or shutting down due to lack of social interaction. She reckons that will shorten more lives than Covid will.

At the other end of the age spectrum, neurological development in children and young people depends on social contact, which helps to build our neural pathways based on those of others. I had quite am isolated childhood in many ways, and I definitely feel it's affected me negatively. We could see an explosion in anxiety, depression and other neurological conditions years later as a result of this.

@DominaShantotto

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?!

@DominaShantotto having faced my demons a lot older than you. I now just think fuck it if I die because of this panic attack then I die. I fight my way through them and guess what I am still alive. I think I just got cross with being like this and cracked on regardless. Someone once said a panic attack never lasts more than four hours, on and off because the body eventually runs out of adrenalin.

@BogRollBOGOFThe only place I’ve been challenged about a visor is church: it seems a face nappy is required for the house of God. Members of the choir were reprimanded for sharing not a toothbrush, but a pencil.

@Willow2017

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.

OH was in for his pre op assessment at a hospital near us, was like a ghost town he said. Funnily enough BBC Wales were filming there that day long segment that evening about covid and staff prepping for it all like it was an episode of Mash. Well he was there had to visit three departments and saw bugger all going on.

Justasking11 the wards are busy well the 2 i have been in are. Rest of hosp is ghost town apart from staff in the different depts.

A journo. got the figures for our local hospitals 24 cases between 3 hospitals yesterday. That imo. is manageable apart from the risk as happened in Wrexham and Cwm Taf that you manage to infect and sometimes kill. That is not to say that the patients were not on their last legs anyway.

I am off to buy slippers, mine are shedding everywhere the soles disintegrating, wish me luck.

Lifted the following from the BBC News website, this comes at the end of a doomy piece quoting a national advisor who says we need another national lockdown. Then there's this glimmer of hope from Lisa Nandy :

"Shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy, who is MP for Wigan, agreed further restrictions were needed in many areas, but accused the government of treating people with contempt.

"I haven't felt anger like this since I was growing up in the 1980s. People feel that they haven't just been abandoned, they now feel that the government is actively working against us."

Same piece says MPs from Greater Manchester agree that further measures are necessary BUT shutting pubs & restaurants isn't the answer & will create further problems for people.

In an effort to pretend it isn't happening I've been for a long walk with DH. He told me he bought a pair of jeans in M&S, paid for them , took them into the toilets, & tried them on. He said it saved him a second trip to return them had they not fitted if he'd tried them on at home.

He is clearly an irresponsible super-spreader with his reckless behaviour & I need to end our relationship forthwith.

Been out walking in Plague County with another family. There was definitely a more cagey atmosphere than there's been for a long time with lots of tedious waiting for people to pass. Maybe I should become a tedious "no such thing as bad weather" smunt because at least last week's deluge meant that there were only a few hardy dog walkers and runners out and no bush divers.

DH managed to get himself berated by some touchy bint about social distancing. She was the one who froze on the small path obstructing it while we held back on the main path so they could get into the wider space, meanwhile DH blundered on. It's a bloody woodland not a Covid ward/ school corridor/ uni halls/ care home. 1.8s of passing by makes no bloody difference anyway.

It was lovely to see my friends, but it's just not as carefree as we would like and need. I did check my calendar to check my mood which has something to do with it. But there's not much fun stuff to report on, just sharing frustrations. Everything is infiltrated at some level.

Funnily we did a lap of the local wood when we got back and everyone's behaving normally there.

@Doobigetta Try using the upper case i for the L in Helena. I had to do this last year to keep the same username after MN locked me out of my original account.

From the latest edition of Private Eye.

"A total of 30,260 EXCESS deaths have occurred in private households since March, but less than 1 in 10 are due to Covid 19"

Just going to share this here
www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theaustralian.com.au/nation/stop-using-lockdowns-to-fight-virus-says-world-health-organisation/news-story/97938c45a7b761644fc1e134b7b10548

Or one that's not behind a paywall.
Strange that I can only find it in Australian press though.
www.google.com/amp/s/amp.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/global/coronavirus-who-backflips-on-virus-stance-by-condemning-lockdowns/news-story/f2188f2aebff1b7b291b297731c3da74
Was going to post a thread on the covid zone about it, but not feeling brave enough.

@LivinLaVidaLoki Andrew Neil tweet same info. Interestingly I replied to the tweet saying that I think the WHO should now publicly endorse the GB Declaration as it's essentially advocating for the same thing and a guy has just messaged me to say my tweet had been 'soft censored' by twitter. WTF?!

Presumably because I put a link to the declaration in my reply. Ironically though the signatures are shooting up ever since Apple and google decided to censor!

twitter.com/spectator/status/1315232926745780225?s=21

A little while ago DH and I did a popular walk on a piece of coastal cliff top path. There were signs up reminding people not to fall off the cliff in their attempts to keep 2m from each other!

I bet though, that Dr. Nabarro from the WHO will have his comments twisted. He says that lockdowns are only justified to buy time, to plan & organise a response. I bet a further lockdown will be justified with that excuse, & it's obvious that in the UK things are a bloody shambles & the govt will simply say they need to buy time to save the NHS. No one can deny their lack of organisation. The nation has been sold the "buying time" narrative & it'll take a strong leader to admit to changing direction.

@BogRollBOGOF
"Plague County?" How very dare you! I don't know where you walked but us lepers were out in force this morning where I am, soaking up the sunshine, & no one was doing any "bush diving".
(I must stop smirking at that, it sounds rude )

Travel restrictions are now being mooted for the north. I do hope it’s the Manchester Evening News scaremongering. 4 weeks of additional measures with a ‘review’ after that time, but otherwise indefinite. Fuckers.

@MagdaS

Travel restrictions are now being mooted for the north. I do hope it’s the Manchester Evening News scaremongering. 4 weeks of additional measures with a ‘review’ after that time, but otherwise indefinite. Fuckers.

Oh fabulous. So not only are they going to fucking shut everything, they're going to forbid us to leave as well. Fuckers. I'm furious. Absolutely fucking furious. We've had extra restrictions since the end of July. Reviewed every week apparently. All we see of that review is the council sharing THE SAME POST every Friday night. There is no end. There is no "here's what we based our decision on" and further to that it's clearly not fucking working anyway because cases are rising so what is the bastard point!!!

@TrustTheGeneGenie
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Oh but the measures aren't working because we aren't behaving ourselves dontcha know.
I hate these fuckers.

[quote LivinLaVidaLoki]@TrustTheGeneGenie
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Oh but the measures aren't working because we aren't behaving ourselves dontcha know.
I hate these fuckers.[/quote]
Maybe they should just fucking kill us all because that's the only possible way they can stop transmission. Frankly I reckon it would be more pleasant than being locked down for the rest of my sodding life.

Just seen this
I vomited in my own mouth slightly.

@LivinLaVidaLoki that is truly horrific. No one I know had better put that on FB!

Just been watching BBC news channel. Their correspondent is claiming the new restrictions to be announced 'could be in place for up to 6 months'....