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...

MN is like a different world tbh. Baking cakes and country walks? Just fook off. We’ve done all that!
I’m in the north facing god knows what in terms of restrictions, leading inevitably to job losses and more hardships. People just won’t comply for much longer.

@DisgruntledGuineaPig Your brother sounds fabulous

It's the way that country walks get suggested like it genuinely hadn't occured to anyone in 6.5 months.

I was going off on long country romps back when people were angsting about crisps on a bench.

I have baked twice. Last week I caved in to some cake cravings. 12 cakes, DH and I got two each. The DCs polished off 5 each!

I will be doing my chocolate and bitter orange cakes again though. They were amazing.

[quote justasking111]@BogRollBOGOF it is the best year for acorns in many a year here. The olduns say sign of a cold winter, mother nature being prepared.

My DS is in a city at uni. he has come to love it and is so upset to see it suffering so badly. Liverpool is somewhere I love to visit so vibrant, the people so friendly, I feel for them tonight.[/quote]
I came to Liverpool as a student and never left. Know countless people who did the same. It sounds very trite but is very true - you can leave Liverpool but it never leaves you. Hope your ds enjoys his Uni days as much as I did - I’m sure the city will make him feel very welcome

Someone has shared on my fb an Elf on the Shelf...................in a self isolation jar.

That poor elf.

@ISaySteadyOn

That poor elf.

To be fair, that creepy bastard has been asking for it for years. I have minimal sympathy for the elf.

No elves in this house. The tooth fairy is unreliable enough, but she gets away with it by blaming the state of the child's floor or the late notice of the tooth falling out

@HeIenaDove

Someone has shared on my fb an Elf on the Shelf...................in a self isolation jar.

A fate far too good for him. He'd be on the bonfire with Guy Fawkes if I had my way. That'll teach the creepy little so and so.

We have got loads of beautiful big acorns here as well - haven't seen so many for years. I always say, around this time 'it's going to be a bad winter', but I am told I say that every year. Well, one year it will be true...possibly. I remember the winter of '63 though. My dad used to open the kitchen window and stick bottles of wine (probably Blue Nun or Mateus Rose) to chill in the 5 foot snowdrifts outside. This was in Surrey.
I honestly think it is pointless doing any more lockdowns. It is so wrong to blame the population for it spreading, it's just doing what a virus does, and doing it well. If Boris introduces even bigger fines for his perceived 'non compliance' I will be furious. It's just so wrong. Like saying that 'the virus is all your fault, so unless YOU learn to control it I will take what little money you have away (along with your job and possibly the roof over your head)'.

All these students who are infected... does anyone know of a single one who's been hospitalised? Because I haven't heard of any reports of it. And if that many students can be infected with none of them needing to go to hospital, let alone dying, surely that means it doesn't really matter if they get it? I know there's concern about them passing it on, but how much of that are they really going to do if they're at uni, in halls?

@110APiccadilly

All these students who are infected... does anyone know of a single one who's been hospitalised? Because I haven't heard of any reports of it. And if that many students can be infected with none of them needing to go to hospital, let alone dying, surely that means it doesn't really matter if they get it? I know there's concern about them passing it on, but how much of that are they really going to do if they're at uni, in halls?

May give some idea of the uni growth - my uni aren't doing a Nottingham with testing everything with a pulse on site - gone from 58 students and 10 lecturers on Saturday to 78 and 11 this morning just updated.

No push for testing from the uni but obviously Leicester was the posterboy for doing Corona wrong to start with - so I think has a walk in test setup about 10 mins walk from uni.

Just waiting to hear what fate awaits Nottingham today. Not feeling stress free and calm shall we say?!

Also waiting for my new winter flower planters to arrive - cos if I'm freezing in the conservatory every day all winter - I'm going to have pretty flowers to look at...

Until the bastard greyhound decides to do some amateur gardening again and pulls them all up like she did my summer pansies. Little pointy nosed shitebag!

@110APiccadilly I've been having twitter spats with people because I'm saying it's good they're catching it now, adds to herd immunity and means they can safely come home to their grandparents at Xmas.

They just keep wanging on about long covid instead. To which I always reply that all those people who've suffered for years from CFS/ME and called charlatans will be so grateful for all the research now being poured into post viral fatigue syndrome.

Tossers. One guy was arguing furiously with me that unis should never have gone back and he's got 4 kids at uni and they're being thrown under a bus. He let them go back though didn't he? Didn't stop these young adults doing what they wanted (and presumably wanted to get away from their dementory father)

Dd is poorly this morning and sent for a test. ( southern uni). I've had a sleepless night as she has underlying health issues. However she always gets a cough at this time of year. Her fiat mates are going to be thrilled

People going on about long Covid seem to think no other illness has ever had knock on effects. My mum had pneumonia - the obvious effects lasted 10 years and we think she might have some permanent lung scarring. I had a fairly rare disease as a child which affected me until I was in my mid teens. My friend had glandular fever and has never been quite the same since. I could go on...

And you only need to have had symptoms for a month to be included in the "long Covid" stats. I've had colds that lasted that long (or seemed to, maybe really I just caught one after another!)

Well uni IT system is broken - I'm going to have an incredibly slow shower.

Fool me for getting on and through everything I had to do thinking "oh I'll watch that final lecture this morning first thing"... bugger

My aunt is 91. Recently had chest problems. X-ray showed old damage from when she had pneumonia 50 years ago! Not bothered her till now.
Now thats long!

Feeling doomy. That I want to cry feeling.

About to head out to my outdoor fitness class. Pumping iron (well not really) and burpees will be a good mental distraction for an hour anyway.

Feel so sorry for all the northern cities. Used to live in Yorkshire and Midlands but now down South.

I noticed that the tiers are medium, high and very high. Where the heck is low. It's almost as if they don't want to mark anywhere as low?

Is it really being suggested that pubs stay shut for 6 months?! Even with furlough those pubs will just not stay running! I work for one of the biggest pub chains in the UK and we have been shutting down sites after the curfew, there is no way we can keep all of our sites up and running with no income.

It's really worrying how accepting people are of these restrictions. Do they really lead such a joyless and insulated life that being stuck at home for months and end, not seeing anyone else is a walk in the park?! I just can't see how anyone is ok with that.

My aunt is 91. Recently had chest problems. X-ray showed old damage from when she had pneumonia 50 years ago! Not bothered her till now.

My DF died last year at 89, he was scanned in the year or two before he died and they referred him on the fast track for cancer. Turns out it was lung damage from diphtheria when he was 14!

DS asked why there was no low too.
Sitting here crying, am meant to be on a Teams call in an hour. DS is sat in the kitchen meant to be doing school work. Made myself a coffee and it's disgustingly weak.

@Willow2017

My aunt is 91. Recently had chest problems. X-ray showed old damage from when she had pneumonia 50 years ago! Not bothered her till now. Now thats long!

My mum had rheumatic fever when she was 6 ... at 70 she was diagnosed with myocarditis caused by the illness she’d had 64 years earlier ..

R4’s More or Less is usually a pretty sensible programme but occasionally strays into slightly dementorish territory. However this week I was shouting at the radio. They ran a piece on how many people had ‘long COVID’ with absolutely no mention of what the medical definition of ‘long COVID’ might be, nor what the prevalence is of post-viral conditions with other viruses which would put it into context 😕

If Boris introduces even bigger fines for his perceived 'non compliance' I will be furious. This would be bad for those getting caught. However, I think it's one of the less bad things Saint Boris could do: I'm sure it's been said on these threads that we don't need more laws, just more enforcement of the existing ones. Whenever he talks about fines, it doesn't actually mean they will be enforced - it just makes scary headlines. Have many of these fines have actually been enforced? I expect one or two have, to make a token headline, but I very much doubt if they are really happening on a big scale. It probably costs more in paperwork and manpower to enforce the fines than any revenue they do raise. I'd rather Saint Boris talked of bigger fines than destroying more businesses.

According to the frothers, so many people are breaking the roolz that the chancellor should be raking it in with all those fines. As we all know, the reason this isn't happening is because the police simply don't have the manpower to enforce them, and the Covid marshals that were promised are as imaginary as the unicorns they ride on.