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...

@BogRollBOGOF I agree. I am generally quite cheery despite the ups and downs of life but the hopelessness of this is really bad.

I think you have to be either extremely resilient, or frankly a bit odd, not to find it hard going some days with the restrictions. (Might depend a bit on where you are and your circumstances, but even in good circumstances, and in an area with the lowest level of restrictions - six months is too long to deal with this without a bit of a wobble.)

I wonder whether some of those screaming hardest for more lockdown have just lost it in a different way.

Exactly. Nothing to look forward to. Can't plan anything. Can't go anywhere. Barely anything to do and I actually like walking but I've had enough. It's relentless and shit and I will rip the fucking head off the next person who tells me I need to be more resilient.

@DominaShantotto
Greetings & comradeship to a fellow Tier 2 incarceratee. Worried we'll end up being shoved in a tier 3.

I'm WFH this afternoon & DH has it on the TV. There are still people banging on about the measures not going far enough. I can tell them that with regards to mental health, for the people I have met today, it has already gone too far.

As for long covid - I'm sorry for anyone suffering from this. But please, let us not forget those suffering the long-term / lifelong effects of cancer, strokes etc, & the fact that the support for many of these people has been shut down for covid.

So sorry for anyone struggling today.

Always enjoy reading these threads but only pipe up occasionally. Saw an interesting tweet from Prof Francois Balloux (who’s a good bloke to follow) saying.

‘At times, there's something touching about our attitude to #COVID19, like a child on a beach, cursing the incoming waves, and taking pride whenever one recedes towards the sea ...’.

Ultimately everything they’re doing is futile but they keep pretending.

Can’t believe I’m saying this, I hope I’m in tier 2.

Is it selfish to be a little bit pissed off that A levels have been put back, & this now means we can't go away to celebrate a special birthday at the time of the actual birthday, which does actually mean a lot to be able to be away on the actual date?

Yes, it is selfish in the grand scheme of things, & we hadn't booked anything, but I don't ask for much, the past few years have been really tough, & I would like, just for once, to have what everyone else around me has had.

Such is life.

(If any dementors are lurking, no, I am not advocating putting a holiday over my child's exams. But I have a right to be annoyed & disappointed, just as anyone else does)

@TheOrchidKiller I reckon we've got a good couple of weeks before they whack us up to tier 3 - they need to give us the same chance to "behave" that they've given other areas really (and Broxtowe at least has a Tory MP so should get a bit of an easier ride).

I had it on with subtitles during my seminar - lots of the girls on the course trying to line up if they can't make it onto campus - I was quite honest earlier that I didn't think my panic attacks was going to get me onto campus anyway in advance.

My garden planters should finally appear tonight so I can have a prettier view to look at than the sod of a dog's amateur gardening attempts!

I know what you mean @MissEWeatherwax. Relieved as I've had people telling me all day they were convinced we'd be in a tier 3 zone.

God, it's awful when you feel grateful that you are only a tier 2

This is fucking shit isn't it. I genuinely can't imagine a day when I will be allowed to sit in my mum's house again. I'm so fucking sad. I want to get married and have a nice wedding with my friends and family who I haven't seen for 6 months. I want to go squish my best friends new baby. He's 5 weeks old and I've only seen him once.

This isn't a life this is an existence.

I'm lucky to be in a southern constituency with a Tory MP, so its same old same old here. I feel so much for those having their lives trashed again.

We are just existing, I worried at this rate I’ll never be able to hug my parents ever again. I listened to Johnson, my heart was hammering in my chest. God, he waffles doesn’t he. Annoyed because everything he said had already been leaked.
On a happier note, it has stopped raining.

It occurred to me today that what makes things even worse is how much we are all “encroaching” on each other for want of a better word. My house is on a corner on the way to a park, so I have had months of constant noise outside with bikes, scooters, skateboards and socially distanced (shouted) conversations outside my window. In our houses, everyone has been at home, my husband is back in the office for the first time since March tomorrow.

The local park has been heaving until the rule of 6 came in, and I went down this afternoon expecting a little peace and quiet and found a belly dancing group out in the drizzle with a huge ghetto blaster which you could hear all over the park. They would normally use a local hall, but obviously have not been allowed to go back there.

It would be so nice to have more options of places to go, so it would be quieter and less crowded, rather than facing the winter with even less options in many places.

@Evenstar

It occurred to me today that what makes things even worse is how much we are all “encroaching” on each other for want of a better word. My house is on a corner on the way to a park, so I have had months of constant noise outside with bikes, scooters, skateboards and socially distanced (shouted) conversations outside my window. In our houses, everyone has been at home, my husband is back in the office for the first time since March tomorrow.

The local park has been heaving until the rule of 6 came in, and I went down this afternoon expecting a little peace and quiet and found a belly dancing group out in the drizzle with a huge ghetto blaster which you could hear all over the park. They would normally use a local hall, but obviously have not been allowed to go back there.

It would be so nice to have more options of places to go, so it would be quieter and less crowded, rather than facing the winter with even less options in many places.

We had a bit of a scuffle over the local Scout Association campsite... a local Rainbow group have been jumping the locked fence and using it without permission for want of anywhere to go and meet. Cue chaos when all the Beavers rocked up with the gate key and permission to use it - while the Rainbows were already there!

We had a bit of a scuffle over the local Scout Association campsite... a local Rainbow group have been jumping the locked fence and using it without permission for want of anywhere to go and meet. Cue chaos when all the Beavers rocked up with the gate key and permission to use it - while the Rainbows were already there!

It's like the Peter Kay episode about the ice cream van turf wars!

Domina 2 weeks of partying for us in Notts, then! That'll keep the numbers down, but then again, if tier 3 is inevitable I almost don't blame people for going for it.

@Evenstar agree about running out of options to go to, especially when the weather's shite. There's not much to do indoors here on a bad day, apart from shops & cafes (I'm too old for soft play, though I'd give it a go).

This isn't a life this is an existence.

That's the hardest bit isn't it. When life is shit what keeps most of us going are the simple things, whether that's friends, distraction of work, family or holidays but slowly all of that is being taken away and even if you don't have extra restrictions you are faced everyday with DMs shouting for national lockdowns.

DH wants to watch the PM tonight. I might take myself away somewhere else as it's just going to make me angry.

Oh i thought he had done his announcement. What time is it?

@HeIenaDove

Oh i thought he had done his announcement. What time is it?

Should have been 6pm but BBC news said pushed back to 7pm.

Jesus wept, is Boris getting another turn in our living rooms? There's no escape!

I shouted at DH earlier, "turn that twat off!"
He said "it's not him."
I said, "well turn the other twat off, then!"

My swearing has hit an exponential second wave this year.

I don't know whether I'll watch it. Ill probably end up shouting at the Tele.

not watching it delayed again gawd boris is always late. Got a nice episode of All creatures great and small to watch this evening. Had enough pollution for today with covid.

33 minutes to safely get back home into the next county...

Swimming was quiet. I don't know if its the grim weather or Covidnoia.

I've just read the legislation for tier 2. It's basically what the north East lockdown had, but the bit about not getting in private heavens has been removed.

linked households allowed for both childcare ( but if you're providing childcare for more than one set off grandchildren, pick your favourite) and for 'support bubble'

Must proofread. .. Not meeting in private gardens.