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...

@flower11 they quarantined sweets???!!!! The world has truly gone mad 😱😱😱

They want us to quarantine the Halloween sweetie bags we’re I live

Where

I've heard something about quarantining birthdays sweets too.
We've got wrap-around provision and some extra curricular sports. I'm trying not to think to hard about the whole thing as long as the DCs seem happy which they are.

No bubbles have closed yet although some days the attendance seems quiet. Our neighbourhood is up to 13 cases, so that's roughly 1 per 1000.

I do get a little panic every time my phone rings and I see the local area code, especially as DS2 has asthma and coughs his way through every autumn and has done since his first one when he was borderline for hospital admission with bronchiolitis. By the time I'd got through the 111 protocols and to the out of hours at 5am he was just coming through the worst of the worst night.

I just want to know what the agenda is for half term and if it's worth booking anything.

Frankly, I'm so close to my personal deadline of the (already delayed) 11+ which takes place tomorrow I think I can cope with a lockdown now. I just wanted my dcs school to stay open until then, get dc1 through that so the pressure is off. We were trying to be low pressure, but there are so many tiger mums at their school /other local schools, that it's filtered over to dc1. Other local schools have fallen all around our town, ours have managed to stay open, and now I'll cope.

Both dcs have friends who's parents are AD enough to be happy to do meet ups at the park/local woods even if we are locked down, so think this will be OK.

I cant see that another lockdown will do all that much more than buy a few weeks until its back to same levels as today.

Wales re school, grand kids are off for two weeks at the end of this week is this not the norm for half term then??

Half term is usually a week – then 2 weeks Christmas and two for Easter.

I don’t think we’ve been told half term is two weeks yet – the school’s calendar was last time I looked showing one week.

Our welsh council web pages still have half term as a week - not sure if they're not up to date or if it's beacuse we only had three weeks year not four back before summer holidays.

three weeks year not four back before summer holidays

Three weeks back end of last school year not four welsh government first said we'd get. Sorry one of the cats wants to play and is all over the key board and my shoulders - kids are due back in a minute bet she'll hide then rather than get them to play.

Bad news coming from Northern Ireland in the form of schools & pubs to shut.

DD says if they shut everything down over half term here then when the A level & GCSE students don't get good grades next year the govt can say it was the kids' fault for not revising hard enough when there were no distractions in October 2020.

Wales to ban travel from UK Covid hotspots

I would have thought a travel ban would be unenforceable unless you use all of your police (and there wouldn't be enough of them) to set up road blocks. This is really becoming ridiculous now. Why not just appeal to people's common sense instead of potentially criminalising them? (Although if these are just guidelines it's toothless anyway).

It's daft isn't it, they have covid in Wales in high levels already in some Valleys areas. Are they in denial perhaps. Nicola is the same going on about bus trips to Blackpool

Just seen this joy on local neighbourhood site

See the light. There's a lockdown going down in the town because of a coronavirus that can kill us. It's making some people mad and others sad or bad but this is not a time to fight but to see the light, to love one another like a brother, to see the true and know who is you 🌕

@Orangeblossom7777

Just seen this joy on local neighbourhood site

See the light. There's a lockdown going down in the town because of a coronavirus that can kill us. It's making some people mad and others sad or bad but this is not a time to fight but to see the light, to love one another like a brother, to see the true and know who is you 🌕

Beats the lout who's threatening to give a "Glaswegian Kiss" to mask dodgers on the bus on our local news pages. I have pointed out that it's wiser to keep your distance than make face to face contact and commit assault.

Hmm, I also saw angry posts about people not wearing masks in town as in outside...but we don't have to do that. I had some man stop dead in front of me in a mask yesterday in the street, quite strange. i think it is making people mad.

I have a hypothesis as to why the South especially the sw where I am is low cases, something that I have discussed with other and seems feasible, just wondering if anyone else this way thinks the same?
Back in Feb/March we has alot of students fly back from Italy, people coming back from cruises with weird colds, also before and around then all our schools and most people I know had a weird flu bug, the schools were literally sending kids hope at a rate of knots! Don't know about hospital admissions as that wasn't daily news back then! That obviously may well be a coincidence?! But now although we have a Very high elderly population especially in my town we have had no cases, kids in school's are getting 'symptoms' but our nearest testing facility is normally at least a 2 hour drive, many people rely on public transport which is patchy here. Someone I know works in a testing facility and said they are very quiet! Schools aren't encouraging parents to test and just state to return when better! Only confirmed cases seem to be in hospitals and a couple of our universities?! Happy to be corrected but wondering if the lack of testing and lack of people agreeing to be tested might explain our low figures??

@Wishfulthinking1977

I have a hypothesis as to why the South especially the sw where I am is low cases, something that I have discussed with other and seems feasible, just wondering if anyone else this way thinks the same? Back in Feb/March we has alot of students fly back from Italy, people coming back from cruises with weird colds, also before and around then all our schools and most people I know had a weird flu bug, the schools were literally sending kids hope at a rate of knots! Don't know about hospital admissions as that wasn't daily news back then! That obviously may well be a coincidence?! But now although we have a Very high elderly population especially in my town we have had no cases, kids in school's are getting 'symptoms' but our nearest testing facility is normally at least a 2 hour drive, many people rely on public transport which is patchy here. Someone I know works in a testing facility and said they are very quiet! Schools aren't encouraging parents to test and just state to return when better! Only confirmed cases seem to be in hospitals and a couple of our universities?! Happy to be corrected but wondering if the lack of testing and lack of people agreeing to be tested might explain our low figures??

Sounds like a strong hypothesis to me.

More testing definitely leads to finding more false positives and lots more asymptomatic and low symptomatic infections - which in medical terms are not actual cases.

Well you can't have a "case" without a test There was a thread about April/ May time where lots of people in the SW reported Covid-like illness prior to Feb/ March.

Summer tourism certainly didn't kick it off, and the region has clearly had exposure. I think a lot is to do with more temperate weather making it easy to be outside. My only mask wearing on the South Coast was on the open air boat to Brownsea Island. All activities were outside. I think the summer months were better the further south you were which might explain increased northern growth through August and a slower than average settling of cases.

Plus no hotspots to encourage lots of random testing and finding of cases

New thread due. Are we going with Boris in a fridge?

That's an interesting thought, wishful.

I also wonder if there are more cases in areas where there are more care homes, now that regular testing of staff & residents is happening? I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but it would raise numbers, compared to areas where there are fewer care homes.

Same in areas where there are major hospitals. Every in-patient going in gets swabbed- more than once. Patients due to go in for elective procedures get swabbed. HCPs are alert to symptoms & have to get themselves & symptomatic members of their family tested before they can return to work.

This is how the testing process is meant to work. But if you seek, you will find.

Chuck in 2 universities where students get tested asymptomatically & you get a Nottingham.

Boris isolating in the fridge sounds grand.

How exciting - I’ve only ever named my son and dog before!

In parts of south wales the hospitals are giving out covid like smarties so many cases caught there and people dying. That is sure skewing the welsh figures. In our health board only 4 deaths in two months WITH covid.

I hope they don’t make half term two weeks, it’s done nothing but bloody rain here. It’s hard enough to get DD off the PlayStation as it is, without her being off school for an extra week.
So shocked about NI and Wales.Why is only being alive important, who cares if you have no job/ money or no quality of life. Think I’ll go and have a nice cup of tea in my DP’s garden before we go into tier 3. The council are desperate for the extra money, so it is only a matter of time.
Obviously my DP’s will have to throw cup in bin after, can’t be too careful after all.