ADs self isolate in a fridge Boris style

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We've polished off our hotel breakfasts, flocked to the beaches and eaten out to help out with Rishi. Now the D-Day style floatilla of Anti-Dementor boats weather the stormy seas of tiers 1, 2 and 3 and support each other through the calls for lockdown.

Hold on tight and get those bouyancy aids on...

Hello all.

Normally I'd be pissed off by the Cummings news... But I'm so ground down by it all, it's just yet another thing on the pile of shit that is our government, their ineptitude and general bastardry. Not even mildly surprised.

Checking in. Great title and intro @BogRollBOGOF (thought of you today as I went to Costco!)

I've been humming this all day so thought I'd give you all an ear worm for bedtime.

I honestly do think we're at the point of major unrest now. Have you seen the clip this evening of the armed police going to a gym on the Wirral to issue fines?

twitter.com/_helendale/status/1316469320554250240?s=21

Checking in. Phase 55 or whatever it is in Scotland central region

Currently locked in linen cupboard as directed by our dear leader just in case the kitchen might get infected and cause the whole central region to combust

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In July 2016, Melanie Woodcock from Bridgend in Wales was handed a jail sentence for her failure to pay an outstanding council tax bill worth £4,742.

Woodcock was too ill to work at the time and was the recipient of benefits. She spent 40 days in prison before her release on appeal.

Poor woman - compared to the wealthy Cummings family.

Just how is Cummings getting away with this?

He's one of the architects of this unholy mess.

Just checking in, completely missed the last thread, currently waiting on test result for ds2, amazed I actually managed to book a test and quite frankly it was an interesting, slightly amusing experienced due to ds sneezing every time he stuck the swab up his nose 😁

My first non-phallic title

By 2020 standards, my day has been action packed
DH had a long distance site visit, so I banged on some heavy metal to listen to while cleaning and vacumming. The landing hasn't been so tidy and clean since BiL was last here probably around Christmas last year? I have finally cracked on moving the black bags of clutter that DH randomly pulled out of the defunct en-suite, and pulled onto the landing when he was moving in hisoffice furniture 7 months ago. They just kind of became a symbol of lockdown, and our tip still requires booking a couple of weeks ahead FFS.
He took my car as his was being serviced.
Had to walk the DCs down to the garage after school.
Had to work out how to drive DH's car home... it's an automatic and I'm a creature of habit. The eŕgonomics also tend to be oversized for me. Funnily as we both want big boots, we ended up with a 7 seater each, mine's the dainty small one (which ain't that small, just DH stopped short of needing a bus lisence). Bonkers that it is illegal to fill either car up with people! I did resort to getting out the manual to find out how to activate his silly handbrake button. That amusedthe DCs, but the drive was straightforward once I'd worked out how to move it.
Been food shopping tonight. That late in the evening, it's self service only,and they've got more perspex up. The claustrophobia kicked in and my visor had to come off and it was just within my coping range then. Swimming would definitely be a fail then.

All mundane, but at least I feel productive.

Saw a stretch limo around the corner. The DCs were fascinated (not seen one for yonks). DS1 asked how many people you could get in it. I replied "with social distancing, about 3"

There is a lot of anger in my town about the tier system.

And the possibility of another lockdown.

news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-test-and-trace-consultants-paid-equivalent-of-1-5m-salary-12104028

Thanks @HeIenaDove, knew someone would find a link.
I think we will be in tier 3 by half term, the council are desperate for the extra money.
Wales and NI are worse than tier 3. I’m sick of them just kicking the can down the road. Every time we are unlocked, the virus does what viruses do.

I think it was @TrustTheGeneGenie that called it the lockdown hokey cokey.

@HeIenaDove

www.joe.co.uk/news/dominic-cummings-council-tax-253065

DOMINIC CUMMINGS HAS £30K UNPAID COUNCIL TAX BILL 'WRITTEN OFF'
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The council tax charges will come into effect from the start of October 2020
An unpaid council tax bill worth between £30,000 and £50,000 on on two properties at the North-East farm of Dominic Cummings and his family has been written off.

According to a report in The National, two properties on the land, one of which was built in 2002, are said to have been repeatedly in breach of planning permissions regulations, though charges will not be backdated due to the amount of time which has elapsed.

They should have informed them (the authorities) and it should have been checked," Durham County Councillor John Shuttleworth said.

“If it was anybody else, they would be getting charged and it would be backdated, or they would be getting taken to court.

“It just proves there is two sets of rules, one for them and another for everyone else. It is not right.

“We have to abide by the law and it we don’t you get put in prison or you get fined. They are just above it.”

In July 2016, Melanie Woodcock from Bridgend in Wales was handed a jail sentence for her failure to pay an outstanding council tax bill worth £4,742.

Woodcock was too ill to work at the time and was the recipient of benefits. She spent 40 days in prison before her release on appeal.

Wow. Think of all the ridiculously tall and densely distributed bollards the council could buy and install if they collected all that council tax.

Checking in so I can have a good dose of sanity on my threads

Always say that I will not be drawn in but now find myself one (of several) Liverpool people defending our city because a couple of hundred kids decided to dance in the streets for a few minutes before the police, with no difficulty, brought matters to an end although to hear Piers Morgan et al you would have thought the entire city had descended into anarchy. The way in which this is rapidly descending into an ‘us v them’ issue will in my view have far greater ramifications long after Covid. I always thought this Govt was entirely incompetent but the way in which they manage to vilify one section of the community at a time be it the young generally, students specifically or people in Liverpool etc to deflect from their own failings is truly remarkable .

Boris has not forgiven Liverpool for making him look like an eejit.

PickAChew that’s so funny, but so true. Shame they can’t fix the pot holes. Or even put the lights back on the A167.

I was wanting to do a marathon to celebrate my 40th birthday and would have seriously considered the Liverpool Rock and Roll. Glad I decided on 40 not 39 because of age grading as it must have been gutting for all those people building up to their longest runs and it all just stops. Looks like it might be more like 41 for me. If I'm going to put my body through all that, I want to know the race is happening!

On that note, the council has pulled permission for my 10 miler next month. The organiser has already successfully organised a race in the last month.
Still a goer for the weekend, for my half.

Another reason for not feeling ambitious for the spring is consistency of training this year; the lack of!

I've passed through Liverpool but not properly bee . I've trained the DCs up in Beatle appeeciation though.

There is a dementor on the council with the usual local envy of the city next-door. Knobber. We don't have to have extra restrictions just because the other side do. We had an early peak and a steady drip of cases so hopefully our immunity should be better than average.

There ye all. Must do a bit of reading on your tiers situation, I'm a bit out of the loop. Can barely keep on top of what we are doing here.

No visitors at all allowed into anyone's house from midnight tonight here. Fun times for me I live by myself.

God I can't believe this shit is going on 8 months. I gave to push all thoughts of there being no end in sight out of my mind.

The Bellend pub thing is only sadly funny - they did it after announcing they'd have to close.

Bradford here, so tier 2 is actually lighter than the lockdown we were in for the last month or so. Hopefully because the numbers are going down, but I wouldn't bet on it given the absolute innumeracy and lack of evidence based government we're lumbered with.

Lost BT home internet for a few hours here in North Essex.

Checking in. Back later once I have dragged myself from my bed to office kitchen table.

Morning all. Just been trying to plan a few relatively normal things with the other family in our bubble, so you're probably right @justasking111 and Drakeford will stop that too. Every time I feel like we're clawing a tiny bit of life back...

School phone lines collapsed halfway through their telephone parents evening!

Found you. Awesome thread title.

And I still don't understand who benefits from wrecking people's lives like this.

Whoop, here we all are again. I am just totally numb now to pretty much anything. The despair is pretty strong, so I'm just trying to keep on keeping on.

I don't even want to go for a run and this is normally my escape. Although I lost all the skin on one toe after the weekends 50km, so it's a bit sore now...

My next booked race is in Sheffield, but not until next June, so who knows whether that will go ahead... it's one I really want to do as I was born in Sheffield and lived there until I was 14, so it's a bit of nostalgia for me.

Entered the ballot for London marathon as per every year, doubt I'll get a place though. Also the ballot for the London Landmarks half in May, but again, I doubt I will get a space.

Have decided I'm going to stick to half marathon distance now - have proved I can do the longer distances, but half is much more civilised!