ADs head off to The Three Bellends and discuss luxury duvets and stationery

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(Socially distanced of course and in strictest obedience of all localised lockdowns and 3 or 5 tiers and whatever illogic the powers that be can dream up next)

The original digital discussion continues...

Considering the rampant child poverty in a chunk of his constituency the idea that he wants the kids to design a card for the very people who have pushed them into hunger has made me irrationally angry. It just seems so very dickensian.

"Please sir, I want some more" seems quite apt....

@TabbyStar 😂😂

Yes great idea to get all those kids you denied food vouchers to to send you a xmas card to say thanks!

Maybe ask him about that on his campaign page?

@LivinLaVidaLoki
Dickensian is a word I’ve used a lot throughout this awful time, especially in relation to how schools are treating our precious children and how they are freezing them to death and serving up cold food.

Little children should be seen and not heard comes to mind
Especially when they are muzzled.

Oops that was meant for
@TabbyStar

Sorry to hear about all the insomnia everyone is experiencing.
It’s hardly surprising with all the fear, anxiety and stress that’s around.
Sorry to hear about your mum , mercy.
Me and mr Dowser are shuffling towards old age and it’s frankly terrifying these days.
The thought of not being able to visit him in hospital or him , me
Fills me with dread.
I used to think england was such a wonderful, laid back, quirky country, that was indestructible in its values and beliefs.
What happened?
It hasn’t even happened while I was sleeping.
I’ve been awake through it all.☹️

I don't know if I can join the insomnia crew - not sleeping well but that's mainly the small human kicking my bladder! Still, another 5 weeks (ish) to go, and they can wake me up with loud demands for food instead.

I do find myself wondering whether, if I'd known in February that the world was about to go mad, I'd have still tried for a baby. Maybe this is my version of mum guilt getting started.

@littlebrowndog
That’s good to hear.
People getting on with it I mean

We are on the run down to coming home.
I never want to come home, but never have I felt so badly that I don’t want to come home.
Why would I?
Apart from my family who we aren’t meant to be meeting with just what is there to come home for.
Misery. Fear. Cold short days. Bullshit.
This holiday has been a wonderful blip in the matrix.

Dowser “ Fills me with dread.
I used to think england was such a wonderful, laid back, quirky country, that was indestructible in its values and beliefs.
What happened?
It hasn’t even happened while I was sleeping.
I’ve been awake through it all.☹️”

Yes. The first in time in my life I’ve had to try not to think of the future.

Are you in the Canaries? I fear they will follow the rest of Spain, though I don’t know how government works in Spain.

@110APiccadilly

I don't know if I can join the insomnia crew - not sleeping well but that's mainly the small human kicking my bladder! Still, another 5 weeks (ish) to go, and they can wake me up with loud demands for food instead.

I do find myself wondering whether, if I'd known in February that the world was about to go mad, I'd have still tried for a baby. Maybe this is my version of mum guilt getting started.

I read on here once that "there's never a good time to have a baby" and I think that's true. Not to try to minimise the crap time new mums have had during this, but I think there's always something in the world that makes you think 'oh god why have I brought a new human into this?'. You've just got to take your chance I think. Fingers crossed that things are looking up in the new year with a vaccine etc.,

NZ how they banned parcel's .....

www.nzherald.co.nz/business/covid-19-coronavirus-online-shopping-only-allowed-for-essentials-during-lockdown/GWZBTYJI3PXNMRBGIHT7GPZYXY/

Planning what to do for half term is looking simple as the weather looks uniformly pants all week. 😂

Booked National Trust for tomorrow. Avaliability looks pretty good for some reason! 😉 We've still got two sports lessons on, so I'm going for an alternating approach for the week for getting out. DS1 likes his down time.
I miss turning up at the swimming pool for a splash session. (Not the same as sitting through swimming lessons!)

Now to book something else for later in the week...

@BogRollBOGOF

Planning what to do for half term is looking simple as the weather looks uniformly pants all week. 😂

Booked National Trust for tomorrow. Avaliability looks pretty good for some reason! 😉 We've still got two sports lessons on, so I'm going for an alternating approach for the week for getting out. DS1 likes his down time.
I miss turning up at the swimming pool for a splash session. (Not the same as sitting through swimming lessons!)

Now to book something else for later in the week...

Do you know if you can get tracked and traced from going to national trusts? I'm avoiding so much as can't do the isolation (again!). I was thinking if you're outside surely they can't do it? But they've got your details if you go? I haven't got the app.

I know I'd have missed baby groups. Not that I actually made friends through them, in fact some were pretty lonely places when people turned up in packs and didn't mix, but it was a routine, time out of the house and some kind of social contact.

The way that my pregnancies timed with demand for supply teaching meant I stopped working rather early on and that was a long lonely time as the SPD developed, first time when I was pretty much snowed in for the final month, second time because DS1 was a tough toddler (now I know why!) and it was just grinding trying to do anything.

I do feel for pregnant/ new mums where everything is just restricted and complicated. It's so often an anxious and topsy turvey stage of life anyway

@Dowser

Sorry to hear about all the insomnia everyone is experiencing. It’s hardly surprising with all the fear, anxiety and stress that’s around. Sorry to hear about your mum , mercy. Me and mr Dowser are shuffling towards old age and it’s frankly terrifying these days. The thought of not being able to visit him in hospital or him , me Fills me with dread. I used to think england was such a wonderful, laid back, quirky country, that was indestructible in its values and beliefs. What happened? It hasn’t even happened while I was sleeping. I’ve been awake through it all.☹️

There is something scarily un-English about how the dementors have taken over. The English do not traditionally take kindly to being micro-managed. We're usually ones to muddle along and try to cheer each other up with bad jokes and tea, turning a blind eye to mild rule-breaking.

I've not been since the summer. Businesses do have to display it, but people aren't legally obliged to to use it. Just going around gardens, I'd try to dodge it rather than volunteering. It's prebooked so they know when I'm on site and iutdoors not mixing with others is minimal risk anyway. Apparently that house is open and you can queue to get in but I'm not sure how bothered I am with needing visors anyway.

I suppose I should download the dratted thing again. I object to being constantly badgered to turn my bluetooth on to be tracked when I spend very little time anywhere indoors away from home.

Didn’t the last lot of Puritans fuck off to America in the 16th century. They don’t believe in Christmas and believe pleasure is wrong.

I am still not downloading the app. Anywhere I've been that asked for me to check in a just told them I don't have the app and I will do it on paper. So far no probs, but I have avoided places that I've heard on here won't let you in without it. (Except McDonald's, actually, had planned to do drive through but the queue was huge. Just walked past the poster thing, no staff on the door.)

I don't plan to download the app either. Although to be fair google seems to do a good job of tracking us anyway..? Everytime I/we have dined out/had drinks I will get DH to scan the QR code (not the NHS one) or I use the paper format.

Found you all!

Got back from Rhodes last night. The flight was much less dementoring than going out, though I guess people were less relaxed as it was the end of holiday not the beginning.

The most popular face masks in Greece were little upside down shields which sat on the chin and covered the mouths. Probably do even less than fabric muzzles to avoid spreading germs and felt very tokenistic. Holiday rep was a dementor who informed us the ‘Covid hotel’ in Rhodes which is a five star hotel for those who test positive on landing was ‘full’ I know the Rhodes figures as I followed them daily so i know she was talking bullshit.

I’ve avoided the English news but what I’ve seen on Facebook and Twitter makes me think we are still not looking for ways out of the mess and still instilling the fear.

The U.K. passenger locator form is also shit but no surprises there!

Went to McDonalds on Friday's INSET day.
Looked at the length of the queue to get near the drive thru and decided that to make our timed entry to the zoo, that we'd better do a takeaway and eat in the car.
Goodness knows what was cracking off in there, but after the time faffing to order on the screens it was over 20 mins to recieve the food from the time of the receipt. But because it was takeaway, no tracing required!

There seemed to be a lot of staff standing expectantly looking at screens as though it might solve something.

I think they tend to get jammed up with the deliveroo type orders these days.

We end up there a lot because of the ASD safe and predictable thing. You know what you're getting there, no meltdowns over random seeds on the bread or not expecting random onions etc.

Worldgonecrazy - hope you had a good break in the sun regardless of dementor holiday rep.

In new news even DH (he wavers between a D and an AD) has started to notice that all the tv ads with mask wearing folk are unnecessary and patronising. Trying to make us think it's the 'new normal'.

I just shout FUCK OFF at the TV. Yes- childish but it makes me feel better to get it out

I shout at those and the fucking stupid motorway signs up here:

PLAN AHEAD STAY SAFE SAVE LIVES

I’m not downloading the app, I haven’t got the space on my phone. I also switched off the IPhone tracker alert thing. I also have location switched off. Paranoid me. I just fill my details in the book and going off the couple of local places, I’m not the only one.