ADs are braving the wind and the rain

[CruCru]

Hi all

I couldn’t find the new thread so here is one I set up. It’s windy out there! Glad I weeded my flowerbeds a couple of days ago.

@DominaShantotto

Aaah I see the fuckwits have decided country naice walks are only for country people and you mustn't drive to walk along a deserted beach because that's a non-essential journey.

I am experiencing bursts of total DESPAIR intermingled with extreme deja vu.

Same

@DominaShantotto I'd second getting your husband to delete them. Your post reminds me of another poster who said that one thing she drew the line at was taking any photos of her children in masks.

Signing back in - I've been off these threads for a while as I was trying to have a bit of a life while it was still allowed. I've just been murdering grannies by saying on another thread that it's perfectly fine and legal to have a tutor in your house.

@DominaShantotto

Aaah I see the fuckwits have decided country naice walks are only for country people and you mustn't drive to walk along a deserted beach because that's a non-essential journey.

I am experiencing bursts of total DESPAIR intermingled with extreme deja vu.

Ah but wasn’t the idea last time that if you travel by car you could have an accident (obviously, we all have car accidents weekly) and therefore have to call the emergency services that they will be diverted to you from saving the life of someone with COVID and that you are therefore responsible? Seems reasonable .

Someone on a thread here recently responded to me saying that people quarantining (from abroad rather than those with positive tests) should be allowed to wander outside and walk the dog etc that you could trip in a rut (A RUT!! WHAT IS A RUT?!) and therefore need to call 999 and spread your dirty COVID genes to half the hospital.

@DominaShantotto

I won’t delete them as they’re part of the kids childhood and I think it will damage them more in the long term if they have a blank space in their life history.

I agree, keep them. Its part of their childhood and yes it’s unpleasant now but that’s how life is at the moment. It will be all over one day and when things are more normal it’s something to look back on as something you all got through.

Ds2 was born prem and I took photos of him in SCBU hooked up to all his tubes and stuff, dh pressured me into deleting them as he didn’t want to remember him like that etc blah blah. I still haven’t forgiven him for that (or myself for listening to him). Fortunately I have the photos my parents took or I’d have no photos of his 1st few weeks.

"Someone on a thread here recently responded to me saying that people quarantining (from abroad rather than those with positive tests) should be allowed to wander outside and walk the dog etc that you could trip in a rut (A RUT!! WHAT IS A RUT?!) and therefore need to call 999 and spread your dirty COVID genes to half the hospital."

Perhaps some people watched too many episodes of "Countryside 999" in the 1990s, with Michael Burke doing the ominous voice-over.

"It was just a normal day for Angela when she set off for a normal walk to the post office along the bridalway. Little did she know that there would be a giant RUT lying in wait....."
And poor Angela would be left semi-conscious with a broken toe, until discovered by a lone sheepdog, which somehow managed to alert Mountain Rescue & the air ambulance. Angela didn't have covid but she might have done, thus putting the lives of 3 paramedics and the farmer who owned the sheepdog at no risk at all, but she might have done. And she took up a cubicle in A&E, thus denying a child a ventilator.
And all because she wanted stamps to send a birthday card to her mother who lives in a care home, when she could've used Zoom.
Selfish Angela.

(I loved that programne, still can't go for a walk without doing my own voiceover.)

I can think of a rut on one of my regular running routes that is probably already sufficiently full of water that I could swim some incredibly muddy lengths

My naice countryside reached tier 2 ahead of us. FFS I can't remember how many days we've been tier 2 and it was only at the end of last week!
Trouble is, my naice countryside isn't nearly so naice when it's ankle deep in skiddy, claggy mud.

Fuck the dementors, I'm driving for exercise this time so I don't drown in mud or fuck my knees running round in circles in my neighbourhood. It's for The Greater Good. The Greater Good

The ground is thoroughly squelchy here. I don't think our local firework display could have gone Ahead, even without covid. Everyone would have sunk and completely trashed the grass.

Just opened a thread asking about whether people will comply this time and there was a "we have to end the mask exemptions" comment on the very first page.

@TheOrchidKiller thank you for that laugh!

It’s honestly amazing any of us are still alive the amount of ruts we are falling into, nevermind the car accidents, on a daily basis.

Selfish, selfish Angela! If only she had listened. Doesn’t she know that we could get rid of Covid if only people abided by the always completely sensible rules? - the fact that we can’t get rid of the common cold or chicken pox or anything is by the by.

Reading the comments section on a lockdown article in the daily fail tonight was amused to see the english saying bugger this we are going to Wales to shop and eat during lockdown. Xmas shopping cannot wait. It is usually us that have a grand day out in England for xmas shopping.

Sitting here worrying about the wind and rain been blowing a hoolie since tea time. Huge gusts, been raining hard, we have flood warnings out now. Dreading the morning, I think there will be a lot of damage.

@MercyBooth

Just opened a thread asking about whether people will comply this time and there was a "we have to end the mask exemptions" comment on the very first page.

@PickAChew

The ground is thoroughly squelchy here. I don't think our local firework display could have gone Ahead, even without covid. Everyone would have sunk and completely trashed the grass.

We didn't have bonfire night around this area last year. Too many spare metres of water flooding the parks or just utterly waterlogged.at higher locations.

The city's newly finished floodgates worked well though.

It was a shit summer/ autumn/ winter. It's hardly filled me with enthusiasm about this one...

Makes me think of that Eddie Izzard skit where he repeatedly contradicts himself
You mean the legendary Death or Cake, Cake or Death sketch?

Boris Johnson Christmas single. Doing the rounds.
twitter.com/mrchrisfloyd/status/1321905507330936832?s=20

Boris Johnson Christmas song full version.

Here we fucking go again And people wonder why i defected to the AD threads.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/site_stuff/4058114-Can-we-please-have-something-done-about-the-ableism-and-mask-exemption-hatred-on-here?pg=4

@thenightsky

Makes me think of that Eddie Izzard skit where he repeatedly contradicts himself You mean the legendary Death or Cake, Cake or Death sketch?

No (although that is fab too)... it's just a brief moment where he flicks between nodding and shaking his head. I found a gif to show it but am so technologically ancient I don't know how to link it slowly turns into mother

DD is learning to drive, already delayed 5 months due to lockdown, she won't have driving lessons but I still want her to get out and practice so she doesn't go backwards. She's wants to get an apprenticeship and chances are she'll need to be able to drive as we're rural-ish. We've both recently had covid so massively unlikely to be a risk to anyone (despite my DM worrying that we might be one of the few people in the world to catch it again) so I think we might just have to take the "scenic" route on our "essential" journeys to the shops.

Is it this one Sonic?

We’re all slipping slowly into depression here ... dh admitted last night he was really struggling (I knew he was but he rarely talks about feelings). It’s just the relentlessness of day after day with nothing to look forward to and no end in sight. And even when covid’s over, what’s going to be left? How many independent shops, cafes, small museums, zoos, theatre groups, choirs, sports clubs etc etc are going to survive? Dd has a Saturday job at a riding school which she will lose .. again, ds2’s work placement is being delayed.. again and the charity I work for will lose yet more money as our shops will shut and there’ll be more redundancies ..again

A couple of slightly cheering signs that more people are veering towards the AD outlook though ... I’m on a horse riding forum where there’s been discussion as to whether or not riding is ‘allowed’. There have been a couple of people doing the ‘is it essential?/what if you fall off and put pressure on the NHS/just stay home’ routine but they’ve been outnumbered by the people saying they’re making their own risk assessment and will stick within the actual rules rather than the made up ones

Seem to be having trouble getting it to post.. Maybe mumsnet won't accept gifs ?

It’s just the relentlessness of day after day with nothing to look forward to and no end in sight.

That's what is getting to me. Usually there is something enjoyable like a holiday or a nice meal out to look forward to. But now it's work, chores, sleep and repeat.

Do we think Trump will win? He won't do lockdown.