Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Chat

Join the discussion and chat with other Mumsnetters about everyday life, relationships and parenting.

Original poster

ADs are braving the wind and the rain

996 replies

CruCru · 30/10/2020 09:12

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.

OP posts:
Thread gallery
7
Whoooootaminute · 30/10/2020 12:47

A suitable title for this thread on a day like today.

After finding out that my area is going into Tier 3 I chugged over half a bottle of red last night and have a dreadful head this morning. I think hangovers a disproportionately worse with age...

Had a wet and windy 4 mile walk to try and shift the head but nah..

Watching the news and chuckling at The Orange One ( Trump, not Peter Andre). He is so full of himself Grin

justasking111 · 30/10/2020 12:52

[quote Orangeblossom7777]I read one of the reasons why lots in Wales as they are not sending them home prompt enough. So they are well enough but being kept in hospital..

Senior doctors have called for a review of how hospital patients in Wales are discharged during the pandemic.
The Royal College of Physicians said guidelines were causing delays and adding to pressures faced by the NHS.
It said patients who had recovered were staying longer than needed, taking up beds

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-54730245[/quote]
It took two of my friends six months to get SS organised so their dads were released from hospital to nursing homes, the homes were on board, as were the hospitals, SS were the sticking point, one friends dad died within ten days of being released, the other one who had organised a masonic home so paid for SS still would not release him. It has been a bloody mess in Wales for years. I should say one friend was a politician and she could not circumvent the machine.

bakingcupcakes · 30/10/2020 12:59

I dropped off the last thread and possibly missed one in-between... We're still plodding on. DS made it to half term without having to isolate. This week we've been out lots. Got to take advantage of things being open (despite being tier 3). I've really liked our autumn walks. It's the colours. I just love them.

Hangovers definitely get worse with age. I drank half a bottle of wine last weekend and thought I was dying after. Not touched it since. I used to be able to drink loads. Not anymore it appears! Grin

I've booked a santa experience for December. Not told DS as doubt we'll make it (isolating/sickness/potential lockdown etc). The first one I looked at wanted £60 for the 2 of us! Shock We didn't book that. I'm not made of money. I couldn't help feeling they're perhaps cashing in on the whole covid thing and people fearing nothing else will run.

110APiccadilly · 30/10/2020 13:02

I can't believe I'm not jumping on the Welsh Government, but...

Are the delays to do with making sure they're not sending more people into care homes who might have the virus? That said, surely some creative thinking (e.g. using Nightingale capacity to quarantine people before release) could come up with something that would neither infect care homes, nor full up hospitals.

Recycledblonde · 30/10/2020 13:10

My DS1 has been told to self isolate by the app, he has no symptoms and the only place he’s been in the last 2 weeks is here and work( he lives alone in a flat) he wears a mask at work at all times and spends his time sanitising his hands. God knows what his work will do if they all end up self isolating, obviously the masks are useless.
He’s come home which I know is against the rules but 2 weeks trapped in a first floor flat will do him no good and both DH and I have had Covid so I think our risks are low.

DominaShantotto · 30/10/2020 13:11

Tier 3 being impeccably observed in the garden next door - half the street in there as normal drinking (they start on tea - then extend to booze as the day goes on).

Sonicthehedgehogg · 30/10/2020 13:33

@NannyGythaOgg I have a copy of Guards Guards by my bed which will be my isolation task to actually finish. DH and the outlaws are all fans so are keen for me to join the club.

MissEWeatherwax · 30/10/2020 13:34

Well looks like we are going in tier 3, even though our county figures are going down!! What is the fucking point . It’s now nearly 9 months since the children and I hugged my DP’s. I fucking hate my life.

PinkSparklyPussyCat · 30/10/2020 13:34

@WouldBeGood

Quote from my book just now. A thriller, but wise:

Not dying is not the same as being alive

Jeffrey Deaver

Which Jeffrey Deaver is that from? I love him but I'm sure there's loads I haven't read
HitchikersGuide · 30/10/2020 13:35

Hello again.
I don't often post - and when I do it's usually just to rant and disappear! - so hope it's not over the top to ask:
Can we all agree to totally ignore people who come on basically to troll?
I feel so strongly that we have this one little corner of politeness and reason and the rude idiots elsewhere have hundreds of threads they can spout their unnecessarily aggressive shit on. + we can't really be found without some effort so I find it really offensive when people come on here basically to be nasty.

HitchikersGuide · 30/10/2020 13:43

Anyway, aside from that plea, I'm hoping that despite the total hysteria, people in RL are just quietly ignoring the rules where they can and trying to get on with their lives.

ISaySteadyOn · 30/10/2020 13:44

Agreed. I love these threads and I don't want anything to derail them.

Orangeblossom7777 · 30/10/2020 13:49

I don't think they have to isolate if it is the app

I don't think we get that derailed do we- usually just gets deleted and carry on

MaxNormal · 30/10/2020 13:51

Hello all just checking in. Its not actually raining here today, I had a walk! Bought some pain au raisons for my elevenses Grin

Orangeblossom7777 · 30/10/2020 13:51

www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54660237

yes if it is the app it is voluntary.

Orangeblossom7777 · 30/10/2020 13:51

It is sleeting here!

NannyGythaOgg · 30/10/2020 13:52

@Recycledblonde

My DS1 has been told to self isolate by the app, he has no symptoms and the only place he’s been in the last 2 weeks is here and work( he lives alone in a flat) he wears a mask at work at all times and spends his time sanitising his hands. God knows what his work will do if they all end up self isolating, obviously the masks are useless. He’s come home which I know is against the rules but 2 weeks trapped in a first floor flat will do him no good and both DH and I have had Covid so I think our risks are low.
I think app instructions are guidance rather than law as the app is voluntary and you can disable it at any time. It would make sense for him to be extra careful and not go hugging random grandparents warn work, but I don't think he has to isolate legally.
Orangeblossom7777 · 30/10/2020 13:54

Oh dear

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-54748253

would prefer the week on / off to that for the teens

ValiumTowers · 30/10/2020 13:56

On the subject of usernames, I am loving the Terry Pratchett user names. Haven't read his books despite them being a staple of mine in school and at uni. I might have to start over again and get DS12 into them too. Also, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - I need some fun stuff to read to make sense of the current madness that the world is! Grin

Orangeblossom7777 · 30/10/2020 13:57

Thought this comments was apt:

"Here's some news. If you are wearing a bog-standard face mask you breathe the same air as someone not wearing a face mask. The only difference is that you don't project as far if you cough or sneeze. Unless all the kids and staff are going to wear masks which have a tight seal with the face with a filter through which all air passes, this will just make communication poorer and increase fear."

NothingIsWrong · 30/10/2020 13:57

New thread! I have had the kids out in the rain and wind this morning, done us all good. They've now all dispersed and I'm settling down to a sewing machine session. Lovely.

DominaShantotto · 30/10/2020 13:59

Sat in another seminar from boredom if not hell. No one really wants to be sitting through it so it's like pulling teeth.

BogRollBOGOF · 30/10/2020 14:00

@HitchikersGuide

Hello again. I don't often post - and when I do it's usually just to rant and disappear! - so hope it's not over the top to ask: Can we all agree to totally ignore people who come on basically to troll? I feel so strongly that we have this one little corner of politeness and reason and the rude idiots elsewhere have hundreds of threads they can spout their unnecessarily aggressive shit on. + we can't really be found without some effort so I find it really offensive when people come on here basically to be nasty.
Quietly reporting is good for the persitant offenders that can't take a hint.
BogRollBOGOF · 30/10/2020 14:05

On a park bench in a muddy swamp.
DS1 has just spent 10 minutes in the toilets washing off the mud after making the mistake of charging at DS2. DS1 does not like muddy hands...

Recycledblonde · 30/10/2020 14:17

@Orangeblossom7777

www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54660237

yes if it is the app it is voluntary.

I thought that but work have told him to self isolate, they are encouraged to have the app and check in each time they go to work, he works as a cinema manager so I think they are terrified of getting shut down.