ADs won't tut when you're stuck in a rut, we're all too busy pouring Amaretto in our porridge

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Welcome into another thread of alternative reality as we try to nagivate through the Coronacoaster of life.

We may be up, down, spinning around (generally in confusion at the next random edict drawn up on the back of a fag packet) but never sucking the joy out of life.

I suspect Australia and New Zealand will require a current vaccination cert. And America will just because it can

Re. the comments on elderly people. It backs up an earlier post of mine..............that they are only interested when they can use the elderly and other vulnerable groups to emotionally blackmail others.

Looks like we arent the callous ones after all!

@NannyGythaOgg

I suspect Australia and New Zealand will require a current vaccination cert. And America will just because it can

Considering how absolutely mental NZ and Australia have been so far, I can definitely see them insisting on this. Also think Biden might, just to help differentiate himself from Trump's approach.

Although the south coast/ south west maintained their low rates all the way through the tourist season. I suspect that the milder, drier climate helped to keep people outdoors and avoid indoor contacts.
We were away the worse week in August. One day was largely a wash-out until it calmed enough to go fossil hunting in torrential mizxle, but the other days, it was easy to stay outdoors all the time.
When we go to Cornwall, it's scenery, gardens, mines and fishing villages.

It annoys me when they just go for stuff as it is Wales / Scotland doing it even though it is a crap idea. But just because it is different / not England.

I do think Wales Government is trying to do the best it can for it's population though I may not always agree with them what that is.

The GCSE system here is just different to England. DD1 would have already in a normal GCSE year have done 50% of all her three science GCSEs and several other exams would already have had a significant % already sat.

I also don't think it's clear exactly what the exam changes here will mean yet.

I was going to stir things up on the supermarket thread but couldn't be bothered. I take clients shopping as part of my work. They are mostly exempt from mask wear due to anxiety, PTSD , or learning disabilities. We got agro the other week in sainsbury's, the staff member and her colleagues backed my client. I'd like to think the lady that challenged us may think next time, but probably not.

I'm having a low motivation month day. Supposed to be cracking on with a big writing job for a regular client. Every time I open the file it's like my brain diverts to basic mode. So I have to go and do something practical like empty the tumble dryer. I'm really lucky and grateful to have this piece of work and if I didn't we'd be in real trouble financially.

I'm like that. Self-employed and work being constantly cancelled and moved so I'm pretty worried financially but even when I do have any it's difficult to be arsed. I've got a pitch to prepare for next week, but I'm reluctant to spend a couple of days working on something that might come to nothing so I'm doing that crap thing of dragging it out over many days instead of just getting on and finishing it. You also reminded me I've done a load of washing that's just sitting in the machine .

I don’t really want the vaccine as I’m not at massive risk on paper, but to be honest I’ll have anything that gets me back to normality. The old normal.

With apologies to English ADs, but since Monday I've been swimming and to the gym! Feel so much better (though obviously with 36 weeks' worth of baby on board I'm taking it fairly easy.) Suddenly back to being glad I live in Wales.

I’ve had a funny day today. I had a afternoon nap and now feel really rough.
People don’t seem happy about vaccine, they are arguing about who should get it first. A certain profession seems to think they should be first.

A certain long necked creature is of that view, it seems

@TabbyStar yes that's it isn't it. I've had a lot of jobs fall out at the last minute this year too, more than normal. So something comes along and I think, what's the point? they'll only cancel it at 4.30pm on Friday, when I've booked out the time and can't sell it anywhere else. And I've never been ghosted professionally as much as I have this year.

Still. Doing the positive thing so being grateful for the work I do have. Back in March I was convinced it was curtains and we'd lose our home and that hasn't happened. (DH and I both self-employed.) I've got some loyal clients, which is terrific.

Evening all.

A lot of us have been weepy at work today. Everyone saying the same, it's all the same each day, everyone's flat, there's nothing nice happening.

I can't even muster up much thought on the vaccine news. So many things have been promised & taken away or not delivered on, I see little point in getting excited.

I have so far only had the one piece of cake today.

I am very impressed with the term "Compliance Foghorn". It will be my secret name for the chief dementor & fun-sucker I have to deal with. (Considering making a blu-tak effigy & getting busy with some drawing pins).

The thing is if we give a certain profession it first and they all mysteriously drop dead or get long vaccine we'll be accused of using them as Guinea pigs or sacrificing them and then WHO WILL TEACH THE CHILDREN. (I mean, obviously, it's us because twinkl and a working parent with 0 experience in teaching is enough, right?)

@MissEWeatherwax

I’ve had a funny day today. I had a afternoon nap and now feel really rough. People don’t seem happy about vaccine, they are arguing about who should get it first. A certain profession seems to think they should be first.

Why on earth??!!! Ffs. Also again, I completely agree with @MercyBooth They care about no one but themselves, and use whoever is convenient at the time as blackmail to get what they want. Fuckers

Still. Doing the positive thing so being grateful for the work I do have. Back in March I was convinced it was curtains and we'd lose our home and that hasn't happened.

Yes, things could definitely be a lot worse for me, though I've gone from feeling generally secure for up to a year at a time to not being sure if I'll have any work in the next week or month, I've taken out a BBL just in case but hoping not to need to break into it as I vowed when I moved out of London 20 years ago never to get into debt again. If I get this work next week I'm pitching for the pressure will be off for a while, though that still isn't motivating me to get it done!

@TheOrchidKiller that was my mood with the welsh lockdown this time, flat, it seemed advisable in March, tough but needed. We opened up again yesterday within Wales, but still have so many silly rules. If we go to a restaurant need ID, proof of address of each member of our party, was so depressing seeing all my favourite places on FB asking for this.

A scientist I know said it is ID by the back door they will come up with an app that covers all that, we can download it, hey that seems cool, well no not really you might as well be tattoed now.

@110APiccadilly

With apologies to English ADs, but since Monday I've been swimming and to the gym! Feel so much better (though obviously with 36 weeks' worth of baby on board I'm taking it fairly easy.) Suddenly back to being glad I live in Wales.

That sounds like bliss. The swimming pool was my oasis in my third trimester until I couldn't bear to get any colder. The lifeguard refused to believe that my due date was actually Christmas and got more and more nervous as my bump waddled its way out of the changing room slowly follwed by the rest of me. The last couple of months I got less and less bouyant and had to borrow floats to stay up!

My final week, I got a taxi through the ice to the pool in town for aquanatal (other pool), got there and found it cancelled. I was not turning around to get a taxi straight back home! So I ended up in the public session. Most people were doing lengths and the shallow end is very shallow and I just couldn't do widths, so had to ask a lifeguard if it was OK if I borrowed a float for doing lengths, and I could normally swim a mile honest! So I'm there doing lengths with my float and this concerned lady what breaststokes nicely swam up to me in the deep end to check I was OK with my floats. I explained that I was 39 weeks pg and just couldn't float any more and she smiled and said "you need all the help you can get"
It was bliss to get the weight off my body and circulation going and the carpal tunnel eased for a few hours after.

Aquanatal was follwed by the School for the Deaf's lessons, and in the showers we learned BSL for "Whoa! Check out the bumps on them! They're MASSIVE!!! BSL is not subtle

The combination of this time of year, 10 years since then and life being rather limited again is dredging up a lot of memories of that time!

Swimming is so important. Casually turning up at the pool is high on the list of things I miss for me and the DCs.

Been chatting with a bored 82 year old who's fed up that her social life is on hold again. She's bubbled with DB, but it's not enough variety for her. The being out with one friend doesn't work so well in November with arthritis. They'd rather be in a pub than the park anyway!

[quote justasking111]@TheOrchidKiller that was my mood with the welsh lockdown this time, flat, it seemed advisable in March, tough but needed. We opened up again yesterday within Wales, but still have so many silly rules. If we go to a restaurant need ID, proof of address of each member of our party, was so depressing seeing all my favourite places on FB asking for this.

A scientist I know said it is ID by the back door they will come up with an app that covers all that, we can download it, hey that seems cool, well no not really you might as well be tattoed now.[/quote]
Exactly my concern.

I don’t eat out much and I certainly don’t in these circumstances.

@TrustTheGeneGenie
"The thing is if we give a certain profession it first and they all mysteriously drop dead or get long vaccine we'll be accused of using them as Guinea pigs or sacrificing them and then WHO WILL TEACH THE CHILDREN. (I mean, obviously, it's us because twinkl and a working parent with 0 experience in teaching is enough, right?)"

It's OK- the NHS & ECV are selflessly getting it first! No one from another profession need suffer from long vaccine (loving that phrase)! Put the twinkl worksheets down!

@justasking111
"that was my mood with the welsh lockdown this time, flat"
Sounds like a typical symptom of "long lockdown," then. It's certainly spread round here, like a virus!

@110Apiccadilly & others in Wales
I certainly don't begrudge you your swimming. It's always been heartening to hear about others getting out & about again. You make the most of it before the baby arrives!

WRT ID in restaurants. I don't like it. But I think a lot of restaurants are terrified of spot-checks (they were doing them round my way), & they just can't afford to be fined or shut down for non-compliance.

It all sucks.

Orchid I don’t think anyone is blaming the restaurants.

Hearing that in Greece now you have to text the government before you go out?!

"Aquanatal was follwed by the School for the Deaf's lessons, and in the showers we learned BSL for "Whoa! Check out the bumps on them! They're MASSIVE!!! BSL is not subtle"

This made me laugh! I used to go to Aquafit which I loved, but of course it's not running at the moment (because to keep us all 2m apart most of us would need to be underwater).