ADs take the National Express when their lives' in a mess, it will make them smile

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🎤On the National Express
There’s a jolly hostess
Giving porridge free
She’ll provide you with shots
amaretto or what
You like to seeeeee...

Going out was in style
Now we’re stuck in this aisle
Dream of being free
And it’s hard to get by
When your arse is the size
Of the furlough feeeeeee🎤

Bah ba ba la
Bah ba ba la

Tomorrow belongs to meee...

Welcome to the 17:38 to freedom, stopping at virtual hugs, critical discourse, and random tangents along the way. ETA unknown...

Yes, surely no one posts that Tesco thread on MN seriously!

@justasking111 Post viral syndrome is real DS had glandular fever it was a few years before he finally shifted it and I think living in the caribbean finally put him right.

Plenty of opportunity to boost his vitamin D in the Caribbean.

@Orangeblossom7777 You're right. Remember how Saint Boris had the nerve to tell us we were all too fat and unfit, after HE HAD SNATCHED AWAY OUR EXERCISE AND SPORT?

The fucking cheek of it.

www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/14/covid-uk-government-requests-guidance-on-vitamin-d-use?fbclid=IwAR0iLfIl4p52otkgWNYFAUKliQAEXf3gvG96N3Yu4lT8pjXYyc7CFOP61cM

@Nastyblouse
"I feel like a fair chunk of the threads in the 'rona zone are goady nonsense, posted for froth. But then I have a suspicious mind..."
Me too.

Why the hyperbole on those threads? Every park & supermarket is "rammed" or "packed". I get that they might be "busy." But to me, "rammed" conjures up scenes of primary-age children jostling like sardines for the swings.

Unless the parks resemble the docking of 3 cruise ships at the same time on an August afternoon in Venice, they ain't "rammed". Admittedly, ASDA can get like that on 23rd December, but surely not every day?

My aims today are to (1) get dressed, (2) get out before it gets dark, (3) stick my fingers in my ears & shout, "la-la-la" every time coronavirus or lockdown gets mentioned (might be tricky when DPs phone later).

Went for a walk into town yesterday because I was bored and wanted a newspaper . A few people around but the shops that were open (B&M, Wilkos) were quiet so I think after the initial rush things are settling down. After all there are only so many times you can wander around the same shops before just giving up and not bothering any more. Or is that just me?

@TheOrchidKiller
You are so right about the incorrect assumption that technology solves all communication/contact problems - it certainly doesn’t. I’m almost dreading another care home visit, it’s painful.

@Reedwarbler that was very kind of the carer. My mother’s care home have a dedicated mobile phone for the residents which relatives can call them on. Unfortunately that is now no use to my mother, but would be useful for your FIL (if he had his hearing aids of course).

I am most definitely avoiding the rona zone (agree a lot of it is goady nonsense).

@Shellingbynight
I hope the pilot scheme where they are testing relatives so that they can then visit care homes gets rolled out. I know it perhaps creates additional problems (eg having to choose only one designated relative per family to visit), but I hope it brings some relief to more people.

I agree (gyms) mine is part of Better which is the main council type sports centres across the UK...they sent a link the other day about opening after lockdown, saying the number of covid cases linked to gyms and pools is really really low. I'm really missing swimming, have a pass linked to PIP for it so it doesn't cost much but the health benefits are huge.

Is anyone else puzzled by this nickname for the PM's other half. "Nut nuts"? The only thing that comes close to that is numb nuts, or is nut nuts some reference that has (as an old fart) escaped me? Whatever, it seems nonsensical rather than insulting.
Our quiet village is just heaving this morning. Cars parked badly round the lanes and people climbing out of their expensive 4x4's dressed inappropriately for the mud I just know they are going to encounter. I mean, who goes for a country walk in suede boots with a fur trim? I managed to get mud squelched all over my legs above my boots this morning. The dog didn't fare much better.

Oh my god. I somehow managed to leave my car door open last night - all night. How the battery isn't flat and it wasn't nicked I have no idea. I only noticed when I opened the front door for us to go shopping. What an idiot!

@bakingcupcakes

Oh my god. I somehow managed to leave my car door open last night - all night. How the battery isn't flat and it wasn't nicked I have no idea. I only noticed when I opened the front door for us to go shopping. What an idiot!

I'm glad it's not just us that does shit like like

We've managed to go out and leave the front door wide open before...

It's not long since DH managed to leave hid windows open one rainy night but at least the rain came down vertically!

@bakingcupcakes
But what if a car thief had stolen your unlocked car & caught something off the handbrake? Now you'll have to go out on a non-essential journey to charge up the battery. Had your car been nicked, think of the precious police resources you would be using up, instead of allowing the constables to get on with important tasks like tutting at the people "rammed" outside Costa.

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

(Slinks off to check own car is locked).

Afternoon all. Had a productive weekend with a couple of walks with my friend and her child. Think we might be breaking the rules because our 5 year olds probably aren't allowed but it's kind of frowned upon to leave them at home so we have to bring them with us. Went to 2 kids parks and I can confirm that nowhere was jam packed, wasn't even busy. I don't see much in the way of "social distancing" between people that have gone together but I don't make a point of staying 2m apart from my friend, sometimes it's half a metre, sometimes it can be 20.

Supermarkets have been busy ish but certainly not rammed and pretty much everyone I see is wearing a mask and giving each other space.

Maybe we all just live in a parallel universe... I certainly feel like we do at the minute!

I haven't left my car door open, but I did leave the freezer lid up all night once. I now check it every night before I go to bed.

@AcornAutumn

The Tesco and isolating thread

This country is an embarrassment

About the baby milk? There's some right heartless bastards isn't there

@bakingcupcakes

Oh my god. I somehow managed to leave my car door open last night - all night. How the battery isn't flat and it wasn't nicked I have no idea. I only noticed when I opened the front door for us to go shopping. What an idiot!

I once went away for the weekend leaving my front door, visible from the street, stood open. Not one neighbour thought to close it for me (or check that I was ok). The car wasn't there so they would have known I wasn't there Or in Mumsnet land, I had been murdered in my bed and the killer used my car to get away

I have also left a velux window, positioned directly above my bed, open during a summer storm. I had to sleep in the spare room for a few days until it dried out.

I once left my car door open overnight in the middle of winter - the seats got frost on them. I do not recommend driving a partially defrosted car!

@AcornAutumn

The Tesco and isolating thread

This country is an embarrassment

Which one is that?

Hugs to everyone who's having difficulties. My fil died on Boxing day, we're so glad he's not alive and living through this. He was in a lovely nursing home, mum visited at least 4 times a week, he'd not have understood why she wasn't coming in to visit, and not being able to see dad would have killed mum.

at having nostalgia for the first lockdown with the clapping etc

I've just read that. No nostalgia here. It was the most stressful time of my life. In a way it's easier this time because I feel hardened to it, plus I have a secure job now. The only thing I feel nostalgic for is the weather. But I feel like that every year because I hate autumn / winter

I’m terrified as new lockdown heading my way, I think, I’m Scotland.

I’m not nostalgic. I’m extremely worried as I went proper bonkers in the first one and can’t Dave it again.

The only thing I am nostalgic for is life pre-2020.

I also double-check the freezer door on the way to bed, ever since an incident that was my fault. I've spent time & money curating beige food for use in the event of self-isolation, I'm not wasting it!

Curlygirl, I meant this thread

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4079730-Positive-Covid-test-but-we-have-no-food-in

The idea that people should stockpile in case of quarantine, that they have the money and space to do so....argh.

I have t heard anything about nostalgia?

I’m at mums as I’m attending hospital with her tomorrow - still can’t believe it’s allowed, convinced they’ll turn me away at the gate.

But judging by the number of people on the Tube, I’d say a lot of people are visiting their loved ones today and rightly so.

I think one of the random things that gets to me about this site at the moment is how if you don't just glue yourself onto your couch with a nailed shut front door then you are branded a conspiracy theory nut covid denier.

I believe covid exists, I believe for some it is a very real threat and I follow the rules (not roolz though), but just because I want to understand the reasoning for them and get frustrated when there is none it doesn't make me a covid denier or a tin foil hat wearing, anti van, teacher hating conspiracy theorist.