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

[BogRollBOGOF]

🎤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...

@NoisyBrain I also have masochistic tendencies when it comes towards reading the 'other' threads.

@Sonicthehedgehogg I did a film night without a film not so long ago with DS which involved us watching all the Julia Donaldson animations back to back. I do like them and they definitely beat some of the stuff on cbeebies!

I've just made us a lamb dinner. It was amazing. We're both very full now.

Looking at the weather I'm so glad I didn't choose tonight to leave the car door open!

I made my Christmas cake today. My kitchen smells soooooo festive!

The Good Housekeeping snoozing robins Christmas cake.

www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/732327589403003138/

We did a Julia Donaldson marathon on Friday night! It was lovely; we usually watch a film on Friday evening and we take turns to choose, so we have to watch some really awful crap that DD finds on Netflix sometimes. These were a very welcome change! Dd's school topic is Julia Donaldson stories this half term so that worked out well too.

I'm wallowing in nostalgia. Trying to remember stuff from my gap year, almost twenty years ago. A bit gutting in that the dodgy area of Sydney I lived in for months in a backpackers hostel has gentrified and all the places I used to go have closed down, but still. Passage of time I guess. Ah, to be 19 (in 2002) again!

@LivinLaVidaLoki

I made my Christmas cake today. My kitchen smells soooooo festive!

Did my Xmas pudding today! Xmas cake was done a few weeks ago and had its second feed this week.

In other news we are free! 14 days over and children will be back to school/nursery tomorrow!🥳

Ooh, I love the smell of baking Christmas cake! Waft it this way!

@ISaySteadyOn
Bet you're really not an awful mother.

@SirSamuelVimes

We did a Julia Donaldson marathon on Friday night! It was lovely; we usually watch a film on Friday evening and we take turns to choose, so we have to watch some really awful crap that DD finds on Netflix sometimes. These were a very welcome change! Dd's school topic is Julia Donaldson stories this half term so that worked out well too.

I'm wallowing in nostalgia. Trying to remember stuff from my gap year, almost twenty years ago. A bit gutting in that the dodgy area of Sydney I lived in for months in a backpackers hostel has gentrified and all the places I used to go have closed down, but still. Passage of time I guess. Ah, to be 19 (in 2002) again!

I refuse to believe 2002 was almost 20 years ago I was just starting uni then! Still 21 in my head

I dared suggest that perhaps the vaccine news means the government could be a little bit more relaxed about the numbers going up in January. You know, because if the NHS staff have all had a jab, so we don't have to worry about them all being off sick, and the vunerable and elderly have started having jabs, we don't need to worry about them catching it, does it matter how many people have it if the people who catch it are the "feeling a bit shit for a few days then recovering fine" ?

But no, it will be at least the summer before anyone has the jab and I'm a foolish granny killer.

No one should be planning to go on holiday next Easter/summer. That's foolish, even though it was perfectly possible to go away this summer...

It does seem that some people love this horrible situation and are positively annoyed at the idea it could go back to normal soon.

Margos
Well my plumber's friend's niece is a nurrsr and the thing is that the vaccine can't work and even if it did it would be too risky and everyone who gets Covid dies but also they're asymptomatic and can probably get it twice, the second time worse, and they asymptomatically spread it before dying of it and t-cells don't exist and antibodies don't work and... And.... And... Have I covered all the possibilities yet .

Resurfacing. Friends daughter still hanging on. Thanks everyone.

So bbc headline today is that normality may be restored by next winter. I hate the moving goalposts; we thought it would all be fine by September this year, then by Xmas then by spring/summer now it's winter again. How long will this bullshit continue?

Yes I'm selfish. I want to take my kids swimming and to soft play and to school and all these things. I want to go out for a meal and go for a job interview or work in person. I want to leave the house and go to work. I want all these things and I'm baffled that people are cowering at home in fear. Venturing into the main Corona school thread a certain long necked poster has started: I feel like saying who gives a fuck really? So kids are getting what is to them, a cold. Keep them the fuck away from grandparents and all is fine. Meanwhile back at the fucking hut, our GP is refusing face to face appointments and will NOT give my child the MMR booster (3yr+4m). I have told the receptionist that children are a fuck load more likely to die of measles than covid but didn't cut any ice. I am again, writing to PALS or whatever they are called to complain.

Interestingly I got the "shielding" letter again in the post and it insists "your nhs is open". I'd love to ram it down wanksocks throat.

There is a lot of sweating in this. Sorry. Guess I'm angry. But therapeutic. Thanks everyone

I've just read the thread in the covid section where a poor woman is torn apart because she nipped to the shop to get formula for her baby when she was waiting for a test result. The witches are quizzing her about her finances, why she has a dog, why she hasn't stocked up.

I've also had to correct an idiot anti vaxxer on Twitter who insisted the Pfizer vaccine was only tested in 94 people. They've since replied and told me 43000 people had the placebo and 94 had the vaccine.

I'm fed up with the nastiness and misinformation

@RobinHobb Heard the same thing on Channel 4 news. Next winter If anyone fancies a bit of a laugh. They are showing the Home to Roost Christmas special on Forces TV at 8pm, (it was a 1980s comedy series for those younger ppl on this thread) starred John Thaw and a young Reece Dinsdale (i dont watch soaps but hes in Emmerdale) I follow Reece on twitter and hes fab. and yes this is the episode where they all end up at the posh hotel.

I think there's a strong correlation between dementors doom plopping all over Christmas and luxuriating in lots of lovely free time to do wholesome things and people who are too spineless to use the sentence "no, that doesn't work for me".

You don't need an epidemic of a contagious illness to say "actually, we'd like a quiet Christmas of the four of us this year" or "no, we're not spending all of Saturday and Sunday doing umpteen activities, select your favourite.

No, I'm not bitter that I used to enjoy the escape of going out for a nice quiet walk or run and everywhere is much busier than usual because there's naff all else to do in 9 hours of daylight

Our weekend's been OK. More dry than not and the heavy rain has fortunately fallen around the ends of the day. Today was largely quite bright which helps. We made the most of "Community Day" on Pokemon Go. It's great at incentivising the DCs to plod around park, after park, after park

@RobinHobb

Resurfacing. Friends daughter still hanging on. Thanks everyone.

So bbc headline today is that normality may be restored by next winter. I hate the moving goalposts; we thought it would all be fine by September this year, then by Xmas then by spring/summer now it's winter again. How long will this bullshit continue?

Yes I'm selfish. I want to take my kids swimming and to soft play and to school and all these things. I want to go out for a meal and go for a job interview or work in person. I want to leave the house and go to work. I want all these things and I'm baffled that people are cowering at home in fear. Venturing into the main Corona school thread a certain long necked poster has started: I feel like saying who gives a fuck really? So kids are getting what is to them, a cold. Keep them the fuck away from grandparents and all is fine. Meanwhile back at the fucking hut, our GP is refusing face to face appointments and will NOT give my child the MMR booster (3yr+4m). I have told the receptionist that children are a fuck load more likely to die of measles than covid but didn't cut any ice. I am again, writing to PALS or whatever they are called to complain.

Interestingly I got the "shielding" letter again in the post and it insists "your nhs is open". I'd love to ram it down wanksocks throat.

There is a lot of sweating in this. Sorry. Guess I'm angry. But therapeutic. Thanks everyone

Be angry @RobinHobb its a shit situation be as angry as you need and shout and sweat as much as you want here. None of those things are selfish. None.

As an aside, the presser the other night with Powys, one of the journos asked if he was planning to apologise for shutting the NHS too early and reopening it too late.

The NHS is open for business apparently. My arse. Can't see a GP, the hospital keep telling people they're full, so fuck off and kids dental health that was sooooooo important last year. Yeah fuck that if you think you can see a dentist.

Hang on a minute People are wanging on about anti vaxxers while GPs are refusing to do other vaccines face to face
The hypocrisy stinks.

[quote MercyBooth]The Good Housekeeping snoozing robins Christmas cake.

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OMG that is adorable - huge soft spot for robins as it's DD2's name as well (with a y)

Case of covid in school - not either of my kids' classes but the school gate hysterics will be out in force tomorrow - uni sucks as the workload's gone unmanageable (staff still can't quite judge the balance right online) and I've been on till gone 10pm every night last week and this weekend to get back ahead of myself. Lots of stuff being dropped on us at last minute against uni policy - 4 hours of lectures to get through for Monday released on mid Friday.

Its cute isnt it. A friend of mine who is excellent at cakes is going to attempt it.

I was afraid that the “good news” of the vaccine would delay normality even more: the fuckers just keep aiming for impose utopia each time. It’s delaying learning to live with the virus.

And why, just fucking why does the BBC show close ups of injections every time the fucking vaccine is mentioned?????

@RobinHobb

Resurfacing. Friends daughter still hanging on. Thanks everyone.

So bbc headline today is that normality may be restored by next winter. I hate the moving goalposts; we thought it would all be fine by September this year, then by Xmas then by spring/summer now it's winter again. How long will this bullshit continue?

Yes I'm selfish. I want to take my kids swimming and to soft play and to school and all these things. I want to go out for a meal and go for a job interview or work in person. I want to leave the house and go to work. I want all these things and I'm baffled that people are cowering at home in fear. Venturing into the main Corona school thread a certain long necked poster has started: I feel like saying who gives a fuck really? So kids are getting what is to them, a cold. Keep them the fuck away from grandparents and all is fine. Meanwhile back at the fucking hut, our GP is refusing face to face appointments and will NOT give my child the MMR booster (3yr+4m). I have told the receptionist that children are a fuck load more likely to die of measles than covid but didn't cut any ice. I am again, writing to PALS or whatever they are called to complain.

Interestingly I got the "shielding" letter again in the post and it insists "your nhs is open". I'd love to ram it down wanksocks throat.

There is a lot of sweating in this. Sorry. Guess I'm angry. But therapeutic. Thanks everyone

Not selfish at all. I think the selfish ones are those who wish to keep us all locked up because of their fear.

I don't want to force anyone out of their house so why can't I be done a similar courtesy and not be forced in mine.

All I want is to be allowed into a library, barefaced to browse as long as I like. Seems v little to ask.

EXACTLY @ISaySteadyOn

@BogRollBOGOF During Lockdown 1, loads of people were going on about enjoying this time baking with their children or whatever, and I wondered at the time what had previously prevented them from doing that. But presumably they're the sort of oddballs who only want to bake with their children if everyone else is forced to?

@DominaShantotto I don't normally encourage students to complain (my life is hard enough without encouraging complaints!) but I think if they're releasing 4 hours of lectures on Friday afternoon that you have to have watched by Monday, it would be fair enough to complain.

Agree. That amount of lectures in that short space of time is a bit much.

@RobinHobb

Resurfacing. Friends daughter still hanging on. Thanks everyone.

So bbc headline today is that normality may be restored by next winter. I hate the moving goalposts; we thought it would all be fine by September this year, then by Xmas then by spring/summer now it's winter again. How long will this bullshit continue?

Yes I'm selfish. I want to take my kids swimming and to soft play and to school and all these things. I want to go out for a meal and go for a job interview or work in person. I want to leave the house and go to work. I want all these things and I'm baffled that people are cowering at home in fear. Venturing into the main Corona school thread a certain long necked poster has started: I feel like saying who gives a fuck really? So kids are getting what is to them, a cold. Keep them the fuck away from grandparents and all is fine. Meanwhile back at the fucking hut, our GP is refusing face to face appointments and will NOT give my child the MMR booster (3yr+4m). I have told the receptionist that children are a fuck load more likely to die of measles than covid but didn't cut any ice. I am again, writing to PALS or whatever they are called to complain.

Interestingly I got the "shielding" letter again in the post and it insists "your nhs is open". I'd love to ram it down wanksocks throat.

There is a lot of sweating in this. Sorry. Guess I'm angry. But therapeutic. Thanks everyone

There's a small article in the Sunday Times saying that 30,000 fewer children than less year have had the MMR vaccine and suggesting its parents choosing not to. While some maybe, I'd be willing to bet there's plenty of others like you who want it but can't get it. Definitely complain. It's disgraceful that children are being denied really important vaccines!

@DominaShantotto
My university seems to be doing the same. Uploading a million hours of lectures to be done overnight. They haven't figured it out yet and some of them are using the virtual platform to deliver really substandard lectures. I am so fed up (also course rep) that's I've written a formal complaint to the faculty. I am paying for the pleasure of studying with them and in this case "the customer is right". No response as yet :-)

Thanks everyone for humouring my rant. It feels good to get it off my chest. I am be going to feel a bit wild with cabin fever

@110APiccadilly I'll leave it as a one-off - it's visiting lecturers so harder to police and organise - and our staff are being absolutely run ragged trying to keep the quality of teaching as high as possible with all this shitfest which I do appreciate - I just giggle when they all keep emailing ME asking for techie advice and I'm organising half the blooming staff! I really am incredibly appreciative of our staff - and I've made a point of telling them so. I'm putting myself under a lot of pressure as my marks fell off at the end of last year when lockdown happened and I really want to keep the run of getting firsts for assignments and assessments going to get that as a final degree class. Last year I submitted one assignment and you could literally see the point the schools had closed as it went from good - to utter shit.

The uni IT team though... I could willingly throttle all of them with an ethernet cable.