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...

Plus they were lecture recordings from a couple of years ago (yep I know) so by the time you skip out all the "talk to the person next to you" interactive bits and stick it on 1.25 speed - gets it done quicker. Can't do that with the usual recorded ones as they have absolutely jammed them full of content this year - love the content... but flipping heck the workload is brutal!

Just seen the Tesco Christmas advert. It sounded like they were taking the piss out of some of the Covid rules. Subtle but its there.

@mercybooth DH used to work for Tesco. He'd be hating it if he was still there. We have two big ones within 5 mins drive of each other here, one over two floors and the other not. So one has closed their non-food but the other hasn't. Will completely skew their staffing and it'll be hell working there at the moment. Never mind the Covid risk, it's the middle management they need to be worried about
I'd have done a sarky advert too, if I was them.

The Tesco advert is the ONLY covid-related advert to have even raised a smile out of me - and it made me giggle.

I cannot wait until, in years to come, Horrible Histories get around to covering 2020 and how fucking bonkers it got.

@Sonicthehedgehogg I heard our town one had reopened its upstairs yesterday (dont know if thats still the case as i was last in there on Friday) its so all over the place but may have something to do with
a. the 25% off on clothing
b. the hypocrisy of our MP making a video of how this is affecting businesses despite the fact he voted for this lockdown.

Horrible Histories coverage of 2020 would be interesting.

Does anyone else feel like they have skipped about 20 years of their lives and fast forwarded to living like their parents at the point they started to become “elderly”

My days consist of doing some housework, walking the dogs, and then filling the rest of the day with some knitting, reading or TV. In fact it is worse because there is absolutely nothing to look forward to, not even the things my parents had like a village quiz evening or seeing a friend for coffee.

Church is closed again though I am quite convinced that 30 of us meeting in a huge building more than 2 metres apart with no singing was definitely not spreading anything.

I was referred almost 6 months ago for a problem with my foot which is causing constant pain and affecting my walking, no prospect of an appointment as far as I can tell. I feel old before my time.

Hello I've been lurking on here a while, trying to keep sane in all the madness. I've just had my 14 yo ds at home after his rugby teamate tested positive, its been a long 2 weeks!

@sonicthehedgehogg my dp works for tesco and the last few months have just been crazy, he says it like Xmas every day and he's knackered. On the plus side at least it's a fairly secure job right now!

@Dancetherain I can imagine! I think I'd be sending him off to work doing the Katniss Everdeen kiss-salute

Is your DS released now? We're not long out of ours and it was soul destroying long.

@MercyBooth

Just seen the Tesco Christmas advert. It sounded like they were taking the piss out of some of the Covid rules. Subtle but its there.

I really liked it the advert. I felt bad for not clapping but would have felt like I was dying of embarrassment stood on my doorstep.

Quite liking this as a face covering option

Evenstar
I was thinking that very thing today. The weekends are just so sad. We didn't even used to do anything interesting - I'm a right anti social old bint - but the running around for DC sport and music gave proper structure. Now of course, singing and any brass or wind instrument kills people and outdoor sport is totally murderous. Still, if it saves just one life.....

He is, back to school tomorrow and I cannot wait for the peace and quiet! Its such a long time to be stuck in isn't it, did you want to run down the street yelling 'freedom'?! We've had 2 periods of isolation as a whole family and it was awful.

Now its actually getting into Xmas dp took most of last week off to rest up ready for the madness as there won't be any time off now.

@HitchikersGuide my children are all adults, apart from the 17 year old who got a scholarship and is boarding for sixth form so it is just the two of us most of the time. DH and I enjoy live music, theatre and an occasional trip to the cinema. We always have something in the diary to look forward to, and would usually have lunch out a couple of times a month.

We are near enough London for day trips and often get theatre tokens or experience vouchers as gifts from adult DC, we have used only two this year.

We don’t normally go out more than a couple of times a month but really enjoy that and normally do an evening class each too. It just feels like our world has shrunk. I had 3 jobs until March and was always busy, I know exactly what you mean about losing structure, the framework of our lives has vanished.

DH was able to meet a friend to play golf which he had really enjoyed but even that has gone again.

Sorry to be negative, enormous sympathies to all of you with younger DC 💐

@AcornAutumn

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.

Thank you

@Evenstar - we have younger dcs but also miss the structure. Im lucky as I'm going into work, but I miss all the fun bits. I have nothing in the calendar, not used a babysitter since March (normally we go out as a couple twice a month). The Christmas juggle of who's got drinks/dinner when and which days will we need babysitters for hasn't happened this year.

Its so sad that the only thing booked is a Father Christmas visit in mid December, I'm convinced it won't happen now.

I even miss the meal planning around different after school clubs and activities.

Please tell me if I am being stupid, but, Boris is now in 2 weeks quarantine because he has been in contact with an infected person. But, he's had covid, so surely he's immune to it? If he isn't immune, it doesn't say very much for how the vaccine is going to work. It really doesn't make sense to me. Can someone explain?

Re getting mmr for kids. I know someone who had to fight the surgery to get the jab coz of covid. They said no, cannot do it. She said they had to, after a lot of arguing over the phone they agreed to do it. They tried to do it in the car park in pouring rain she insisted that they did somewhere drier so ended up in the side alley running alongside surgery. Glad she was a solicitor who knew the law, god help anyone less switched on at that surgery.

The irony is that the nurse went off with covid a few days later so it was her that was germ ridden not mum and child.

"So bbc headline today is that normality may be restored by next winter."

What makes them think that some random journos know what's going to happen with a virus in a year's time?

Saw a comment on an article that Matt Hancock is being arrested tomorrow. Had a quick look on twitter. Seems some Liverpool folk are convinced of it but will not elaborate for legal reasons. It is really not helpful to stir folk up like this imo.

Devi Sridhar has blocked someone on Twitter for pointing out the risk to and the increase of domestic violence incidents during lockdown . I knew there was something i didnt like about her.

I'm really missing the DCs' sports. It's like living in a WWF arena.

Oh for the days when they could go do two laps of the park in 12 mins at junior parkrun and blitz some energy!

@Evenstar, my church accidently put your theory to the test.

Weeks ago, when they were open, a member of the congregation and her husband tested positive on a routine test on a Monday. It was weeks ago and none of the rest of us got it.

Interestingly, as we were all 2 metres apart (carefully marked on the floor), wearing masks and all the doors and windows were open, none of us were asked to self-isolate as we weren't considered close contacts.

@amicissimma that’s really interesting and also frustrating. There really is no understanding why the churches are shut again.