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...

[quote TheOrchidKiller]@Orangeblossom7777
I've heard Martyn Lewis say furloughed staff can potentially get another job. I don't know if they get clobbered with paying more tax because they've got 2 jobs? DD considered it when she was briefly furloughed but local work in places like supermarkets got snapped up pretty quickly.[/quote]
yes tax is horrific, i was furloughed for 4 weeks "notice" when i left my prev job and started my new one straight away - taxed quite a bit more, but still worth it!

@flower11

The thing is everyone is stressed at the moment, yes teachers have it hard but so does NHS and all those that are worried about losing their jobs in other sectors. All those that work in hospitality. Everyone is having a shit time. That said the teachers at DC school have been amazing and very can do through out this . So I will be giving them xmas gifts! Have you seen the threads on that on the rest of the site, oh the drama!

Anyway here is my morning achievement. My first attempt at Christmas decorations.

awh he is very sweet!

For fucks sake I wish the hurricane like weather would just stop. It is not helping with my end-of-the-world is nigh mood.

On a positive note I have taught DS (7) the meaning of the word apocalypse and agreed that we would both prefer to be in the middle of a zombie apocalypse than a Covid pandemic.

Thanks @BogRollBOGOF, @DrDiva and @LivinLaVidaLoki. The thing I like about these threads is the lack of judgement if people are struggling unlike elsewhere on the site these days.

I did make a list, but unfortunately everything was equally urgent for different reasons! Yesterday I finished answering urgent emails from last Tuesday. It's not that I can't do my job, I can (I've been doing it long enough!) but that I don't have time to do it as I'm being pulled in so many different directions.

Working from home isn't helping as we'd be talking about everything and working together if we were in the office.

I'm not holding my breath about families being allowed to mix at Christmas. It would be nice & all that, but I read the BBC news article on it, & there's a suggestion we would be allowed to mix for 5 days from Christmas Eve.

My stress levels have shot up reading that. We'd usually spread things out over about 10 days, whilst also fitting in work. The thought of cramming in both sets of parents plus work into 5 days- OMG! No pressure there, then.

Also, if travel is allowed from Christmas Eve, as well as people needing to stay in hotels ('cos not everyone has room for house guests), surely that's going to cause traffic jams & fully booked hotels? It feels quite Biblical.

Five days at Christmas sounds like an absolute nightmare for us. We'll have a newborn that most of both sides of the family won't have met by then (and Christmas Day itself is out for seeing family for us for complicated reasons I won't go into.) So we'll have 4 days, if that's right, to either lug the newborn halfway round the country, or have a rolling cycle of visitors to ours. (Or we can try to put people off coming, but quite apart from the risk of offending, I'd actually quite like it if some of the family could meet baby. And the fact that it's likely to be illegal for large chunks of the rest of the year puts the pressure on rather to do it at Christmas.)

Still, I suppose I shouldn't be grumpy. We can always say no to the family coming if we need to, and I'll be genuinely happy for people where a five day lifting of the rules will mean they can see family.

DS1 was less than a week old at his first Christmas. I came out of hospital on the 23rd and had a rolling sucession of visitors from Christmas Eve. I'd had a rough week including 36 hours in HDU and several sleepless nights in the overrun main ward and could only physically sit up for a couple of hours before needing a lie down. It was nice to have a flow of visitors coming though. The pregnancy was hard and lonely with SPD and the roads being caked up with ice for the entireity of December stopping me from getting out independently, so company was a nice novelty. Family and friends were good at not staying around too long.

My friend half a mile away came round with the car loaded up with Christmas Dinner all cooked ready for us

Given the schools here don't break up till the 18th, that doesn;t sound the best plan with teens..hmm not sure. I'm getting fed up with hearing about Christmas, last thing I saw was some madness about opening presents outdoors

Town very strange today, Waitrose was busy, no queues or security man on the door like last lockdown, then police in the centre stopping cars. A bit OTT- two on horses and another van and then about 6 officers

I had to drop some stuff off to OH in A & E last night - the entrance was being guarded by 3 police officers ensuring that people were queuing outside 2m apart! There were a dozen people in the queue on a cold and windy night - I did wonder if they actually needed A & E if they could stand in the cold for what could have been up to an hour!

I stood outside school gates earlier waiting to pick up grandson, looked through the fencing at the reception class double glass doors they were open. I said to a young mum that they must be cold, yes but it is covid she said. I pointed out that in our county there were 0 cases yesterday, 0 cases in Anglesey and 1 case in Gwynedd. The mums were astonished. Do they not keep up with the statistics the younguns..

The government are a bit damned if they do and damned if they don't with Christmas, aren't they? If they relax restrictions they'll take the blame for any January surge. If they don't relax anything there will be massive law-breaking which they'll either have to quash (making them appear authoritarian) or ignore (making them appear weak). It'll be interesting to see what other European countries do, won't it?

@Blobby10

I had to drop some stuff off to OH in A & E last night - the entrance was being guarded by 3 police officers ensuring that people were queuing outside 2m apart! There were a dozen people in the queue on a cold and windy night - I did wonder if they actually needed A & E if they could stand in the cold for what could have been up to an hour!

I guess if they had collapsed someone would have brought them inside. Pretty bleak though third world treatment. Even shops and chemists where possible have constructed shelters.

Hope he is feeling better soon @Blobby10

I did wonder if they actually needed A & E if they could stand in the cold for what could have been up to an hour!

Had they triage if they were outside?

We've rushed DS down twice in last 12 months for a really painful and time dependent condition - took taxis - and both he skipped most of A & E and went straight to being examined and surgery - but if they'd been a queue before talking to anyone DS and DH would have queued.

When DD 1 fell on ice skates and spained her wrist - GP wouldn't even see her said there was no point directed us to A&E that was pre covid but once yoru there in pain I'd think most people who just queue. Though next month we'll have a out of hours clinic in area that will be able to deal with x-rays.

@justasking111 thank you - he is now in another hospital and well on the way to finding out whats wrong and hopefully recovery! I'm just delighted that, even though he tested positive for Covid on 25 October, and the medics were apparently trying to link his symptoms with 'long covid' the problem definitely isn't covid related and his test yesterday came back negative. . He said he can't fault the care and attention he's received though - he was transferred from A & E at midnight last night and having an ecg at 4am then ultrasound of his heart at 5am! He hasn't slept a wink but has been so thoroughly prodded and poked that he has had the fullest MOT possible !

@Blobby10 he was transferred gosh I wonder why. Glad he is getting the full MOT. Covid may have highlighted an underlying issue so good that is now being dealt with.

Hope you're ok after all that drama, Blobby. Good that he got seen & investigated properly & didn't just accept it was "long covid." Wonder how many people will be told they have that when it's something else?

My new great nephew is here

@MercyBooth
Lovely news!

Congratulations @MercyBooth !

Congratulations @MercyBooth

Thank You

Seen the latest announcement about how we will have to pay for Christmas with a month long lockdown. I thought thats what this one was for Thread on the Corona board filling up with the usual gaslighting and emotional blackmail.

They are now trying to manipulate us into agreeing Christmas restrictions.

@MercyBooth

Thank You

Seen the latest announcement about how we will have to pay for Christmas with a month long lockdown. I thought thats what this one was for Thread on the Corona board filling up with the usual gaslighting and emotional blackmail.

They are now trying to manipulate us into agreeing Christmas restrictions.

Exactly, I hope at least someone responded "is that not what we are doing here?"

I can't stand to go over and look, they make my balls swell.

Need to come over here to find sane people away from the Covid board who think parents should give up their jobs so schools can close 🙄

Yes ive called it out Ignored so far.