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...

Checking in. Keep waking up with my jaw clenched shut. Not good for the teeth

Hello, @JamSarnie.. me too! I have to try to make a conscious effort to relax it. I’ve had nightmares all my life but this is a new development.

The kids TV show or the search engine?

I have a teen, so I've never heard of Bing. I actually thought you meant the search engine and I thought it was a bit odd!

Rightio its decided....
I am making my Christmas cake this weekend.

I need something cheery.

In other news, the media at the moment is full of "Covid cases soar as NHS chief says restrictions could last beyond dec 2nd"

Bit fucking misleading that. Minister stated current restrictions will end on 2nd with a tier system in place after that. The "chief" confirmed this. Yet the headline makes out lockdown will drag on.

Then BBC this morning banging on about the 33k cases yesterday then quietly sneaking in at the end that experts say to not read too much into this one days data.

I wish the media would have some bloody accountability in this mess and stop headline reporting cases and deaths every day as that is driving the fear out of proportion.

I sometimes wonder whether we'd ever have known there was a pandemic except for the media. Would we just have thought this was a terribly bad flu year? I genuinely don't know; I see the argument about the NHS being overwhelmed - but then bits of the NHS always seem to get overwhelmed, particularly in winter.

Just saw on Facebook someone suggested getting kids to make cards and pictures to send to care homes to cheer up the old people a bit.
Loads of comments and all but one essentially said "ffs you can't be sending cards and pictures into care homes you could be posting them the fucking virus! Are you trying to kill them"

Exactly @110APiccadilly

@LivinLaVidaLoki

Just saw on Facebook someone suggested getting kids to make cards and pictures to send to care homes to cheer up the old people a bit. Loads of comments and all but one essentially said "ffs you can't be sending cards and pictures into care homes you could be posting them the fucking virus! Are you trying to kill them"

I saw an interesting article in the Telegraph online yesterday. A survey has been taken of people's perceptions of covid. Details that stuck out were that most people (surveyed) thought that the majority of deaths were in the over 65's. (They are actually in the over 80's.) Also that it has been the biggest case of death this year (It was the 24th biggest in the Spring, and is currently the 19th biggest). They also thought that one in three get 'long covid' (actually about one in twenty as far as I remember). They also thought quite a high percentage of the population had been killed, although simple maths would tell you that is not so.

*cause of death, not 'case' of death. (argh, it's too early.)

@WouldBeGood
I'm fretting now that I'm a serial killer....

I've a few friends in various situations that are feeling down right now, so I've been posting them little cards with nice, positive messages in. I thought I was doing a nice thing I'm clearly just a mass murderer though.

@LivinLaVidaLoki it’s like a Midsomer Murder...

I took a half-day off yesterday and went for a walk with another single friend. The weather turned out to be unexpectedly nice and it was just gorgeous being out in the fresh air and talking with someone. But, I now feel really flat because there's a weekend coming up with absolutely sod all happening in it, and a real possibility that I won't speak to another human being the entire time. Oh, and its going to piss it down.

And I’m trying to sneak the virus back into NZ and killing off half the population by posting stuff there - doesn’t seem to be working too well, but hey, I can but try.

@starfish88 re kids’ tv, DH and I used to make up a script to In the Night Garden every evening, it was the only way to survive that trippiness. Our version involved rather a lot of illicit drug taking and other nefarious activities. Sadly we had to stop before DS grew out of the programme because the little bugger started listening in rather younger than we had anticipated.

Morning all. Checking in.

Might go out murdering today. I need to take the car for a walk. (It's a diesel, Bad Things happen if it isn't exercised regularly. Like a spirited dalmatian.)

I shall combine the journey with an essential shopping trip to comply with the compliance compliances.

I now feel really flat because there's a weekend coming up with absolutely sod all happening in it, and a real possibility that I won't speak to another human being the entire time

Yeah I'm on my own as well as DD has decided to stay with her BF. I was looking forward to time to myself to do and eat whatever I want, but now I find I'm struggling to know what to do. Especially in the rain.

Meanwhile, further to our musical diversions... Shirley Bassey has a new album out. 83 she is. A magnificent singer, even though she's off-key about 30% of the time. There's a cover of Queen's Who Wants to Live Forever on it which is everything you'd expect Shirley Bassey covering Queen to be.

Here's the publicity photo of her relaxing in her low-key home. (And staying the fuck at, naturally.)

Oh my god, I think I love her 😂

I took my DM to see Shirley Bassey at the Royal Festival Hall in about 1995; my childhood included watching her on a Saturday night and having to keep quiet whilst my DM recorded it from the telly with a tape recorder and microphone.

@TabbyStar love it

DS has Inset days today and Monday. Usually we'd take that as an excuse for a long weekend adventuring somewhere... now the best I can come up with to lure him off his iPad later is a trip to the garden centre. FFS. Tomorrow we've booked tickets for the local arboretum, which I was looking forward to, but apparently it's going to absolutely piss down with rain. Yay.

I am glad these places are still open though. And I'm bloody glad that DS isn't in one of the THREE years currently isolating at his school (he's had a turn already, mind).

@LivinLaVidaLoki

Just saw on Facebook someone suggested getting kids to make cards and pictures to send to care homes to cheer up the old people a bit. Loads of comments and all but one essentially said "ffs you can't be sending cards and pictures into care homes you could be posting them the fucking virus! Are you trying to kill them"

And yet I seem to remember people sending loads of tat to hospitals in the last lockdown!

[quote NoisyBrain]@Curlygirl06 The kids TV show or the search engine? [/quote]
No highbrow internet discussions, it was the bastard bunny Bing! And whether Flop was on stronger drugs after 6 months with no playgrounds open to take said bastard bunny. Peppa pig was also given a mention, my life has become reduced to encyclopedic knowledge of childrens tv.

It was Me Too that used to make me feel more than slightly murderous at 6:30am. Dreadful, dreadful programme.