ADs trying to stay upright in a muddy park

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Another thousand posts filled and we're ploughing on through another weekend of squelching through parks before we hit the Long Dark Teatime of the Soul.

The AD chat continues...

Checking in although for my sanity I might need to give MN a break as it's a parallel world in some quarters bet you can't guess where I mean

Checking in - but it's gone barmy elsewhere on the site!

Just returned from a muddy park. Lots of very muddy dogs, prams, scooters & small children. The ice cream van was doing a roaring trade.

Afternoon all. Just about to put pork joint in and catch up on last night's Strictly.

Checking in. Thanks for the new thread!

Hello all. (Still nothing exciting to report.)

@110APiccadilly

Hello all. (Still nothing exciting to report.)

Tell the little one to 'get a move on'

Place marking for continued lurking..
God I bored of covid ...

Checking in.

Love the new title. We did muddy walk today. Did nice quiet park on Friday morning to avoid featuring in any threads screaming about lockdown not working cos too many kids are on the slides.

Now repeating to myself the mantra "there is no point posting on the school threads"

Checking in to the little corner of sanity. We did our usual Sunday afternoon walk today. Most weeks we might see two or four other people. Today it was at least twenty. Amazing that people discover the countryside when the pubs are shut!

I had low-level, repressed, park-rage earlier. Not because the park was busy, but just my usual irritation at people that walk in formation across the entire path and seem surprised that other people want to move faster than 1mph. There were a lot of them doing it. I'll be glad when the fair weather strollers return to each others' sofas and pubs.

His Dark Materials tonight

@110APiccadilly - have they got you going up and down stairs?

I was going up and down with first pg to be sick in bathroom - community MW later said it was a MW trick to get labour progessing and wondered if if had helped make it really short labour for a first - though DD1 was big - they all were - which would have helped as well.

I think my first labour was set off my the monumental effort of staggering around the theatre trying to find our seats. It was the most vigourous exercise I'd attempted in weeks. At the point I realised that they probably weren't Braxton Hicks anymore, Neil Morrisey had got to the part of the panto of flinging toilet rolls around in an alternative version of the 12 Days of Christmas. It was a Wishy Washy performance. Oh yes it was

Second time was triggered by the Herculean effort of staggering 500m down the hill to my MW appointment on my crutches and having a bus ride back. I had a bit of a dispute with the bus driver about request stops. I couldn't move my hip uphill, and there was a slight incline from my nearest bus stop. Most bus drivers had aggreed to drop me just before the turn but this one was sticking to the rules despite baby being due next day and the crutches. We managed to stike an agreement that he could stop around the corner to cut the distance from the next stop as he said that road was fine unlike the previous road. I took to bed with backache and 10 hours later was feeding DS2.

Checking in, missed most of the last thread.

@TheOrchidKiller - our lovely Ice cream van/man is something we’ve really missed this year. Really hope he’s able to come back next year.

Had a lovely walk in the sun with my youngest ds (7) this afternoon, feeling better for a good dose of sun and fresh air.

Sadly I can’t join in the labour stories. DS appeared 9 weeks early by EMCS. He’s still in a hurry 8 years later!

Hope it’s going well, @110APiccadilly!

Thanks for the new thread. Mud has certainly featured large here today.

Had a muddy walk later park was very busy- strange and ominous sign on the park gate warning people to "Stay at home' until the 2nd Dec.

We have had a pleasant diversion by getting an aquarium and stocking it with small fish. Quite relaxing

Oooh I love an aquarium Orange

Weirdly, hypnotically relaxing.

Hello.
Same old same old posters out in the wild. Jeez what a bunch of cliche-ridden prawns they all are.

 <strong>@TheOrchidKiller</strong>     I  thought  exactly  the same  thing while watching ITV News  last night. 

And i dont believe there will be even some semblance of normality by Easter because we have been having the goalposts moved since March.

Checking in. No muddy walks for us as DD and her class have been sent home to self-isolate.

No exciting labour story here except that I’m the only person I know to have gone into labour on the official due date. DD was a textbook first labour - from first twinge to delivery in 22 hours. We were very lucky it was so straightforward.

I don’t for a second believe in normality by Easter, but would be delighted to be proved wrong. By the time we get back to real normality I’m afraid everything I value will have gone, with the possible exception of my family (and even that’s not certain, MIL has visibly deteriorated mentally and physically this year).

I wish I could be walking up and down stairs, but we're well within the "cascade of interventions" now, I fear - having a canula put in for the drip in a minute. It has to be what it has to be, but I'm now terrified it's going to end in a C-section.

Talking to my 84 year old parents last night i discovered that they dont want to have the vaccine.
"What for" was the response i got.

DM is very very angry about all this. She has said all this is unfair on young people and businesses and people will have nothing left. DM grew up in poverty in post war Italy. During the war she had to help run a farm and was doing lots of physical work in the fields from seven years old

I doubt many of the older generation they have been talking to on the news have had this experience.

In fact shes spent most of her life working/on her feet and is now getting frailer because that kind of life takes its toll
Like hell will i not be seeing her at Christmas.