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...

Hands, Face, Space works quite well for cooking. Wash hands. Stuff face while staring into the fridge wondering what the fuck the whole household will eat that is vaugely nutritious and hasn't been served 3 times already in the past fortnight. Clear space on the worktop which hasn't been seen in its full naked glory since two trips to Costco early in 2020 before panic buying was trendy as the usual storage spaces for appliences are now filled with gin and pasta.

I'm dreading the next time we have to do an IL level tidy-up after a year of festering... I might have to build up through the hierachy of scruffy friends, through my family to ILs.

Oh fuck, an in law level clean! We've only seen them in a garden or a restaurant since March. I cant do an in law level clean. The kids are off school for a week before Christmas. This is crisis.

I might have to hand in my AD badge and join the "cancel Christmas!" Army...

@NannyGythaOgg
Humphrey Hedgehog has probably gone to sleep now. Humphrey Hancock is a nightmare of an idea. I bet his hedgehog best mate is Prickly Patel. Boom-boom!

@BogRollBOGOF
Oh that sounds so familiar, having just made a shopping list!

Just seen the end of Bake Off & the new Bake Off baby -awww! It's the little things like that which keep me going right now.

Trusrthegenegenie
So sorry to hear about your friend. Thinking about you.💗

Sprouts are fab what is this country coming to? I DESPAIR😲 Runs off to bleach myself clean from this madness

Xmas will be pretty much normal for us no gps close enough to visit but will be flocking to visit a relative in a higher tier if they agree to it, which they did last time. (Just coz they are 91 doesnt make them incapable of making thier own decisions, you listening Nippy?)

Aldi mince pies are awesome as are their Florentines and stollen bites. (I may or may not have had to replace some things in the xmas stash... whistles innocently)

Wanksock has officially lost the plot. He thinks we should get tested for runny noses, stay off work for ever and a day it will be the new normal.

Oddly enough the grandkids whose noses run from September to Easter normally and give us every bloody germ, only had one cold when we came out of lockdown in wales and had three weeks of schools nursery since then nothing. So hand washing, mask wearing, doors and windows open all day is having an effect perhaps?

When did you last hear of a case of norovirus, food poisoning, hand foot and mouth, slapped cheek syndrome. They all seem to vanished.

DD has had a permanent cold since starting nursery in June! She's only 18 months though and still quite into licking stuff.

Thank you @NannyGythaOgg I kept seeing the title of these threads but not understanding them. I agree with that ethos entirely. I also love Harry Potter!

Can’t sleep.

🎤Xmas time
Mince pies are all mine
Shops all stocking different kinds

Choc logs I desire and biscuits are glee
But the main thing
Is all the mince pies for me🎤

Actually that song is too annoying to work on!

I’m awake too. Now want a mince pie

Ooh Im all about the luxury chocolate yule log.

Cant stand mince pies, traditional Christmas cake or Christmas pudding.

And who remembers Eat Me dates. Absolutely vile.

Christmas cake is vile as it has marzipan 🤢

Agree Marzipan is rank. Same reason i dont like Battenburg cake.

Battenberg is so disappointing too as it looks so deceptively pretty

Yes all the pink and yellow. I remember peeling the marzipan off when i was at my Grans as a kid and just eating the cakey bit.

Looking at all the food roolz above....
I have a weird milk thing. I cannot use milk from different bottles in the same thing. So, for instance when I need milk for cereal, if there is a bottle in the fridge with a tiny bit in and a full bottle, I cannot use the tiny bit then top it up. I have to open the new one then use the little bit for coffee or something later. It drives DH mad.
Reckon I can rebrand my nuttiness as protecting him from covid somehow?
Also, saw this on Facebook this morning. I genuinely don't get the point.....

I mean, aside from hypocrisy. There is no way she won't have her entire family (immediate and extended) over for Christmas. Like I've always said, if she wants to do that and has decided its safe or worth the risk for her, absolutely fine. But don't be a fucking hypocrite about it.

@MercyBooth I hate trad Xmas pudding and cake too.
And mince pies, sprouts, custard, turkey, brandy butter and not so fond of pigs in blankets.

But then I’m furrin with my funny furrin ways... poor DH, I will buy him at least a pudding this year.

@Willow2017

Trusrthegenegenie So sorry to hear about your friend. Thinking about you.💗

Sprouts are fab what is this country coming to? I DESPAIR😲 Runs off to bleach myself clean from this madness

Xmas will be pretty much normal for us no gps close enough to visit but will be flocking to visit a relative in a higher tier if they agree to it, which they did last time. (Just coz they are 91 doesnt make them incapable of making thier own decisions, you listening Nippy?)

Aldi mince pies are awesome as are their Florentines and stollen bites. (I may or may not have had to replace some things in the xmas stash... whistles innocently)

Why are so many people on MN telling older people, like your 91 year old, Willow, that they don’t know their own mind? OR worse they get accused of being an “I’m alright Jack” (which is a phrase I’d probably heard once or twice in my life and now see TWENTY TIMES A DAY ON MUMSNET). What does that even mean? My elderly relatives (who I saw in the summer because rates were low and them seeing my DC was important to them and they made an informed decision) got accused of being this and I really can’t work it out. We’re talking about the park exact demographic who would be most at risk and, funnily enough, the demographic who are also the most familiar with death and mortality as they were attending funerals of friends and acquaintances with some regularity.

On the food front, I hate almost all Christmas food.. but I still love the day and it probably wouldn’t be the same without the Turkey, sprouts, mince pies, Christmas pudding etc all of which I won’t even touch

@LivinLaVidaLoki that’s an interesting picture, I was wondering actually if the same anger is directed at Thanksgiving as it is about Christmas here. Although in the US of course no one has to count how many people are in a room at any one time or think about bubbles. One of my most pro mask wearing friends in the US (seems to only meet people in masks and her young child can go a whole day by the looks of it without seeing an actual face) is still doing the big thanksgiving thing.

I mean no one is denying that meeting family to spend all day with inside, squashed up on a sofa together drinking Baileys, is potentially risky. It’s a considered risk we’ll all decide on based on individual circumstances. I’ll probably be meeting medium risk people (in their 60s) rather than my oldest relatives and I’ve almost certainly had Covid already anyway.

Unless you’re forcing someone who doesn’t want to meet to attend I don’t get the issue. People have a whole month to carefully decide whether the risk is worth taking or not.

Unless you’re forcing someone who doesn’t want to meet to attend I don’t get the issue. People have a whole month to carefully decide whether the risk is worth taking or not.

Yes but the D's don't want others to decide for themselves. They want to be a martyr and want others to do the same. When they scream but it will impact me when rates rise and everyone else is selfish they won't understand that actually they are being just as selfish wanting others to be lonely at Christmas.

I have always spent Christmas alone when single or with just DH now I am married. But it's traditionally when most people meet up with family and for some this may be the only time they can.

My family is quite fragmented, and Christmas is when time off overlaps and there is a habit of meeting up. It's a series of smaller gatherings over days rather than 20 people squeezing into a house (why we don't go to the ILs because there's no great point in flying over at an unreliable time of year to make 17 into 21)

I lurve the mince pies, cake, stollen etc. I'm buying up each week a bit earlier than usual because there is the chance of being out of society for 2-3 weeks. I've stashed them away in DH's room (too galling to call it an office when it only spent 2.5 months being a spare room) so that I don't have to see the temptation. I keep reminding myself that one box of mince pies is a half marathon of calories. I can sprint through a box of mince pies far quicker than 2:20:00 of a HM!

Had an ironic fail yesterday. I went into overwhelm in the pharmacy from the heat and humidity in my visor, and I'm there gasping for breath... with DS2's inhalers in my hand!
Still not as bad as a mask though... I lasted 3-4 mins before my breathing went.

@JamSarnie

Unless you’re forcing someone who doesn’t want to meet to attend I don’t get the issue. People have a whole month to carefully decide whether the risk is worth taking or not.

Yes but the D's don't want others to decide for themselves. They want to be a martyr and want others to do the same. When they scream but it will impact me when rates rise and everyone else is selfish they won't understand that actually they are being just as selfish wanting others to be lonely at Christmas.

I have always spent Christmas alone when single or with just DH now I am married. But it's traditionally when most people meet up with family and for some this may be the only time they can.

Absolutely.

I can handle that ILs will just be a walk rather than inside (probably warmer, they open the windows like a wind tunnel anyway!) I just think it's important to meet for what will be the second time this year.
I haven't sounded out my family yet.
I've gone along with DM's (82) comfort zone. I'm not going to decide what she can and can't do, and her comfort is important to consider too. I'd rather have these discussions around family needs than be dictated to by a bunch of distant wankers whose boat through this is a huge cruiseliner with staff, and I'll bet haven't had the time and isolation to end up sobbing out of lonliness through this.

Why is it that when a Dementor wishes masks and social distancing etc upon us until well into 2022, they're being "realistic" but if I'm realistic about the risks and mortality of my family, I'm a reckkess granny-killer...

@TheOrchidKiller

I have just spurted coffee all over my laptop.. At the sprouts post.
Thank you so much for cheering me up.
All my close friends who should be coming for nye (to celebrate a very big birthday).. Have said no due to the roolz... We are only talking four households and 11 people in total for a dinner party.
I am feeling a bit unloved so you made me laugh and realise its all a bit ridiculous

Did anyone see 'Saving lives at Sea' last night? The RNLI rescued 3 men who were drifting out to sea off the Cornish coast. The minute they got them in their open lifeboat they had them put masks on! Utterly ridiculous. Not least because they were, you know, out at sea, but they were also wet and had just been rescued from drowning. Nuts.