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...

@MissEWeatherwax

My DP’s still have wood chip walls! And a lovely mint coloured bathroom with that weird veiny tiles( chicken tiles 70’s classic). Feel a little better today, went for another walk with my friend. And we moaned about lockdown and tier 3. Might not have always stayed 2 metres apart. But neither did anyone we saw walking either. My local MP has stated he is voting against tier 3. He is not happy.

I tiled a bathroom in pink "chicken" tiles during the first Band Aid concert. Every time I hear "Do They Know It's Christmas" I think of that. Tv in the doorway, box of tiles, marvellous! Living the dream there.

I love it!

This thread has tipped me. DS2 and I are at the stollen. Yum yum

Been out running with a buddy today, and DH is having a long run on site. Other than certain technicalities on the school run, it's felt quite a normal day.

This time next week, I'll be freezing my tits off in the car while the DCs do one of their sports

Some local dementing about people nearby coming here due to not having pubs open etc. and about the students again. neighbour moaning about parents and buggies in the park when she was walking...argh

going to have a glass of wine and try and forget them for a bit.

Stollen doesn't have to have marzipan, I have a German Christmas cookbook with about 3 versions in and only one includes marzipan. I will put some in because I like it but it's just a sausage shape in the middle so easy enough to avoid if you don't like it.

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This thread has tipped me. DS2 and I are at the stollen. Yum yum

Been out running with a buddy today, and DH is having a long run on site. Other than certain technicalities on the school run, it's felt quite a normal day.

This time next week, I'll be freezing my tits off in the car while the DCs do one of their sports

Froze my arse off walking the baby round and round trying to get her to sleep on the way home from school (dear reader, she didn't!)

Went to the park for another walk and feed the ducks, still not asleep and still freezing my arse off! She's redeemed herself by having a2 hour sleep this afternoon tho.

Well the school shit rages on. DD2 in tears again tonight over the little bully she's stuck in front of all day who's been calling her a baby. Class teacher accuses her of lying so I just don't know what the hell to do - we've escalated it to the Head now but we're going to get no joy. There are just no options around here for a child with slightly quirky speech still, dyspraxic as fook, but bright. Covid is making what would normally be a difficult situation to cope with with the school of a crap teacher - about a million times worse.

@DominaShantotto I don't know if it would help but I had a piece of advice that sort of worked. When the bully called me a name lets say baby, I repeated in a loud voice "Why are you calling me baby?" in a really surprised voice. I was a bit older than your daughter (early teen) but it worked some times - more importantly gave me the power to tell the teacher what was happening without being accused of snitching.

[quote Evenstar]@WouldBeGood it could be, it definitely didn’t feel like just being cold[/quote]
Being in shock will make you feel cold. I was bloody freezing the first few weeks of lockdown even though it was warm.

Lockdown, Stealth-mode Lockdown (the tier system), & the fallout from it all feels like I'm one of those cartoons, like The Roadrunner, where he clings to a crumbling cliff & is left "running" in the air, waiting to fall.

Can I ask a question I can't ask elsewhere? Would you consider it pathetic & selfish if someone with no covid symptoms refused weekly covid tests in the workplace? And if you are currently having them, are they compulsory? (Asking for a "friend" who has mixed feelings, but mainly objects, if it is compulsory, to yet another imposition on personal liberty).

I am well acquainted with chicken tiles. Don't try painting over the buggers with tile paint- you can still see them.

Going to have google chicken tiles

I would refuse tests if asymptomatic

Made a new version of the Whitty Meme. A correct version, lol.

omg one house we moved into had those chicken tiles. Never knew the name until now.

Are these the tiles?

I’m confused

www.originalstyle.com/tiles/product/W1708

No, these are the chicken tiles I mean. If you look carefully there is a kind of chicken shape with a beak.
Now imagine staring at rows & rows of them with the repeating pattern whilst lying in your avocado bath (complete with matching shag-pile pedestal mat)... The height of 1970s sophistication!

I have lived in 2 houses with them, one house had yellow ones, another had turquoise. I have also been in pub toilets where they've had them in dark purple or light pink.

Could be worse though. I lived in a house that had carpet tiles on the bath panel. That was something else.

Orchid oh I see

So the pattern is raised is it?

Re your question about tests, yet more reason not to test if you dint have to

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-55107272

You’d be in and out of isolation like a yo-yo.

I was tested once, luckily the results cane the following day. I had a cough and fever and had to test because of mum.

I wasn’t happy. If not for mum, I’d have just stayed home till better - which was only 2 days anyway.

Made a new version of the Whitty Meme. A correct version, lol

Genius!

Have now fallen down an internet rabbit-hole about chicken tiles. Apparently they were never intended to look like chickens & were called "vein" tiles, which sounds worse!

Just remembered my GPs had a coffee table with the top made out of them. They were chuffed to bits with it, but my parents had saved up for years to get them all ripped out in exchange for something "tasteful" like 1980s peach Laura Ashley.

Thanks to whoever has started me off on this enjoyable evening of interior decor reminiscence therapy. It sure beats lockdown blues.

We had "chicken tiles" in yellow, but I never noticed a chicken!

I’m slightly sad to have never lived anywhere with chicken tiles. Although I recall some nice RAF decor from the late 70s early 80s.

You really haven't missed much @Iheart
They are selling them on ebay for £30 a box, should anyone fancy livening up their carefully painted Elephant's Breath kitchen.

I'm sad that we've never had chicken tiles either. They boarded over every single one of our original 1930s doors. That was a total bastard to fix. Had to rip the panel off fill hundreds of nail holes in every single one, heat gun all the varnish off, sand them all and paint them white. Nightmare. Look lovely now though but man was I fed up. The arsehole who boarded the fuckers signed his name in white gloss on one of them under the panel. Thanks n porter. Thanks.

www.atlasobscura.com/foods/chocolate-santafereno-cheese

Just come across this, maybe the cheese in coffee thing wasn't so batshit after all?

kidding both these things are batshit

Just seen another paper going with the "Whitty says don't hug your granny"

First comment....

"Dear Chris,

Supposing that as a consequence of your lockdowns, I can no longer pay my mortgage & feed my kids. My car has been repossessed & my small business has gone to the wall. My wife has left me for a Tory party chum who was suddenly gifted a colossal cheque for PPE of which he doesn't have any and my Granny is fabulously wealthy with only me in her will.
How should i proceed?

Thanks in advance"

I love the Internet sometimes....

@TheOrchidKiller

No, these are the chicken tiles I mean. If you look carefully there is a kind of chicken shape with a beak. Now imagine staring at rows & rows of them with the repeating pattern whilst lying in your avocado bath (complete with matching shag-pile pedestal mat)... The height of 1970s sophistication!

I have lived in 2 houses with them, one house had yellow ones, another had turquoise. I have also been in pub toilets where they've had them in dark purple or light pink.

Could be worse though. I lived in a house that had carpet tiles on the bath panel. That was something else.

When I tiled the bathroom with them many years ago, I wasn't aware of the pattern so I slapped the buggers on the wall any old how!

To a pp, they weren't raised, it was sort of etched in, so they were ideal to get bits of grout stuck in them when tiling!

Haven't tiled for a long time, quite miss it now that we've finished doing this house up. Wonder if dh would like to move AGAIN?

@LivinLaVidaLoki

Just seen another paper going with the "Whitty says don't hug your granny"

First comment....

"Dear Chris,

Supposing that as a consequence of your lockdowns, I can no longer pay my mortgage & feed my kids. My car has been repossessed & my small business has gone to the wall. My wife has left me for a Tory party chum who was suddenly gifted a colossal cheque for PPE of which he doesn't have any and my Granny is fabulously wealthy with only me in her will.
How should i proceed?

Thanks in advance"

I love the Internet sometimes....

Excellent