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...

Just saw this on my friends Facebook. I am laughing so so hard...

We'll be washing the dice in bleach between each throw, doesn't everyone do that?

Yes, hospitals always have a winter crisis, we have low beds per person compared to other countries. I might move to Ireland when my citizenship comes through as they do pretty well!

My elder son, who lives about 6 miles away, is coming for Sunday lunch tomorrow. Don’t tell anyone, but we’re going to play board games after lunch. He’s sort of in our bubble but with a new girlfriend he’s got 2 illegal bubbles, we’re obviously natural rebels.😆And I’m going to pick him up without a mask and give him a hug, so put that in your pipe and smoke it Mr Gove.

I bought one of those (essential) pass the sprout things in aldi last week. I was thinking we could do it after dinner on Christmas day...fingers crossed my mother hasn't read the BBC board game article.

Speaking of hospitals. A friend of my mum's husband has died after he was put on a covid ward by mistake. He had a negative covid test but was sent to the wrong ward and then couldn't be moved elsewhere because he'd had contact with covid patients. He contracted covid on the ward and then died a few weeks later. I felt really sad when she told me. I know people make mistakes but I found this terrifying. I'd avoid a hospital at all costs at the moment.

@LivinLaVidaLoki How do i find that. I HAVE to share it.

@LivinLaVidaLoki. Hysterical

This is sounding promising

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/4091945-Vaccination-to-start-in-Bristol-on-the-7th-apparently?msgid=102158198#102158198

If DH gets one (over 50 and in the CEV group) I'll be less stressed I think.

Thought of you all when DH and I went on a walk yesterday. It was so muddy that we and all the other pairs of adults were skidding around as if we were on an ice rink. Having bugger all else to do has turned the local footpaths into swamps.
I did wonder when I heard about the board games is whether a) there's some shareholding in Netflix going on, and b) if the plan is to allow us out for Christmas, but make it sound so unbelievably shit that everyone decides not to bother.
I do so want to punch Chris Whitty - as well as being a smug get who's clearly enjoying his time in the limelight, the 'don't kill your grandparents!!' schtick is making me very angry. My dad died early this year, I went to visit him at Christmas and quite possibly gave him a cold/ Covid/ bubonic plague by hugging him. If I did, I suspect it was the least of his worries (he had Lewy Body dementia, Parkinson's disease and cancer), but I'd feel far worse if the last I'd seen of him was through a window.
Isn't it weird that we're used to being very careful with language these days - we need to think about how what we say might be offensive or triggering to others - but the SAGE lot seem to be able to say what they like? I find the 'don't kill your parents by hugging them' more than a little offensive.
Oh, and apparently we're not allowed to interact with each other in any way if visiting a place of worship. As well as being unworkable, that presumably cuts out eye contact, nodding and waving? The Virus runs amok if people are pleasant to each other, clearly.
bakingcupcakes that's absolutely awful.

Going back to the muddy theme, we do a lot of walking / running and the footpaths have definitely been muddier / slippier this year.

@bakingcupcakes not sure I get paid if I avoid coming in....
Very sad about your friend's father. In grief there is always a moment of bargaining, wondering about the 'what ifs', and I'm sure that will be prominent for your friend.

Forgot to say hi Piccadilly and Piccalilli

There is advice in this morning's Telegraph that includes, ' have your drinks and christmas dinner outside by your firepit

Idiots.

@MercyBooth

There is advice in this morning's Telegraph that includes, ' have your drinks and christmas dinner outside by your firepit

Idiots.

My ILs have a fire pit. It is still fucking freezing after twenty minutes.

Honestly, do they think anyone will follow this shite? Don't play board games because you'll get too close? As though we all have manorial abodes in which we can carefully arrange the wing backed chesterfields at a considered distance, and sing whisper carols on carefully distanced spots the piano?

Bellends.

@MercyBooth
I just screen shot it from their post. If you open it on here I think you can do the same x

“ My ILs have a fire pit. It is still fucking freezing after twenty minutes”

I dream of one day having a garden amd fire pit!

My favourite thread is the Christmas bedding one. Folk RAGING about others doing something nice that brings them joy!

Chris Whitty's comments have upset me too. Any number of dangerous things could happen inside a houseful of relatives at any Christmas, including food poisoning, too much alcohol, choking on a sprout, tripping over on the stairs in your new novelty slippers, & setting fire to the kitchen (looking at you, mother, for the year known as "Two Fire Engines Christmas)
Either they want us to have a nice time or they don't.

I think they actually don't.

@TheOrchidKiller I think the idea was "we will relax the rules but guilt trip them into not doing Christmas with their families and hopefully we will get the same result as not relaxing the rules would have done"

Also the threatening of a January lockdown (which will happen either way) so guilt tripping and threatening so far. Wonder what the next tactic will be.

@Recycledblonde

I’ve just ventured onto a COVID thread, the one about the 14 year old confined to her room. I’m donning a tin hat and body armour.😆

Started that one.. assumed it would be mostly pretty sane and left it horrified.

When I had suspected CV in the 1st peak (before most had access to tests) it didn’t occur to me that we should all isolate from each other. Someone in the house gets it, we get it together.
Tbf I know a lot of people who have had it (confirmed) and not a single one isolated from their families or wore masks in their homes so I pray that MN is out of step with what is going on in reality on that one.

I'm just feeling stressed about Christmas now. DDad has come up with some rules (albeit to minimise risk based on the fact that we would be breaking THE Rules to meet up as a whole extended family), including getting private Covid tests beforehand, and I'm at the point where I'd rather just leave it. Which makes me so sad because my family Christmas is the highlight of my year. I haven't seen them in person since August because they live so far away. I really miss them

My dad's penultimate Christmas was memorable... Christmas Eve dinner, the cat was thrilled by the tree, went climbing, brought it down and smashed half the baubles. Boxing Day we relocated to the breakfast room away from the tree... just started eating, mum goes to get more gravy... there's a rumble and half of us are sitting, covered in 250 year old horsehair plaster and dust. Mince pies and Cup a soup.

Christmas is a dangerous time

Amanda Holdens peacock theme Christmas tree.

www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/lifestyle/a34795207/amanda-holden-peacock-themed-christmas-tree/?utm_medium=social-media&utm_campaign=socialflowFBGHUK&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR2jeAd14V5FqTzHI6j3iRnqzP76Aba_6JDx4xttoF8tSKV21gOTM2f4_0E

All this don't kill granny crap ( what about poor old grandpa?). My grandparents have been dead for around 30 years, my parents are dead too. There is no-one else left to kill. I suppose I am now of the generation who should be being taken care of, but I really don't care if I catch covid, I will likely survive (99%) and if I don't , well so be it. I would rather live my life as I chose and make my own risk assessments thank you.
Chris Whitty is probably slavering over his shares in vaccine companies, thinking how much money he is going to make (as are Van Tamm and Valance and many MP's). Of course, it suits them for everyone to need the vaccine, I mean, if we got rid of lockdowns and achieved herd immunity their vaccine would not be needed so they would lose money. We are being lied to and hospital figures are being manipulated.

@LivinLaVidaLoki

Just saw this on my friends Facebook. I am laughing so so hard...

Love it