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We might be craving tiles, but we'll leave the woodchip and artex alone unless we're feeling very brave...

Welcome into another thread covering the whole range of life and death, novelty vegetables, DIY, any other randomness and musings about a certain pandemic.

Link from previous thread:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/4086798-ADs-trying-to-stay-upright-in-a-muddy-park?watched=1&msgid=102172715#102172715

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Morning. Checking in, bleary eyed. DD in our bed from 2am. DH gave up at 4.30 and went to the spare room as she was so wriggly.

Coffee required.

Morning all. Youngest DD slept til ten past seven which makes a nice change. But I have once again woken up with jaw ache /headache from clenching my jaw and grinding my teeth all night. Bugger.

@SirSamuelVimes

Its got a name.. Called bruxism
If your dentist is open... Mine is.. They can make you a mouth guard thingy to wear at night to stop it.
It was like a miracle cure for me headaches

[quote Theredjellybean]@SirSamuelVimes

Its got a name.. Called bruxism
If your dentist is open... Mine is.. They can make you a mouth guard thingy to wear at night to stop it.
It was like a miracle cure for me headaches[/quote]
I've actually got one from the last time it was happening, but I really struggle to sleep with it in. Might have to try harder. Didn't know it had a name though!

I've got a mouth guard too but in the end decided that there were minimal gains compared to the disrupted sleep. A physio has given me some exercises, but the main thing is just to remember to relax my jaw all the time, you're probably clenching through the day if you're doing it through the night.

Today I need to decide whether to chill or whether to get some work out of the way as I might have a long (and possibly illegal) drive to pick DD up when she's discharged from hospital early next week.

Morning all.
Checking in. Had an awful nights sleep - my athsma is playing up and I needed my inhaler 3 times last night. That almost never happens. Thinking it might be the dust from the woodchip. I'll give it a couple of days and then I'll have to ring the doctors because if it turns into a chest infection I'll be useless for 2 weeks.

More woodchip stripping today then lots of filling and sanding. I don't want to pay a plasterer I want to spend my saved money on nice things

Checking in, thanks for the new thread!

Morning all!
@MercyBooth just saw that twitter post on the last thread and am still agape now.

The people screaming "its only one Christmas" after Whitty said "don't hug your granny this Christmas if you want her to survive to next" are missing a huge point. A lot of grandmas aren't old and frail and would likely be fine. Those that are old and frail would likely want to spend what time they have left being hugged.

When my mum discovered she had Inoperable cancer she went through chemo to give her time with her family. When she found out less than a year later she was dying, she cried. For the first time in my life I saw my mum cry. Not because she was going to die, but because all she wanted was time with her grandchildren. How many people are now in that position, being denied that time.

I'm glad to read that MPs have put Uncle Boris on the edge of his seat, where he belongs, and he's actually having to set out a timetable to appease them. That's something about democracy working as it should, although Boris won't last long if he has to plead for the support of his own MPs, and rely on opposition MPs to get his vote through. The Tories like to eat their own Prime Ministers.

(That's assuming it's true, and that the government hasn't orchestrated this themselves: the announcement of super-strict tiers, followed by the climbdown to appear to be reasonable.)

They now say "tiers could end in nine weeks". Yes, a fixed number of weeks. Did he throw a pair of dice to decide on "nine"? Isn't that painfully reminiscent of "we can turn this virus around in twelve weeks"? And what would the tiers be replaced with? Total lockdown? Do they think we can't see this game any more? "I'll end in the restrictions on a certain date... only to replace them with different ones."

Morning

Morning, thanks for the new thread and great title!

I’ve been a bit absent as it’s end of my term and things are stupidly busy. Still reading though! So thank you for the posts too.

Has anyone else noticed a recent boom in inheritance threads... what is with that?

When shitty Whitty says don’t hug your Granny if you want to see her next Christmas I feel like punching him in his stupid smug face. My fil, who is 92, has a one in six chance of dying in any year simply because he’s 92. He’s my children’s last remaining grandparent so we are going to see him over Christmas. He recently was in close contact with his daughter over a full weekend, she tested positive the following day and he has just romped through 2 weeks of supposed self isolation ( he keeps forgetting he’s not supposed to go out and whizzes up to coop on his mobility scooter) absolutely no sign of illness. It’s not a given you will catch it even if you’re very old.
He’s a retired GP and every now and again I catch him muttering ‘ the world’s gone mad’. His last years of life have been ruined as his cognitive function plunged during the first months of lockdown and he knows it. 😢😡

My DM is very risk averse because if she did get symptoms it would probably be dangerous because of her COPD and she is 87. But, she really never picks up coughs and colds and I wouldn't be surprised that even if she did come into contact with it that she's one of the people who fights it off and never gets symptoms because she's had so many coronaviruses in her lifetime that her body recognises Covid and fights it off.

Thanks so much for the new thread @BogRollBOGOF .

Really must stay in this little corner of sanity and not venture elsewhere.

@DominaShantotto - your musings of about 9pm last night were spot on. New Scientist did an article about the importance of human interactions a few months ago that said exactly this. I remember being on maternity leave and being desperate for people to talk to me, smile at me and not just at the baby. Getting out everyday and seeing familiar faces walking their dogs and toddlers and being able to exchange sympathetic smiles or comments about puddles is the difference between a good day and a bad day.
I'm not meant to be going into work tomorrow, but am considering going as DP isn't going to be available for a lunchtime run. We are meant to give 72 hours notice so I would be sneaking in and hoping the people that do the booking don't notice that I've not actually booked in!

Hello! Another one who must remember just to stay here.

"One senior Tory said: “Ministers like Gove cannot at one and the same time be saying we are on the brink of being overwhelmed unless we adopt far tougher measures, while admitting they are not using any but a tiny number of the emergency capacity beds we have, and that, anyway, they don’t have the staff. If it is as bad as he says, what have they been doing since March?”

Good question....

www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/28/angry-tory-mps-turn-on-gove-after-overwhelmed-nhs-claims?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1606637104

Ha! Not just me then:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4092892-To-wonder-why-everyone-is-suddenly-posting-inheritance-AIBUs

Morning! Piccalilli did indeed make sure I was awake during the night, but on the plus side was mostly willing to sleep in the Moses basket between feeds - I'll take that and be grateful.

Saw my parents yesterday (decided this was ok as they were coming to support new parents and it was great - they cuddled DD for most of the day which meant I got lots of naps in, which was precisely the support I needed!) However, my dad is getting increasingly eccentric due to not seeing other people. He's always been a little bit "mad professor" but not to the point of it being a problem. Much more isolation and I'm not sure how well he'll integrate back into normal society when it's all over. Just one of the many, many low level costs of this whole stupid thing.

Anyone who wants to know where some of the money Captain Tom raised went, we all got a logoed water bottle, as most of us already have multiple water bottles this met with a noticeable lack of enthusiasm. Not sure if that’s what Capt Tom wanted the money to go to.

I'm going into university tomorrow for face(mask)-to-face(mask) interaction! Kind of want to cancel after we sent a complaint to the head about the DD2 school situation but if she tries to collar DH for a discussion in the playground about it - he's under instructions to say it's not convenient and reschedule for the afternoon.

Of course I can't go get a coffee and sit and have lunch because everything's takeaway only - so it's going to be having to have a sandwich sat in my car fun.

@Recycledblonde

Anyone who wants to know where some of the money Captain Tom raised went, we all got a logoed water bottle, as most of us already have multiple water bottles this met with a noticeable lack of enthusiasm. Not sure if that’s what Capt Tom wanted the money to go to.

You're kidding?!

My fil, who is still in hospital in a very bad way, may need further surgery. His hip has had a surgical repair this week. His arm is broken in 2 places, he is in terrible pain, but surgery would help with the pain (pin and plate presumably). However, his blood pressure is very low and they don't think he will survive more surgery. He has been semi conscious in bed for a week now on a morphine pump. We saw him on WhatsApp on friday. He has a huge bruise and black eye to go with his other injuries. (For anyone new to this story, these injuries happened in a care home when he allegedly fell out of the chair he was sitting in. He is unable to walk atm because the NHS managed to break his other hip when he was in hospital for an unrelated matter. He does not have osteoporosis). Naturally we have asked if he can have a visitor, as it's pretty clear he is dying (he's 93), but, do you know, they are humming and harring over this - throw in a bit of teeth sucking and you get the full picture. They don't know if it's possible - they will enquire. It's very difficult, blah bloody blah. It honestly would be the kindest thing if he contracted covid now, wouldn't it? Mind you, hang around and he might, since our local hospital is an infection pool, and even the care home he was in briefly has an outbreak, apparently from a carer.
All this 'care' for the elderly for their own good is just a load of total b.s. Have the government any idea of the emotional distress this is causing?
If someone had told you this story a year ago, you would never believe it, would you?