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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.

@AcornAutumn
You are no good to your mum if you burn out and become otherwise unable to care for her.

Remember the airline safety code. 'See to your own oxygen before helping others'. You can't help her properly if you aren't at full strength mentally as well as physically.

[quote MercyBooth]@AcornAutumn I understand your dilemma. But i think a meal out would do you good.

Thought of another T shirt idea. Barbara Windsor and Mark Drakeford on the front standing just inside a pub with Babs screaming "GET OUTTA MY PUB!!!!![/quote]
You should do this! With a customised politician option. You’d make lots of money, as the song says!

After a walk in the cold, I have decided, I’ll have a meal out with bestie. The option will likely be removed again.

I’ve still not had a definitive answer re care and bubbles but you can provide care to anyone who needs it. In the first lockdown, I had to care for mum’s bestie as well, she’s 85. She’s now got other carers as she deteriorated quite a bit over lockdown.

My best friend was originally in a bubble with her parents but now can’t be because one is having chemo and even aside from covid, has to isolate as much as possible.

I walked past three restaurants and a pub on my walk, they’re usually heaving. Hardly anyone there. So sad.

Get a load of this...

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4097362-To-think-rich-people-should-have-to-quarantine

It's bloody snowed here overnight

Forecast more for today. Been working from home the past two days and typically I'm in the office today. Can't stand driving in the stuff.

Jealous. I love snow.

Snowing here too. After sharing pics yesterday of the deep snow we had early Dec 2010, I wake up to this. Patio builder has just come and put hessian coats on the bricks and gone back home. Can't work in this. Chill factor -4

[quote MercyBooth]Get a load of this...

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4097362-To-think-rich-people-should-have-to-quarantine[/quote]
Mercy

Yes, I saw that yesterday, along with exemptions for performers

I nearly posted it here but was too busy trying to walk off energy in the dark!

Tbh some of my friends are going out thinking they’d just refuse to quarantine if a restaurant was a contact, I can see why

Rumours of snow in London so I’m glad I had my dark walk!

Rain. Cold, sleety rain. Anyone want to swap with the snow?

Cold, sleety rain here too. I love snow but also have to be in the office later today. My car is incompetent in snow so if it could wait until later I’d be grateful.
I saw two women yesterday parked next to each other, windows down and a folding table in between the cars with coffee and cake on it. Not a bad plan.

My car is also incompetent in the snow, and it's snowing again now. My journey home from work is all up hill too. Fun!

I don't mind snow if i am at home and i dont need to be anywhere!

Thank god we haven't got snow here- or rain it's a cold clear day and I've spent over an hour outside with indoor cats waiting for vets - we were there early but they were nearly an hour late. One cat was shivering and we nearly gave up as it was routine vaccination.

Got home and the additoions they charge for are flea dots and worming tablets - and they've only put the flea stuff in.

I've also for first time ever got a child home because of a cold - the school was quite good and left it for her to decide yesterday - it's a mix of a cold, cold class room temp, deodorizor being sprayed around room , mask due to cold and the athsma - though still waiting for GP to do tests to confirm that as that was supposed to happen in March. I hate DD1 Y11 to miss school but her asthamtic cough yesterday was flaring up so hoping kept her home today and in warm by Monday she'll be over the cold.

I used to have a classic mini which had been lowered, had massive wide tyres and was great in the snow. Now have a relatively modern car and it is useless!

I have a terrible, planet killing knackered old 4x4 with big knobbly tyres so am good to go in snow! Though obviously it doesn't stop you getting stuck behind everyone else. A couple of years ago DH managed to tow a recovery truck up a hill that'd got stuck trying to un-stuck someone else! We aren't too far from the Yorkshire Dales so we might chuck sledges in the back and go looking for snow over the weekend.

Love the idea of cake between the cars! Better than nothing I guess.

Counting down to Xmas here. We've got a Santa thing booked on the 12th so barring any track and trace disasters (unlikely, I don't have the app and don't go anywhere I need to leave details) that will go ahead. Have made plans with my parents for every day of the Xmas bubble days. Am getting a bit worried though about afterwards. The vaccine won't have got far enough to drop masks and distance restrictions, Xmas will be over and done with, it'll be the normal flat January feeling times a million. Dreading it.

I find cake between cars so sad.

Friends of mum's did this. They are married with children so aren't allowed to bubble. They are going to the shops daily from sheer boredom and loneliness and sick of falling over the same people every day.

my mum is sometimes not the sharpest. one of those friends called and said "shall I drop some fish pie over to you? I can leave it on the doorstep and just wave hello from the street".

Mum said no - which horrified me anyway - because "My daughter has left a load of food for me". (if she said yes, some of the cooking could be frozen).

I had to explain to her that this was her friend's excuse for seeing her - delivering food to a vulnerable person.

So at least mum knows to say yes next time. I guess the friend would have had a loud conversation from the street.

so sad.

Sleety sludge here. So miserable - can't focus on anything and I have exams in under a fortnight.

Coffee and cake on a tray between parked cars sits slap-bang in the centre of that uniquely British Venn diagram of inventive, depressing, and daft. I sort of love it and hate it at the same time, if you know what I mean.

No snow here (London). It's just grey, drizzly and cold. My planet-killing 4x4 got taken out for its weekly boofle this morning. I ended up having a chat with a total stranger at the fuel station because he wanted to know what kind of car it is (it's an unusual brand and model).

It felt so peculiar in a nice way to have a random chat with someone I don't know. I don't think I've done it since March. He seemed a tad giddified by the novelty too. Lots of smiles and wishings of festive felicity and so on.

My bank is now pissing me off.

My local bank branch is closed - not just counter service access to the machines and has been since some point in September not that anything as said. So I've been using the app to pay cheques in but the app has a limit and I now have a cheque over that limit.

So next town over had a branch - thought okay we'll head over Saturday do some shopping pay cheque in - branch is closed Saturday - not clear if they give access outside thsoe hours to paying in machine but if like nearest they won't. In fact next four nearest branches even one biggest nearest Cardiff is closed Saturday or second there I found completely shut..

So I'm going to have to re-arrange my mid-week next week to head over to next town to pay the cheque in - so it will have to be by myself and via bus.

It' so annoying. Plus I've also got to head out to queue in cold again this time to get perscription filled though I suppose at least it's not raining or snowing here.

This has really been a great excuse for less than mediocre service.

Our council still has online booking fir the tip, coz Covid. It's a roaring success apparently... mainly because they're pushing people off to other neighbouring authorities because it's tough to book a convenient slot within a fortnight, and the other tips just let you turn up.
Now, because it's so sucessful, they want to "improve" it further by putting further caps in.

When I dropped off our stuff in the next county while passing for my walk with a friend, it was all very normal.

We've held off DIY this year from being burned out after completing a major project a year ago and not fancying being having no escape from DIY chaos, but when we are in that mode, we need to clear space ASAP and will have flurries of tip runs. (Remembers the day I turned up twice in one day in a mid-sized car loaded up with what had been a bedroom wall less than 24 hours earlier ) The booking system is untealistic for that kind of domestic need.

Coffee and cake on a tray between parked cars sits slap-bang in the centre of that uniquely British Venn diagram of inventive, depressing, and daft. I sort of love it and hate it at the same time, if you know what I mean.

I know exactly what you mean. It's sad and pathetic that people have to resort to it, but wonderfully compliant and "fuck you" at the same time.
Rather "mustn't grumble".
I wonder what Terry Wogan would have made of this. Waking up to Wogan would have made the year a little less shit at the edges.

Hi all - just popping in for my weekly dose of normality and sanity. Thank you all for being here still.

Was very pleased to get an email from DS's school today to say that they are going back to using all classrooms from January. Had tears from DS the other night because "my secondary school is smaller than my primary school because I'm only allowed in one classroom". I am hoping against hope that this will make the secondary experience better by far.

Ladies

shout at me next time you see me on a thread about Covid, would you?

I'd be better spending time trying to cover up chicken tiles!

Was very pleased to get an email from DS's school today to say that they are going back to using all classrooms from January. Had tears from DS the other night because "my secondary school is smaller than my primary school because I'm only allowed in one classroom". I am hoping against hope that this will make the secondary experience better by far.

They've just put my DD2 - Y7 and DS into sets so they are seeing more people and more parts of the school.

Though it was only the first few weeks they were trying to do things like PE and IT in the one classroom at their secondary. Those were also the weeks we constant e-mails asking us to ensure our kids walked home by themselves even if they were in sibling/household groups like ours. They ended up with couple of year groups out anyway and teachers off and now seemed more resigned after that.

I didn't realise some schools are keeping them in the same room - ours have never done that. Glad to hear that is changing...

They are still not setting though, which is frustrating, but at least they can access some science labs!

I thought it odd first few weeks that they were in same room but then allowed to mix break and lunch and because of that entire year groups still had to be sent home with one postive test.

But then it slowly changed.

DD1 is now stressing as suddenly told one of her joint assesements is happening Monday and today was last time to work though things and she's been off. It had been put back now it's suddenly been moved back - but we really didn't want her coughing in school today - asthamtic or not and possibly then need tests to get back in.