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

@Iheartmysmart a couple of years ago a came off and hurt my knee quite badly. I knew 2 other patients waiting at the trauma clinic and all of us were "but I've got a big competition/riding holiday coming up" to much eye rolling from the docs. We were all coming up to 60! Maybe younger riders bouncd better.

Aargh! Now DP had hurt his back again. It had been great for a year as he’d started PT with weight training. Obviously that’s now banned (thanks Queen Nic) and he was moving his weights bench to try to exercise from home 😱 The irony

I have two horses..one elderly now (24 ex-racer) and the other a younger Irish cob. They have been a Godsend this year as somewhere to go with normal people. Our DIY yard has operated as normal..

I have ventured onto a couple of other threads and was pleasantly surprised. The tide is turning people!!!!!

It does change when we come out of lockdown! the dementors come out during lockdowns I have decided. Where do they go...

@loulouljh I have noticed this too! (Although the coronazone is permanently hidden for me.) Still get the occasional person chipping in that SEVEN AND TWELVETY PEOPLE in their family/workplace/swinging group have DIED OF COVID but they are definitely in the minority now.

@countrygirl99 I think younger riders do bounce! My childhood riding injuries consisted of a fractured wrist and broken toe despite multiple falls but my adult ones were broken collarbones, concussion, cracked elbow, another fractured wrist as well as various cuts and bruises. A particular highlight was getting caught by a low branch, falling off backwards and knocking myself out!

This is actually her second horse (the first one is going to a lovely loan home, because gorgeous as he is, dd has outgrown him ability-wise and it’s not fair on him to keep pushing him out of his comfort zone). Horses and riding are absolutely essential for dd - the yard is pretty much the only place she doesn’t feel crippled by anxiety and riding has kept her going through some very difficult years. @Blobby10 your dad sounds amazing! The age diversity is one of the great things about riding - with sports like swimming, you’re an old has been before you’re in your mid 20s and most other sports have a realistic age limit of mid-late 30s but riders can just keep going (even if they don’t bounce as well )

just checking in.

Breathing better now @justasking111but i have asked doctors for a repeat of my steroid inhaler just in case!

walls awful - can't even replaster because they have plastered over wallpaper, so it all needs to come back to bricks and needs boarding - however the budget will not stretch to that now, so i am going to lining paper the unnaceptable bits. Going to wait until we do the windows and just take the whole room back to brick and start again. Haven't got the will to do that right now even if we did have the cash to be honest!

they had lined the wall under the window with polystyrene. we had been wondering why only that bit was damp... now we know. the whole window wall has been lined in black, tin foil backed paper. I think it's holding the window in TBH so i'm not messing with it.

I swear people do this shit just to annoy the next occupant!

In RL our extended family now all in teir 3 are going full on dementor about other people and Christmas - how government should stop people traveling and lock people up - it's really odd and very depressing to listen to.

I wonder if it's disappointment and frustration around the teir and restictions they now find themselves under. One couple have even canceled the March holiday they'd booked - it's possible they could have been vaccianted by then. Maybe it's loss of faith in authorities - I don't know.

TrustTheGeneGenie sounds like our first house - we'd do one job and find another more expensive one.

I will share this here as probably send the school dementors into hysteria...they are thinking of changing the school isolating stuff (for primaries anyway) so not as many are sent home. Less disruptive. Seems it is not as risky as the benefits to staying in school for those age groups.

Think the moaning minnies start on about masks when they can't moan about anything else. If I have to tell people the CORRECT rules re masks and non wearing of them one more time I'll bloody scream. In fact, I have got so annoyed about it, I've downloaded the government law regarding masks on my phone so I can shove it under people's noses if they question it.

*@Pleasedontdothat * riding is what has kept my dad sane this year - he would have been seriously depressed without it. It helps that he loves his horse to bits and she does him! He also loves being one of the very few straight males in the sport so the ladies at any competition always looks after him .

@Orangeblossom7777

I will share this here as probably send the school dementors into hysteria...they are thinking of changing the school isolating stuff (for primaries anyway) so not as many are sent home. Less disruptive. Seems it is not as risky as the benefits to staying in school for those age groups.

Ooh which area is that, or is it nationwide?

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/avoid-closing-year-groups-after-one-covid-case-english-schools-urged-dg39682cn

Primary schools should stop closing entire year groups because of a single case of coronavirus, experts said as they called on the government to relax guidelines for the youngest children.

Infectious disease specialists said that education policies needed “urgent” revision to avoid children missing out on schooling and that whole families should not have to isolate while awaiting a child’s test results.

In comments published online today in the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood, doctors said that “the default position for primary schools should be the implementation of less restrictive infection control requirements” in which “entire bubbles are not made to isolate following a single case and the entire family is not made to isolate awaiting the child’s test results”.

The experts, led by Sanjay Patel of University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, pointed out that young children typically get between four and eight respiratory infections each winter, and that the symptoms often overlapped those of Covid-19.

“If testing is difficult to access or slow, young children will inevitably miss significant quantities of schooling this winter,” they said. “In addition, the recommendation in some countries for the entire family of a symptomatic child to isolate while awaiting their test results will limit parents’ ability to work and siblings’ freedom to attend school.”

I mean I am confused as thought they had changed to just sending close contacts home, but then after that we started getting emails about whole year groups again (secondary) - it may depend on the number of cases in the group I guess.

We'll see, it won't change anything for me as mine are older but though may interest others.

This is also interesting about families of children not being at increased risk www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54794904

Oh no sorry sounding like a school thread! I will stop that now and move on.

Just checking in. Flocked to the seaside this weekend (aka going hone for the weekend after working away). Sea air is amazing, locally the lowest rate of COVID infection in England 😎

I think they're still sending entire year groups home here in secondary - but I think it's not happening as much as in Sepember. Not sure why - though some staff are isolating which impacts on the kids - it's affecting one of DD1 GCSE assesments.

They've just started mixing the younger years more putting them into sets for some subjects.

DD1 has a bad cold - I think it's the end of assement period - she often seems to come down with something after periods of stress. No cough or loss of taste so under school rules she's fine to go in.

It is not happening as much here since September either, maybe the lockdown impacted the numbers or something - not sure. Ours is a city centre large secondary (1200 pupils +) and sends the emails to everyone (regarding year groups sent home) The numbers overall have dropped here quite a bit so wonder if might be that. Who knows. Good thing anyway.

Oh the sea sounds lovely.

@Orangeblossom7777

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/avoid-closing-year-groups-after-one-covid-case-english-schools-urged-dg39682cn

Primary schools should stop closing entire year groups because of a single case of coronavirus, experts said as they called on the government to relax guidelines for the youngest children.

Infectious disease specialists said that education policies needed “urgent” revision to avoid children missing out on schooling and that whole families should not have to isolate while awaiting a child’s test results.

In comments published online today in the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood, doctors said that “the default position for primary schools should be the implementation of less restrictive infection control requirements” in which “entire bubbles are not made to isolate following a single case and the entire family is not made to isolate awaiting the child’s test results”.

The experts, led by Sanjay Patel of University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, pointed out that young children typically get between four and eight respiratory infections each winter, and that the symptoms often overlapped those of Covid-19.

“If testing is difficult to access or slow, young children will inevitably miss significant quantities of schooling this winter,” they said. “In addition, the recommendation in some countries for the entire family of a symptomatic child to isolate while awaiting their test results will limit parents’ ability to work and siblings’ freedom to attend school.”

Oh good god I can already foresee a dozen threads by someone about how this will be the death of all teachers.

So far I don't think my daughter's school ( she's a teacher, not a pupil!) hasn't closed any of the year groups. I look after her 2 once a week, one baby and one year 2, and so far I'm ok (I think!) I also have the risk factor of working in a supermarket, dealing with the great British public (!)

Conversely, the local secondary school has just shut all year groups apart from year 8 and half year 7.

I am feeling quite relieved I am now homeschooling two of mine. So the school thing isn't as much of a worry.

@TrustTheGeneGenie, why do people take so much trouble to hide bodging? One would think that it would take just as long to fix it properly. Just to say, I feel your pain . We are discovering new and delightful problems in our house all the time.

Oh good god I can already foresee a dozen threads by someone about how this will be the death of all teachers

Yes you see I am learning and therefore posting it here instead where we do discuss things but there is not that reflexive drama and negativity.

@Curlygirl06

Think the moaning minnies start on about masks when they can't moan about anything else. If I have to tell people the CORRECT rules re masks and non wearing of them one more time I'll bloody scream. In fact, I have got so annoyed about it, I've downloaded the government law regarding masks on my phone so I can shove it under people's noses if they question it.

Thanks for that . It's nice to know some people don't think I am a sociopathic granny killer.