@cookiemonster5
Pity about Deliveroo, but it sounds like you’re pretty well sorted. I wanted to ask not assume though as it’s so annoying when people do That Thing of “well everyone can just...” - can be tricky sometimes if you’ve no idea where someone is, obviously, but with this, you’d helpfully provided clue that you might not be able to summon a wee grocery shop (or indeed choose from a bewildering array of takeaways) in a matter of minutes. Don’t feel bad about asking for help via the local volunteer groups & things if you need it. That’s quite literally what they’re there for.
I’m so sorry you’re stuck with an unpleasant person having edged themselves into your friendship group. It’s genuinely very sad when people carry on with the worst kind of “playground” unpleasantnesses as adults. Ugh. If you can engage with them as little as possible without it seeming pointed I’d do that. (In my final year at university I may possibly have thought my lovely best friend suggested I stab someone I’d been at school with after they sent me a deeply unpleasant letter. Well, I showed her the final & most unpleasant one. And being a bit upset, wasn’t fully keeping my mind on contextual clues for language. More icy snubbing less stabbing, oooh, it’s a different world... [To be clear, am advocating the snubbing option, temperature of your choosing.])
It must be particularly tough for your son now almost no children have to shield - it’s rough enough doing it as an adult; but to have to stick at it as a child/teenager when it’s all over everywhere that your peers are no longer having to shield? That’ll have to be one of those absolute thorough teeth kicking-ins. Does he have any support through the team that manage his care, or the place that provides his respite if applicable? I’m sure you’ve seen the booklet the Scottish government put together quite early on about supporting children & young people; the SAMH page is very-much teen-targeted, not sure if that’s right for your DS; Young Minds is UK-wide & their landing-page references Covid-19... there are lots more resources out there than there used to be (unfortunately possibly partly as CAMHS is ever-more stretched) & the impact on MH was why they were after our getting out to exercise & even meet people other people.
@Madhairday
Hello again 
I’m assuming we’ll all get a letter of some kind to explain the new rules for shielders. Once they’ve made them up. Always the afterthought, after all...
I’ve no separate bathroom so just avoid going in there for a while after my brother’s showered & we’ve our own soap & hand-towels as well as own everything else. Own soap & towels in the kitchen too; & I use a separate dish sponge on separate cutlery & crockery. We cook & eat separately anyway; & we try very hard to keep 2m away from each other. (Latter just in pandemic times, we don’t have some kind of weather-house &/or opposing magnetic poles thing going.) The cats are free to bop about between us as they will though - they’re indoor cats, so making anywhere in a wee end-terrace off-limits other than briefly would be quite distressing for them; & while they expect my brother to get up and feed them when they decide it is time for them to be fed they mostly spend their time cuddled up with me...
I hope you & your DH don’t have too grim a Lurgy 
@FlatteredRhubardFool & @bloodywhitecat
In Tier 4 they were still encouraging us to exercise; & there was a lot of concern about the negative physical & mental health impact of shielding so I think that they’ll still say exercise is ok. The other thing is that the shielding guidance is only guidance - you only HAVE to follow the same rules as the rest of the population [around you]. I was advised by my haematologist in the summer that my personal circumstances combined to mean that when shielding “paused” I could relax it to the extent of putting stuff out in the bins myself (if I wear a clean mask every time & wash my hands thoroughly afterwards), but No Gallivanting For Me. Unless you count hospital appointments, my flu jab, &/or my trip to the dentist, which my poor long-suffering parent has continued to drive me to & from 
I’ve a friend who lives somewhere she’s able to avoid people enough to get out & about - & I’ve also friends who have to calculate quantity of life vs quality. Wearing masks while you’re out seems sensible - I mean obviously it’s what I’ve to do so I will feel less silly (it works in my head, ok?) but more importantly, you can’t control how other people behave & masks offer some protection from germ-riddled exhalations 
(Not. Envy.)
And Rhubarb, I hope you’re feeling ok after that cloudburst of worry-stress over school & your DS.
bloody - what sort of dog have you? My aunt & uncle have a dalmatian, who is VERY bouncy, in the adorable tail-whipping way dallies are 
(Think @Babysharkdoodoodood [I used my Thinking Brain & refreshed thread before posting, oh yes] has put it best about doing your own risk/benefit analysis. If you’re very rural then taking the dog out on days he’s well enough - but being prepared to meet people even though you basically never do - sounds like it would be better for your DH.)
@NewCatMummy
Does your username not basically mean you should be paying the Cat Tax on EVERY post 
(Sorry, but, well, my priorities, they are in order...)
If you’ve been provided with the means to bob about the place like Galinda due to being CEV I am very jealous. (But I’d rather be able to apparate - as long as I didn’t have a splinching accident, bleh - than drift about as she does, or even travel by broom.) Crucially, though, there’s nothing useless about you. If a colleague - or indeed a student - were to need accommodations in non-pandemic-times due to their physical &/or mental health requirements you’d not call them useless would you? Nor would you see as dispensable the colleague who put themselves through it in the way someone who’s CEV working in a school [in Tier 3] has. There are plenty of people on MN lined up to attack school staff: how mean to spoil their fun by pulling yourself to pieces too small for them to be able to see much less kick. You need to be gentle with yourself - excellent example to set your teens, too, yes?
@Egghead68
Do you think that means now we have individual cupcakes? (Good grief, I just looked up wedding cake alternatives. I worry wedding doughnuts would end up stale & icky & sad. I mean, it’s not going to preoccupy me hugely, but it would be awful if you had Sad Doughnuts on the soi-disant Happiest Day Of Your Life.) Or possibly The Gods are now watching us from in the round
Are you trying to suggest there might be something even slightly irksome about Miss “I was glad I got crutches not a doll, because I’m so lucky not to need crutches” Pollyanna Whittier?! 
I am shocked, I tell you, shocked... (I am in fact an elite-level Glad Game player. Glad Game Team stash would clearly be hilarious, why do I not have the power to make these things happen?)