ADs building hadron colliders out of used yoghurt pots

[NannyGythaOgg]

... whilst waiting to see if the kids are or are not going to school next week and walking with imaginary cows.

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Love the title

Groceries have definitely gone up in price.

I have been shopping quite often, in various shops. Went to Lidl today and spent almost £100. There are only 3 of us here, and I shop at least twice a week..

Bought a couple of bottles of Cremant but didn't buy loads.

May as well stock up while I can

Checking in. Wrapping presents and watching Young Offenders. It's not exactly festive but none of the decent films are on Netflix or prime

Wasn't a long wait for Welsh secondaries. Doesn't affect me directly, but my friend's DS won't be impressed!

Checking in. I see we’ve got another press conference at 5. Wonder what the Chuckle Brothers will have to say this time.

Totally predictable when you have a pre Christmas lockdown plus restrictions so people cant visit family and friends and hand deliver cards and presents themselves.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55263177

Royal Mail delays blamed on 'exceptional' volumes of post

Excellent title

Not sure if this is the right place to say this
I can post on mental health if it seems right

Last night I got quite worried about myself. My bad habits in lockdown are now affecting my health, mentally and physically.

This is always the worst time of year for me and I haven’t done any exercise at all, which is poor. I’m on the max dose of antidepressants and it’s making me vague and I’m forgetting work related things

I’m struggling with mum as I think all the rising case coverage is making her more anxious and that in turn is getting on my nerves.

She’s talking about not having the cleaner for a couple of weeks, which in reality will be more because then she’ll panic about who the cleaner nixed with over Xmas.

She seems to be more irrational now - at the beginning she was quite calm about it, as you’d hope for a doctor’s wife. She also gets really bad SAD too which may be contributing to her anxiety.

Sorry, today just feels a very bad day. I feel very low and vacant.

@AcornAutumn im sorry you are struggling. Is there anyone that you talk to in RL about this.

@Sonicthehedgehogg

Checking in. Wrapping presents and watching Young Offenders. It's not exactly festive but none of the decent films are on Netflix or prime

What films do you like?

On Amazon, I see they have This Beautiful Fantastic which is a lovely film, with lovely Andrew Scott. There’s Blinded by the Light which is grand.

I watched Streetcat named Bob on there, that’s good.

Netflix, the only thing I can remember I’ve got lined up film wise is The Quuen’s Gambit.

[quote MercyBooth]@AcornAutumn im sorry you are struggling. Is there anyone that you talk to in RL about this.[/quote]
Thanks Mercy

I don’t find talking IRL helps. I worry about bringing people down. My sister has no work on, my best friend is out of work and her father started chemo this week, so it’s important I try to keep their spirits up.

I just fancied a moan. I realised yesterday that my eating habits, much as I joke about them, are not helping. I really have to pull myself together basically.

From the last thread:
"There's a lot of, " if we stick to the rules now this will be over quicker," which isn't how a pandemic works."

I read somewhere some research from I think it was Edinburgh, suggesting that the opposite is true; that repeated lockdowns just prolong the natural course of the virus and in the long run more people die. I know that 'I read somewhere' isn't going to win any arguments, but it's an interesting concept, providing we're careful not to let hospitals get overwhelmed.

I'm sorry, Dowser, about your trip. It must have been very disappointing. There's an interesting report from Royal Caribbean about a cruise passenger who tested positive on a cruise this week, then went on to have two negatives, one a retest of the original sample. Similar happened to a Mediterranean cruise earlier in the year. Even PCR tests are fallible. Can you imagine all the passengers being sent home for what turned out to be a false alarm? No help to you now, though.

Hancock now wants all secondary school kids in badly affected areas to get tested whether they have symptoms or not

Before they moaned about ppl with no symptoms getting tested.

Yes, didn't he compain that people were getting them just because they were free

Anyway, I thought we were supposed to be getting this new type of quick test. Did he mention that's what it was?

Hello - love the new thread title. I have turned into a complete Grinch today and very happy to find you all and a bit of sanity.

Can someone tell me to get a grip please. I'm getting grumpy because DH and I are both working from home and whilst he is stuck in the pokey office I'm to the side of the living room. Much nicer with the fire and space BUT any time he wants a grumble about work he comes downstairs and moans at me about it then trundles off which feels like every half hour. I honestly just want to send him into exile for an evening for some time to myself!

It's honestly not natural to spend all your time with one other person and never see another soul, is it?!

@AcornAutumn I meant Christmas films.... but then you mentioned Andrew Scott

@Jourdain11 hope you're feeling better - I had bacterial pneumonia as well and was wiped out for a while

@Dowser that absolutely sucks. I hope you can rebook soon

@NannyGythaOgg thanks for new thread and great title

@AcornAutumn Hope it's ok - I am anxious as fuck about my parents too

Sonic oh definitely watch This Beautiful Fantastic. I’m thinking I might watch it myself tonight to cheer up.

It’s thoroughly charming even without him but he makes it even better - as he always does. I never know any Xmas films, sorry.

Robin sorry to hear that. Are they going OTT as well? I just can’t understand how both mum and sister were rational at the start and have suddenly go worse. I think the fact they watch the “news” a lot is not helping.

@MercyBooth

Hancock now wants all secondary school kids in badly affected areas to get tested whether they have symptoms or not

Before they moaned about ppl with no symptoms getting tested.

They are resorting to ever madder measures to ramp up the fear.

Meanwhile I see cases in London have gone up a lot after lockdown. For a seasonal virus, who knew? /end sarcasm

Also stories complaining bitterly about having to take a gasmask with them at all times - and being called names for not wanting to.

My DM still has her gas mask from WW2. Hope I don't still have my masks when I'm in my late 80s!

Acorn my DM is very anxious too, it's exhausting.

Signing in to the new thread. Love the title. Secondary closing early here, but primary isn't so that's something.

Acorn it sounds like you are getting bogged down in other peoples' stuff and feeling responsible for keeping their spirits up etc, I am finding similar, it is hard...light can help a little with SAD...I'm finding swimming helps, maybe yoga? Try and get a bit of headspace perhaps not say though is it.

First they said restrictions would be lifted for Christmas.

Then there were two weeks of guilt tripping and emotional blackmail to try and convince ppl not to take it up. This hasnt worked as well as they thought it would.

Now a fortnight before Christmas suddenly there is this. Its keeping the restrictions in over Christmas by stealth

Checking in. I've had a shit day. No scratch that. A shit week. I can't see an end.

Sorry about your holiday @dowser it's just so relentlessly fucking shit isn't it.

@Orangeblossom77777

Acorn it sounds like you are getting bogged down in other peoples' stuff and feeling responsible for keeping their spirits up etc, I am finding similar, it is hard...light can help a little with SAD...I'm finding swimming helps, maybe yoga? Try and get a bit of headspace perhaps not say though is it.

I honestly don’t mind keeping their spirits up but signs they are about to turn into Ds worry me. Mum and sister obsessed with the vaccine now.

I have told mum I’d rather not spend NYE there. She doesn’t mind at all. she’s in bed by 10. But if she’s going to continue being this anxious I’d rather just continue with care visits and not add extra on just for something she’s not awake to see. I won’t have anything else to do but at least I can be up to see the year in with some fizz.

I’ve got a SAD light but I don’t find it useful, was a waste of money really.

I think this is the annual winter low but much lower due to the crazy. I’m just about to do a workout before dinner, I’ll have to force myself but I think it’s important.

Sorry for butting in but I've seen loads of these threads. Can someone please tell me what (or who) an AD is ? Thankyou.