ADs building hadron colliders out of used yoghurt pots

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... 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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DS1 was ticked off to go up a swimming level back in the first week of February...
The class I needed to get him in to to fit with DS2's was full prior to lockdown #1. Then 5.5 months off. Then the class changes remained suspended while they saw where the kids were at and class capacity. Nothing opened up on that slot though, not helped by needing the "lengths" week cycle to get certain activities ticked off. Then lockdown #2. This week was lengths week. I have finally, 10+ months on managed to get DS into the correct swimming level!

I know it's one of the small things, but it's been frustrating that he hasn't had the opportunity to progress for so long.

He might be able to grade at Karate tomorrow. Dyspraxia makes his progress slow and DS2 graded last week and caught up on the same belt as DS1 which went down like a lead balloon.

So many little things that they'll have missed in 9 months not engaging in Scouting. They're the kind of children that need that external stimulation to do things. They don't want me to be their whole world like that.

Panettone usually keep a surprisingly long time don't they? Must go buy one as don't have one (although DH might think I've gone mad given how much food we've got in)

I would back that campaign, but there would be a outcry if there was no minions working away in the background
There would be indeed. (Remember when refuse collectors went on strike in Birmingham?). But the anger gets directed in the wrong way. Instead of it being, "quite right, we need to support these workers who work so hard for so little pay," it becomes, "those lazy workers!" And "we must be paying them too much if they can afford to sit about at home."

@TheOrchidKiller

I would back that campaign, but there would be a outcry if there was no minions working away in the background There would be indeed. (Remember when refuse collectors went on strike in Birmingham?). But the anger gets directed in the wrong way. Instead of it being, "quite right, we need to support these workers who work so hard for so little pay," it becomes, "those lazy workers!" And "we must be paying them too much if they can afford to sit about at home."

It would actually really help in some ways of key workers did this.

I’m booored

I should be doing a workout and keyboard practice tonight, I can see the latter happening but maybe not the former 😂

Checking in. Work has been hideously busy. Awful. Doing it all again tomorrow but with ds at home. Yayyyyy.

Not feeling festive at all. Finally bought dp something and they've refunded as it's not in stock. Fab. Back to the drawing board.

Need to go to the supermarket tonight too and I just can't be fucked.

Everything feels so bleak.

Will catch up with the rest of the thread later, just need to have a rant people who will understand/not judge etc,

But i am just so fucking done with this shit now🤯🤬

I’m so glad we took the easy option of a quiet Christmas because I don’t think I could cope with the uncertainty of will we/won’t we be able to visit/kill the grannies and grandads if a bloody school bubble pops.

And thank fuck the dc have finished now so I don’t have to drag myself out of bed too early in the morning for another Groundhog Day of crazy school runs, corona bullshit, and miserable weather that can’t make its mind up what to do.

And to everyone else feeling just as crappy.☹️

When we have zoom calls with the GPs I do one person at a time, so DP will talk to his parents, then each dc individually, then me. That way we can have something resembling a proper conversation. DSIL has suggested a 'family' call on boxing day but with 5 families in total it will be pretty pointless imo. But not my circus as they say around here!

Northern Ireland proposing six week post Christmas lockdown. Scary

@WouldBeGood

Northern Ireland proposing six week post Christmas lockdown. Scary

Everyone will do this.

Just out of interest, who would have predicted this back in
March? I realised it in April and was very close to the edge and it was weird because the people who talked me down thought I was mad, bar one. She was the one who really helped me through it, I’m eternally grateful.

Right, keyboard practice done...trying to persuade myself to do 30mins yoga as it’s just 30 mins...

@WouldBeGood

Northern Ireland proposing six week post Christmas lockdown. Scary

Their figures cases and deaths similar to Wales, locking down on boxing day is very tough. Retail and hospitality really is stuffed now.

Son tried half a dozen restaurants pubs to book a meal on Tuesday for lunch, five of them have already closed not waiting for xmas day evening. Just have to hope that this pub does not shut before Tuesday.

Bit of fun

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Love it!

@WouldBeGood

Northern Ireland proposing six week post Christmas lockdown. Scary

Sky saying from 00:01 on Boxing Day? To prevent overnight stays?

It’s like a tyranny competition.

I assumed that the rules for hospitality would be relaxed over Christmas too but my DB says not, they remain the same, so he can have guests in his hotel that moved into tier 3 today, but only serve food in their rooms, they've had to cancel their Christmas Day meal.

@AcornAutumn yes, it is. And I’m scared as I live in Scotland

@TabbyStar

I assumed that the rules for hospitality would be relaxed over Christmas too but my DB says not, they remain the same, so he can have guests in his hotel that moved into tier 3 today, but only serve food in their rooms, they've had to cancel their Christmas Day meal.

Oh dear.

That’s what I was wondering - hotels who have done Xmas packages will be stuffed. Me and my sister did this once, it was so much fun. I hadn’t really been keen but it was lovely and we chatted to lots of nice people- which of course no one can do this year either.

[quote WouldBeGood]@AcornAutumn yes, it is. And I’m scared as I live in Scotland[/quote]
Do you think they’ll copy it?

They’ll go one better, I reckon

@WouldBeGood

They’ll go one better, I reckon

Sorry to say, I wouldn’t put it past them.

Turns out Nick Fletcher MP is raising the issue of covid on death certificates not just because it’s a lie, but potentially life insurance claims could be invalid

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/health/coronavirus/concerns-families-deceased-yorkshire-miners-will-miss-out-compensation-because-coronavirus-result-3071509

Sorry, compensation, not life insurance.

This could backfire massively though. I thought the point of relaxing the rules was not because it was safe but because people were going to visit each other anyway and they didn’t want to make the average person into a criminal.

I’m not someone who is attending illegal raves and COVID parties by any means but I have bent the rules from time to time. I found breaking the law much harder to begin with because by nature I’m a rule follower and because the idea of doing something illegal would generally have be in a cold sweat. Once I’d done it, it got easier the next time.

If people start risking it and breaking the law what is to stop them deciding to break it again and again? Surely keeping behaviour that the government know will happen anyway (visiting family over Christmas) inside the law is the only way to keep people in line until Spring?

That's what I said earlier Ziga, though less politely! I don't feel like complying with anything anymore and I'm a middle aged previously fairly boring (according to my teen!) mother.

I think the MSM particularly left wing media have judged and called this really really badly. Guilt tripping and emotionally blackmailing ppl over Christmas while the super rich get to go off to Dubai , certain people dont have to quarantine, Ive got Channel 4 news on Channel 4+1 and have yet to hear a mention of Tobias Ellwood. There seems to be an expectation that protecting the NHS is a job for the working classes.

And as for the guilt tripping over seeing family part of the reason DM struggles so much physically now is due to over 50 years working in poultry factories . She retired in December 2015 (that was a good Christmas) It all caught up with her in January 2016. And she has been fobbed off ever since She has problems with headaches and her hearing, Her leg is swollen. And problems with circulation. So she wouldnt need so much help now if she had been treated properly to begin with. How many families are in this situation i wonder , Coudnt get treatment PRE pandemic and now are expected to make family suffer more to protect something that didnt treat them in the first place.