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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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Enjoy, everyone!

Re: London, I keep imagining Khan as a small child going 'wanna wanna lockdown'

Tbf, Khan actually seems not to want a lockdown - but he does keep saying, "Behave yourselves, Londoners, so that we can avoid Tier 3", which I find equally annoying.

@Jourdain11, I'm sorry you're having such a tough time and hope it's over soon. I don't mean to be heartless but your "I think in a way I've been a bit fortunate. I got my leukaemia diagnosis literally a week and a half after lockdown," did make me smile. I found myself wondering what on earth you would call unfortunate!

He is a bit annoying. A bit sort of smug. Yesterday sat in All Bar one. Have not been there for years, as it is over 21s. So, now the DC for the fist year can walk home alone and DH had a home day we went there.

Watched a wedding across the road and totally switched off for the first time in ages, it was lovely.

I don't know. I guess I just don't trust him to actually have Londoners best interests at heart at all. Viruses don't disappear if you behave yourself.

"I don't know. I guess I just don't trust him to actually have Londoners best interests at heart at all. Viruses don't disappear if you behave yourself".
I agree with both bits of this paragraph. Especially the "behave yourself" threats.

Mind you, I can't but help think of Leslie Phillips or Kenneth Williams saying, "Ooh, do behave!" which is probably not what the politicians & public health people intend!

In horrifying thoughts that can only be shared here, DH and I thought of Sturgeon and 'All shall love me and despair!. Though my first thought was of St. Boris and DH looked like .

well today has been no better than yesterday. I feel so flat. Work is shit, nothing to look forward to on a weekend, not even looking forward to Christmas. This is just a fucking existence. I just feel like crying.

Time for a little rant. Radio on in the background at work and every ad break there was the covid instructions - masks, distancing, hands etc. Found myself shouting fuck off at the radio all day.
Then went into town to be greeted by similar announcements over speakers in the street provided by our local council! Dh said it was like living in Russia 40 years ago especially with the queues outside shops and banks 😡

I'm feeling a kind of low level edginess. Dreading Christmas. Just want that to be over and things to hopefully get better in the New Year. Not sure about that today though.

@TrustTheGeneGenie

well today has been no better than yesterday. I feel so flat. Work is shit, nothing to look forward to on a weekend, not even looking forward to Christmas. This is just a fucking existence. I just feel like crying.

Day by day and sometimes hour by hour. You just have to keep on keeping on at the moment. I'm crap at this time of year anyway and have discovered that actually I am FAR better when I'm outside. I'm assuming it's a sunlight thing, although I'm better outside in the in the evenings as well, so maybe not.

I'm getting so confused with who we're seeing at Christmas. We have an old lady friend from church coming for Christmas day but she's seeing her family two days before that and they are staying with her for 2 nights. Then we're seeing my family, then we're seeing DH's Dad and step-mum. I feel sure at some point we're breaking the roolz but I've given up trying to make head or tail of it.

I am praying (literally!) that we get to the end of next week with neither DC or DH getting a call from school to say we have to isolate...

It is rubbish at the moment.

@TrustTheGeneGenie

well today has been no better than yesterday. I feel so flat. Work is shit, nothing to look forward to on a weekend, not even looking forward to Christmas. This is just a fucking existence. I just feel like crying.

I know that feeling all too well.

, @TrusttheGeneGenie. I know exactly how you feel.

Shit week here too, DD sat two entrance exams for secondary schools last weekend and we heard today that she's failed one of them. Still waiting for the other. I'm really kicking myself at putting her through all the stress of preparing for them when I wasn't at all sure that she'd pass.

Moreover, I have theatre, ballet and concert tickets between Christmas and mid-January, and we're clearly going into T3 so none of them will happen. In the scheme of things it's nothing compared with what other people have to put up with, but I miss live performance so much, it's a physical ache. And I can't bear to think of all the performers whose lives and livelihoods have been wrecked by this.

@ProfessorRadcliffeEmerson - the performing arts is just a nightmare. I can't imagine it recovering anytime soon.

DH plays in an orchestra and is so looking forward to playing on Monday night when they are recording the "Lord Mayor's Carol Service". It won't be the same at all, but he's just looking forward to playing with other people.

DD and DH are both singing in a small choir for a Zoom carol service - I can't sing so can choose between watching on Zoom and not joining in at all. Still, it's a chance for them both to sing with other people for the first time since March. Poor DD is struggling as she sings and plays a brass instrument, both of which are verboten as terrible vectors of disease - it's really hard for her to find the motivation to keep practising when she can't play or sing with other people.

I hate the way the performing arts have been so badly screwed over. One of the actual world class sectors of this country and the government just don't seem to give a shit!

I just had a plaintive video call from DS (5). "Please mummy, can't you come home soon? Since you've been in the hospital we've only had rice for dinner!"

DD1 had a proper meltdown at school today and started banging her head on the wall and scratching her arms and her face. I'm pissed off that apparently the staff can't restrain a spindly little 8 year old? I'm not in denial that she has some issues going on with her mental health, but all the Covid crap is making her so much worse.

I'm quite looking forward to Christmas - we still have quite a bit of food to get though Christmas meal it's self is a morrison box this year.

We've load of craft projects planned and plan on getting Disney + again for Mandalorian series 2 - even the teenagers and pre teen seem keen. So we'll be watching TV and crafting together.

We can't get the actual TV - our sky dish is being blocked - and can't really do anything till it's clear if it's the scffolding or the actual building work and it's taking longer than they thought - but we can still stream.

Weekends are sort of down affair- we end up watching a lot of TV instead of being up and about walking miles - and it's badly affecting my weight now.

I'm also going to have to work on motivating DD1 over Christmas to study and revise despite not have a clue how she'll be examined and the not exams possibly being as early as February.

@Jourdain11 - on my word, you've got a lot on your plate at the moment. So sorry for your DD (and you) that sounds pretty hectic.

DD1 had a proper meltdown at school today and started banging her head on the wall and scratching her arms and her face. I'm pissed off that apparently the staff can't restrain a spindly little 8 year old? I'm not in denial that she has some issues going on with her mental health, but all the Covid crap is making her so much worse.

Have the shcool offered anything ? Art groups, social groups, quiet room - DN got offered those in school time or any indication what the trigger was ? They must have a plan going forward.

I get she's uspe with you being ill - but wondered if they knew what the trigger was for the meltdown - so they can avoid it in future.

Gosh I cant keep up with you all these days.

Acorn sorry you are feeling crap. Some days it all just gets too much doenst it? I think you need to remember that you cant 'fix' your mum. You have enough to cope with and need to put yourself first sometimes no matter how hard it is. She has to be responsible for her own feelings and reactions sometimes without you having to shoulder it all. Its ok to be selfish sometimes and take time out to recharge yourself.

Jourdain11 Sorry to hear you are having a crappy time too, fingers crossed you continue to improve and get out of jail quickly. The no visitors thing is such a depressing thing for everyone. When I was in hospital recently they allowed visitors at booked times. I suppose due to the nature of your illness they are being extra careful restrictive.

Picadilly glad you and little Pickle are doing ok. Loved the newborn stage (well except for the lack of sleep maybe)

I have complained about the NHS advert, as an ex nurse I find it abhorrent they are willing to traumatise kids to push the bloody deification of NHS staff. Who the hell thought that that was in any way a good idea? Santa is magical he doesnt get sick nor spread germs thats all kids need to know. There is nothing low enough to use as propaganda these days it seems.

She has really bad OCD and she gets upset if she can't do her rituals. It is probably worse at the moment because of me being in hospital, but they also had a different teacher in today with zero notice because her teacher was isolating waiting for a test result, and I think that got her quite agitated. She's supposed to be allowed to go to the quiet room when she feels overwhelmed, but I think the teacher didn't know that and she was too scared to ask

I can't help but feel it is all my fault. Which is why it is nice to blame Covid!

It sounds like a system in the school that needs adjusting - perhaps she need a card to show rather than expecting an anxious child to ask a new adult to go to quiet room and a hand over note about her needs to any supply teachers.

Fingers crossed for you Jourdain11 that things quite down for you soon.

Not your fault at all, Jourdain. In fact, you are right to blame the Covid restrictions. Studies are starting to show that they have been very bad for children's mental health.

DS has terrible separation anxiety ATM for example. He didn't before and I have done my best to parent him throughout this and help him. But it is not me who has gone mad.

Broken here drakeford has gone nuts