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Curlygirl06 · 22/12/2020 13:48

I was just sorting out the baby's cot, my granddaughter was 4 months old when lockdown started. When her brother was born, I had him every week, sometimes twice, and we have a lovely relationship. I missed a lot of her babyhood, as for a long time I couldn't see her properly or cuddle her and her brother. The first time I could cuddle them and kiss them was amazing, and my grandson is not a cuddly child but he hung on to me so tightly it made me cry. He's desperate to see his cousins but he can't. His baby sister doesn't know any different to how life is for her, no playgroups, no going to grandma's shop, just endless trips to the park to count the fucking geese, (12 last week in case you're interested!). I was moving her pushchair, which due to circumstances she's never sat in, from a logistics point of view I use my daughter's pushchair but I want to use mine!
I look after them one day a week as my daughter is back at work, which is fab. But I don't want the baby to remember grandma constantly wearing a mask.
Don't really know why I'm moaning, I'm in a secure(ish) job, dh is working, we've got a house, garden, no financial issues, health wise ok but it's the unrelenting background shit that gets to me, the worry of what's gonna happen next, worries about elderly parents, worries about my kids, worries about my elderly neighbours that I look after. And I've put on weight. Life is shit and I can't see the end is in sight.

justasking111 · 22/12/2020 14:21

OH just seen that our local nursery has reduced trees half price a ten foot tree £20 said to him it would be worth that to put it up in our tight fisted neighbours garden (we love him anyway) just for a laugh.

NannyGythaOgg · 22/12/2020 14:27

@NastyBlouse

Fucking Ferguson is a professor too - and I would definitely be insulted to be likened to him.

Carl is a hero in my book and I would be hugely complimented to be considered like him.

justasking111 · 22/12/2020 14:30

Fifth grandchild he is missing out on playgroups, socialising, which worries me. We did not see him from March to August he saw no-one he was terrified of people us included. My grand daughter nearly three would not let me go clung to me ran off to play then ran back to grab me again. It is tough on the little ones.

AcornAutumn · 22/12/2020 15:31

[quote NannyGythaOgg]@NastyBlouse

Fucking Ferguson is a professor too - and I would definitely be insulted to be likened to him.

Carl is a hero in my book and I would be hugely complimented to be considered like him.[/quote]
I’ll consider it a compliment.

Just been out in the world. Always reassuring. Random people telling me how stupid lockdown is. Good stuff.

NastyBlouse · 22/12/2020 15:35

It’s all a bit post-apocalyptic around here. Nothing open, littered streets, shell-shocked people shuffling around in masks. The front pages are all bonkers today, screaming about mutant this and disaster that.

I go out daily to get some fresh air and just to stretch my legs really but I’m finding it extremely aerating and anxiety-creating to be honest. So much of me wants to hide away and hibernate. Cannot get out of second gear most days.

BogRollBOGOF · 22/12/2020 15:38

Managed to get the kids out. Went to the industrial burger van (quicker than a McQueue at a drive-thru.)
Then went to play football at some sports courts (why on earth were they shut up in November) then a lap of the parks on either side of the river on the scooters.

I'm glad I parked where I did as over the river, the carpark that I'd normally use around that time for my fitness class was gridlocked with horns being used by irate, stuck drivers!

It's crazy how busy the area is for an uninspring early afternoon in December. In previous years you'd barely see more than a handful of people walking their dogs.
I know I'm being an unreasonable curmodgeon but I really wish that coffee shops and indoor entertainment were open to keep people out of my way so I can have cold, damp parks to myself again

Silly stuff like that does reinforce the general discombobulation though.

Shielding letters might explain another flurry of facerags in the park though. It was busy, but not busy enough to render one effective for anything other than contributing to landfill for 500 years.

AcornAutumn · 22/12/2020 15:39

@NastyBlouse

It’s all a bit post-apocalyptic around here. Nothing open, littered streets, shell-shocked people shuffling around in masks. The front pages are all bonkers today, screaming about mutant this and disaster that.

I go out daily to get some fresh air and just to stretch my legs really but I’m finding it extremely aerating and anxiety-creating to be honest. So much of me wants to hide away and hibernate. Cannot get out of second gear most days.

Sorry to hear that. I might have just got lucky.

I got chatting to a couple with a puppy and then people started overhearing our chat and joined in.

I don’t know about shell shocked people, nor do I see headlines on days I’m not at mum’s. Are they shell shocked because they believe it, do you think?

The general vibe here today was just people cracking on with stuff.

I also bumped into a member of Aldi staff and she said they’re not worried but just dreading the usual rush to Xmas. I didn’t say the B word.

NastyBlouse · 22/12/2020 15:45

Re professors

I worded my comment clumsily I think, I wasn’t trying to insinuate that anyone here was wrong or foolish for being likened to CH. It was more the idea that Over There some think it’s sufficiently insulting to invoke someone who’s job and life’s work is to stand for evidence-based science. (Which from a different perspective, I suppose it is.)

Sorry if I got it wrong and upset anyone... absolutely not intended that way at all.

NastyBlouse · 22/12/2020 15:56

Are they shell shocked because they believe it, do you think?

I would imagine some do, some don’t. I’m in zone 2 London so at the epicentre of the ‘mutant’ storm, so to speak. The targeted stuff in the press has got to a lot of people I think.

I also think a lot of it is that pre-Christmas fatigue that creeps up on people at the end of the year. Many people semi-delirious on cheese and mince pies but it’s not quite time to batten down the hatches yet.

And there’s just an elevated sadness. More homeless people on Putney high street than I have ever seen in over a decade of living here. It’s all so heart-wrenching and sad. And it feels like just the start of the real suffering.

Oh god I’m depressing myself now. Sorry, I’ll shut up now. I’m going to go and roll in some tinsel and see if that helps.

NannyGythaOgg · 22/12/2020 16:14

@NastyBlouse
I didn't take it like that. Was just considering that being a professor didn't necessarily mean a person wasn't a prick as well.

That's one of the big problems to me, there seem to be far more dementors than I would expect among educated people who aren't going to directly benefit

LivinLaVidaLoki · 22/12/2020 16:19

((Whispers)) there is actually a sensible and non dementory thread going on over in the coronazone....

I've come over all faint. Did I slip into a parallel universe or something?

JamSarnie · 22/12/2020 16:26

@LivinLaVidaLoki

((Whispers)) there is actually a sensible and non dementory thread going on over in the coronazone....

I've come over all faint. Did I slip into a parallel universe or something?

It's amazing isn't it

Iheartmysmart · 22/12/2020 16:27

@LivinLaVidaLoki Is that the we’ve gone collectively insane one? There are some interesting alternative views on there if so. It’s making interesting reading. Do you think the tide is starting to turn?

LivinLaVidaLoki · 22/12/2020 16:29

That's the one @Iheartmysmart
Some very interesting views there and the majority are definitely questioning the handling of this. A few have said that they used to follow the roolz blindly and now they're not sure and a a dementor has been called out for posting fake pictures.
I think it would have been a very different thread 9 months ago.

Iheartmysmart · 22/12/2020 16:34

It’s good to see that those who disagree with the current handling of this are holding their own against the dementors. And calling for them to provide evidence of their claims. This has been happening a lot the other way around but this is the first time I’ve seen a dementor called out to prove what they are saying.

Reedwarbler · 22/12/2020 16:40

@NastyBlouse re the homeless people. In March weren't they all put up in hotels? I haven't heard any mention of that happening now. I bet there are considerably of them now.

Reedwarbler · 22/12/2020 16:41

#Considerably MORE of them now...

LivinLaVidaLoki · 22/12/2020 16:46

@Iheartmysmart

It’s good to see that those who disagree with the current handling of this are holding their own against the dementors. And calling for them to provide evidence of their claims. This has been happening a lot the other way around but this is the first time I’ve seen a dementor called out to prove what they are saying.

Exactly! The photo bit did it for me. Essentially "well yeah the photo is fake but it doesn't mean it's not happening"

I think the tide is definitely turning

DrDiva · 22/12/2020 16:52

I got this from Ocado today. Oh dear. Are the drivers in the habit of putting the bags over their heads or something?

Iheartmysmart · 22/12/2020 16:55

Flipping heck DrDiva, don’t give Boris any more ideas to stop the spread! Although I’m sure there are a fair number of people who would quite happily follow an instruction to place a carrier bag over their head and tie it tight under the chin to prevent Covid. NB - I don’t recommend you do this!

MercyBooth · 22/12/2020 17:06

Looking at the lorries There are loads of them stretching many many miles. What a shitshow. Sky News are saying where are they going to go to the loo. How are they going to wash and keep clean?

Note to Boris and Chums. Dont use the media to scare the public.

AcornAutumn · 22/12/2020 17:18

These lovely people are helping lorry drivers with food

mobile.twitter.com/Khalsa_Aid/status/1341393418291998723

MercyBooth · 22/12/2020 17:21

Oh how kind of them.

NannyGythaOgg · 22/12/2020 17:28

@DrDiva

I got this from Ocado today. Oh dear. Are the drivers in the habit of putting the bags over their heads or something?

On my Asda 'click and collect' I can no longer opt not to have my shopping prepacked into single use plastic carrier bags. However, apart from the very first week, the shopping is not prepacked - you are offered the bags to put it in yourself as you transfer shopping to car - which totally negates the point as it neither saves time packing the car nor avoids you having to touch all the shopping o both of which were given as reasons. After collecting, on a matter of principle, I am contacting them and insisting on a refund of the 40p. I don't want single use plastic bags but I want even less to pay for them when I haven't got them.