ADs and their very long lists!

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We were up to 999 posts so thought we needed a new thread!

Jourdain "I get what you're saying, that any kind of opposition or hope for things to change seems pointless."

Tbh I'm not really saying that.

I'm saying anyone looking for support in resistance can't rely on the Old Army - the first lot of anti lockdowners - to do it. We're exhausted. And we were a minority. And we were laughed at for predicting what you see now.

So other people will now have to step up.

As I said, I'm not the oracle. I can't say for sure that none of the Old Army will help people wanting to fight back now, maybe they will. But everyone I know has no resources left. We can only look after ourselves now.

In Wales it's not lockdown because we can leave the house more than once a day, our exercise should not be sought using a car but walking from home and back to home. We're back in immediate family bubble, it bloody feels like lockdown to me,

@rosettesforjill

Urgh, fucking tier 4 and primary schools closed round here. We managed to get out to a non-cancelled lights show this evening despite being in MEGA PLAGUE AREA which was lovely. Now trying to work out what I'm going to do with DS and how we're going to use our childcare bubble - are nurseries staying open where primaries are closing, does anybody know?

Think they are staying open but if they are attached to school they get to chise

Something did make me smile today,

Chose not chise, that's not a word

Primary schools closed here
I don't even have any words

I heard a thud & a scream at about 3.15pm. It was DD throwing something & screaming with frustration about us going into tier4. We had a hug. DS was huddled over his phone, scanning the tier 4 "Thou shalt not" list, saying, "Great, so I can't see my friends, can't even go to school."

They've been very stoical this year but they've had enough.

Agree with everyone who says tier 4 is just another name for lockdown. We are just back to where we were 3 weeks ago. It feels significant that we've got to the end of the year & nothing is better.

@Iheartmysmart
"As my own small act of rebellion I’ve put a “Fuck Boris” sticker on my car."
DD has "Fuck Boris" earrings.

@RobinHobb - I am so sorry. Have you joined UsforThem? The core of the group is sound - there are quite a lot of mad conspiracy theorists on there which you have to ignore but it gives you people to email every day and calls to action which make you at least feel like you’re fighting a bit to keep/get children into school.

I think I’d rather a full lockdown and schools closed everywhere for 2 weeks. It would be fairer. This is just a postcode lottery.
And then with everyone out of school hopefully more pressure to re-open. I’m worried the effected areas will just basically be forgotten about like Leicester all summer.

The worst bit is some of the areas are seriously deprived. Tower Hamlets etc. Is closing schools in some of the most deprived areas of the U.K. seriously the best plan they can come up with?

In the last couple of days on a couple of other threads my reasoned response to something has been sarcastically attacked, I didn't rise to the bait but the posts have been removed. I wonder if those folks thought I reported them, which I didn't am wondering if mods are quietly tired of the rabid mobs

@Seriouslymole
Yes I have joined them some time ago, first lockdown before they got bogged down with the conspiracy stuff. Wrote to my MP. Not much else - I think I'd be out protesting if I could.
I have exams for my msc coming up in the next two weeks. I have managed to do so many assignments and projects around school isolations and a 2yo (she just gets her 15 free hours now not that it's much use) but I can't handle this...

@Justasking111
Love that ALDI thing.
Depends on which branch of ALDI you go to as to how efficient they'd be. The friendlier branch would be slow because they'd stop to chat mid-jab. The aggressive branch where they tut if you linger too long by the cheese (that was happening before covid existed) would probably just chuck loaded syringes at shoppers as they scurry past the check out, & hope for the best. Collect your own plaster from the pile on the packing shelf, & if a shopper's child is having a lie down there, it's not their problem...

If I was in charge would say ok key workers and other workers whose jobs are on the line but if you want keep the children at home from school. Some SAHM would be happier with that it would reduce numbers. You would not be punished but could access online learning. Those threats before Xmas if your child did not attend were petty

to everyone stuggling tonight.
It’s shit.
I’m on the wine tonight, who’d have thought? 🍷😆 (if I don’t laugh, I’ll cry)

Thankfully ds3(primary) and ds1(Sen)can still go to school, ds2 is out till the 18th but out of the 3 of them, he is the one who can deal/cope and recover from it the best. Quite frankly, the kids are the main thing keeping me going for now.

I wish I could drink at night but apparently I snore which drives OH batty he shouts at me to wake me up. DS said I should record his snoring which can be very loud which he of course denies emphatically 😀

Thank you for the flowers.
Love your daughter’s earring TheOrchidKiller.
I just bought an exercise bike, things are so bad.
Both my DD came downstairs to rant about tier 4, I feel so helpless.

Checking in with my favourite MN tribe. The dementors are circling. Sanity please, ladies

DH and I decided, our 3 will have to go to their keyworker bubble. There is no other option. DS and DD2 are over the moon - DD1 less so!
DH volunteered himself for keyworker bubble teacher at his school. A choice between going to work when nobody else is and calling up kids to hear them read over the phone all day from home, he decided that actually going to work would be the lesser of two evils.

Btw, anyone spotted that Greenwich and Islington (who tried to close themselves before Christmas) are not on the closed list?! Does someone have a vindictive sense of humour, I wonder?!

I’m hitting the gin. I wouldn’t have had DD if I could have seen this coming. I’m not sure she’ll ever get back to being the happy and focused child she was. If I didn’t have her, this year would have been miserable and boring and lonely, but do-able. With her it’s just impossible.

@RobinHobb

Primary schools closed here I don't even have any words

This is hard

Local rates are lower than they were when we went into tier 2.
Then they fell in November having reached a natural peak prior to that having a demonstrable effect. They've crept up since, but not alarmingly.

I don't think there's an issue with my two heading back to primary yet.
I don't want to tell them that Karate and Swimming are suspended yet again.
At least DS1 has finally moved up a swimming class 10 months after he passed, but he's had one lesson and no chance to get back to where he was a year ago doing multiple lengths with school (school/ lesson criteria were different)
He's stalled in Karate and was gutted last time that not only did he not quite meet the standard to grade but that DS2 graded to the same belt. These things matter when you're 10. They matter even more when your sporting prowess is inhibited by dyspraxia and ASD.
DS2 just ends up in a stinking mood when he has no sports.

I tried really hard to get them out after school to burn off energy in November. By the last week, it was just too dark to get anywhere after school. Our local play area is only suitable for toddlers really and there's a tiny, limited sports court of one basketball ring/ goal. The rest of the park is just a swamp at this time of the year.

It's small, but the small things add up.

I need to focus on RED January and getting through the next 3 months until its time for the daffodills to party.

Just before then, I have a big birthday. Obviously there's been enough notice not to form any extravagent plans... but it had occurred to me that it might be nice to hire a cottage in the scenic part of the same county and do some hiking. I'm not even sure if that's going to be permissible!

Just a heads up, i'm going to try to keep off this thread for a bit

I do feel for you all.

But i have to focus on myself and after 9 months of battling and drinking and eating etc to cope, I am getting my life back on track so there's nothing to be gained from talking about lockdown.

Don't panic if you don't see me, I am on other threads.

@Jourdain11 I live in Greenwich and it has certainly not escaped anyone's notice that we are one of the very few London boroughs going back! Most people think this is political when Lewisham and Bexley, our neighbouring boroughs, are shut. It seems strange when our local hospital, Queen Elizabeth, declared a major emergency recently as they were running out of oxygen and had to move people to other hospitals.
I have deactivated my Facebook app today as the constant pinging of notifications was doing my head in and it is full of people saying that we are sending kids in to somewhere very dangerous. To be honest I don't know what I think now, I am only mildly vulnerable as a fat woman with diabetes but I am young and otherwise healthy and my children have no underlying conditions. My 11 year old is bright but lazy and would not do hardly any home schooling and my 4 and 5 year old girls took up so much of my time that I felt I neglected the older one. They are all bright and luckily not exam ages but I believe that they all benefit from school. I am finding myself getting more scared of them (and I do mean them, not me) getting it than I was last time and I don't really know why!

If I didn't have my two, I'd still be a teacher

If DS1 had had a different psyche, I might still have been a teacher! DS2 coped with me working better.

There was the afternoon that DS1's TAs were on local strike action (justified) and I ended up teaching y9 with a 5yo in the room. It was fine while he lurked under my desk (and rather funny watching them double take and ask if I had a child under my desk ) but then he worked out that he had a favourable audience and I ended up trying to talk to 32 y9s deadpan while ignoring the 5 year old stood up inside my dress

We will keep going one groundhog day at a time with each other to sound off with and have an irreverent laugh with

I haven't read the whole thread (fell off around page 8) but I was at my friends house earlier when the announcement came that we're now tier 4. I feel rubbish tonight and irritated by it all. I'm thankful that school will open Monday so at least I can go to work. DS is upset swimming is cancelled for the foreseeable. If the single person bubbles go next I think I'll lose the plot.

This week we've eaten out 4 times (in a different tier) and been to the museum. I'm glad I got these things in before the announcement. DS is getting sick of going out now but I've been pushing it on the basis that everything will shut soon. What a ridiculous state of affairs.