ADs and their very long lists!

[LivinLaVidaLoki]

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

I'm on the computer so much at the moment it's just too easy to click around on the internet randomly (when listening to a boring lecture recording) and I'm so lonely at the moment I seek out the interaction. That's not likely to change by the looks of it.

Trying to get my mojo back for uni - so far I've looked at this essay brief for 2 days and avoided even deciding on a topic

Been looking at a thread where posters consider WFH is not work nor taxxing, nor is working in a supermarket tiring, but NHS workers are hard working. Funny where you find amusement on here.

Oh bugger sorry @BogRollBOGOF and I hope your husband is okay @BogOff2020

Ha! I shall tell DS who works in a supermarket that his job isn’t tiring. He’s had Christmas Day off and one other in the last couple of weeks. Currently working 7-4 stacking shelves, six days a week, dealing with some incredible rude people. An 18 year old really shouldn’t be spoken to the way he is at times.

We were just catching up on a WhatsApp video with DMIL (poor lady has been totally on her own since early July). Anyway, I was just thinking how grateful I was to a very patient lady who works somewhere at Vodafone because on Christmas Day DMIL managed to crash her only device that we can video her on and was devastated that she’d lost her only lifeline to the outside world. Despite our best efforts to try and talk her through some possible resolutions, it’s was the courageous efforts of a lady at Vodafone who spent 2 hours talking her through the fix!! Not all heroes work in the NHS, they are there and also dotted around in supermarkets, on here and in call centres too

Ok I'm breaking my resolution by being on here already but I had to tell you lot - I just dropped cheese in my tea!!! Purely accidental I promise. It went straight down the sink!

I hope Mr Bogroll stays safe... all legal here... cavorting around at roof height on your own property on a ladder does not fall foul of the STAY SAFE brigade
As much as I love him, I don't want him plummeting onto my head!

@SirSamuelVimes What were you doing with the cheese near your tea in the first place?!

Christmas is finished in the baking household. All packed away for next year. It looks very bare now. Thankfully the ice is starting to melt so we're heading out for a walk.

I only recently started lurking on here but just read (some of) the thread about the gap between vaccines being increased and I wanted to scream.

I was on one of those threads, my DM is one of the people affected - she's had pretty much no contact for the past 10 months after losing my DF last autumn and nearly dying herself with emergency surgery around a year ago. She's taken a completely risk-averse approach and was looking forward to more contact with us as well as being able to get her cleaner back in, she was really despondent last night. On the one hand I can see why they might have made that decision, but on the other, it sets a terrible precedent to change treatment protocol to one that's off-licence after that treatment has started. It seems that they are making a short-term decision that may have longer-term consequences since it's not clear what will happen with longer-term protection (I've been reading the research paper this morning, honestly, we shouldn't be having to do this).

But it always amazes / disappoints me how people can't hold two thoughts in their heads at the same time - yes it might be the logical decision, but it's fine to feel emotions of disappointment etc. too - it's worrying how they parent if they don't seem to want to allow someone to feel something negative at a negative event!

Just popping in to add my good wishes to the group.
I’m not expecting much from Boris to be honest.
He’s wanting to look like the saviour of brexit so covid has probably been abandoned to its fate. apart from a perfunctory check up to see if it’s still around.

All I want to do is get out and about as much as possible so will keep endeavouring to do that

We are due for some changes in the new year with three new sets of neighbours amongst the 7 houses.

I hope they’re ok, iyswim

I’m going to put the knitted, santas and snowmen away but might leave my led tree and lights
On second thoughts, just the lights.
Lights are winterval and it is

@amicissimma

I have just been listening to the Telegraph's Planet Normal podcast.

They remarked that they had to check out their sources and make as sure as possible that people are who they claim to be, unlike, say an internet parenting forum.

They were quoting an NHS employee, who asked them to use a pseudonym, who said that hospital bed occupancy is 85% compared to 92% over the same period last year and that occupancy of ICU is 75%, which is good for this time of year.

So, conflicting reports, although surely it varies around the country. And I've been hearing for years people complaining that their loved ones were sent to a hospital elsewhere in the country which made visiting hard. So sending patients to where there is space is nothing new.

I might give this a go, I'm always on the hunt for a new podcast.

Apologies if this has been seen before. Letter to universities.

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I've gone off 2021 already.

I got a beautiful blue down-filled gilet for Christmas. Today we had bacon sandwiches for a NY treat. Now I have a row of about 10 huge (about 0.5cm diameter) grease spots across the front of my gilet. I've done all the recommended things with washing up liquid and Vanish and every time it dries there they still are. I've had it less than a week!

I think it's interesting the focus has been on NHS workers, clap the carers- the people themselves rather than the entire system of the NHS. That suggests to me that we will see a quick and thorough stripping of the NHS after all this is done. The line will be that the carers/workers are so deserving it's the nationalised element of it that isn't working and it needs to be privatised to protect blah blah blah

@amicissimma

I've gone off 2021 already.

I got a beautiful blue down-filled gilet for Christmas. Today we had bacon sandwiches for a NY treat. Now I have a row of about 10 huge (about 0.5cm diameter) grease spots across the front of my gilet. I've done all the recommended things with washing up liquid and Vanish and every time it dries there they still are. I've had it less than a week!

Oh no! I have no advide..DD covered a new dress (thankfully Asda cheapy) in gravy earlier

@amicissimma

I've gone off 2021 already.

I got a beautiful blue down-filled gilet for Christmas. Today we had bacon sandwiches for a NY treat. Now I have a row of about 10 huge (about 0.5cm diameter) grease spots across the front of my gilet. I've done all the recommended things with washing up liquid and Vanish and every time it dries there they still are. I've had it less than a week!

Dabitoff or this grease remover

www.dr-beckmann.com/products/#category-1

Really glad to read the comments about fireworks. It shows the fight hasn’t gone out of everyone yet! I was concerned that the nations mood had taken a severe downturn.

Wishing you al a Happy new year.

@amicissimma

I've gone off 2021 already.

I got a beautiful blue down-filled gilet for Christmas. Today we had bacon sandwiches for a NY treat. Now I have a row of about 10 huge (about 0.5cm diameter) grease spots across the front of my gilet. I've done all the recommended things with washing up liquid and Vanish and every time it dries there they still are. I've had it less than a week!

Try eucalyptus oil. It gets mascara off of carpets! Test patch first obvs. I use it diluted as a cleaner, bloody marvellous stuff!

Hello I am breaking my lurking silence here to say happy new year.
I’ve had to delete the Facebook app from my phone because it was all a bit much with general doom mongering and hysteria. Just need to take each day as it comes really instead of worrying about the what ifs.

We have come to a different part of the country to stay with our support bubble and even though it’s completely legal, low risk as we are quite careful and cautious, and a good thing for our other support bubble member as a boost for them mentally, I still feel hideously guilty about having done this!

Thanks all. I shall go to Tesco tomorrow and peruse their washing stuff shelf and see if I can persuade them to stock at least one of these suggestions by sheer willpower. I'm not optimistic, it's quite a small branch.

I am feeling so down tonight. I feel like the light at the end of the tunnel has gone out and someone is bricking up the end.

Here's a question- we live right on the border of the next county, which has just gone into tier 4, we've just gone into tier 3.
Asda is in the tier 4 county, literally 4 miles over the border. I've been shopping there for years, averaging one visit every 3 weeks. Discussing shopping with my friend, who I take shopping as she can't drive, she thought we couldn't go there? We have an Asda in our county but it's twice as far and I'd get lost trying to find it! (Lots of big roundabouts and one way systems, ain't no one got time for that shit!)
We're very rural, small market town and limited public transport, (last bus is ridiculously early, about 7pm I believe, last train back is about 10.30pm) hence why we have to drive most places.
Are they doing spot checks on where people live? We've got a lot of staff who live "over the border", a lot of people I know work over there as well. Where I live is a very low infection level so far as I know.
I'm inclined to carry on as normal, not lick the trolleys or the Asda staff, but my friend questioning whether we CAN go has made me think. Thoughts, AD's?

@SirSamuelVimes
Ok I'm breaking my resolution by being on here already but I had to tell you lot - I just dropped cheese in my tea!!! Purely accidental I promise.
Yeah, yeah, we know, just like all those people who "accidentally" fall backwards onto the nozzle whilst hoovering....

DF got another shielding letter today. He is very law-abiding & rule-following but he's decided not to shield this time. To be honest, there is nowhere to go right now to shield from, so shielding is a bit pointless. He says it's pretty low risk going for a walk in the neighbourhood with DM anyway. He can't face being confined to a 3 bed semi & the confines of the garden again, for a condition that is unlikely to be a problem now.