ADs and their very long lists!

[LivinLaVidaLoki]

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

I get a little glowy feeling when people delurk and say we've helped keep them feeling sane 😍

It's a novelty to me as I'm normally blundering through life feeling a bit batshit

@Sonicthehedgehogg

Twinkle sounds like a twee name for a vagina, sorry.

They're RANK

Although I bloody love other 70's food. Give me a vol au vent and some butterscotch angel delight and I'm a happy bunny.

Yes that's true, I've heard that before!

Dh is losing the will to live now so suggested waiting until she arrives and seeing what it looks like ( hopefully a tortoise!) I said if he doesn't come up with something that we can both agree on the name will be Twinkle !
So far the names we both like are
Sunshine
Gemini
Sparkle
Venus ( though someone made a joke about it rhyming with penis!)
Sky

I've run the names you've suggested past him and most of them he's a bit meh about.

My schools thread has returned to some semblance of civilised discussion, so I'm feeling less frustrated lol. May be a good point to opt out for the night so - goodnight all, sleep well and hopefully we won't wake up to any more grim news tomorrow

@justasking111

If you are a Trekkie Janeway, Troi,

If that's for the tortoise name, I've no idea what you're talking about!

I love how these threads meander between covid, cheese balls, obscure names for your fanny and pet names. Bit like a conversation between me and my bestie.

@Justgivemewine

Checking in.

I love the Discworld books too. It’s been a while since I read one. I reckon now’s as good a time as any to reread them all. The first one I read was Reaper Man, proper laugh out loud funny, it got me and dh seriously hooked.

Ah, Reaper Man. One of my top 3 TP favourites. WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR IF NOT THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?

I love the name astrid but only realised I do after dc. I should probably get a pet so I can still use the name.

Yes I hope they do start trying to untangle all the hysteria that's been encouraged as my DP won't ever go to anything social again. He is the epitome of the healthy person living in fear but not because of mainstream news. He's always on Twitter and thinks that the answer is some sort of permanent lockdown with no kids in school. Any disagreement with this means you're accused of thinking that bojo is doing a good job 🙄 bloody frustrating when the whole thing becomes politicised on top of everything else

@Anotherthink

I love the name astrid but only realised I do after dc. I should probably get a pet so I can still use the name.

Yes I hope they do start trying to untangle all the hysteria that's been encouraged as my DP won't ever go to anything social again. He is the epitome of the healthy person living in fear but not because of mainstream news. He's always on Twitter and thinks that the answer is some sort of permanent lockdown with no kids in school. Any disagreement with this means you're accused of thinking that bojo is doing a good job 🙄 bloody frustrating when the whole thing becomes politicised on top of everything else

I liked the name Jasmine but thought changing one of the kids names to that when they were 7 was a bit mean!

I’m not actually called the name that DM chose. DF went to register my birth, realised he couldn’t spell said name and called me something else! DM wasn’t amused.

Scampi fries or bacon 🥓 are flavours I love. M&S did lovely bacon ones, scampi fries are hard to find but scrumptious

@zigaziga

Checking in.

I am really starting to panic about schools. I am a SAHM so in theory it’s fine and really it is compared to working parents but with crap weather and literally nowhere we can legally go I am going to go mad.
These Christmas holidays are really starting to feel like Groundhog Day. I wake up and we just do it all over again - consider going outside, sometimes we try, one of the DC will start crying because of the cold or something. Everyone gets bored and angry and cold. We go home.

I have nothing to add to this post except this is spot on for me. Exactly the same.

@Curlygirl06 there are lists of stars available online. I had friends who always named their dogs after stars, and had a lovely lab called Capella.

I remember there was a thread before the November lockdown and everyone was being really positive and talking about how they were looking forward to lots of cosy walks and hot chocolate and I found it the most depressing thing on earth. I've been sick of sodding walks since May and wearing fluffy socks or lighting a candle does not entertain me but then I've never really got my head round hygge being a hobby.

I liked the name Jasmine but thought changing one of the kids names to that when they were 7 was a bit mean!

That was what our cat was called before we found out s/he had balls. It's even harder to find a second name for a boy cat you still think of as a girl!

Don't talk to me about cosy bloody walks. We usually have this area to ourselves - meaning us locals. Went out for a walk this morning and this rural area was like fucking Picadilly circus. Cars parked/abandoned everywhere, sodden verges being cut up, people wearing the wrong footwear. What makes people think, that after nearly 5 inches of rain this past week, trainers are good footwear for a country walk? We are knee deep in mud and water! Oh well, snow forecast tomorrow. Perhaps that will keep them away.
Night all. Sleep well.

[quote Reedwarbler]@Curlygirl06 there are lists of stars available online. I had friends who always named their dogs after stars, and had a lovely lab called Capella.[/quote]
I know, I must have read them all!

Can I rant? My SIL (I've been NC for years, selfish woman who I finally cut off after her rant about Asians on FB ten years ago) has decided she's visiting MIL for Xmas.

MIL is in our bubble and should have been coming for Xmas lunch. SIL asked her not to as shes worried about MIL catching Covid and passing it on to her and her H (note she's not worried about MIL catching it here, just herself. The irony being SIL works in a care home and DH and I wfh)

Anyway MIL agrees and spends Christmas day alone. She's too frightened of SIL finding out she's seen us and we delivered a Xmas lunch to the doorstep.

It's now the 27th and SIL hasn't even fucking shown up yet. What selfish, self absorbed woman would rather her mother spend Christmas alone than come to us? SIL will probably show her face by the end of the week then Swan back off home. If she'd stayed where she was then nobody would have been alone.

I'm really angry about it. I've kept a lid on it, unusual for me, but then adult DD had a really good rant about the whole thing to DH the other day. I'm not even massively close to MIL but for some reason this has annoyed me much more than it usually would.
And breathe. Lol.

@Iheartmysmart

I’m not actually called the name that DM chose. DF went to register my birth, realised he couldn’t spell said name and called me something else! DM wasn’t amused.

My mum named me after her grandmother and I hated my name as a kid - no one, but no one else had that name, it was a name that, er, old people had (unsurprisingly). Funnily enough, about 15 years later it got very in fashion and it's now in the top 10 most popular French girls names every year 😂

Dh and I loved Effie but didnt like Euphemia as a name but decided on using it as short name for dd1. 5 days after her birth, when we were in the horrid cycle of midwife visits because she wasnt gaining weight quickly enough and driving 2 hours to get her tongue tie cut, plus just adjusting to being parents too, MIL texts and tells us that she thinks Effie isnt a good name because children will be mean and say it sounds like 'eff off'
It made burst into tears in front of the midwife!
My biggest regret is changing it at that point and deciding to go with a different nickname for dd1

Agree with everyone on the last thread about the lack of transparency in the stats. We're only ever being given half the story and it is unclear what we're trying to achieve. What's the point in telling us how many people in hospital with covid without telling us if they were admitted due to covid, or something else. What's the point in telling us how many beds are taken without telling us how many are free and what 'overwhelmed' actually means in real terms. How useful is it to tell me there were twelve new positive cases in my local area without telling me if those cases are all in the two care homes or in the community. Agree with sufferingfromlonglockdown about a moving bloody target. At what point will we be told we've protected the NHS enough that my DC can resume their childhoods and interact normally with their grandparents and peers?

@Anotherthink

I remember there was a thread before the November lockdown and everyone was being really positive and talking about how they were looking forward to lots of cosy walks and hot chocolate and I found it the most depressing thing on earth. I've been sick of sodding walks since May and wearing fluffy socks or lighting a candle does not entertain me but then I've never really got my head round hygge being a hobby.

Plus putting on fluffy socks or lighting a candle only takes about 10 seconds, so there still the rest of the bloody day to fill!

@Jourdain11 it properly enrages me when people leap upon a genuine mistake (which you acknowledged) and worry it to death as an excuse for not engaging with the actual points being made - mainly because they have nothing useful to add. And it’s not like the vast majority of them aren’t getting most of their info from headlines, is it?!

@ikeairgin welcome!

We will probably go for a walk today. Is it cold out there? I haven’t emerged from the duvet yet.

A friend in Staffordshire has put up a FB video with lots of snow. We're further south and no snow here, but it's around freezing. I've got a gym visit planned today, making the most of it in case we get moved to tier 4.

@Anotherthink

I remember there was a thread before the November lockdown and everyone was being really positive and talking about how they were looking forward to lots of cosy walks and hot chocolate and I found it the most depressing thing on earth. I've been sick of sodding walks since May and wearing fluffy socks or lighting a candle does not entertain me but then I've never really got my head round hygge being a hobby.

Ha I mean all of that is nice but for maybe a week.

It’s precisely why Christmas is so special because it’s the one time of year everyone stops for a while and just lies in front of the TV under a blanket, eating, and then every other day going for a brief walk and making a really big deal about “blowing away the cobwebs” (even if you’re working, when I worked I never took any days off over Christmas but it still definitely felt like the laziest weeks of the year). But this year we’ve done all that too many times over already. I’m bored now. I want my children to play with other children. I want to go somewhere and do something.

Plus putting on fluffy socks or lighting a candle only takes about 10 seconds, so there still the rest of the bloody day to fill!
@DrDiva ha yes this is what I think when people say having a toddler is easy in lockdown / Tier 200 or whatever because just get a puddle suit and take them to jump in puddles.
Well yes I do that and thank you, I didn’t need anyone on Mumsnet to suggest that I take my child outside but you are still left with most of the bloody day.

Back when I still tried to do crafts with my young DCs, it would take 10 mins to clear the table and set up the paint and paper. 30s of DS applying paint to paper. 3 mins for DS to paint his body, 20 mins to restore DS to his original colour in the bath and 30 mins to undo the devestation caused.

I never got so much as a rainbow or folded butterfly out of them.

I'm happy to snuggle up with a blanket in the evening, but it's not exactly something to excite me!

I remember about 2-3 weeks into lockdown and it feeling like this distorted in-between phase around Christmas/ New Year. This is what months and months of my year have felt like. Christmas Day for 4 was fine, not inusual for us. It's this point when we normally catch up with family that's feeling vacant. It's either go for a cold walk in mud or congested paths or stay in and vegetate.
Yay, the excitement...