ADs are elite athletes and can run very fast

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Another thread in the saga filled up (so no forwards link)

I think maybe we're endurance athletes, or maybe multievent like a decathlon

[quote Seriouslymole]@LivinLaVidaLoki that would have made me furious!! Woken up this morning determined to be positive with and for the kids. About to take DS for a dental appointment that we’ve waited months for and I am pretty sure they will be shut but we’ll give it a go.[/quote]
Oh god, our next dental appointment is Feb half term... the second rearrangement since they should have been seen last Easter, so its now approaching 15m since they've had a dental appointment.

They are absolute sods for tooth brushing. It's a sensory trigger for DS1 and particularly hard to enforce when we don't leave the house. DS2 is on a different set of teeth to the ones that the dentist is familiar with.

@LivinLaVidaLoki at that image. We really are in the Era of the Accusatory PSA, aren't we?

It's not even factually correct.

@Seriouslymole dentists are supposed to be open as normal - it is no different for them today from yesterday as they have been operating with full ppe for months now. The problem in March was that they weren't set up for it. I had a hygienist appt. yesterday and my hygienist was dressed up like a spaceman.
@LivinLaVidaLoki but it doesn't have a 2% kill rate anyway....
I read the 'rules' last night. Did you know that dog groomers can keep working? As long as the groom is for the welfare of the animal and not for cosmetic purposes? (Which is surely always the case anyway).
I am pleased about that. Also we will be continuing to sort out my fil's place and readying it for sale, once we've got probate, which is going to take ages.
I had to laugh at the 'stay at home' advice. 'Stay in your own village' it says. Well, if I did that we would have no food and no medication, or do the people who draft these rules think every rural village has a chemist and a supermarket?

I really hate the endless 'we're clever and you're thick' smugcasts. 'All in it together' my bumhole.

We might all be in it together, as long as everyone parrots the same approved messaging, otherwise you're not in it at all and will receive the Judgy Post of Wroth.

The jelly bean thing is stupid because the consequences of not eating a jellybean are nothing, whereas the consequences of not being able to go out are multiple and possibly worse than eating the jellybean. A better analogy would be choosing not to eat a whole food group with its adverse health consequences because a bit (isn't 0.2 or 0.3% more accurate?) might be poisoned.

Is the jelly bean a slow acting poison or fast acting?
Short acting, and I'm tempted.
Novochock... I'll pass.... and they though long covid was grim...

Right now I'd take sadly dying over living sadly like this.

Funny how the friends I have on social media who were demanding schools closed to be "safe" yesterday are now raging and wanting them back open after their kids have reacted to the news.

I'm struggling to get out of bed. Trying to keep my business going seems futile since I do so much work that turns into very little reward I just wonder if I'd be better spending the time crocheting! I feel like I've lost a lot of confidence with not leaving the house. So much of what I do relies on actual relationships, Ecovillage just isn't the same over Zoom.

It just isn't the same, don't know where that weird autocorrect came from!

@AaahWoof

Right now I'd take sadly dying over living sadly like this.

Funny how the friends I have on social media who were demanding schools closed to be "safe" yesterday are now raging and wanting them back open after their kids have reacted to the news.

I agree with you.

It's funny re: schools. I used to love ours and I was on the PTA even. Then they showed me exactly what they really valued and now I just don't care. Resigned from the PTA to home ed DD1 (who I am terrified is developing agoraphobia) and DS(who is regressing) because school was so unpleasant. Bollocks will children not remember. They'll remember all right.

@MercyBooth Snap! I put on a LOT of weight during Lockdown 1, and have struggled to lose it since then, despite knowing it puts me more at risk blah blah blah. I've just signed up to the lowcarb bootcamp thread in the hope that a 12 week (!) programme of healthy eating and encouragement actually does some good.

It's funny re: schools. I used to love ours and I was on the PTA even. Then they showed me exactly what they really valued and now I just don't care. Resigned from the PTA to home ed DD1 (who I am terrified is developing agoraphobia) and DS(who is regressing) because school was so unpleasant. Bollocks will children not remember. They'll remember all right.

I was on the PTA at the infants, in school a few times a week as a volunteer, then I was a governor and still in school regularly helping out. Then DD2 took lockdown so badly I was really worried about her mental health and speech regressing - and eventually the class teacher put her foot down with the Head and got DD2 accepted in as vulnerable.

The Head has not spoken civilly to me since. Made a huge show of pointing out in governors that "oh DD2 will be leaving in July - I'm assuming you will be stepping down" to put pressure on me to do so (despite me having a good 2 years left on my term of office) - then I did not even get an acknowledgement of my letter of resignation - let alone a thank you (other governors leaving had had a huge fuss made - I wasn't expecting that) but just got zapped from the website without contact with me.

@TabbyStar

I'm struggling to get out of bed. Trying to keep my business going seems futile since I do so much work that turns into very little reward I just wonder if I'd be better spending the time crocheting! I feel like I've lost a lot of confidence with not leaving the house. So much of what I do relies on actual relationships, Ecovillage just isn't the same over Zoom.

I don't know, I would love to live in an Ecovillage with you lot.

Have no words just immense sympathies for those of you with school age children trying to juggle everything. Our small factory will try to keep plugging on but we've had no orders this week other than those which came in over the Christmas break and now suspect I will have to make the difficult decision which staff members to furlough. They are all valuable and necessary!

I don't know, I would love to live in an Ecovillage with you lot.

Agree @ISaySteadyOn

The community allotment alone would be a laugh-riot of phallic vegetables!

I hoped the news about You Tube censorship of the Talk Radio channel was fake but it’s true.

If an argument is robust and defensible it can stand up to scrutiny. Censorship just shows to anyone with a brain, that the Government’s evidence and arguments are not robust enough to withstand any scrutiny at all.

I feel so very, very tired.
Plus in a twist of irony, my hormones are in the same state that they were around 18-19th March which doesn't help.

I've just seen someone on a pregnancy thread call those who are cautious but not anxious about covid risks "plague rats". I genuinely don't know how some people are going to come back from these levels of fear and hatred of others.

Just seen someone suggesting service stations as a day out as you can have a coffee and a cake and sit inside to eat it!
Just have to weigh up the merits of Gorbano v Sedgemoor now

@Weedsnseeds1 can you head a bit further North and use Gloucester? I love their services and could happily spend an hour wandering around. Their coffee cake in the restaurant is also divine

I'm partial to a bit of Tebay on the M6 when I'm heading that way.

Gloucester had crossed my mind Blobby10....

The bloody press have a lot to answer for! I’ve just been out for a walk with the dog (my second today but don’t tell “the others”) and have been called a covid denier by another dog walker. He quite confidently stated that there were 270 positive cases in our area yesterday as that is what it said in the local paper. When I pointed out that was for the entire town and we actually have 16 cases locally, he told me I was being stupid and burying my head in the sand! Um no mate, it’s on the government Covid dashboard for all to see IF they look rather than take the headlines as gospel.

The phrase “there is no point arguing with stupid, they’ll beat you with experience every time” has never been more apt.

Also pondering that the woman who lives opposite has a pet care business and therefore access to unlimited quantities of dogs, should the once a day exercise crackdown come in.

So relieved that I have sane neighbours! We've done all sorts (the vast majority of which have been within the actual rules) that they might have reported us for, but they're very chilled about it all.

I can't believe there would be any crackdown on exercise - you'd surely need to recruit about 10 times the number of police to be able to monitor it!