So did anyone clap in your street last night?

[JesusInTheCabbageVan]

I did look for a thread on this and couldn't see one.

Quite a few people in our street joined in the clapping in March, but last night you could have heard a pin drop Any die hard clappers out there, or has it fizzled out?

I was working so didn't pay a great deal of attention but as far as I am aware no one did. I wouldn't have anyway, it just seems patronising. It isn't just "key workers" that are working hard. I'm not a key worker and I've worked my arse off throughout to fulfill people's online shopping habits and deal with the "why haven't I received my order yet" messages twenty times a day. No one is saying thank you to me 🙄. I've employed two members of staff, paid my tax and VAT, continued to pay my rent and done my bit to keep the economy going, but I am less important to society because I am not running an essential business. Tell that to the people whose Christmas was ruined because they didn't receive their cushion/decoration three weeks before they ordered it...

I don't know, I didn't hear anything but I never heard anything in the first lot of clapping! I don't know anyone who did, put it that way.

I can't believe the woman behind it thought she could just snap her fingers and have it start up again.

During the spring lots of people in my area did it. We’d hear clapping, pans being bashed with spoons and a rather annoying woman who drove around blasting a vulgar klaxon sound from her car.

Didn’t hear a thing on Thursday. Guessing people aren’t arsed because it’s dark, cold and everyone’s just sick of this shit.

This Christmas I received a book about Zen Meditation and so on Thursday evening I sat indoors and at 08:00 concentrated on the Koan 'The Sound of One Hand Clapping'. It was very enlightening...

...and then I drank a bottle and a half of wine and ate a family bag of Walkers Crisps and an extremely large piece of my housemates birthday cake (that included the word 'Happy').

Probably, as a consequence, on Friday morning I felt less enlightened and not at all happy

I think the NHS (I have retired from it) can see that people appreciate them without doing this again. Too many people have front doors that are very close together and people of different households were effectively mixing in their front gardens/streets. It would be insane to go back to this when they are telling us in some parts of the country the NHS is stretched to breaking point or already broken eg. 1 nurse to 4 ICU patients, is in my opinion, well broken. it's like asking a teacher to teach 4 primary classes (in separate rooms) at once.

It was well meant but shouldn' t be resurrected.

@TwoLeftSocksWithHoles

You're not the house mate are you?!

Housemate ate my bday cake http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/amiibeingunreasonable/4130269-Housemate-ate-my-bday-cake

Not a dicky bird around here.

@JesusInTheCabbageVan

I can't believe the woman behind it thought she could just snap her fingers and have it start up again.

I didn't think she had.didn't she "distance " herself from it....probably embarrassed

I don't know, slightly deaf so couldn't hear anything. Also i was stuck on the sofa with fractured rib in a not very comfortable position, doped up on painkillers so i wasn't getting up to look.

@redfernsydney how did she distance herself?!

No, the whole thing is hypocritical. BOJO emcoueaged it. He then ended up seeing what great care the nurses gave. He still wouldn't give them a pennies pay rise.

Clapping for nurses wont pay their bills, i think it's a slap in the face.

Nope. Not here, and I didn't hear anyone else doing it either.

I'd rather they got a decent pay rise instead. Clapping won't pay the bills or put food on the table.

@redfernsydney OK, maybe a little uncharitable of me.

She tweeted: ‘We are bringing back the 8pm applause, in our 3rd lockdown I hope it can lift the spirit, of all of us. ‘Carers teacher, homeschooling parents, those who shield and ALL who is pushing through this difficult time! Please join & share!’

Doubtless it was well intentioned, but having called a stop to it once already for reasons that are very much still in existence, it was a bad idea to just announce that it was starting up again, seemingly without testing the views of a) the people being clapped for and b) the people doing the clapping. (Maybe she did, but she didn't mention that, and it does seem like most people are against it.)

None near me. Personally I give support or seek to by my actions.

No-one here this time. Someone asked on our village facebook page if anyone would be doing it and got a resounding and unanimous no, which I found quite surprising, given that last time it was developing into a "who can do it in the most attention seeking way" kind of thing.

I think the clappy ship has sailed. I do like the idea that someone started up of everyone emailing/tweeting their MP at 8pm on a Thursday about getting NHS workers a pay rise though.

Yes, some people here did. We didn’t as we were a bit cynical about it. The people who did are ones I have respect for though. so I will do it next week, to show solidarity with them.