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That’s fabulous news @Jourdain11.
I was just reading about the police fining a family group having a picnic in the snow, ridiculous. I need to stay away from Facebook because someone is complaining the local play park and skate park are open. People are so miserable. Also complaining about people walking outside. Apparently it’s like a summer day the crowds, which is ridiculous because in the summer the grass is full of people sitting, playing ball games. Nothing like that is happening!
They have also taped up the sitting near the cafe!

That is absolutely fantastic news @Jourdain11

Loads of complaining in our local rag as well about a small cafe being open in one of the few parks that has a proper path around it. People flocking to buy coffee and then having the audacity to walk around the lake with their children.

Thanks for that @MercyBooth
So they have us all locked up in fear on evidence that isn't even strong enough to run an ad campaign.

Also "don't let a coffee cost lives". Then why let them stay open if they're soooooooo dangerous 🤔
Maybe the ASA could look at the misty green smoke ad too.

@Jourdain11 fantastic news!! So happy for you. Unbelievable about the police though. Wankers.

I have had a shit day and a half. Last night DD had a little breakdown at bedtime, pushed away all her toys and bedclothes and lay on her mattress sobbing her little heart out, saying she couldn't have anything (toys, pillow, duvet) because she didn't deserve anything. We had a much better week and I thought she was coping better but now I worry she was just hiding it better, until the dam broke. Then I looked at the news and saw DOOM DOOM DOOM WE ARE NEVER LETTING LOCKDOWN GO THERE WILL ALWAYS BE MEASURES and felt like the walls were closing in. Thanks for those of you who posted calm words last night, it helped me pull it together enough to sleep. But I have a really painful jaw / teeth where I've been clenching all night, and most of today. Just can't relax it. Then i had a real fight or flight reaction to DH shouting up the stairs for me - I was drying dd's hair and didn't hear him, so he had to do a decent yell (someone was at the door so he needed me to hear him, he's not a yeller normally!). I answered yes but I heard myself scream it like a fecking banshee. I hadn't meant to, it was a completely involuntary scream. I realised I'd been wound up so tight that I then snapped. Managed to get DD finished and round to her grandparents and then had to crawl into bed with the duvet over my head for an hour, I was just exhausted. Guessing adrenaline rush and then crash. Poor DH, I think he was s bit shocked. Feeling a bit better now. Have had emails back from dd's school already and they are trying to help us support her. Hopefully a sleepover with her grandparents will help her too, if only as a temporary distraction.

Trying to convince myself that they are just ramping up the fear to stop people relaxing too soon now that the vaccine roll out is going well. I can almost make myself believe it.

Fantastic news @Jourdain11

I hope you have a better evening @SirSamuelVimes.

I too have been getting jaw pain. Have to make a conscious effort to unclench, which is difficult when there are other things going on at the same time. Maybe the scream was a release of some of that tension?

For you and your dd @SirSamuelVimes
screaming out loud is so cathartic.

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I hope you have a better evening *@SirSamuelVimes*.

I too have been getting jaw pain. Have to make a conscious effort to unclench, which is difficult when there are other things going on at the same time. Maybe the scream was a release of some of that tension?

Yes I think it probably was, I am definitely a bit less tensed up than I was this morning. Though that may also be because the six year old is out of the house and the two year old had a two hour nap this afternoon!

We have, "Act as if you've got it" as as well, which seems stupid. So, what, they want everyone to isolate indoors for 10 days? If my DH does that it's unfortunately 25 keyworker/vulnerable/whatever kids who won't have a teacher.

www.independent.co.uk/news/business/eon-customers-gas-electricity-data-b1791496.html

That is wonderful news @Jourdain11!

In other news our local MP popped up on my FB feed praising the local vaccination centre. I commented to the effect that yes it is good news and on the back of that could the PM be a bit more encouraging instead of spouting divisive rhetoric, blame and threatening us with further lockdown if we don't toe the line. He probably won't respond but it made me feel better.

Government forced to pull advert "joggers likely to have Covid".

Scientists say that Saint Boris "talked up the deadliness of the new variant". Surprise, surprise; government exaggerates something.

Small victories, these coming to light.

Engaged on the C board! Climbed out now.

Er, this is the man who got sacked by Michael Howard for lying, n'est-ce pas?

@Jourdain11 - that is a wonderful bit of news. So happy for you.

We had an OK day today and met up with some friends in the local woods. The kids loved it and so did I. So nice to speak to someone IRL who is not DH.

@Jourdain11

We have, "Act as if you've got it" as as well, which seems stupid. So, what, they want everyone to isolate indoors for 10 days? If my DH does that it's unfortunately 25 keyworker/vulnerable/whatever kids who won't have a teacher.

Well, yes. That's why they used that line. Mum has a middle of the road approach but that one really pissed her off.

@MercyBooth that article is terrible, people being left cold etc. Why couldn’t they put extra credit onto peoples account.
COVID has really pressed home the poor and rich divide. I also have a massive chip on my shoulder about the north and south divide too.
Sorry to everyone who lives in the south, I mean the people with power.

Amazing news @Jourdain11, so pleased for you! So sorry about the police officers bothering your husband and children, glad dd2 told them about the naughty cigarettes!
I am currently looking for a job and they are advertising for covid compliance marshals...nothing would make me apply for that! I do feel like the tide is slightly turning, my Facebook page is full of people who are so sad. This is definitely the hardest lockdown we have had (in my part, London - I know we had it easier than various other parts of the country). Having said that I do now know more people who actually have it, including one person who definitely got it in hospital as he has been in there for about 8 weeks.

[quote MrsEWeatherwax]@MercyBooth that article is terrible, people being left cold etc. Why couldn’t they put extra credit onto peoples account.
COVID has really pressed home the poor and rich divide. I also have a massive chip on my shoulder about the north and south divide too.
Sorry to everyone who lives in the south, I mean the people with power.[/quote]
It's definitely ended my hopes of moving up north, everyone will just hate me if MN is anything to go by.

@MrsEWeatherwax I hadn't read your comment when I posted mine so it made me smile wryly! Like I said, I am aware that other parts of the country have had it tougher. For my part, as a single mum of 3 kids in a 2 bed 3rd floor flat I have certainly raged about the people who complained about the parks having too many people in them!

@AcornAutumn don't be silly! Come up, it's colder but friendlier. That's as a born and bred southerner with an estuary English accent, living in Yorkshire for almost 20 years.

(Unless you're actually related to an MP in which case, stay down there, you bugger! )

I'm so pleased for you @Jourdain11 Can't believe DH got cautioned for loitering though. Jesus wept what have we come to.

I've just deleted the bbc news app from my phone. I've been debating it for a while but I've had it since I first got a smartphone so a long time. Anyway, tonight I just thought it brings me down too much. What's the point. If I need to know anything my mother will tell me. I've been chatting to her today and it was mainly centred around the awful news on the new variants etc. I also made the mistake of saying I'd declined the vaccine (for now) so she's a bit upset about that too. I don't know why I told her really.

If I thought the vaccine would get us out of this mess I'd probably have it but DS won't be vaccinated so he could bring it home, it won't allow me to mix with more people, it doesn't guarantee I can't pass it on, no one knows how long it'll last, it might make me really rough and then who would care for DS, they might 'run out' and there's a lot more people in greater need than me etc. I'm tired of being made to feel guilty/stupid for wanting to wait.

Please come to the north we are lovely! I just feel forgotten about. Even the newly elected north east MP’s don’t care!
The north east especially is gorgeous, most places you are less than 30 minutes from either the countryside or the beach. Or in my case countryside on my doorstep. Plus the Metro centre and Newcastle city centre.
I think I need to calm down because I’m very ratty and in a bad mood.
So sorry everyone.

Jourdain the caution was given for loitering? I'm trying to picture the exact circumstances.

Great news Jourdain.
I really despair of this country and the way people and the police are treating fellow citizens.

We are driving for exercise, less than 10 min drive because I want my children to be able to run and play. Not walking down the street dodging miserable fuckers who think they should be locked up at home.
Last week someone at the local park said I should have them to heel as they shouldn't be running past people. The whole reason they go to the park is to burn off energy.