ADs and their pampered poodles

[BogRollBOGOF]

Here we are again, gaining sequels even more rapidly than the Fast and the Furious...

My issue with food has been the idea of essential and non-essential food and the temptation to only eat 'safe' food as it counts and an essential purchase, so thanks to all those police and dementors who would love to inspect shopping. You ADs have been keeping me sane and I feel like it's 2 fingers to Boris, Drakeford (even though I'm not Welsh) and the dementors when I eat something that isn't an essential purchase. It's a pathetically small act of rebellion and some days takes all of my strength but it's the only thing stopping me getting too controlling over food.

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The closest we will get to proof that the public are doing everything they can and the governmnet/media have a vested interest in blaming us.

Aww @Jourdain11 that was the loveliest story about your DH and DD and the quest for a soggy Leon burger! Made me a little teary. I’m sure that moment will be one of your DD’s fondest memories forever.

I once had a nightmare when I was about 5 after listening to a school assembly about the blitz and mistakenly thinking our house was going to be bombed any minute. I went into my parents and it was my DF who woke up and not my DM which was unusual in itself. My DF listened to my fears and then picked me up and carried me downstairs and we snuggled on the sofa and watched The Sound of Music the whole way through, just us two, in what felt like the middle of the night to me! It remains one of my most favourite memories and I bloody love that film now too

@MercyBooth that article is spot on IMO!

I shall now return to lurking.

@Buzzinwithbez

I think we made a big mistake surpressing it in May/June. By then we understood more about what we were dealing with. People weren't dropping dead in the streets in dramatic ways like in Wuhan. We'd set up a pattern of caution and distancing that people could continue to follow without the continued levels of isolation. The curve was flattened, the sombrero well and truly squashed and the hospitals ( and people's immune systems) better able to cope then than with the cases that they pushed in to this winter.

I agree. Wish I thought they’d learn the lesson this spring and summer, especially since the at-risk groups should all have been vaccinated by then.

Yesterday's Metro: huge mugshot of our glorious leader, possibly with a tear photoshopped on to it. And a letter stating, absolutely rightly, that "how can our mental health cope when we have been given NO ROADMAP out of this mess"?

We don't necessarily need to hear WHEN it might happen, even I understand why the government don't want to talk about that, but it would be nice to know WHAT ORDER things might come in.

@Lostinacloud Your story is quite moving. I'm sure it's not doing children good to keep hearing all this doom and gloom. In 1991, at school they sat us down to explain about the Gulf War - probably so that we wouldn't be frightened by hearing that "there was a war on now", especially as many of us were learning about WW2 then.

One of my little moments of happy in the first lockdown was when we had that slight relaxation in May and it was unequivically OK to drive for exercise. Gorgeous sunny day, we went to a park about 3 miles straight line disrance from home... via the burger van in an industrial area. McDonalds hadn't even opened drive-thru at this point.
I have a video clip of the sheer ecstacy on my DCs faces as they took their first bites of greasy butger

They then spent the next two hours playing in a magnificent beech tree that had blown down around February. Amazingly, it's still sufficiently rooted in to have survived, and was coming into leaf.

That tree's a pretty good symbol, I'd never thought that before.

@BogRollBOGOF

I seem to be comfort snacking a bit now. It wore off over the summer, and I got back to usual, but spending hours each day on rather unergonomic wooden chairs, comforting and cajoling the DCs at our pathetic attempts at learning, and the weather being unappealling for getting out, there's got to be something while mentally being on standby.

I have a little boy snuggled up with me on the sofa being very cute. Hopefully he should go dozy soon... he's blinking a lot. He just needs a huge amount of comfort at the moment. Good job I can still carry him!

One thing I've found that really calms my eldest down with her, well it was a fiery temper - now it's more thermonuclear, is the weighted koala that keeps being advertised on facebook. She'll seek him out and sit and cuddle him for a bit and it does seem to have some effect.

Then the other one will nick him and arse about - ever the class clown.

Urgh I’m a twat and ventured ‘over there’ again

I think the words:
Transmission rate
Mask
Stay the fuck at home
Covid
ICU
save the nhs
Nhs overwhelmed
Nhs collapse
Causing needless deaths

Are going to be triggers for the rest of my life

@DWPmisery1972 There certainly needs to be a ban on certain words when this is all over. If I hear the phrase “stay safe” again I won’t be responsible for my actions.

Also the words:
Snowflake
The War
Lacking resilience
With regards to children and adolescents mental health.

Bet if I said all over 70s should be rounded up and kept in individual hotel rooms until it was deemed “safe” for them to be out again there would be uproar. But it’s okay for kids to be isolated and out of school for nearly a year to protect them.

Yes smart and ‘pull together’

We were told to ‘pull together’ 10 months ago and it’s done fuck all... ARGHH!! I really need to stop torturing myself with it.

I agree re trigger words and phrases.

I dislike the use of 'no underlying conditions' as a kind of smug gotcha around people dying. It's rather ghoulish when you think about it.

'Stay safe everyone' delivered in the manner of someone speaking to Jemima or Big Ted (showing my age there...)

Oh and on that one... 'safe' as a binary. Things being presented as either 100% safe or totally unsafe. But life isn't like that, everything comes with degrees of risk. We assess risk constantly; when crossing the road, eating fish with bones in it, taking a shower. This concept of there being no middle ground between 'safe' and 'dangerous' drives me mad.

@DWPmisery1972

Urgh I’m a twat and ventured ‘over there’ again

I think the words:
Transmission rate
Mask
Stay the fuck at home
Covid
ICU
save the nhs
Nhs overwhelmed
Nhs collapse
Causing needless deaths

Are going to be triggers for the rest of my life

This!!

Don't venture on those threads too many fun sponges

At chemist this morning asked for something for dry eyes, think central heating computer, kindle doing it. Pharmacy then said mask wearing causes it too. So I learnt something today

@NastyBlouse

I agree re trigger words and phrases.

I dislike the use of 'no underlying conditions' as a kind of smug gotcha around people dying. It's rather ghoulish when you think about it.

'Stay safe everyone' delivered in the manner of someone speaking to Jemima or Big Ted (showing my age there...)

Oh and on that one... 'safe' as a binary. Things being presented as either 100% safe or totally unsafe. But life isn't like that, everything comes with degrees of risk. We assess risk constantly; when crossing the road, eating fish with bones in it, taking a shower. This concept of there being no middle ground between 'safe' and 'dangerous' drives me mad.

Yes! Exactly this! Stop messing around with the word "safe". And I need people to bloody stop telling me to "stay safe". Urghh.

I'm making a mental shit list of companies that advertise with "in these unprecedented/uncertain/challenging times" and boycotting them in the future.

"Stay safe" as a sign off is doing my fucking head in at the moment. I just itch to reply "well I was going to go skydiving without a parachute this weekend but now you've said that I'll pencil in watching paint dry instead"

'stay safe' makes me prickly. Can't bloody stand it and have to stop myself screaming back that I don't want to stay safe.

And "now more than ever"
and of course "socially distance" from the mouths of kids.

That’s interesting Just. My eyes are awful at the moment. Thank you for that info, I shall get some drops.

Oh how could we forget “the new normal” - grrr!

It's almost as though noses and mouths have a purpose and are not just disease spreaders isn't it?

Sorry, it's just I really believe this won't end until the symbolic masks are off.

Yes it's to exhale the shit we come into contact with

The one that really, really annoys me is 'global pandemic'. There was a quote from wee kranky Sturgeon the other day and she actually used it. I would have hoped she was better educated. Of course, people use it as an emphasis; to make it sound ever worse/more important, but they just end up sounding stupid.

Stay safe - grrrrrrrr.

@Jourdain11 - there is already a mash up of the "look into their eyes" (which is something I have never seen - I must have my eyes permanently closed - where is this advert? I'm out and about ALL the time - don't tell anyone....) I'm trying to find it for you.

We're doing better today I think. DS' 12th birthday yesterday which was fun despite everything. He's a bit down today after trying to do some revision for exams next week - not sure whether exams in year 7 at this juncture is a brilliant idea...who knows?

DD seems better today - we've got my mum doing English with her in the morning as she's missing them so much. It's just a bit of contact.

It's still all shit but I am looking for the positives.