The Red Dwarf theory of lockdown.

[Hollyhocksarenotmessy]

In Red Dwarf the computer brought back the most irritating person in the crew to keep Lister company, as the most psychologically helpful thing to survive in confined isolation.

Anyone else feel this is now their life?

I could kill DP over the way he serves dinner.

Love how this ad fitted under sprout crumble 😂

Love this theory. I'll share it with DH later.

Oh so THAT'S why I'm calling him a smeghead.

(my cats are also arseholes, but they're new arseholes - January has flown by with trying to convince them they want to cuddle me)

@RedToothBrush off topic, but locally the Co-op has slots and a minimum £15 order. Aldi come through Deliveroo as well. Crisps are survival food!

Aldi aren't delivering in my area (already checked and waiting on email to say if they are starting here).

We have enough in the house to cope tbh. Its just poor planning on my part.

I'd rather leave coop slots for others who cant make minimum spend for elsewhere.

A short while into lockdown 1 we realised if we were forced to only talk to each other, we would actually end up hating each other so I came up with some ways to actively encourage NOT TALKING.

At lunch we can all bring a book to the table and no conversation is allowed unless it is to occasionally read something interesting/amusing out loud to the rest of the family.

At dinner, we put on an episode of something short-ish, preferably a piece of pop culture of our own childhoods to share with the kids - we have watched a couple of seasons of the Simpsons, original TNMT, Avatar the last airbender, Lord of the rings (in 30 min "episodes), now watching the new adventures of Superman.

If we end up talking, and ignoring our books/programme then at least it's something we're interested in and want to talk about, rather than sitting in silence feeling irritated about yet another lockdown dinner together saying "how was your day darling...No actually I don't want to hear what you're about to say because I already know - I was there too, we are never apart!!"

@ZenNudist

Yup. Only instead of Arnold J Rimmer BSc SSc you get a 6 year old who is making shouting into an artform and a 10 year old practicing to be a teenager. Id rather be stuck with Rimmer! I suppose hes not as huggable.....

IDK, I remember as a teen being quite taken by an episode where he appeared topless

Mr Flibble doesnt know what you mean, do you Mr Flibble?

DH stood behind me eating an ice lolly yesterday. He's lucky he's still alive.
He's also lucky that he HAS to go to his office to work. Meanwhile I'm stuck at home with.... The Children.
I have had a migraine every day this week. Ds2 is actually starting to behave a bit like Lister, he's a soap dodging idiot at the best of times, but now he's positively crusty. Yes I make him bathe! No it makes no difference.
I think I'm turning into Rimmer though. I've got very very nitpicky about everything.