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BogRollBOGOF · 2021-01-28T22:10:34+00:00

Welcome in ADs. Snuggle up hygge-style 'cause there ain't much going on out there for a while... except rain. I haven't got a pussy of my own for gratuitous showing off, so I shall pretend to be Dr Evil with Mr Biggleswade [grin] Link to previous thread: [[https://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/4138531-ADs-and-their-pampered-poodles?pg=40]]

Weedsnseeds1 · 03/02/2021 11:41

Here's my cat.
No look into my eyes poster's here, but somebody is attaching laminated, end of days, bible texts to telegraph poles. Lovely handwriting, mind!

chocolatesweets · 03/02/2021 12:00

@ISaySteadyOn exactly how I'm feeling. I try to ignore it all really. I've tried being positive and focusing on what I can control but it keeps interrupting my life. I just want to be left alone.

chocolatesweets · 03/02/2021 12:01

I think people are reluctant to admit how many people are affected by covid because if you criticise the national effort, you are labelled as selfish or weak.

chocolatesweets · 03/02/2021 12:02

*affected by lockdown sorry not covid. My brain isn't working. Stressed with schools opening again. It's just the in, out, in, out, shake it all about.

Seriouslymole · 03/02/2021 12:10

Thanks everyone. DS just flunked his maths online (why on God's earth are they running an assessment week NOW for year 7???) - managed 55%. His French teacher is now trying to do an aural test but the recording is so glitchy you cannot make head nor tail of what they are saying (and I speak as someone with a French degree and over 4 years of living in francophone countries - it's really not a lack of understanding!). She will not be told, just keeps barking at them to stop using the chat (to tell her they cannot hear FFS).

However, the sun is out which makes life a bit better and my parents have their vaccinations on Friday.

Pleasedontdothat · 03/02/2021 12:11

Our local forum is going absolutely batshit today ... one single case of the (gasp) dreaded SA variant has been found in a neighbouring postcode - it’s actually a couple of miles away which in London terms might as well be the next county but it’s given the local Ds a chance to froth away ... one particularly idiotic man said that he’d been in Lidl and seen they were stocking boxes of South African fruit and this was no doubt how the variant had got in . Cue loads of fellow Ds going on about how we should all be staying inside forever and bleaching our shopping (if we dared to buy anything at all..).

Dh tried to spread a bit of science and common sense but they weren’t having it ...

and breathe ...

Pleasedontdothat · 03/02/2021 12:12

Oh great ...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson to lead a "national clap" for Captain Sir Tom Moore and health workers at 18:00 GMT

Seriouslymole · 03/02/2021 12:18

@Pleasedontdothat

Oh great ...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson to lead a "national clap" for Captain Sir Tom Moore and health workers at 18:00 GMT

Oh good grief seriously? I'm out. Definitely can't be doing with enforced clapping. And Cpt Sir Tom Moore - great man, but let's be real, he was 100. It's not exactly a life cut short, is it? No offence meant to anyone and of course I have compassion for his family but still, 100...

SirSamuelVimes · 03/02/2021 12:23

@Pleasedontdothat

Oh great ...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson to lead a "national clap" for Captain Sir Tom Moore and health workers at 18:00 GMT

Oh no fucking chance. No way.

Worldgonecrazy · 03/02/2021 12:24

The prime minister is loving it at the moment. The government got lucky with vaccine strategy whilst making the eu look crap, and a 100 year old man who fought in the war and raised money for the nhs has died at a convenient time to take full advantage of jingoistic small Britain.

Bollss · 03/02/2021 12:26

enough with the clapping FFS.

i am sick and tired of the clapping - i even count as a healthcare worker now and seriously, fuck the fucking clapping! aghhhhhhhh

sorry i am having a bad day!

LadyCounterblast · 03/02/2021 12:40

@Pleasedontdothat

Oh great ...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson to lead a "national clap" for Captain Sir Tom Moore and health workers at 18:00 GMT

I have nothing against Captain Tom the man. Seemed like a decent chap, from what I saw, with a good and balanced attitude towards life. Wanted to do something nice for the community and fair play to him for that.

I do have a problem with this attempted Diana-fication of Captain Tom the Phenomenon. It's just a massive distraction. And at one level, what's happening here is the death of someone's dad and grandfather is being leapt on and spun for political gain and to sell papers.

I'm sorry that he died. I hope it was peaceful. I'm sure his family and friends will miss him.

I shall not be clapping.

Iheartmysmart · 03/02/2021 12:50

Rather than clapping like a performing seal, could Boris perhaps use his time to stop moving the goalposts and let people know what his exit strategy is.

countrygirl99 · 03/02/2021 13:06

@Pleasedontdothat

Oh great ...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson to lead a "national clap" for Captain Sir Tom Moore and health workers at 18:00 GMT

I just told DH that. He looked at me a bit puzzled and then queried "A national crap?"

justasking111 · 03/02/2021 13:15

@Seriouslymole

Morning all. I'm not coping today. Don't know why as the news isn't worse than usual but I keep fighting with everyone and crying, which isn't helping the mood in the house. I need to man the fuck up and get on with it.

((((hugs)))) @Seriouslymole I had two days of tears, daft because I do not have to worry about home schooling, my job. I did not cry during first or second lockdown, this one has broken me in ways nothing else has. Had a little weep yesterday over Captain Tom. Ask my OH I am not a crier so a bit baffling. It is ok to have a weep we all need the release after nearly a year. And you know the media are going to make a big thing about the first anniversary of lockdown.

Try to stay sane some of the time, cry when you need to.

justasking111 · 03/02/2021 13:20

I will not be clapping tonight, I am sad for all the elderly who have lost contact with their families, Captain Tom did not. He had a great last hurrah in Barbados so went out in style. I wonder if her would want this. He was not a clapper but a doer.

TheOrchidKiller · 03/02/2021 13:21

"I do have a problem with this attempted Diana-fication of Captain Tom the Phenomenon"
Yes. I feel very uncomfortable about the expectation that we will all grieve for people we didn't know.

I get that some people who never knew him will feel sad about his death, & I sort of understand why they might be upset, & I respect their feelings.

But if people don't feel the need to take part in collective mourning it does not make them monsters.

justasking111 · 03/02/2021 13:34

I would rather donation to his foundation which I will do...captaintom.org/

justasking111 · 03/02/2021 13:35

Think Tom represents all our elderly which makes it emotional

starfish88 · 03/02/2021 13:47

@LadyCounterblast that totally sums it up for me. He seemed like a great man who certainly wasn't a dementor. He lived (actually lived) until he died and left a great legacy. But I don't like how the government are manipulating that. As soon as I heard the news I though 'oh no, another excuse to lock down forever' and I doubt he would have approved of that. It's sad for his family and it's sad because he represents the elderly but he lived to 100 in fairly good health, and seemed to have enjoyed his life and did something great, that's something to envy.

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BogRollBOGOF · 03/02/2021 13:47

I'm far more suceptible to hormonal dips of mood because there's no uplifting distractions. Coming out of one now. Fortunately it was more of a lerthargic one than feeling doomy.

It's important to acknowledge feelings, and it's a normal reaction to feel low through this sustained passive existence. Letting it out is healthy.

I'm feeling slightly bouyed by the little seasonal shift. I can see snowdrops in my garden. The daylight hours feel less restrictive.

School rang about DS2. They're going to try and get a couple of his friends who are in school to send him something to cheer him up and reestablish some social connection. I've talked about how being too dependent on DS1 hasn't helped, as DS1 has a short temper, lashes out and DS2 automatically retreats for self defence. With 5.5 months of that being your only peer-based relationship, no wonder he's struggling to slot back in! (They do generally get on well- currently snuggled together as usual, it just means he's usually in the range of a flailing limb if the mood suddenly changes.)

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TheOrchidKiller · 03/02/2021 13:53

I understand, Justasking
I spoke to someone last night just as it was breaking news that he'd died & they were upset. For them it was another sad story on top of all the misery, & I do understand that sometimes strangers can touch our hearts.

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BogRollBOGOF · 03/02/2021 13:56

I have nothing against Captain Tom the man. Seemed like a decent chap, from what I saw, with a good and balanced attitude towards life. Wanted to do something nice for the community and fair play to him for that.

I do have a problem with this attempted Diana-fication of Captain Tom the Phenomenon. It's just a massive distraction. And at one level, what's happening here is the death of someone's dad and grandfather is being leapt on and spun for political gain and to sell papers.

I'm sorry that he died. I hope it was peaceful. I'm sure his family and friends will miss him.

I shall not be clapping.

It's as good an ending to a long life at a very ripe old age as you'll ever get, and much better than tends of thousands have been allowed in the past year. It must rankle to see this kind of deification for the families who've been isolated from their loved ones

Respect to him and what he did last year; it was a kind and well-meant gesture.
It's society's reaction and the political play that I take issue with (and activate the irreverent end of my humour scale)

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TheOrchidKiller · 03/02/2021 14:01

That's a good idea Bogroll about school friends sending something to your DS to maintain a connection. Maybe that would be something lots of schools could do with all of the children?
Maybe drawing or writing stuff, making cards?

When I was at primary school the teachers organised a "pen friend" scheme across our year group. We had to write to someone in another class. It was really a sneaky way to get us to practise what we'd learnt in English lessons, but the joy of getting a letter was great. (Slight flaw was that at playtime we'd go outside & tell our penfriends all about what we'd just written in our letters to them, but it didn't matter!)

NannyGythaOgg · 03/02/2021 14:05

@110APiccadilly

I guess it is just possible that your (new) neighbours saw a car they didn't recognise on the cul de sac and were worried about the conmen we know are about and wanted to make sure it wasn't someone preying on the vulnerable elderly. (clutching at straws)