ADs and their gratuitous pussy pictures

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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

Link to previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/4138531-ADs-and-their-pampered-poodles?pg=40

And my friends are now on anti depressants and the only reason I haven't pursued getting some is I feel they should be used when you have a disproportionate response to events but I feel my mood is entirely proportionate to the situation. It is shit so I feel shit, so there is nothing imbalanced about my brain chemicals afaik.

Anti depressants are a not great, side effects tiresome. What we're feeling is normal. I think they're good for abnormal feelings. Not sure about them otherwise

@chocolatesweets I think it is already starting to happen. There has been more discussion of the harms of lockdown in the media. It is becoming more acceptable to voice concerns about these harms without being accused of being some kind of heartless granny killer/lunatic Covid denier.

I do think the terms of the debate are changing, slowly. You can see it even "over there". People are expressing views that they wouldn't have dared to back in, say, May 2020 (other than on these wonderful threads of course).

As my DH said last night, the Overton window is changing! And thank god it is, because we need to hear these voices. We need debate and the ability to question or gov. I think this will be so important over coming months, as there may well be a battle coming re pursuing zero Covid, which would require many restrictions to remain in place for quite a while. We need to hear about the costs and harms of that - from as many different voices as possible.

@smallandimperfectlyformed

It was recycledblonde who said about accidents within the home, I think she is an ambulance call handler. *justasking111 the more I hear about Wales at the moment the more frustrated I am for poor Welsh people - it can't be healthy to have that level of scrutiny/paranoia for people going out for walks. Your poor daughter Jourdain11, she is really struggling and it's awful seeing our children in so much pain. Did anyone see this week's 999 what's your emergency? It was proper depressing as it was set at the beginning of the pandemic and the police staff had no idea what the rules were. There was a particularly unpleasant scene which stayed with me where a pregnant woman was threatened by an ex friend and because her son was sent home from school to self isolate the police wouldn't go in the house. They left the scene and within 5 minutes the aggressor went back to the scene, knocked the door down and the pregnant woman's head was injured! I watched it before bed last night and wish I hadn't because it kept going round my head.

Hi, I’m a paramedic but mostly working on telephone triage at the moment. There’s a huge increase in falls at the moment, muscle mass decreases when people aren’t moving around as much, this particularly affects balance in elderly people. I’ve also noticed a significant increase in older people, particularly elderly women, drinking heavily. I think they’re drinking to fill the void left by lack of human contact. Intoxicated 95 year olds without any dementia is not something we would normally see.😢 I’m finding it difficult to deal with the number of elderly weeping on the phone, telling me they don’t want to live like this. I wonder how many overdose deaths will go unreported, after all it’s not unusual for an 80+ year old on multiple tablets to die and if they don’t leave a note.......

Is anyone experiencing a strange urge to get rid of everything in their home? I think it's probably lockdown mania because of being stuck here.

There are other elements too but if anyone can talk me down, I'd be grateful.

@recycledblonde God, that is so sad to hear, but unsurprising.

@AcornAutumn, glad to see you. I missed your posts. I am having the same feeling. Don't do it though. What you could do is sort through things and put some aside.

[quote ISaySteadyOn]@AcornAutumn, glad to see you. I missed your posts. I am having the same feeling. Don't do it though. What you could do is sort through things and put some aside.[/quote]
Thank you

Honestly, there's nothing left to sort. It's just living in a small space and stupidly thinking "if I get rid of x, I will feel better". It's bad enough in normal times but at the moment, it's horrendous.

recycledblonde sorry I got your job wrong. I remembered that you worked on the phones so decided you must be a call handler! toomanyplatesinmotion I was the victim of some lower level anti social behaviour from children on a bus yesterday - repeated touching of my hair from a boy behind me. I asked him to stop politely and firmly first and then in not my finest hour told him if he carried on I would hit him (I really don't think I would have, I was just so angry and wanted him to stop touching me). His friend then said 'sorry but if you hit him I'll hit you' and I was accused of having multiple personality disorder, sniffing cocaine and all sorts. I swore at them and went upstairs but it really disturbed me. I don't think that they were particularly nice children anyway but I think that the amount of time they have to themselves at the moment is a real worry.

Another shout out for More or Less and it's helpful statistical analysis pointing out that teachers were at no greater risk than other groups. I was at one point thinking that maybe they should be put ahead after the first 4 groups at risk were vaccinated, if only to shut the more vociferous ones up, but I'm now thinking nope - those who are specifically at risk will be vaccinated along with other people of the same age and risk. The problem with easing lockdown as I see it is that absolutely no-one, including the government, wants to go back into one again - so trying to work out when it can be safely lifted is really important. And the government has screwed up so badly in so many ways that its being extra cautious about this one.

Oh, I don't know. I think Wanksock and co are quite enjoying their control over almost every aspect of people's lives. They don't want it to end

Here's an interesting article by a nurse on a theme we've often discussed. lockdownsceptics.org/a-nurses-perspective/

Jeremy Hunt talking about how the vaccine won't work on all 4k variants has got me down today because I can't do any more of this. Just let people die and let the NHS crumble (surely this is the Tory plan anyway?) So just get on with it ffs.

I genuinely don't think it is the Tory plan. If it were, they'd have done it back in March.

smallandimperfectlyformed Don’t worry, I would be proud to be a call handler, they do an amazing job, I would struggle to put up with the amount of abuse they get!

That’s such a good article, @ISaySteadyOn.

@smallandimperfectlyformed
That sounds a horrible experience on the bus, & quite likely that those silly boys would behave like that regardless of what else is going on. But yes, a lack of structure for them is probably contributing to their behaviour. We had trouble with groups of 10-15 year old boys trying to intimidate the public here a couple of years ago. (They kept blocking the roads, one night surrounded me in my car, but scarpered when I got my phone out). It was the summer holiday, they had nothing else to do (I'm not making excuses for them).

Good for you in saying something. Hope you feel ok now.

Sorry I know IABU Im just fed up today. I need some alone time but I have everyone in the house all the time. If I go out alone I get accused of dumping the kids on DH, yet he spends hours upstairs on his own or watching TV which I can't do because both kids scream for me constantly. Youngest DC screams and cried the second I go upstairs and won't stop so even a 20 second wee break causes a scene.

Thank you theorchidkiller it shook me up more than I wanted to admit it did. There was one girl and she was the one who accused me of being mentally unwell and on drugs. I was upset particularly as I am a single mum so rarely ever on my own and had just had a medical appointment (diabetic retinopathy, they place coloured drops in your eye and it stings! Afterwards you can't see as clearly as normal and I walked the wrong way through the one way system in Morrison's) so was feeling a bit rubbish anyway. Never mind, I am over it now and my eyes are back to normal too!

@smallandimperfectlyformed that sounds horrible. Hope you are OK. It would have left me very shaken too.

Found out today that an elderly relative of mine is dying (not quite clear on timescale but it doesn't sound good). She lives the other end of the country and I haven't been able to see her since all this started. She adores children and has never met DD; there's every chance now she never will. Protect the elderly my foot! How does it protect someone to make them spend their last year in solitary confinement?

It doesn't.

1110APiccadilly I am so sorry to hear about your relative. I don't think that it is protecting people in the way that we should, and I am really sorry that she may not get to meet your daughter. lifeinaonesie that sounds rubbish - sadly not that unusual as I have known a lot of selfish husbands. It is well known now that the pandemic is disproportionately affecting women as they (not all, I know there are good, kind and cooperative men) are having to do all of the extra child related stuff. Isaysteadyon I enjoyed that article, she has clearly said what a lot of us are thinking. Much more eloquently and well reasoned than what I have tried to Express! Thank you to everyone for your support and I hope we all have as good a day as we can.

Great adventures this morning... we went to the Dentist!
At least I got my filling sorted at an emergency appointment 20th March! The DCs were last seen Oct 19, so their teeth have changed quite literally. All fine though. I'm relieved as sensory issues, loss of routine and tooth brushing are not a grear combination.

I had an X-ray. First time that's got my gag reaction going, I think it's sensory overwhelm. Very hard to hear him through his mask and special ventilated visor that looks like something out of sci-fi
I do like this dentist. DM was phobic about the dentists and I wasn't even registered with one from about 7-15 following a house move, so it's been one of those awkward habits of adulthood to establish, not helped by experience of the local ones being money grabbing arses. Since I've found this one, we've kept the habbit up.

I've actually dressed up for the occasion to the point of wearing tights

Good to see you back AcornAutumn.