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

@AcornAutumn I feel like that as well so you aren’t alone. I’ve actually seriously thought about selling my little flat and disappearing off in a camper van until my money runs out! Then I don’t know what I’d do. Think now isn’t a good time to be making irreversible life decisions though.

@AcornAutumn, also even if you did do a huge clear out, none of the charity shops are open afaik so you couldn't donate anything.

Still catching up one the thread. I feel very gloomy today.

My CEV relative has been in hospital for 10 days or so (not covid related) and now has covid. My parents are very shocked and worried. I'm not remotely shocked. I was horrified when she said they were keeping her in because I felt it put her at high risk of covid. At the same time I can't imagine it would see her off...she's been CEV to everything for years and has always come through.

We went for a wet walk this morning. I forgot DS's wellies so we tried to use the roads to avoid mud. This worked well until we were almost back at the car and the road had this massive flood on it. I thought we'd go along the edges which worked OK until we got to the bend and realised it was effectively blocked by water at the other end. We ended up crossing a field which should have led us out at a path near a cafe. Unfortunately the cafe was shut so the gate was locked and we ended up climbing over the gate. DS thought this was hysterically funny. Me not so much. I'm too old to be climbing over gates and trespassing.

Oh FGS! Got up early, did the chores, had a walk planned just to break up the monotony of the day, & now the rain is hammering against the window so hard & isn't due to stop until 2am.

I can't think of a single thing I want to do now other than go to bed (although I don't really want to do that either).

I could cry. It's either work, chores or wasting time in the void between the next meal & bedtime. Day after day after sodding day.

@TheOrchidKiller I feel the same. It is work or chores and not much in between, day after bloody day. I have decided that I am going to run in the pissing rain tonight regardless as exercising outdoors is the only time I get to actually be alone. And if it snows tmrw (please God no!) then I probably won't be able to run for a bit. The walls just close in!

lockdown clear out fever. Both sons wives have had skips on the drive what is going in is to me criminal, but what do I know as a frugal older woman. They just have to be doing something I think.

Elderly people loss of muscle mass falling, well think Christopher Plummer who fell and died. My neighbour who has fallen twice and been visited by paramedics. Des O Connor who fell and died.

Two bungalows in our cul de sac, one man died, sold to a developer, next door neighbour who will be going into care coz she has been locked up for a year, keeps falling, so frail now. Worried about third neighbour who has not been out for a year 91, not a word from gp about a jab, so neighbour organised it. Developers who love these outdated bungalows to snap up modernise and stick 180k on the price for the next downsizing sucker to buy.

You'd dropped off my threads I'm on!
Met up with the kids' friends yesterday - on a muddy patch of open space in the freezing cold. The kids are sooo fucking damaged by this - the eldest just will not engage with learning work at all and school are being useless helping the family who are really really struggling.

I can't get away from those 'look into his eyes' ads. I would've thought that the Government could find something more useful to spend money on.

But they've got me thinking ... Between me and the guy in the ad, one of us has Covid and one does not. The implication is that he did something to catch Covid, therefore, presumably, I did not. I'm not the one who did the 'wrong' thing. So what do I say? 'You should have behaved more like me, then you wouldn't be in this mess'? How very nasty.

I really don't believe that there's any blame to attach to anyone who catches Covid, nor credit to someone who doesn't - it's just a virus doing what viruses do - but the ad seems to have the situation back to front.

I don't understand why those 'look him in the eyes' ads are on all4. Presumably if I'm sat on my arse watching married at first sight I'm doing the 'right thing' and don't need to be told.

Knowing those ads are on All4 puts me off watching “It’s a sin” (which is probably quite good).

Having a nice day today. We took the children out (in the car, which my son said was weird). We went for a foggy walk on the pier, got sandwiches and ice creams from the only place open and then had a potter on the beach. I now have slightly sunburnt cheeks, which shows how little I’ve been in daylight.

Stunned by those Look into my eyes adverts. They must work, obviously, because the government's nudge/propaganda work has been really top-notch. But the effect on me is to make me care even less than I did already. Yes, I can look you in the eye; if I've 'bent the rules' at all - and wtf does that even mean, in a legal sense - they been vanishingly minor infractions and within the strict law if not the guidelines; and I'll be brutally honest here: I don't care. So I can look you in the eye and say I care more about my DC than I do about you. And I am happy to defend that and I don't believe people who say they care more about strangers being ill than they do about their own DCs' life chances. Am in a permanent fury.

Plus my son met a girl at the beach (not someone he knows but children make new friends wherever they go) and spent a long time talking with her and looking at pebbles. It did him a lot of good.

Every time the advert comes on the radio I find myself shouting yes I fucking can and I still don't care!

Counter productive imo!

I have even worse thoughts about that advert. It actually makes me think yes I can look you in the eyes and if you want to quit then do. I think that type of emotional blackmail is counter intuitive.

So I can look you in the eye and say I care more about my DC than I do about you

This. In fucking spades.

I finished watching Its a Sin last night on All 4 Fantastic drama. Also showing up some ppl as absolute hypocrites doing all the sad face about how the gay community were treated as disease vectors (they were treated appallingly just to clarify) while here in the present day they are treating those that cant wear masks as disease vectors.

The Covid ads didnt come up. I watched the Episodes 1 2 and 3 on Channel 4 and watched 4 and 5 last night on All 4

Told a friend that I've booked to see my family in June and I can't wait to see them. And she literally just snorted and said I'm a bloody fool if I think anyone will be flying anywhere this year. Holidays will be cancelled.
I pointed out that if that were the case the entire aviation industry would go bust and that's tens of millions of jobs lost, but she insisted on berating me like I was some kind of small child who'd just shat on her carpet and went on that people like me (who managed to get away and see some of my family last year) are the reason thousands are dying now.

I thought she was my friend, I thought she'd be happy that after giving all I have physically and emotionally to work, broken and exhausted that I would have something to look forward to.
But no. I don't know why I feel so upset, it's pathetic I know, but I could just cry.

@AcornAutumn Good to see you back.

Yes, I can understand why that upset you LivinLaVidaLoki. I’d love to go to Greece, I’ve been rereading My Family And Other Animals.

And good to see you AcornAutumn

But they've got me thinking ... Between me and the guy in the ad, one of us has Covid and one does not. The implication is that he did something to catch Covid, therefore, presumably, I did not. I'm not the one who did the 'wrong' thing. So what do I say? 'You should have behaved more like me, then you wouldn't be in this mess'? How very nasty

Yep Another comparison that can be made with the 1980s HIV crisis. I remember the attitudes from the Tory Government and the media back then. If you caught HIV from infected blood you were pitied. If you caught it from sex you were vilified. "Good" HIV and "bad" HIV, "good" Covid and "bad" Covid.

@LivinLaVidaLoki Situations like this enable us to find out who our real friends are.

Livin
How horrible. Im hardly seeing anyone at the mo as don't want to risk losing friends. Lost one, but I didn't much like her anyway

Btw, has anyone noticed a definite shift in the MSM narrative last few days? We've moved from "poor suffering NHS workers" and "this is a TERRIBLE DISEASE" to "when are we going to open up?" Quite a lot of lockdown-sceptic scientists and politicians on BBC too, implying that this must be the last lockdown and that the government mustn't be too slow/cautious to open up.