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

@fallingthroughtheair yes, yes, yes to this! I have also cancelled my guardian membership and subscribed to the Daily Telegraph. Their Covid coverage is good, much more balanced.

I'm fortunate that we are secure and other than DH working from home for nearly a year, his sector which overlaps into food dustribution is secure.

But I've worked in communities where so many struggle. Where you can't assume a reliable income, space, safety in the home, warmth, heat etc. I'm certainly no hero, but I know these are real problems to so many and do listen.

Socially I struggled from very early on. While my lifestyle wasn't based around earning income, it was purposeful including things like helping in school. A lot of people got snoozed on fb quite early on for being tone deaf in how wonderful lockdown was. I'm normally a silver linings person and don't begrudge people living differently to me, I normally think "good for you", but there was something that often came over rather smug and conceited about the situation.

That police footage is atrocious. Totally unjustified. So many officers bringing their service into disrepute and damaging community relations at the moment.

TooManyPlates
I've found myself in bed (not literally) with some proper right wing libertarians over this. It's an uncomfortable place to be for me but better than listening to my journalist/teacher/other professional friends telling me about 'all the young people' dying of Covid. Am too polite to scream 'No they're not. There are very very few young victims of it. That is a statistical fact if any of you wailing drama queens took your heads out of your backsides and looked at the actual dangers to young people's health and wellbeing' .

I'm AD (and proud!) although lockdown hasn't materially affected me. Secure wfh jobs, reduced commuting costs.
But the stress of homeschooling and working has affected me and I do know people on good salaries who live paycheque to paycheque, so it was obvious that people on zero hours jobs were going to struggle really quickly and that not everyone has a nice house with garden for the kids to run around in. I too have cancelled our Labour party membership for their lack of support for women and children.
I've actually joined the Women's Equality Party. I don't agree with them on everything but they are at least campaigning to support the childcare sector and increase funding to domestic violence refuges.

The biggest danger to young people's health and in fact most people's at the moment is mental ilI health, but then that's always swept under the carpet so people aren't shouting about it . Apart from us lot and a few others in the main stream media.

I fit into your generic D profile - but am firmly AD and lurk here ( and on the Westminster thread. ) - many of my professional friends & colleagues have similar views to me and are sick to the back teeth of the roolz!

I fantasise about setting up multiple IDs to say F off to those frothing in local fb pages -todays row was someone saying a visit to local farmers market isn’t essential, he’s an HGV driver , obviously an expert to be listened to 🙄🙄

I am so sad and sick of everything today. I hate where I live - 3 kids in a 2 bed flat so I don't even have my own room anymore (I know noone forced me and ex husband to have three kids!), no garden and so little space. I used to not mind it but now we are always in I hate it so much! I can't watch the police footage, it has disgusted me to see the amount of time that is wasted on dealing with minor covid breaches when there are still other crimes going on. Like I have said before, there doesn't seem much of that in my area but it is a travesty to me that so many people are now fearing the police in this way.

Community relations has gone and i dont think its coming back.

I don't know if I'm a typical D or not. We're not suffering financially - we can work from home. We have a nice (though not large) house in a lovely place with lots of countryside accessible. No school age children.

However, DH has depression - has had for years - normally well managed, but lockdown has been very hard for him, so from that point of view we are struggling.

In addition, we've worked in the charity sector in the past, in a part of it which means we're more aware than some of what lockdown might mean for those less fortunate than ourselves. A lot of people simply don't understand what it's like to be poor, or in cramped housing.

@TabbyStar re police entering university accommodation this might help your daughter and friends

nouse.co.uk/2009/04/03/breaking-news-police-search-of-student-accomodation-unacceptable-as-claudia-investigation-moves-to-campus

@thefallthroughtheair

Tabby It's incredible to me that we now live in a country where our laws make this possible. Lord Sumption has been right about this unprecedented legislative over reach.

Done some research see post below @thefallthroughtheair. There is no law that allows them to enter what is your home without a warrant.

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Wonder how long before this is removed from you tube.

I just watched a thing by Russel Brand talking about people living in cities who have compromised on living space and gardens for the stimulation of the city and the ability to go out and find some nature when we need it. People never signed up for these conditions.
Even from a fairly comfortable home in a town, being unable to get to somewhere suitably wild meant one of my coping mechanisms had been taken away, along with my support networks.
But I don't live in a utopian little bubble and I can't think of anyone I know who isn't struggling to a some extent.
I don't understand how people can be so dementory that they lack imagination and empathy.

@110APiccadilly

I don't know if I'm a typical D or not. We're not suffering financially - we can work from home. We have a nice (though not large) house in a lovely place with lots of countryside accessible. No school age children.

However, DH has depression - has had for years - normally well managed, but lockdown has been very hard for him, so from that point of view we are struggling.

In addition, we've worked in the charity sector in the past, in a part of it which means we're more aware than some of what lockdown might mean for those less fortunate than ourselves. A lot of people simply don't understand what it's like to be poor, or in cramped housing.

On paper I should be doing fine with lockdown. One income high and stable and I'm on furlough, if I lost my job we would be fine but have to cut back a bit. One child at nursery and I'm around to homeschool the other. I don't have to work late nights and get up early with the kids. Nice house, garden, walking distance to golf course, waterpark and short driving distance to other places to walk. I never saw friends that often, every couple of weeks and parents every month/few months/once a year.

I am however struggling big time. I hate being isolated but also hate having hardly any alone time. Work and the gym were somewhere away from family life, I could just focus on me. Those daily chats with people as I went about my day perked me up. Now it's bleak and empty, nothing to look forward to at all.

Thanks justasking - I said to DD that they needed their friend (not at uni) who has been in trouble with the police a number of times and is well appraised of the law to be standing on the door saying "You haven't got a search warrant, you're not coming in". I presume the uni is complicit though.

@TabbyStar

Thanks justasking - I said to DD that they needed their friend (not at uni) who has been in trouble with the police a number of times and is well appraised of the law to be standing on the door saying "You haven't got a search warrant, you're not coming in". I presume the uni is complicit though.

The uni. is only the landlord if it is uni accommodation. There is not a landlord in the UK who can give permission to the police to enter your home. As landlords of domestic and commercial properties ourselves, what you can do to get into the premises is rightly limited by law.

www.inbrief.co.uk/police/police-entry-and-search-powers/

That's interesting Buzzinwithbez other than university I have always lived in London. Mostly on the outskirts but I have always appreciated how easily I can get to major events, even if they are out of the city I have major transport hubs taking me to wherever I need. There are lovely parks near ish to me but the nearest one is not great and today there were local tearaways bothering a Polish family before throwing a snowball at me (luckily it didn't hit my 4 year old). I don't live in a nice area!

In the spring/ summer, I was greatful that my dopey suburb has easy access to countryside within a few minutes walk... nit so much now! Mud is nothing new, but it is spectacularly awful this year, and by this point last year I was diverting off elsewhere. Elsewhere is not so appealing between the weather and everyone else having nowhere else to go.
Not been to the local shops in about 3 months since the hyperventilating in the visor at the pharmacy. I'm not deliberately avoiding, just no temptation to pop in and not really passing by.

As a child my father taught me policemen were your friend and to trust them. I raised my boys that way. I feel such a fool now. OH has retired police friends who say the present day lot are a shower of fools, have scant knowledge of the law and will lie to cover themselves when they are in the wrong. So now they will get my name and address and nothing more. It appears they can dig their own hole with no help from me. Been advised if I am accosted to record and transmit send out to someone I trust just in case my phone is accidentally broken.

@BogRollBOGOF there is no joy in shopping any more with masks etc. I scoot around local shops at a rate of knots and get out tearing my mask off asap.

The other thing that gets up my nose more irritatingly than a swab test is when slebs or people on the radio or interviewed for articles say, "Of course, we've all got much more time on our hands these days."

You might, mate, but I bet many of us, me included, don't have more time. In fact, I'm certain many people have less time than ever for themselves. Lots of people are trying to work in the evenings to make up for time lost to supervising children. I think there was a report last week about how people WFH tend to work longer hours. And housework & laundry doesn't go away- there's more mess with everyone indoors all day.

So no, we do not all have more time on our hands for baking banana bread or learning a language or other self-improving activity Or we're too knackered.

Or some of us are trying to keep our children from despair which is actually full time so the slebs with their nannies can foftfsof.

The uni. is only the landlord if it is uni accommodation.

It is uni accommodation, that's why I find it particularly shocking that the uni are allowing students to be harassed in their homes, I presume they must know, or perhaps the students are frightened about being thrown off their courses and aren't making a fuss. DD's friend said he wasn't going to pay it though he'd go to court, but there are obviously risks and costs attached to that.