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

@TheOrchidKiller. It does all seem particularly crap at the moment doesn’t it.

Thank you ISay - I was pretty close take that ungraded maths O-level!

I cheated and used my phone calculator.

SAGE and their ilk are milking their 15 minutes of fame for all it’s worth before they all get popped back in their obscure little boxes.

My Foo Fighters Vans have turned up and they are fab. DH said they’ll look great on my morning commute downstairs to the dining room. They’ve brightened my day up anyway 😀😀

@NeedWineNow
Well if your commute is entirely indoors they will remain looking fab for ages! I did misread that as your "Foo Fighters Fans" had turned up & had a momentary flash of a lot of Dave Grohl lookalikes congregating outside a house. It didn't cross my mind that such a congregation would be illegal right now!

Sometimes, inside my head is weird, but also better than reality.

@TheOrchidKiller I love the idea of loads of Dave Grohl lookalikes congregating outside our house although it might upset the D's in our village!
Wouldn't say no to the real Dave Grohl turning up though

Ooh if lots of Dave Grohl’s turn up can I have one please?

@Iheartmysmart I'll reserve you one!

@rosettesforjill

I quite like exercising in the dark - especially early morning and ideally finishing just as the sun is starting to rise. Nothing to do with Covid though, I just like the peace and quiet!

I also like exercising in the dark and go out running in the eves, but that is because it means I can do it after the kids are in bed and there are fewer dogs/small kids around to trip over. So entirely unrelated to Covid.

I have a friend who currently will only go out v early in the morning or late at eve, and even then only once a week. She is bloody terrified. Not high risk or vulnerable. Just terrified due to the ongoing scare mongering and mass hysteria.

@NeedWineNow Thank you

Perhaps that needs to be part of our new thread title - ADs happily share Dave Grohl whilst running in the dark?

Judging by the rate things are dropping they can surely have no argument against opening schools on the 8th?! Unless something goes horribly wrong then they go back?

I can't do any more homeschooling, what I'm doing from now on is child led. We will walk, bake, read, draw, try zoom but I won't make him anymore. I'm not in the best place mentally so everything I do is effort. The last thing I want to do is constantly fight over school work when I'm not the one who chose this life.

@ISaySteadyOn great question! So as carers, we must work under the precedent of ‘person centred care’. This means that every service user is treated as an individual. The way we do this is getting them involved in their care plans, respecting their decisions when they have capacity (under the mental capacity act), respecting dignity (asking service users how they’d like to be washed/dressed, if they need assistance with wiping, etc). I’m in the community so a lot of our work is getting to know our Clients. The youngest I’ve looked after is late 40s (MS) the eldest is 106. You talk to people about their interests, their family, what they’d like to watch on tv, Make sure they they get what they want to eat and how they’d like it cooked/prepared, making sure we’re using equipment correctly to move people etc. Also dignity when using commodes (so leaving the room, making sure we keep them clean and disinfected etc). Being a good carer is talking to service users with respect, always reviewing care plans to suit their needs and how they want things. Through covid with my younger clients We were the only people they would see for about 4 months, and sometimes they just wanted to have a laugh. It’s a tough job, it’s exhausting, sometimes heartbreaking, but it’s so rewarding and I wouldn’t swap it for anything. I’m currently doing my NVQ so I have something official to recognise all my experience, and I’m so excited. I love my job so much. I hope that answers your question!

@ISaySteadyOn also the ‘patronising’ carers don’t last long because they soon get Told by the service users that they’re being a stupid sod

@DWPmisery1972 you sound awesome, what an amazing thing you are doing for people. Really lovely to read that you love your job so much and the people you care for are lucky to have you.

Thank you @Worldgonecrazy!

On other posts, you’d think carers and HCAs and porters are just canon fodder. Makes me sad.

@Iheartmysmart

I’d quite happily see SAGE shipped ... somewhere far, far away.

Am I right in thinking that if they’ve carried out about 4.5million tests in the last week and around 120k have tested positive then that’s about 2.5%? My mathematical skills are shocking so sorry if that’s a daft question.

SAGE reckon that the false positive rate with PCR tests is 0.8%-4%.

It can't be as high as 4% because there weren't enough positives, true or false, in the summer. Let's take 2% as a middlish guestimate. That would give 90,000 false positives, out of 120,000.

To be more conservative, Matt Hancock said he thought the false positive rate was 'about' 1%. So that would be 'about' 45,000 false positives.

It may be that a proportion of those 4.5 million tests are lateral flow, which are thought to have fewer false positives (but more false negatives) than PCR.

Interesting, though.

10 months ago it was ‘clap for carers’ and now we’re just super spreaders and evil anti vaxxers etc. We can’t do anything right 🤷🏻‍♀️

When I was in hospital I had a HCA in A&E looking after me- he was utterly amazing. I told him I work in care and we got on like a house on fire. He told he ‘patients like you are the best patients because you know what our job is like 😂’

We talked about funny and sad moments in our careers (while I writhed around in pain) and when he took me to the ward I cried and said ‘don’t leave me’ and he hugged me and he said ‘You’re going to be ok’. I cried, and I realised that I was on the ‘other side’ - being cared for instead of being the carer. And I’ve got tears in my eyes just thinking about it. Mark if you’re reading this (?! Crazy woman I am) thank you.

(I had a letter of thanks sent in the internal post to him before I left- I hope it got to him.)

[quote Iheartmysmart]@NeedWineNow Thank you

Perhaps that needs to be part of our new thread title - ADs happily share Dave Grohl whilst running in the dark?[/quote]
@Iheartmysmart perfect title!

Got a letter from NHS e-refferal service today telling me I need to book an appointment with a hospital /clinic, but their records show I haven't done it. Do their records not show that, of the four clinics/hospitals I can book at, there is not a single one offering any appointments?

Anyone catch the ITV news, Tom Bradby was off his face, so funny, he said at one stage princess Eugenie had a baby with her husband Brook Spank, he could not say the word instagram, and other gaffes, he just collapsed laughing at the end of the programme. Was the best news I have seen in years.

This is worth a read for amusement

babylonbee.com/news/cdc-reminds-people-that-just-because-you-got-the-vaccine-doesnt-mean-you-should-leave-your-home-or-experience-joy-in-any-way

You noticed?! I said to DH "take your headphones off you are missing this, Bradby is well pissed off" when i saw the piece about hotel quarantine. I didnt see the rest. i went to do the washing up.

@MercyBooth

You noticed?! I said to DH "take your headphones off you are missing this, Bradby is well pissed off" when i saw the piece about hotel quarantine. I didnt see the rest. i went to do the washing up.

Watching it again on itv plus 1 I missed the beginning. God it was funny

I fucking love the suggestion above for the new thread title. Running in the dark and Dave G... Am breathless with excitement.

Who is David G ???