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I was in a park this afternoon: the high-fenced and securely locked basketball court contained teenagers playing football; some of them were actually scaling the fence.

Good for them. Let the fightback begin.

@smallandimperfectlyformed sorry you are feeling yuck, friends some say, no affect some feel middling, some absolutely lousy.

OH had his jab a week ago, now he has a stinking cold, chesty cough, sore throat, feeling rubbish, surely it cannot be the jab. I worry because last March he had flu, then pleurisy. Then think could it have been covid he had, but no surely not. It was a few weeks before lockdown and I did not catch it. Whatever it was strong antibiotics sorted it.

Good for them indeed.

NannyGythaOgg, just checked our weather forecast and we might if very lucky get to 10c. Has been -2 today but feels even colder with wind chill. On way to shops saw quite a few people sledging down the farmers field. Made me smile.
Is supposed to rain tomorrow, yeah. I hate the snow with a passion. Roll on spring, new hope and all that.

@TrustTheGeneGenie

Ds likes watching "Ryan videos"

He does seem to learn stuff though as he's been telling me about tsunamis and non Newtonian liquids!

My DS watches Ryan too. So far we've had to do a 'volcano' that nearly stained the kitchen floor red and he's determined we're going to make rock candy over half term. I know I should be pleased he's inspired but it just always seems to involve a lot of mess...

We went to the woods for a walk today. It was bitterly cold even though we were properly wrapped up. I was pissed off because they've put signs all over the outside of it/around the car park saying you shouldn't drive to get there and it's for locals only etc. It really annoyed me until we got in there and I forgot about it because I was admiring the beautiful icicles. DS has never seen icicles like that - they were about a foot long some of them. I haven't seen ones like that in the uk since 2010. They were stunning.

@amicissimma

I was on a Zoom chat a few days ago when someone said in disapproving tones that the local school was over half full - with 'key workers'' children. (I could feel the quotation marks)

I don't know how other people were going to respond, but I jumped in with 'good for them, children need to be in school' and there were murmurs of agreement, even if some of them might have been a bit reluctant.

I hope quite a lot of people agree with my sentiments but don't feel they should say so.

I am so glad you said this!!

@wanderings I love seeing stuff like that. The local teenagers near me have been climbing into the locked skateboard area of our park. I approve.

I’ve just ordered some new thermals as it’s been so cold walking the dog lately. It will therefore be shorts and t-shirt weather next weekend when they are due to be delivered.

Merde. The forecast for next week has got more rain on it than a couple of days ago.

At least the council has repaired the path in the park that washed away.
Awaiting weatherproof tarmac later in the year...
It will be good it they do it properly so it's not spending months under a couple of inches of standing water. And if you try to avoid it, you just sink into the clay field too.
Our park is rubbish!

I don't know how much money the council has wasted on tape for the outdoor gym in a different park over the past year. It's good to see it being used.

People really are not getting ill in their masses from outdoor gyms and sports courts.

This time last year, we were out at the park every Sunday for 9am for junior parkrun, now we're going days without leaving the house because we're so done on aimlessly walking for the sake of it.

DS2 tried rollerstakting in July. Can I persuade him to try it again now??? We're just done in with it.
At least it's only a couple of months that I've floundered like this on rather than the whole year by the time things start improving again.

Thanks for the sympathies about the cat lovely ADs. Went looking for a pet sympathy card. None to be had so settled for one with Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh which says "even when we have to say goodbye love is something that doesnt go away.

@LivinLaVidaLoki

Is this FINALLY the beginning of the government drip feed towards normality, having deliberately spread fear, terror and despair for the last couple of months?

I think it is @wanderings

The news has felt very different today. I also think the publishing of the sage hospital stuff is part of it too.

Am going to take this into the context of the post which was quoted which was “Covid could be treatable like flu”.

In essence, yes , I agree with this. Practically, not possible in the first instance. Surely we can’t treat a novel virus in the same way that we do the flu.

Once the vaccine is rolled out, and protocols are developed to tweak it for annual boosters annually then, yes, we will all need to accept this into our way of living.

This wasn’t a drip feed following the last couple of months. It’s how things should be moving forward. The vaccine, IMO, has arrived way earlier than many would have wanted people to believe (ie multiple posts elsewhere).

Lockdown + vaccine is hopefully starting to work. Definitely been the strategy throughout, even though some on other threads don’t want to hear it.

My hope, going forward, is that it really is treated like the flu. From the point of view of how most of us view the flu (ie we don’t “worry” about it) and that they are able to tweak the vaccine each year to help stay on top of it. But I think that some people thinking we should treat it like the flu from the beginning are wrong - time is/was needed to develop a vaccine whilst trying to not overwhelm the NHS.

@MercyBooth - that’s so sad, losing an animal is really hard.

Depending on their circumstances, this may or may not help. If it was a put to sleep scenario, the feelings of guilt/doubt can compound the grief. A very good friend of mine sent me a verse a few weeks later (any earlier would have probably broken me). It is called Today You Did The Bravest Thing. It’s bloody sad but affirming at the same time.

Still feeling awful. Had to get up from bed at 1.30 am to be sick! I went back to sleep but am awake now and have a headache. Thankfully the arm isn't so sore so I hope it gets better soon.

It's surprising how many over there think that this, what we are doing now is living with the virus....

Am I missing something?

If you are, I am too.

Is anyone else bored with cooking now? I have no inspiration, the children make this face at most things I cook and I am starting to worry about eating anything at all lest I gain too much weight.

I’m bored with cooking as well. Not helped by the fact that DS is vegan so options are limited. He was at his dads last night so I went and got a McDonald’s!

How are you feeling now @smallandimperfectlyformed?

For those looking for thermals I can highly recommend the ones that Lidl sell in their middle aisle! Think mine cost £7 and it’s the best thing I’ve ever bought! X kept me lovely and warm when OH and I went for a long walk in the woods near his house yesterday 😁

Actually a bit better now thank you iheartmysmart. I managed to have a bath and wash my hair (silly but I wash my hair every other day and was worried I wouldn't be able to lift my arm enough to rinse the shampoo off!). Will probably have to go to the shops later as have only got 2 paracetamol tablets left and think I will need to take the maximum dosage today. Sorry for moaning so much, I have just never had a reaction like that to a vaccine before! Definitely sick of cooking- my kids are fusspots and I am vegetarian whilst they are carnivores through and through!

If you can't moan to your friends, who can you moan to? I hope you feel better soon.

We are all vegetarians here so you'd think it might be easier but no.

@ISaySteadyOn

If you are, I am too.

Is anyone else bored with cooking now? I have no inspiration, the children make this face at most things I cook and I am starting to worry about eating anything at all lest I gain too much weight.

Yep. Totally fed up. We have had 3 takeaways in the last week. it needs to stop but I'm sick of cooking.

I've even done a big freezer shop with things that are just chuck-in-the-oven-able but even then I cba or don't fancy owt.

If I lived alone I'd be surviving on cheese toasties or pasta.

Anyway, in my rather bonkers country of birth, Valentine's Day is for everyone you like so 💓 to all of you 💕☺️.

OH is having a duvet, howling gale, heavy rain, struggling to get out of bed to walk the dogs I asked if he wanted pleurisy again, it seems not as he crawled back into bed. Peaceful here now 😊😊

We've had a lot of ready meals. It's having the DCs home for lunch each day, and winter needs a warm meal (plus the awkwardness of buying soya-free bread from a particular shop). Given that I pay 2x £2.15 per day for their school meals then have to eat myself, £5 for a ready made Shepherds pie or Lasagne is about the league that I'm paying anyway.

It's the extra washing-up/ dishwasher loads too. Plus sitting in the kitchen for the lessons (than goodness for half term!)

One sanity-saving thing we did this time was pull in the small table so I don't have to constantly clear and wipe down the main table. It's blocking the conservatory doors, but we're not in the season of using them yet. This is why it didn't occur to me last time as it's not the most convenient solution.