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ADs happily share Dave Grohl whilst running in the dark?

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NannyGythaOgg · 10/02/2021 23:41

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TheOrchidKiller · 19/02/2021 19:35

Not spam fritters! Envy (vom) That was my worst 1970s school dinner, & it was all cooked on site. Spam fritters were a mouthful of grease. And how did they get that mashed potato so grey & lumpy? Surely it can't be that hard to add water to Smash?

You didn't go to school in Kent, did you?

TheOrchidKiller · 19/02/2021 19:38

Don't do it to yourself, Livin! They are nothing like a spam sandwich (which is still grim, but not as awful as a fritter)

smallandimperfectlyformed · 19/02/2021 19:58

I used to like Spam when I was a kid and had it in sandwiches at my nan and granddad's house. Have been veggie for 28 years though so not likely to have any again! I am hopeful for the English schools reopening soon and feel so sorry for the Northern Irish people who have to wait so long. I am not sure what is going on in Scotland right now and am aware Wales is hoping to get the schools reopened soon.

Lostinacloud · 19/02/2021 20:05

Is it me or is it getting suddenly worse again “over there?” I had slight hopes the tide was turning a bit but lately all the “I’m a 32 year old teacher who WILL be killed if your germ ridden children are allowed to return to school” crew are back and I’ve even just read someone bringing back the old “we never locked down hard enough in the first place and people ignoring the roolz are why we have to stay locked down 4ever”!!
Is it the return to school news that is bringing all the people too scared to leave their house back online again? I despair Sad

TheOrchidKiller · 19/02/2021 20:19

Is it the return to school news that is bringing all the people too scared to leave their house back online again? I despair
Boris is meant to be announcing the roadmap on Monday, isn't he? I think there are people who are genuinely terrified, & who are going to find it really tough to resume normal living if they don't feel safe. I have every sympathy for anyone who feels anxious. But we need to move forwards- albeit cautiously in some aspects of life, to begin with.

I wonder if the planned annoucement is causing some anxiety now that it's so close? However, I doubt very much that Boris will be announcing a mass hug-athon with strangers & grannies, to start Tuesday morning, though.

TooManyPlatesInMotion · 19/02/2021 20:20

Yes and no @Lostinacloud. On the one hand lots of it is bonkers as hell and extremely mean with it, but on the other hand people aren't standing for it so much. I have been looking at the thread where people are talki g about how lockdown now feels normal. Some of them are discussing how they like it and don't want it to end. However, more and more people are now prepared to speak up and say exactly how disastrous lockdown is. I find that reassuring. In part it explains the feverish and hysterical tone of some of the bo kers posters... They know this is the end game and the tide is turning.

TabbyStar · 19/02/2021 20:22

I actually liked spam fritters, though I haven't had them since I was a kid. I did have a friend though who thought it was acceptable to serve spam carbonara at a dinner party.

I've got a friend who's a TA and he seems quite anxious, though he's been going into work ok, but he doesn't really seem to have much of a grip on what's actually going on. He's great on emotional intelligence and knows all sorts of history etc. but for some reason the day-to-day seems to challenge him and we keep having the same conversation about what the evidence actually says.

TooManyPlatesInMotion · 19/02/2021 20:22

I would be delighted if Boris were to announce a hugathon but suspect we will be lucky to be told we can sit on a freezing cold park bench with one other person... At least to start off with.

Bring on the foam parties on public transport by May though!

MercyBooth · 19/02/2021 20:38

YY @LivinLaVidaLoki Had a very interesting conversation in Sainsburys earlier with an older woman (78) we got talking about Covid and vaccines. She said hers is going to be done on Monday and that she knows its not about her getting ill. Its about her not taking up an NHS bed. Her words.

Iheartmysmart · 19/02/2021 20:39

Is Spam the same as luncheon meat just thicker? I’m not sure. Now a slice of LM on white bread with tomato ketchup is food of the gods. It was a north London school which now has a pretty good reputation. Got better after I left it would seem.

There do seem to be more people pushing back on the bloody dementors now which is good. A friend of mine is an SEN teacher who has worked throughout and she really doesn’t see what all the angst is about.

MrsMerrick · 19/02/2021 20:47

Another teacher who is really looking forward to seeing pupils!

I am a little bit concerned about the exam years. We really need to have them and KEEP them in school when they get back, so that we can support them to prepare for any final assessments as well as possible, and then have them complete those assessments as fairly as possible. They have worked so hard under lockdown, and deserve the chance to demonstrate what they have learnt. A number of them were affected by isolations in the autumn term, and it would be so good if that could be avoided this time around. Fingers crossed that better weather will help.

TooManyPlatesInMotion · 19/02/2021 20:49

@MrsMerrick... This is just what my DH (secondary dep head) was saying last night. He wants them back and back for good... As Take That would also say. Grin

BogRollBOGOF · 19/02/2021 20:53

@Iheartmysmart

Ha! *@Ohnomoreno* I have started to wonder if I’m in The Truman Show by accident!

The schools thread is mad. I went to quite a rough primary school and remember one of our teachers coming back to work the day after he was speared through the foot by a pupil throwing spiked railings off the roof. He would have been horrified at some of the comments on that thread!

I may have had a colleague who impaled his own hand after a works night out. He was very proud of his necrotic flesh Grin

The way the wirld is, I might send DS to that school. I think he'd get on really well with that teacher!

MrsMerrick · 19/02/2021 21:11

Now earwormed, @TooManyPlatesInMotion Grin

Mrsfrumble · 19/02/2021 21:15

I get the impression that both of my children’s teachers are keen to have the all the children back. Both have been in school with keyworker and vulnerable children throughout, and juggling with providing online teaching. Talking to DS’s teacher, he was open about how it took much longer than usual for the children to settle back in and be ready to learn in September, and how frustrating it is that they’ll have to start that process over again in a few weeks. And this is a school with a very middle class intake, where most of the kids are from stable, supportive homes. Teachers will know that the longer the children are away, the harder their jobs will be eventually. That said I do think teachers should have given a higher priority for vaccinations (but that’s easy for a low risk person like me to say, who is way down the list anyway).

TooManyPlatesInMotion · 19/02/2021 21:23

@MrsMerrick

Now earwormed, *@TooManyPlatesInMotion* Grin
Yeah, me too. Sorry about that @MrsMerrick Grin
SirSamuelVimes · 19/02/2021 21:37

Whatever I did, whatever I said, I didn't mean it... Grin

I'm feeling a bit numb about the upcoming announcement. I think it's a bit of a defence mechanism to avoid dashed hopes but I'm slightly worried I'm just on so many antidepressants now I have lost the ability to feel anything much at all anymore.

Miserable rainy day here so we did indoor stuff. Signed up for the audible free trial and DD listened to about 6 chapters of the second Harry Potter book, which meant she at least had a good break from screens.

TooManyPlatesInMotion · 19/02/2021 21:54

Audible is fab. My DS loves it. He's also discovered some fab podcasts on Spotify.

Evenstar · 19/02/2021 22:16

The “art” keeps coming 🙄

TooManyPlatesInMotion · 19/02/2021 23:21

Urggggh. Wtf is that supposed to depict?! It's horrible.

BogRollBOGOF · 19/02/2021 23:22

@Evenstar

The “art” keeps coming 🙄
That one's been around a while. There was a flurry for Sir Captain Tom, but some of those were been rehashes. A lack of new poetry too. It's a tough time for creative industries Wink

By co-incidence I've just read that chapter to DS1 for bedtime. Two reasons why this was probably not wise, firstly that he's finding the book far too funny to be soothing bedtime reading, secondly, that he's now spendin the night on a cliff hanger wondering what happened to Ford and Arthur with no oxygen supply after being blasted through the airlock.

Personally I could do with some small "poetry appreciation chairs" to adapt for home learning purposes Grin

MrsEWeatherwax · 20/02/2021 00:20

I was listening to Radio 4 the other day and they had a historian on( I think) and he said previous pandemics, people bounce back really quickly. And people forget very quickly and go back to normal, so no new normal. I wonder if it’s a defence mechanism, because our brains can’t stay in alert constantly. I can’t it’s exhausting.

BogRollBOGOF · 20/02/2021 00:30

My brain switched off alert in May Grin

The trouble is when the excitement in life is bin day or the food shop, there's not much to be alert about most of the time. I haven't got legal/ practical people to see other than running with a friend weekly.

Likewise handwashing/ sanitising went out of the window way back last year. Not because I'm gross, but because I go to the loo and wash hands before going shopping and wash after I get back anyway as they always do feel a bit grubby by then. I'm not going anywhere else that involves high-touch surfaces to develop any habit. When I go for a run, I go in the shower after, not that the risk from a rural gate bolt is concerning.

MercyBooth · 20/02/2021 01:01

Feeling ranty

Enough of the public being blamed while companies get to do as they please, cover up security hacks, make vulnerable people wander round in the snow to several shops to try to get electric keys that the shops dont stock, advise customers to let the shop assistant use their mobile in a pandemic to talk the customer through a process then cut off the electric of people on pre payment meters because the customer cant get through to them on the phone as the key that EON finally send out which they could have done in the first place still dosnt work.
Enough of people including doctors ignoring the fact that THIS WILL actually create a public health issue while screeching at us to double mask because one isnt good enough.
Maybe the Government should take a look at how they have been shitting on the poor and letting large companies do the same for the past eleven years if they are wondering why there is such reluctance to take the vaccine from some communities instead of whinging and whining that the poor just wont do as they are told, because they dont like it now the reckoning has to be paid. You reap what you sow!!!

110APiccadilly · 20/02/2021 01:49

@Evenstar

The “art” keeps coming 🙄
Is that based on the scene from Doctor Strange where his astral form (or something) has to fight the bad guy's astral form?