ADs picnic in the park with Twinkle the Tortoise

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Thought it was my turn to start a thread.

[quote TabbyStar]ISaySteadyOn that reminds me of the Mafia Cats poem by Roger McGough clpe.org.uk/poetryline/poems/mafia-cats[/quote]
I've never seen that poem before - love it

I think part of the problem for schools is that they need to be seen implementing safety measures and things like masks and one way systems are the most visible (if not the most effective )

On another note, did anyone else see or hear the news story about how loads of 80+ folk admit they've broken the rules now they've been vaccinated. I heard it on the radio so don't have a link but it was one of the lead stories around tea time. Seems inevitable really.

I love that a quiet revolution is being led by the elderly.

Re humming

The police thread has gone

Do you think police would notice if I hummed Der Kommissar every time I see them? That song is so apt for this horrific era.

Pointless side note - Falco was bloody gorgeous!

OH has had his appointment for second dose of vaccine so both done inside five weeks. Thank god he will stop dementoring now

@justasking111

OH has had his appointment for second dose of vaccine so both done inside five weeks. Thank god he will stop dementoring now

I am so pleased for you justasking111 I really hope that this makes a difference to your home life, his anxieties have really had a negative impact on you (and obviously it can't be nice for him living in such a heightened state of anxiety)

@AcornAutumn

Bog, so how do you stop it or is it a secret?

Hum along with them. Not so cool when the teacher happily joins in

Bog that is so funny!

@AcornAutumn The police thread has indeed gone: the enforcement officer in question was afraid the thread would attract "the wrong sort of people". Perhaps I because I went on and asked if riots might happen.

In other news, there's a thread on AIBU about shoes on indoors. A sign that some normality is resuming on Mumsnet! Incidentally, the sign of a really chilled-out picnic in the park is when the picnickers are barefoot. Not quite warm enough for that yet, but hopefully soon!

Here's an update from the lovely Tim. 6 minutes long and worth a watch.
1 in 480 chance of coming across an active case.
Talks about how low our cases are likely to go for due to amount of testing and false positives
Need for children to get a second confirmation test of +ve by lateral flow
Puts daily number of covid deaths in perspective compared with non covid deaths
Says we really would push to open up more quickly if next week continues as we are now.
Difference between North/South.

Re police thread it varies so much between forces as to be impossible for one person to answer

It was the 2-3 miles from home that got me! Unless I want to either walk in mud or get run over I have to drive. I’m meeting my friend for coffee next week, I’m so excited.

Masks in the playground at my DC school too. There's no legal obligation so DP and I just don't.
My solution pre Christmas was to take DS to before / after school club every day even if just for a short while some days (I pay for everyday to keep the place but would normally pick up once or twice a week depending on workload). But today's newsletter from the school implies it won't reopen until after Easter! Even though it is clear they are allowed to and it ran from September until Christmas.

Masks in playground mandated for us too. Don't know what I'm going to do yet.

Where are we all? It's gone quiet here. Just so fed up with everything, and really holding out to be playing netball at the end of this month, if Saint Boris doesn't throw his toys out of the pram before then. We'll still have to play under Saint Boris's rules though. I just wish it was summer already!!!!!!!!

I am sorry, having a shit day today. My 4 year old told me that she doesn't like me and wants to have a nice mummy that is brown (she's mixed race, I'm white!). All because I didn't want to be watching her choice of TV all day. Finding everything a bit of a chore and wish that I was a different person who would cope better. Sorry you are fed up too wanderings it sucks

@smallandimperfectlyformed

I am sorry, having a shit day today. My 4 year old told me that she doesn't like me and wants to have a nice mummy that is brown (she's mixed race, I'm white!). All because I didn't want to be watching her choice of TV all day. Finding everything a bit of a chore and wish that I was a different person who would cope better. Sorry you are fed up too wanderings it sucks

They can be shits at this age, can't they? Mine told me I am mean mummy and he wants a new mummy who is nice.

I'm not having a great day either. This is a waste of life. I'm almost now worried about people dying and me not having seen them for a year or them not being able to have done the things they wanted to do and it's irrational because I don't know anyone (else) who is likely to imminently die but... Ugh.

Just cried my eyes out reading the end of June Bernicoff's book.

Ooh I used to love Len and June in Gogglebox. I haven't read very much recently and can't really settle to much, I did enjoy one of the more recent instalments in the Number One Ladies' Detective Agency series (can't concentrate on intricate plots etc at the moment) - lovely and cosy. Feel sad, one of my niece's mentioned not having seen me in a while and I have no idea when we can see one another again despite living about 4 miles away! Also despite the fact we have both had the first vaccination. Just avoiding people always!

I'll have to have a look at that - I can't ever concentrate on intricate plots my brain just can't process it. Same reasons I can't watch films with intricate plots I just drive myself mad trying to figure out what's going on. I'm trying to read more and social media less. It's not good for us, is it? I mean Facebook and the like. It's not a real representation of other people's lives, not really, but has the power to make us feel bad in seconds.

I just feel a bit... Flat at the moment.

Just having a quiet Friday here (not that there's any other kind at the moment!) Really looking forward to the bustle of getting everyone out on Monday morning and seeing everyone back in my school.

I've been cheered a bit this week by hearing of people quietly getting on with life with v minor rule breaking. So the news story of the 80+s, seeing young people in the park and several people eye rolling about being allowed to sit on a bench from Monday and saying "well I've already done that!"

@TrustTheGeneGenie

I'll have to have a look at that - I can't ever concentrate on intricate plots my brain just can't process it. Same reasons I can't watch films with intricate plots I just drive myself mad trying to figure out what's going on. I'm trying to read more and social media less. It's not good for us, is it? I mean Facebook and the like. It's not a real representation of other people's lives, not really, but has the power to make us feel bad in seconds.

I just feel a bit... Flat at the moment.

I've given up social media, apart from this thread, for lent. Definitely helping but it's hard to replace it with reading as it's difficult to do it in the short bursts where I'd browse Twitter or MN or whatever.

I’m still here! Had a tough week with DS who is waiting to hear if his temporary work contract will be extended and has also been trying desperately to change the date of his driving test for the third time! Poor sod had his 18th in lockdown 1 and will have his 19th in lockdown 3. He’s fed up and teetering on the edge of depression which plagued him a few years ago. Tears and tantrums have been my week as well. for us all...

Still here, my bloods came back with low Vitamin D so I have been put on a high dose for 3 months. I have been given a telephone appointment with my own doctor next week and the specialist physio at the surgery spoke to me on the phone today and I actually have a face to face appointment on the 19th (though today’s should have been) and I have exercises to do. Feel relieved to get some kind of response really.

Agree about feeling quite flat, alternating between that sadness and anger.

Definitely felt angry at Hancock this afternoon when he said that deaths from all causes were lower in care homes, thanks to their policy of sending people back to care homes at the beginning of the pandemic, there are a lot less people in them to die of other causes.

Hancock said that? The lying gaslighting fucking wanker. Cuntweasel

Losing sleep tonight. There's a place nearby where anti-lockdown stickers are placed - perhaps it needs a few more.