ADs teach twisted lyrics to their pet tortoise

[BogRollBOGOF]

Crawling back to normality slightly slower than a tortoise taking the scenic route...

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/4173705-ADs-picnic-in-the-park-with-Twinkle-the-Tortoise

@ISaySteadyOn

You couldn't. No one could.

I feel stupid for believing three weeks. It's been a year, a literal year. And what if it never ever ends? My DC remember museums, theatre, libraries etc. What if those never come back? I feel so despairing. Today was really bad.

I've really struggled today too. I think it's all the "let's look back" as if it's something to be pleased about. I feel like I'm tearing my hair out while the rest of the world looks back on all the "making memories" they did.

@ISaySteadyOn

I know, *@chocolatesweets*. It's as though you have to carefully feel out anyone you talk to even if they were good friends Before to see if they think you're human or a disease carrier.

Oh gosh I know that! The trouble is I don't think I've wasted opportinities to mix last summer as so many people I knew weren't ready until getting close to thd schools returning or were just crazy busy. I think this year will be better for people living within the rules as much as they can (and more tiptoeing/clomping beyond).

You're very welcome to borrow my words on silence. That song and that version in particular seemed to be particularly apt for my little very British mental rebellion.

DS1 is 10 and got very anxious this time last year. Around the point of Italy struggling and the washing hands advice he became very anxious and had weeks of "tummy ache". We stopped Newsround and watching TV news. We've been very factual. As an astute, intelligent, autistic child who speaks his mind I do have to be careful about what I say. He has to function in a school where there is plenty of performance safety, so it's finding the balance of keeping his anxiety calmed with facts, and undermining what goes on in school. He's pretty quick to pick holes in things, and he's pretty quick to catch on to things that people do because that's what people do; he's a master at it himself masking through life. So he knows that the chances of formite transmission are low and having the windows open is more useful, but hey, it's sensible to wash hands through the day anyaway (well when those pesky grown-ups are watching). I'm straight up that face coverings give me panic attacks (he gets them, it's actually slightly reassuring to him that he's not the only one) I obviously don't let rip with the full vitriol, that's what MN is for, but again it's about them being of limited benefit, hard for some people and make other people feel better.
This time last year, if I'd seen him today I would have been reassured. The resistance in the mornings is a natural reaction to a child who finds school tough adjusting to losing 6.5 months of school in and out and changing routines. The actual Covid baggage we seem to have managed reasonably well.

Talked to my lovely dentist today while he was repairing my crown, he is so fed up of having to wear a darth Vader mask affair, as he points out, he’s been vaccinated, his nurse has been vaccinated as have all his vulnerable patients. I couldn’t hear him so god knows how any of his elderly patients manage. He did rip it off as soon as he’d finished treatment so he could actually have a conversation.

@Recycledblonde That is awful. Being silenced like that.

@TrustTheGeneGenie YES. As if its something that we should be nostalgic about which will make us feel all warm and cosy.

[quote MercyBooth]@Recycledblonde That is awful. Being silenced like that.

@TrustTheGeneGenie YES. As if its something that we should be nostalgic about which will make us feel all warm and cosy. [/quote]
Exactly I feel nothing but pure horror thinking about it.

Thing is them berating the public on social media could be highly likely to cause huge resentment towards the NHS.

Oh yes but just because they work for the NHS doesn’t mean they’re either very bright nor do they have to possess common sense. Nor are they ‘heroes’ whatever they would like to think.

💐for everyone. I agree about all the other deaths and losses and @BogRollBOGOF the silence 😭 I don’t know how long any of us can go on with this. They constantly dangle better days to come and snatch it away.

@Recycledblonde

Do you think there's a lot of people who are at boiling point?

I honestly wonder if places like Texas have lighter lockdowns because their citizens have guns.

I have so much rage, I don't know where to put it

I'm looking forward to the Tube tomorrow in a way because there's lots of people who don't give a shit. But last time a woman moved away from my unmasked face, I almost shouted "wanker" at her.

I’ve started to quietly swear under my bloody mask, god help when I’m allowing to take it off. And I talk to myself .
I always try to smile at non mask wearer, but that’s a fail. I so like seeing people’s faces now.

Instead of wearing my lanyard, i might pretend to be drunk. It's not safe to wear a mask when drunk. This would be particularly funny at 10.30am, n'est ce pas?

@MrsEWeatherwax

I’ve started to quietly swear under my bloody mask, god help when I’m allowing to take it off. And I talk to myself . I always try to smile at non mask wearer, but that’s a fail. I so like seeing people’s faces now.

School playground dad wasn't wearing his this morning. I think he may have stood seperately to get away with it without doing the chin warmer routine. I complimented him on his lovely face and that it was the nicest face I'd seen all morning

I've cut DH's hair and I have to keep trying not to think of Old Spock in the Star Trek film...

@AcornAutumn I thumped a newsstand today. Cant remember which newspaper it was but it was something about concerns about the third wave. And Boris face So i thumped it. I get the rage thing.

Yeah, I didn't quite get the "anniversary" nature of today. Like, yay, we all spent a year of our lives locked away?

I had some good news though. My dodgy bloods are just due to me being "a bit run down". I need to have an infusion and to "take it easy" (huh, is there currently the opportunity to do anything else?) but otherwise all okay!

I celebrated by picking up the kids from their germ-ridden plague pit and chatting in a long-distance way with some other parents. Then by going on a non-essential shopping trip with DD2 to the shopping centre. We went to Smith's and bought some non-essential books and stationery, then we went to M&S and bought some (unfortunately essential) shoes. Then we went to the Danish bakery and had some glorious non-essential cinnamon slices. And boy, were there a lot of people around, flouting and flaunting and flocking. The murderers.

Im really glad to hear that @Jourdain11

The stress of all this wont be helping.

@Jourdain11 that's wonderful news. I hope the infusion makes you feel brilliant.

Im sorry to everyone suffering too particularly the children who are starting to struggle with eating. It makes me hate the government so much more. I've struggled with eating for over half my life now, how dare they subject more people to that.

I wonder if it's possible to find out if they even did a risk assessment when they taped off the 'non-essentials' in supermarkets. Covid lives saved (did it even save 1 life?) vs ED lives lost or damaged. I imagine no one even thought about it.

@Jourdain11

@AcornAutumn, I had two people look at my unmasked face (Outside! In a park!) and extremely ostentatiously muzzle up. Rude, I thought.

And I have literally just woken from a nightmare in which my home school was inspected and I was told I was rubbish and why didn't I take my children things like Scouts and I woke up shouting that I couldn't because they were all fucking shut! (I don't know if this is true but it was in my dream)

@starfish88, remember no deaths except Covid deaths matter. So if it kills 10 people but saves 1 Covid life it was worth doing.

If I could get enough people, I am thinking of rebelling by performing an open air play. A small play, no set, just unmasked people projecting their voices.

Disjointed post, I know but it reflects my feelings.

@Jourdain11, was meant to say great news and I am glad. No clue why it didn't post.

Good news Jourdain

I mentioned my DD's birthday in a meeting yesterday as I was trying to sort out things for it, and people were commiserating with me that she wouldn't be able to do anything. I'd completely forgotten that she's supposed to be spending it all alone (other than me) so good job I didn't say anything more.

I asked her why she thought young people weren't out there protesting and she said it was because they'd been made terrified of the police. Her and her friends have had a number of run ins with the police over the past year, which isn't a great start to their adult lives.

@Jourdain11 that's great news!
@110APiccadilly I'm sorry to hear about your worries re: DH. I can't offer any practical advice but here's a hug (hug).

I wonder if all this looking back nonsense is to try and recapture how close and supportive of each other people were. People now are cynical and have had enough. So remind them of the good old days, the sunshine, the banana bread .....

Relieved to read your news @Jourdain11

@AcornAutumn, your theory about Texas made me laugh out loud. I so get the rage with nowhere to go thing. Yesterday I was so full of rage I made myself go for a run (I hate running) just in the hope I could pound some of it into the pavement!

I had the couch to 5k app in my ear telling me I could slow down to a brisk walk again and I told it where to shove that idea because not enough pounding had yet been done! I did feel slightly better afterwards but if I could have ended the run with 20 mins or so punching Boris in the face then that would have been better.

In fact, maybe I should go into business selling punch bags in the shape of Boris, Whitty and Hancock. Anyone else?

I'd buy a Rishi Sunak!

@Jourdain11 I'm so pleased to hear that