ADs teach twisted lyrics to their pet tortoise

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

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I think the Government played a blinder with the anti war protests and showed the power of media.

There were hundreds of thousands at the protest, figures vary between hundreds of thousands and several million. The media for months after greatly down played the number attending, and the Government completely ignored the protest. I think that single event knocked the stuffing out of us. What is the point of protest when the government just ignores it?

I always thought that sleepwalking into an authoritarian state was hyperbole, but here we are.

No right of protest, bodily autonomy being coercively removed, freedom of speech removed (apart from speech attacking women)

And I woke up this morning to find the arms race reignited as bombs are such a great deterrent to the threat of cyber attack.

It’s the feeling of impotence that hurts the most. All any of us can do is ignore what is going on and try to live our lives as normally as possible.

We can all start by not wearing masks. They do nothing to prevent spread of COVID anyway, and if you’re bothered just get a lanyard and a defiant attitude. It’s a small step to normal.

Whenever anyone says 'we're in the middle of a global pandemic ffs' a phrase I loathe I replace 'global pandemic' with 'great big kerfuffle' in my head for a giggle.

World "All any of us can do is ignore what is going on and try to live our lives as normally as possible."

That'swhat I do

But I can't afford a fine and my friends won't meet. So it's very limited.

I've got to go to central London today and am literally very pleased ...to get on a Tube. Insanity.

I also reference the damage lockdowns have done rather than the pandemic. A virus causes illness, it does not in and of itself cause a societal shutdown. That is a response to the virus not the virus itself. I think that's an important distinction.

I don't go on protests, partly because I'm a coward, and partly because I have a young child to look after. In addition to writing to MPs and signing petitions, my contribution is to bring her (and any others I have in future) up to understand these issues. Sorry if that sounds big-headed, but I've met so many lovely, intelligent young people who just don't seem to have the first idea about this. I don't want my children to be like that.

AD's i am in a bad mood.

as you all know because of my continuous whining - we have had to re arrange our wedding twice - well now i really want to elope.

Basically dps parents arent my biggest fans, but i have found out that basically his mum has been spinning us a load of shit for years that she hates his ex (abusive, hit him in the street in front of his child, stopped access to his child, kicked his child out, let herself into our house to take said childs things back etc etc i could write a book) and now i have just seen her wishing her a very happy birthday - she has previously told me she wouldnt give her the time of day. Now his dad worships the ground his ex walks on and i hate that, but regardless of that i dont like him anyway because he is an abusive woman hater.

dps reason for not eloping is that he really, really wants his parents there because his mum was "waited so long to see him get married" but the issue is that in reality she wanted him to marry his ex, she isnt bothered for seeing him marry me particularly

how do i convince him to fuck them off? am i being totally selfish?

fwiw my family are lovely and have always acepted him but equally would understand if we eloped (i checked with them)

Police are dementoring about burglaries going up post lockdown, well in lockdown the few there were didn't warrant a visit so what's changed.

I gave up believing in protests when our rural communities and others worldwide hired coaches and did the countryside alliance march. Over a million of us, ignored by the media because it didn't fit in with veganism etc. It wasn't trendy only affected country folk who are mostly poor, but they worked for the toffs aka folks with money so was looked at in horror by the city leftists. Chris packham is on a mission to destroy it, city folks filling his pocket with gold to hire barristers to ban country life

@TrustTheGeneGenie I got married abroad. We went into a travel agent (remember those) on a Saturday and booked for three weeks later. Didn’t tell a soul where we were going or why, just told them when we got back. The hotel provided witnesses and sorted everything out. We just had to peel ourselves away from the sun loungers to get ready! It was so lovely and neither of us missed having family there. It was completely our day.

On another note, I’m now eligible for my vaccine and have to be honest I’m in two minds. A history of anaphylaxis and increased allergies over the last few years has made me more scared of having the jab than Covid. Please tell me I’m being irrational and to stop being silly. I’d hate to survive a pandemic only to meet an untimely end in the local chemist!

Well I wouldn't be having a jab in a chemist unless they had an epi pen on hand. I have asthma so with pollen am struggling now, jab tonight because I'm so high risk if I get covid, surgery doing jab for me

When Italy France banned vaccine I asked if that's what constitutes genocide, got banned it was a genuine question

@TrustTheGeneGenie eloping sounds ideal

I’m also in a marriage quandary. Mr Crazy wants big wedding because he’s a hopeless romantic. His two daughters and I barely tolerate each other so I won’t be upset if they’re not there. My daughter absolutely adores him, so no issue there.

I’m on wedding number three and can count my guests on one hand. I’m sure my family are bored of me getting married, and I really don’t want a big wedding anyway. I want to elope and just do it.

No party.

I may have persuaded him to do it whilst we are on holiday which would solve the problems.

Hope you can reach a solution.

Iheart "A history of anaphylaxis"

You do need to have that conversation, preferably with an allergy specialist if you saw one. Some of you might remember the story of my dad vaccinating a big big guy who then fainted on my dad? He was fine...but please take advice before you take the jab.

With a history of serious allergies, I would be getting advice from my GP or specialist if I was still on their caseload. It is a legitimate cause for caution and this is why bodily auronomy and informed consent is so important.
No vaccine has a 100% rate of implementation. As long as the majority make an informed consent, it will make a positive difference in reducing cases and the number of severe cases.

DS1 had mild-moderate food allergies including egg, so when he got his boosters I queried the suitability and the practice advised us to stay on site for about 20 mins after in the event of a reaction which would be most likely to occur shortly after.

The local paper's had a story about the "success" of assymptomatic testing around the county... 600 cases in 3 months at a rate of 1-2% which sounds interestingly close to the false positive rate...
I'm really not convinced about the value fir money here...

Thanks everyone, I’ve got a telephone call booked with my GP tomorrow to chat it through. I’ve not been vaccinated against anything for nearly 50 years! Reading some of the threads “over there” it seems protecting other people is more important than anything else.

In non covid news, I fell over tonight. Working part at home and part in the office means I've to drag everything to the car park and back.....between my work bag and handbag and assorted crap, I lost my footing on the crap paving and kind of staggered forward before sprawling on the pavement.
Stuff everywhere, tights torn and not one person standing around asked if I was OK. Not one.
Feel a bit sore but generally OK. Though my right knee hurts when I bend it or put pressure on it. It doesn't look swollen or any different to the other knee, so hoping it's just painful as it's a bit bruised. Going to keep it elevated tonight (translation- I'm sat in bed reading a book and I ain't moving) and see how it feels in the morning.
Just feel really pathetic and sorry for myself.

Oh no @LivinLaVidaLoki you poor thing. I can’t believe nobody asked if you were okay! Bed sounds like the best place to be, take care of yourself

Hope your okay LivinLaVidaLoki.
I’ve booked my vaccine, yeah. Getting old has it’s benefits.
I so want my boring life back.

Oh Livin I'm sorry and how rubbish of the people.

Have you got any arnica? I'm a clumsy one so always have it handy.

Do please do to the doc if need be.

@LivinLaVidaLoki at least no-one laughed? I guess?!

I always rush to help people if I'm out and about, if someone falls or drops something or needs a door held or buggy carried down steps I am on them in a heartbeat! Years of Brownies training - I have to do a good turn every day! 😂 With stupid Covid though I do second guess myself, I still help but then I instantly panic and wonder if they're going to yell at me for being covid-unsecure because I have touched their dropped phone or something.

Had jab, this evening, still here, am coming down with OH cold he's having a duvet day, so hopefully I will not have bad side effects coz I sure won't be able to have a duvet day with OH taking centre stage I did buy wine to soften the blow on the way home

OH and the icing on the cake is I'm on horridly strong antibiotics for an infected sebaceous cyst on my elbow which wasn't removed because of covid 😂

He's just taken his temperature twice for a friggin cold. 36.3 he's disappointed 🙄

@LivinLaVidaLoki [flowers}

@AcornAutumn i wish someone like your dad was leading the Covid response.

There was something in todays i paper about how decimated the wedding industry has been.

Mercy that's very kind.

I'm sure hospitality will be decimated yes.

I had to go into the City today, I didn't need a sandwich shop but they were mostly closed. A rather stressed looking lady approached me to ask what was open.

Also, when I arrived, it was raining hard and I was standing under the station canopy for a bit to see if it eased off. So many men stopped to talk. Most of the chat was just "hello, how are you?" or "this bloody lockdown, can't wait anywhere can you"

I don't think they were trying to be annoying. I think they were just pleased to see an unmasked face to talk to! And I'm not a fan of random blokes chatting.

Security guards outside offices - with hardly any staff in - waved and said hello. That might be a red herring as security staff often do that though...

It was sunny when I got out of my meeting and I just wandered about. So many buildings still going up. Weird. Wonder what will happen to them.

I hope you're OK Loki. I never know if I'm supposed to pick up customers things when they've dropped them or not now. I zipped up a very elderly ladies coat the other week because she was very shakey and struggling - it was bitterly cold out. It's awful to say but I hesitated a lot longer than I usually would before asking if I could help because of covid.