ADs drinking al fresco at The Sleeping Swans

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ADs, grab your thermals, long johns and winter woolies, we're finally off to drown our sorrows at the Sleeping Swan!

I might risk swimming next week if can get booked in, if covid can survive the chlorine I’ll take my chances .

I love bats too, @Curlygirl06 😊

That sounds brilliant @Curlygirl06. I too love bats, though we did once not buy a house because the roof was full of them! (Purely on cost grounds, the roof needed work and doing it in a bat-friendly way would have been ££££.)

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/in_the_news/4220830-Scientists-create-a-human-monkey-hybrid-embryo

Ooh bat hunting sounds fab.

Feel a bit bad that we haven't done anything today but I wanted to watch Prince Philip's funeral. Elder DD went out with GPs to feed the ducks and have an ice cream. Need to organise myself better for tomorrow & next week. Going to look into booking swimming, though I've put on so much weight I'll have to wear my maternity swimsuit which is a bit embarrassing.

1110APicadilly I am sorry everything is unlocking so slowly in Wales. My eldest daughter's stage school returned to in person classes for the first time since December and it was so lovely to see her so bubbly - she did what all city kids of her age do (I remember doing it back when I was a few years older than her) and got a McDonald's for lunch and bought tat from Primark. At least it got her away from the computer! Town was proper busy and it was lovely to see all the beer gardens with people in them (and I didn't see any obvious breaking of the rule of 6 either). So relieved to see people again!!

I feel like I'm completely done with everything. How much longer are we going to have to wear these bloody masks? I had an argument with a friend about masks in schools and it's made me feel furious about everything again. I'm lucky that most of my friends are relaxed about and pretty much agree with me about the over-reaction to things, but it's the lack of understanding about how (re)traumatising this all is for some people. I'm sick of being alone most of the time, I'm sick of trying to pivot my business to prepare for the future, I'm sick of having to work flat out because my income was decimated last year with no support, I'm sick of having to provide everything for my DM because she's too scared to go out. My mental health is shot. 0.02% of people in my district have covid.

There was this in The Times this morning though about performative cleaning! www.thetimes.co.uk/article/70552fd8-9ec9-11eb-9528-e3733dc789af?shareToken=13bea47a6dc2830f97063a56977b6dbf

I agree, TabbyStar. We’re ‘strongly encouraged’ to wear masks when moving around at work. Between my glasses fogging up and the lack of peripheral vision downwards, it’s only a matter of time before I pitch down a flight of stairs. But hey, I’ll have broken my neck in a Covid-secure way. (More seriously, I can’t imagine what it’s like for anyone who lip-reads - inclusion seems to be one of the things that have gone out of the window in the past year.)

I was pleased to see that article about pointless cleaning. Matthew Parris picked it up earlier in the week too - he made the point that Covid measures seem to be a one-way ratchet, they’re increased but never reduced.

My DD has just started to wear glasses and she's now having driving lessons in them wearing a mask, which seems a little risky and an accident waiting to happen, as she's struggling too. I can only manage the mask and glasses thing by pushing my glasses down over my mask and then tilting my head back to look over them. I fell down a bit of a dip I didn't see the other day too when wearing one. I just hope they become optional on 21 June.

@TabbyStar my gosh your post rings so true with me! Things may be opening and long may it continue (although I’m in France where nothing is open) but it’s the masks. I have tried my utmost to get my head around them and my DH gets quite exasperated with me on occasion if I’m honest but try as I might I just can’t seem to enjoy anything where I have to wear one. It just utterly ruins it for me. At the moment over here it is horrendous as you are expected to wear one in all indoor places and also ALL outdoor places except forests, even on some regions’ beaches fgs! Apart from the fact you are also not allowed to go further than 10km from your house, I feel I can’t enjoy a walk with the dog around the nearby park anymore because I hate wearing a mask outside and get so irritated that I’m having to wear one in the fresh air where I’m not near anybody. It’s the Easter holidays and fairly decent weather and we could be taking the DC into the city to at least wander the streets and explore a bit (within our 10km ) but I don’t want to spend the whole day outside in a mask and so we haven’t been.
Like everyone I am desperate to see my family and for a change of scene but it’s next to impossible and extremely expensive to get back to the UK at the moment and I can’t bring myself to look at spending money on a summer break somewhere down south when I know as soon as we step outside the door, we will all have to spend our day in a stupid mask. It totally ruins it for me as much as I hate how angry it makes me and so how difficult to be around that I have become, I just can’t seem to get over it . I have found myself not wanting to leave the house, which I suppose is what these assholes want but these masks need to go. And don’t even get me started about the fact all of my DC (youngest is 7) have to wear a mask all day at school and even through outdoor break time . The weather is about to get a lot warmer and wearing a mask even more uncomfortable. I just hate it and 100% don’t believe they do anything out in the real world in the hands of the general public.

@DrRamsesEmerson but things are moving forwards . Sorry to say this but you lot are never bloody happy. Moan about dementors but you're just as bad. Most people are quite content to take things slowly.

[quote Juliettbravo]@DrRamsesEmerson but things are moving forwards . Sorry to say this but you lot are never bloody happy. Moan about dementors but you're just as bad. Most people are quite content to take things slowly.[/quote]
Oh go away. Nobody is asking you to read this thread.

Morning all.

Bats sound great @Curlygirl06 I reckon ds would love to do something like that. I'm going to look into it.

We've not done much. Been doing last bits of shitty decorating for the will we won't we house selling saga.

A word to the wise - paint for "problem ceilings" does the job but it'll have you painting in sunglasses and you'll end up with more on you than you do on the ceiling. Bloody awful stuff.

Today I think we're going to go to the park and probably shove a load of stuff in the garage so the estate agent can't see it fun times.

Just checking in. Feeling the same as TabbyStar.
And what happened @AcornAgain. Sorry to see you go.

Sorry to say this but you lot are never bloody happy. Moan about dementors but you're just as bad. Most people are quite content to take things slowly.

No, TW SA for this bit...

...masks remind me of being repeatedly sexuality assaulted whilst I cried and struggled to breathe, and over the past year the various factors around covid have triggered suicidal feelings linked to childhood abuse. If you don't like it, don't read this thread and don't criticise those of us who are supporting each other through various challenges.

The rest of you, thanks for the ongoing support, empathy and companionship (my phone wanted to write compassion, which is also true); carry on!

Well equally try not to mock those who are anxious about catching covid. Goes both ways.
Some of you lot venture onto the covid board to give your two penneth so only right others can do the same on your thread.

@Lostinacloud I know how you feel, and France sounds crazed. I attempted a trip this weekend but with the masks, apps, rules, queues, and promises to “keep me safe”, along with the need to prebook, it was so miserable. I’m just going to stay home until (if ever) it stops.

I did say that if they’d just get rid of the fucking stupid masks I’d be happy!

@TabbyStar . I am so sorry that happened to you.

@Juliettbravo

Well equally try not to mock those who are anxious about catching covid. Goes both ways. Some of you lot venture onto the covid board to give your two penneth so only right others can do the same on your thread.

You've missed the point, nobody is asking you to read this. If you don't like it, go read something else.

Nobody is mocking anyone, btw.

Aren't you a HCP Juliettbravo, is this how sympathetic you are generally with people in distress?

Thanks ISaySteadyOn, I'm struggling a bit this week, I appreciate the !

So anyone got a picture of a wonky aubergine to share?

No, but I did get a twin cherry tomato that was reminiscent of a certain portion of male anatomy . Innocent DD looked, laughed and referred to it as a bum tomato.

@TabbyStar

Bum tomato! Brilliant!
Lostinacloud. I feel exactly the same. I can't go out and enjoy anything partly because masks are physically uncomfortable but more because they are a constant reminder of the stupidity. Makes me want to cry. And of course that's exactly why they're mandated. Everyone knows that they are basically pointless except for the fact that they keep people in fear and dehumanised.