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!

Piccalilly is doing excellently, thank you, growing well and even sleeping for nice chunks at night. I get lovely smiles and laughs and lots of babbling. She's also rolled over a grand total of three times over the course of the last couple of weeks and shocked herself every time!

Checking in.

Had a lovely weekend apart from a visit to the Apple store. They are full on dementory, pointless temperature checks and mandatory masks or face shield, no lanyards or medical exemptions. If I hadn’t already paid for my item ahead of pick up and needing a replacement pretty quickly, I’d have cancelled the order and walked off. We did make the point that they should put on the website that those unable to wear masks are not welcome AT ALL. So I ended up being handed a very expensive item in the middle of the street, didn’t make me feel particularly safe. Given that there are 14 people with covid in the entire county, the performance safety bollocks was grating.

But everywhere else was lovely and welcoming.

We did see a few outdoors with masks on. I do wonder about the thought processes behind this mask wearing. I get that the youngsters have been conditioned to see virtue signallers a good thing, but surely anyone reading beyond the headlines can see that it is unnecessary?

Hope everyone got to enjoy some sunshine.

Someone on Twitter has pointed out the performance safety bollocks at Phillips funeral.

The Queen was not required to sit alone, nor wear a mask. I’m a monarchist but I think using this occasion for propaganda was very distasteful, and damaging to anyone who becomes widowed and thinks they will have to get through the funeral alone and uncomforted.

In Scotland those are the rules at funerals @Worldgonecrazy, don’t know about England

No singing nor post funeral gatherings either up here.

@110APiccadilly Awww

Haven’t read the rules but the tweet was from a recently widowed person who had been comforted by family at funeral. Masks thing is a little confusing as says should be worn and then says should be worn with non bubble within 2m. A member of her household or bubble could have sat with her.

The funeral rules are particularly evil in my view. Inhumane.

Last time I went to the Apple store they lost a £2k purchase from me because the shop staff were all too busy chatting to their mates and hanging out with other young people, I finally got a "can I help you?" as we walked out. I bought my Macbook from John Lewis though so I guess Apple got their money. I was patronised by a young man about a connection cable before that too, who assumed that I didn't know what I was talking about, when in fact it turned out to be him that didn't understand what I needed (I found it myself then decided I wasn't going to pay £79 or whatever it was for a cable!)

I'm better with jeans mind! I've got skinny and wide leg and mom. One of DD's friends was wearing something she called dad jeans the other day, which I liked the cut of.

@Worldgonecrazy

Someone on Twitter has pointed out the performance safety bollocks at Phillips funeral.

The Queen was not required to sit alone, nor wear a mask. I’m a monarchist but I think using this occasion for propaganda was very distasteful, and damaging to anyone who becomes widowed and thinks they will have to get through the funeral alone and uncomforted.

Yes, I noticed that too.

Just catching up...how lovely Curly taking your GS to see bats, I want to see bats. Couldn't persuade anyone to come with me (in 2019).

Those are the rules. Two metres and no touching unless household or bubble.

@WouldBeGood

Those are the rules. Two metres and no touching unless household or bubble.

I went to a funeral in September and it may be discretion but things were normal. The widow got all the hugs from everyone. Distancing isn't law.

Masks, I think a few were worn but you can't cry in a mask really.

Re jeans
I thought skinny jeans only worked for people who are slender all over and a particular shape. I might have my jeans wrong!

It certainly is in Scotland. Family funeral recently. And I think it is in England from a quick google.

I’m glad if people ignore it, obviously.

@WouldBeGood

It certainly is in Scotland. Family funeral recently. And I think it is in England from a quick google.

I’m glad if people ignore it, obviously.

Hugging is illegal in Scotland?

You must keep 2m away and wear a mask throughout. Max 20 people and no wake.

It looks as though the masks and SD rules are the same in England.

I think it’s terrible by the way. But those are the rules.

@110APiccadilly, after 3 children and 1 c section, I definitely have a tummy. I used to dislike it but then I discovered that my children find it comforting to lean on when they're tired or sad. So I guess it's there for a reason.

I don't understand jeans full stop. I spent years of my life uncomfortably wearing them because I was told they were comfortable clothing and I wanted to fit in. They're not comfortable for me. At all.

What I find confusing is that I'm now seeing more masks everywhere , not less. People at the garden centre, walking around outside, in masks. It wasn't busy. With supposedly only 2 months until masks aren't required at all, why the additional paranoia? I hate all the conspiracy theories, but I guess I can't help wondering if the mask manufacturers have a lobby by now, lol.

I can sort of understand masks on a crowded bus or tube (for all that I don’t like masks) but I keep seeing young people wearing them to walk round the countryside. I mean, perhaps it’s possible they’ll catch Coronavirus from the gorse but it’s a lot more likely that it’ll just scratch them.

I wonder whether the outside mask-wearers are those who have only just now ventured out after vaccinations and are more nervous.

@CruCru

I can sort of understand masks on a crowded bus or tube (for all that I don’t like masks) but I keep seeing young people wearing them to walk round the countryside. I mean, perhaps it’s possible they’ll catch Coronavirus from the gorse but it’s a lot more likely that it’ll just scratch them.

Oh heck. I eat the gorse ( it tastes of coconut). That's me doomed!

Whenever I see anyone wearing a mask outside I have to restrain myself from saying something. Our area case rate was 2, or 2 per 100,000 or something like that.

@SloeSummer come bat spotting with me!

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I would love to! Are you in London perchance?

I run in some pretty quiet places and not infrequently encounter someone wearing them when I haven't seen anyone for miles.

Yesterday there was a young person wearing one on their own in the woods. The woods were quiet. There is 0-2 cases in the neighbourhood, and the same applies to the other neighbourhoods in a 3 mile radius.

I can grasp it where people aren't faffing with them between shops or coming off transport. But quiet, open spaces where distancing is a non issue???

Again, today the driver behind me had a turquoise face while driving on his own on rural roads. So not hoping in and out like a deliveroo driver. No taxi plates on his car. What is the point???

I do wonder how many people are actually aware of the numbers of cases around where they live/ work.

People seem to have started seeing masks as some sort of magic talisman. They do bigger all, and were just introduced as random "oh well let's try this because we might as well". I saw two 15 year olds walking arm in arm on a country lane, one with a mask and one without. What did the masked person think the point of this was when she was touching the other person? It's as if people have forgotten that the real transmission risk is contact.