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ADs drinking al fresco at The Sleeping Swans

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BogRollBOGOF · 09/04/2021 17:17

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

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TrustTheGeneGenie · 26/04/2021 18:28

Hair spray?

Works for ink x

TrustTheGeneGenie · 26/04/2021 18:28

Or hand sanitizer! Works for ink as well.

MrsDeaconClaybourne · 26/04/2021 20:23

Have you tried 'pink stuff'? Comes in a tub from places like home bargains/b&m. It's a pink paste (rather obviously!) and slightly abrasive so good for lots of things. I got hair dye out of the work top with it when we did DD's hair purple in the first lockdown as a small plus of not going to school.

BIoodyStupidJohnson · 27/04/2021 06:50

Thanks for these suggestions, I love you all! I tried hand sanitizer and Pink Stuff last night, didn’t seem to do much but this morning it has faded a bit. DH has folded and called a tile repairer so we’ll see what happens...! Almost as thrilling as Line of Duty this Grin (I know it isn’t really)

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BogRollBOGOF · 27/04/2021 10:25

We have the return of Scouting tonight. I was hoping to move on as DS2 reaches Cubs, but both sections are running together so I'm not getting out of it that quickly! I'm still disproportionately miffed at the lack of effort to get back f2f last autumn, it wasn't a big window pulling it off with my group but it did make a difference, and it grated that my DCs didn't get that benefit from theirs. I'm just nervous about some of the leaders' abilities to make a meal out of things...
I hope it will all be better when we actually get there, and the DCs playing ball. DS2 really could have done with the fresh start (and without me hanging around, but leader ratios particularly matter at present).

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justasking111 · 27/04/2021 12:17

We've had three days of hell. Saturday afternoon asked neighbors for BBQ well one old boy kept throwing things for spaniel, we asked him to stop he has form for this. Saturday night dog couldn't move. Sunday morning at vets tests and drugs. Yesterday worse so more drugs. This morning found a fluid mass below throat so back to vets. Antibiotics as well now. He's a very sick dog. No exercise for the next two weeks, chemical cosh. We're knackered

smallandimperfectlyformed · 27/04/2021 13:44

Oh so sorry justasking111 it's horrible when your pets are unwell. Hope he gets better soon

Worldgonecrazy · 27/04/2021 13:56

Poor dog. Hope he feels back to his old self soon.

SloeSummer · 27/04/2021 18:32

Poor dog, hope he's all right

I've had a mad busy couple of days, which should have been good - and some of it was - but my doctor is bugging me and it killed the mood a bit yesterday.

At some point I'm going to have to talk to them. Ugh.

In other news, mask police on the bus. Argh. Later on a Tube, I was one of three maskless people in the carriage. I had Tom Petty Refugee playing at the time ...hearing the line "you don't have to live like a refugee" and I thought, fuck it, is there some lipstick in my bag? And there was. If I'm made to wear a bloody lanyard, I'm not going to hide any more, I'm going to put lipstick on!

Two men started chats with me today, I'm not attractive, I think they were just pleased to see a face!!

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BogRollBOGOF · 27/04/2021 20:17

It is just nicer seeing faces.

I'm getting more productive days creeping back now there's a bit more structure to life and a good superficial impression of normal.
Spending more time in the real world and less on MN is good too!

It must be the ADs' first birthday this week since the original AIBU about people that like to depress others.

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MercyBooth · 27/04/2021 20:45

Oh poor doggie Hope hes better soon Flowers Bear

DrRamsesEmerson · 27/04/2021 20:56

I miss faces. I live in hope that one day soon I’ll be getting the Tube home late in the evening after dinner with friends, and I want to be able to assess the other people (well, let’s be accurate, the men) in the carriage to see if any of them seem a potential threat.

SloeSummer · 27/04/2021 21:03

@DrRamsesEmerson

I miss faces. I live in hope that one day soon I’ll be getting the Tube home late in the evening after dinner with friends, and I want to be able to assess the other people (well, let’s be accurate, the men) in the carriage to see if any of them seem a potential threat.
I wrote to the mayor and my MP about what that's like - coming home on a Tube surrounded by masked men.

The mayor's office tried to pass it elsewhere and the MP didn't respond but he is very pissed off with me and has sent one response which was really childish. We've met, FGS. I went to a do at the Commons and we used to get on well.

Well, I got one of those "acknowledgement" cards but he normally sends a reply by email.

Today on the bus a lady was told by mask police that she should have a badge or card or lanyard etc. That's not true is it? You can just say "I'm exempt"? I'm not brave enough, I think someone will punch me.

The guy I worked with today was brilliant, really cheered me up. He said "this is my office, if anyone wants to wear a mask they can. But there is no way I'd ever ask anyone to do that".

I've met him before but you never know who has been lost to the Covhysteria.

Evenstar · 27/04/2021 21:39

I am still here, very tired at the moment and waiting for my rheumatology referral still, I still read most days and thinking of you all 💐

I think being able to see faces is so important, as someone who worked for many years in Early Years I was not surprised to see on the BBC News that there has been a huge rise in children with speech delay.

I am volunteering at my church now helping to run a support group for mums and babies. It is only addressing the tip of the iceberg in terms of mums being isolated and babies not being exposed to different adults and other children. I am allowed to help without wearing a mask and notice how much the babies look at me. There are babies who haven’t left the house until we started the group., one mum said her baby constantly wants to hold the phone and looks at the screen as she is so used to Zoom calls already.

Unfortunately the group currently has to be invitation only and only non-mobile babies, but we are looking to run a second group.

I haven’t ventured out much, but when I went in a charity shop last week the lady said it was lovely to see a friendly face, I hope that things will get better soon.

TabbyStar · 27/04/2021 21:42

MPs may not be responding because we are in the purdah period before elections, other people have said they've just had the cards too, so it may not be personal Sloe.

SloeSummer · 27/04/2021 21:51

Even I hope you get some answers soon Flowers

Tabby it wasn't in that period, it was a while ago. In fact, I think he sent me a bog standard reply to an email about lockdowns but that particular query about safety, I got no email at all.

I was wondering how women managed coming back from bars etc last summer, but my sister said after a few drinks, most people aren't wearing a mask on the Tube. In fact, I think you're not meant to wear a mask if drunk? If I were brave enough to swig vodka on the Tube...😂

SloeSummer · 27/04/2021 21:52

Tabby sorry, missed a bit there

Those emails were sent in the same week.

ISaySteadyOn · 27/04/2021 21:56

Faces are very important. They're how we communicate without words. We're primates. We need the whole face.

@justasking111, I hope your dog feels better soon.

SloeSummer · 27/04/2021 22:13

Faces are v important.

My phone just pinged with the dreaded second vaccine text.

There's going to be more issues with my doc this week that I can't avoid....I don't think I want it.

Not sure if it's best to have one conversation or what. i'll get called a covid denier or something. Sigh.

RainbowCrayons · 28/04/2021 03:12

@Evenstar

I am still here, very tired at the moment and waiting for my rheumatology referral still, I still read most days and thinking of you all 💐

I think being able to see faces is so important, as someone who worked for many years in Early Years I was not surprised to see on the BBC News that there has been a huge rise in children with speech delay.

I am volunteering at my church now helping to run a support group for mums and babies. It is only addressing the tip of the iceberg in terms of mums being isolated and babies not being exposed to different adults and other children. I am allowed to help without wearing a mask and notice how much the babies look at me. There are babies who haven’t left the house until we started the group., one mum said her baby constantly wants to hold the phone and looks at the screen as she is so used to Zoom calls already.

Unfortunately the group currently has to be invitation only and only non-mobile babies, but we are looking to run a second group.

I haven’t ventured out much, but when I went in a charity shop last week the lady said it was lovely to see a friendly face, I hope that things will get better soon.

I read that BBC article too and sent it to loads of people I know. Most didn't reply, I assume sending the cons of lockdown is on par with ranting about lizard people to them.

My Dad surprised me. He said that covid could have worse impacts and would damage or end their development. I just don't understand it. DS, his grandson, has almost certainly had covid back in Feb 2020 (when there was no testing though) had a cough for 3 weeks and then was fine. But I can't send the mortality figures because that's 'ghoulish' even though they show how few children have died.

I feel really sad this is pushing me apart from my parents. They probably feel the same about me being a 'covid denier' and I should probably just shut up. Probably doesn't help that I have just read Testaments. It all seemed too real for a book published before all this!

ISaySteadyOn · 28/04/2021 06:48
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BogRollBOGOF · 28/04/2021 07:16

My mum just doesn't seem bothered about seeing me. I last saw her in Sept when her area was in what would later be described as tier 2. She can't travel to me herself so I can't invite her and haven't been able to for years, and at roughly an hour each way, I can't try my luck.at passing by. Sitting in the garden over the winter, or going for a walk was not arthritis friendly, and I am less slapdash when rates are much higher, particularly before she had a good level of vaccination. She sounds bright on the phone and is begining to venture out with friends. I suspect that she's hanging on so we can meet and eat indoors as she's got to the age where she wants the least-bother option. I'd just like to feel wanted though.

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DrRamsesEmerson · 28/04/2021 08:07

Flowers @BogRollBOGOF. It’s hard, isn’t it? Mine wasn’t very bothered about seeing me either but has changed her mind since having her second jab.

SloeSummer · 28/04/2021 09:20

Oh, I wish I could give you all a big hug!

It's so hard, the people you love not wanting to see you.

SloeSummer · 28/04/2021 10:11

There's a thread over there that was really interesting but now totally invaded by people who think the Right Things.

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