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!

Two pages of it here.............

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/a4218482-Cheese-in-coffee-mild-meats-thread?msgid=106525053#106525053

And from that same thread another poster posted this.

"I've had a look at the AD threads and they seem to go something like this

'I bought a new lipstick yesterday and gave a masked dementor a dirty look, hahaha that showed them'
I need fish and chips now'
'I killed another granny this morning hehehe'
'I need more chocolate, wine, biscuits..'
'Dementor thread dementor thread happening on the corona board'
'My special shortbread biscuits have run out...aw hun
'..dementors, the dementors are out to get us'
'Chocolate give me chocolate'

Ad infinitum"

Of course when i asked for the link where she got those quotes from she couldnt provide it.

But as you can see I have no such problem.

@TheClaws DH has COPD PRE Covid no one gave a rats ass about passing infections on to him. Im only too aware of people being at risk.

And ive never said that coughing should be socially unacceptable which is the little gem i came across yesterday.

@MercyBooth

You most certainly do And i can prove it.

You're not proving anything. That quote shows just how difficult it has been to hear some of the comments some of you have made. The 'hun' isn't necessary, thanks. My comment, however, was meaning that we don't have a dedicated 'safe space' to talk about other threads, other posters and that sort of thing.

@MercyBooth

And from that same thread another poster posted this.

"I've had a look at the AD threads and they seem to go something like this

'I bought a new lipstick yesterday and gave a masked dementor a dirty look, hahaha that showed them'
I need fish and chips now'
'I killed another granny this morning hehehe'
'I need more chocolate, wine, biscuits..'
'Dementor thread dementor thread happening on the corona board'
'My special shortbread biscuits have run out...aw hun
'..dementors, the dementors are out to get us'
'Chocolate give me chocolate'

Ad infinitum"

Of course when i asked for the link where she got those quotes from she couldnt provide it.

But as you can see I have no such problem.

I've seen the Cheese thread and look in on these ones occasionally. I'm not sure why you're acting all innocent here. Comments like this are made often enough. It's one of the reasons these threads exist.

TheClaws I'm finding it difficult to understand what you're getting at. I don't think our conversation on these threads is much different from any group of people who've got to know each other. We are a real mix here, some are CEV or have family who are and lots of us think there should be better provision and support for people having to shield. We have kids with varying needs, and many have our own mental health issues. We are supportive to people unless they come specifically to have a go. You don't have to come here and read this, and if you want some sort of support thread around your needs, set one up.

Hi everyone, sorry I've not been around much, been crazy busy.

Lent almost over so I can go back to meat, booze and chocolate soon. Really random that I never usually miss the things I give up, but this year its felt like a real challenge as nice food is one of the few things you can really enjoy at the minute.

Anyway, just wanted to pop on and say hi! And to share a joke I heard this morning. It's rubbish but it's making me laugh more than it should.

"Why should you never buy boxer shorts from Ukraine? Chernobyl fall off"

TabbyStar I understand that, too, and that's great. We've all needed that. But there has been plenty of unkindness, too, and ganging up to pile on particular threads. That's something you can't really deny.

Hello all. My back has finally gone - pinged yesterday morning and I've been in agony since (though still not as bad as it has been in the past - I can still walk.) This is a direct consequence of closing gyms and pools. Hoping I can get it a bit better with physio and the gym and pool open next week. I really don't want to go back on the heavy duty pain meds I was on 3 years ago while I'm breastfeeding, but I may have to decide it's better for DD to have a fully functioning mother and be bottle fed - at least we've got to 5 months with breastfeeding.

My back went too a couple of months ago (old pregnancy injury), also I think from too much being in the house and sitting and no swimming despite doing other exercise. It's getting back to normal now, though I've been too nervous to try running again yet. Being in the pool has been great. I have put on half a stone though since I did it, so I need to get that off again.

I hope you can get it better too. Is wild swimming an option for you or is it too cold there still?

How is little Piccalilli?

Covid responses are interesting in many ways. My mother for married in October 2019. One of her best friends had leukemia, but he really wanted to come to the wedding. Catching any infection would kill him, but he decided to risk it. He dies two weeks later, of a cold. I sometimes wonder how that would work in the new world. Would everyone be asked to confirm they had no cold symptoms? In the covid world, passing on infections has changed from inevitable to being the infected person's fault.

But doubtless unrelenting avoidable agony while I try to take care of a baby is exactly on a par with running out of shortbread.

And don't ask if I'd rather risk dying of Covid, because yes. I am in so much pain I would definitely rather be dead, and if you can't understand that, you've just never been in acute pain. Definitely worse than childbirth - and that ends. As it happens my life insurance won't pay out for suicide so I can't do that to DD and DH.

I've been wild swimming a few times and it has helped I think, but I've not got the acclimatisation to stay in very long at the moment.

Piccalilly is fine, if a little cross that there is occasionally a slight delay in being picked up while mummy gets into position to do it. Not the level of service she expects!

Glad to hear your back is getting better Tabby. I've not been able to really run since I first injured mine, but I can use a cross-trainer. If you've got access to one of those, they're good for being in an approximate running position without any impact when your feet hit the ground IME.

Yeah, it's miserable - I had SPD, and then DD was a forceps delivery, and then about a week after she was born I was in a similar state to how it sounds that you are now. It's come and gone over the years - I had one bad episode where I couldn't sit normally for three months, and it took two years to recover properly. I'm not sure about the running, I loved running, but I stopped it and went to the gym and used the stepper / cross trainer / bike etc. but then during lockdown I started running again - it seemed okay to begin with but I don't know whether I should give it up or whether it has nothing to do with the bad back. My gym is quite a distance away though, so it can be difficult to find the time to go - but I swim a lot and I need one with a decent pool. I took painkillers whilst breastfeeding DD (maybe co-codamol?) but they made my quite trippy!

My back went again after baby 3, cocodamol given, too trippy was scared of dropping baby or something, so cut back on them. See a physio or chiropractor . My spine is twisted from babies , I too miss swimming which helps

One good thing to come out of covid is hygiene. Masks, washing hands, sanitiser, don't know which works best but it has decimated other virus transmission.

@110APiccadilly I was in acute pain a couple of decades ago. Thankfully I can’t remember the pain, but I do remember thinking about walking in front of a car because paralysis seemed a preferable option. Thankfully the ruptured disc and accompanying symptoms were fixed through a combination of surgery, osteopathy and aromatherapy to aid recovery and now I’m doing Caroline Girvan workouts every day so yes it is definitely fixed though my psoas muscle on my left side has never been quite right since. I hope you get yours sorted. I took tramadol but stopped when I was convinced I’d managed to vomit a piece of carrot out of my eye. Tramodol vomiting is a horror film in motion 🤮🤮🤮🤮

I hope everyone has a good day. I felt quite down yesterday evening, very impotent to do much about the situation. I hate the fear , I hate the anxiety and collateral damage that is being brushed over.

It’s also interesting that protecting the vulnerable is equated to ‘locking them away’, rather than educating about barrier nursing techniques, or issuing the vulnerable with actual protective masks rather than props which are a sop to the frightened. Maybe even providing genuine supportive and nutrition advice for those who are vulnerable because of size. And of course encouraging the nation to genuinely protect the NHS (both short and long term) by promoting free exercise, healthy diet, and a reduction in alcohol consumption. The only thing that has felt positive was the vaccine roll out to those that needed it. Everyone I know who is cev or vulnerable because of obesity, ill health, etc. has now had their second vaccine. We are seeing the effect of this in the much reduced number of people dying within 28 days of testing positive, and surely now with such low numbers the doctors now have time to ascertain how much of a contributory factor covid was to the death?

Sorry, that’s a long post, which sums up to ‘have a great day, it’s nearly the weekend 😀’

One good thing to come out of covid is hygiene. Masks, washing hands, sanitiser, don't know which works best but it has decimated other virus transmission.

I'm not sure this is a good thing in a wider sense, don't we need some exposure to build a strong immune system?

Masks are evil
About to get the bus with my lanyard, advertising my disabilities yet again!

I'm sad that so many people practised poor hygiene before.

@TabbyStar I remember reading some years ago of a link between increased asthma in children and obsessive cleaning in homes? At least I think it was asthma? Must have been about 15 years ago?

Probably why we have no allergies etc...!