ADs don't want your freedom, ADs don't want to play around

[BogRollBOGOF]

🎵 Every day I hear a different story
People sayin' that you’re no good for me
Saw your lover with another
And she’s making a fool of you, oh

🎵 If you love me baby, you'd deny it
But you laugh and tell me I should try it
Tell me I’m a baby, and I don't understand

Go Wham!

Worldgonecrazy. That’s inhumane.
I pro vaccine but it has to be by choice. Just like every other vaccine. Free will and all that.
I’m beginning to think they might as well bar code/nano bot us now and have done with it.
If you had told me two years ago the government would stop me seeing my DP’s / going in their house I would have laughed. I’m not laughing now!

@Worldgonecrazy staff are behaving like robots without souls. They should be ashamed of themselves.

DH is off to visit increasingly frail MiL at the weekend. The DCs last saw her Oct '19 nearly 2 years ago and it will be at least Easter before we could feasibly do a family trip which is logistically quite different to DH hopping on planes for a 36 hour visit. Plus she's now that frail that any cold or minor illness could be serious and the whole family increases the risk. They couldn't see her when we went in the summer coz rehab home rules and DH got 2x 30min slots.

The DCs are excited because I've booked the trampoline park and it's been a very long time. Normally we do parkrun but they'd want to run at different paces and it would just get messy, so the trampoline park it is! It's good for me to book something like that. It was the masks that were the lingering issue, but I doubt many will bother there now.

Thank you. I’m in Greece for a holiday so only checking in occasionally. Hope all are okay. I think we are going to need to batten down this winter.

We've all finally gone down with CV except for my eldest DC! Was sure we were immune, especially me as I've been in school throughout. My DC started last week and DH and I over the weekend. Feel oddly relieved in a way that hopefully we are getting it over with.

Nothing much to report so far just a variety of cold symptoms and DH and I more tired that usual. Would definitely have shrugged it off with a couple of paracetamol in the old days.

Had some really nice stuff planned for this weekend too so am gutted that yet again we're missing out. It's DH's birthday and last year was a special one we didn't get to celebrate so that's 2 years now!

Greece is lovely, and especially at this time of year (wonders how Livin is doing...)

I'm sorry about the birthday MrsDeacon.

My sense of planning ahead is improving. Earlier this year it kind of felt paralysed by the fact that the chances of plans not coming to fruition were still shaky. I'm trying to think of it as any other awkward bug now. At least not having to have the whole household isolating for up to a few weeks is now much easier mentally.
A couple of months ago I could only deal with a fortnight at a time.

I feel like I'm planning things a bit more now Bog I hate the feeling of not quite being able to look forward to something in case it's cancelled. I'm hoping us having it now means that we'll be OK for the next couple of months at least but who knows?!

I want to share some personal good news with you all. After a bit of a rocky start, DS has improved in his attitude and learning in school so much that he was given Star of the Week this week. He has struggled a lot and the school have really worked with us to help him and here is the result. I am really proud of him and just wanted to share that with you all.🌟

Congratulations to Steady DS. It's those sorts of things that are so important but hard to measure that children need to go to school for.

Thanks. It really is so important. His little face...bemused and pleased. It made my heart melt.

Star of the week? Well done! Proud steady DS.

@ISaySteadyOn

I want to share some personal good news with you all. After a bit of a rocky start, DS has improved in his attitude and learning in school so much that he was given Star of the Week this week. He has struggled a lot and the school have really worked with us to help him and here is the result. I am really proud of him and just wanted to share that with you all.🌟

It's a lovely feeling when their efforts are recognised

My two have made a right meal out of starting this year. DS1 seems to be finally (slowly) getting over the labyrinthitis from earlier in the summer and I think his main complaint is now his traditional anxiety, but the symptoms overlap. DS2 still struggling with his constipation coming and going. If one's off, the other wants to be off which just makes everything more awkward . DS1 was off today because he was looking peaky and did a couple of throat clearing coughs and it was just easier to not risk him being sent home, especially when the lurgy is around. He's now had his first LFT. No idea how thorough he was but he did put it in his nose, DH also did one at the same time as he was catching a flight and both being clear is good enough for me, and DS perked up mid-morning. At least bubbles and household isolation isn't an issue now, but it's still harder to just trust that they're in school for the day and that's that. They normally have really good attendance, last year they missed a half session between the two of them put together.

Popping in to say hello, although I see a new thread will be needed soon.
Went to the theatre yesterday with DC and DM.
DM put a mask on for the actual performance but DC and I didn't bother. Maybe 20% mask wearing.
The performance was brilliant, really funny. Lovely to be back with a live audience!

Went out for lunch got glared at a woman who was wearing a mask, I wasn't. It's not in the roolz any more in Wales unless the establishment insists silly woman

Hope you smiled back

@Worldgonecrazy

Hope you smiled back

I did broadly which annoyed her 😂😂

Result! 😜

Kept DS home today because he was v sniffly this morning. Wrong call. He has been driving me up the wall with his energy and chatter. Happened to any of you?

Fuck sake

twitter.com/EssexPR/status/1447922661422735380?s=20

They better not cancel Christmas again.
Anyway where I am people seem to have given up. Very little mask wearing, I only wear when they insist. It lives in the bottom of my bag! God only knows what germs it’s breeding .
Went to cinema hardly anyone wearing masks. DH nearly choked on some popcorn 🍿 and the person next to him put her mask on.

Work choir is restarting in November! Something to look forward to.

Great news about choirs. They seem to be the final frontier of highly hazardous recreation

I've got my first road running race on Sunday. I've done a few trail races now and the one I did last month felt pretty normal, but they are quieter anyway. My race number came at the start of the week and I actually felt excited. Since this time last year when the local areas were rapidly changing tier, I've struggled with a sense of anticipation as one really didn't know if it was going to happen with a few days to go. When I got there, it was incredibly quiet and lacked atmosphere. It was well organised, just very difficult, volatile circumstances, and until very recently the whole unpredicatability of tiers/ lockdowns/ bubbles/ peoples' attitudes really dented my ability to anticipate things.

It feels wierd that the clocks will change soon and the state of autumn keeps surprising me. Partly it's because the weather has been much better since the schools went back compared to the actual holidays. Partly that my "summer" mindset turned up rather late for a wide variety of reasons.

We went to a trampoline park last weekend for the first time in 2+ years and it was 99.9% normal, and bloody good fun!

Our LEA have advised schools to reintroduce bubbles from today. Therefore after school extracurricular clubs which only restarted four weeks ago for the first time since March 2020 have now been cancelled. Including running club which is OUTSIDE. My DC are absolutely gutted and I will be writing to the LEA in the strongest possible terms over the weekend

This comes as everything was pretty normal here in the South/South West