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

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🎵 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!

Our church had an open day yesterday. Had to sign in covid wise. It was so cool in there. Vicar wasn't wearing a mask

@MercyBooth

Expecting to see photos from some of the nightclubs on Twitter after midnight.

The media always show Leeds and Newcastle. The students have gone, DS girlfriend got a job in one they're not opening at midnight

evening all!
or night?!

My youngest had a terrific birthday & we had a great day today. He also lost a tooth. Eating Quavers🤣

I think I'm more excited about last ever 3 days at infants' (after 16 years!) than all the people in the UK who are happy about restrictions easing or cancelled or whatever it's called now.
I hate school runs with a vengeance so although we love the school I'm sick of the traffic, stressful parking & inconvenient one-way drop off/pick up system.

I seldom drink but I have my bottle of Asti in the fridge, waiting for me to get home on Wednesday to celebrate the end of an era.
Can't bloody wait!
(^^ is that acceptable banter?)

@smallandimperfectlyformed

sorry to hear about your church trouble.
we had some upheavals over the years and yes, it hurts when you have to give up going to a church where you felt settled.
for a couple of years now we've been going to one I don't like, so I barely go. (DH takes kids every week, I go maybe once every 2 months).
I can't explain it but it's the actual building I find weird & unsettling: the layout & where the doors are make me feel uncomfortable.
the people are lovely and kids are very welcome. one lady today said to my DS2 "I like you boys because you always eat so much"🤣

Are you in Surrey/Elmbridge by any chance?

No, I am in Greenwich, South East London (and not Greenwich itself...no way I could ever afford to live there!!). I can't imagine food being served there again, at the moment people aren't even allowed to use the toilet! Just so let down by it. Thanks to all of you for being so nice and understanding about it, organised religion can be quite polarising. You're all lovely!!

it's not easy finding the right type of service.

I would love to go to one of those gospel type churches that you see in some American films depicting mainly black communities.
That sort of joyful and passionate worship is so me. it's so spiritual and uplifting I honestly feel I could move mountains with that sort of energy!

I love CofE hymns, they are solemn and beautiful but boy oh boy it can be so painful & depressing to listen to them if people sing them without passion & joy.
give me a church with tambourines!

@IRanSoFarAway1 And Twitter comes through Never fails.

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Police cars revolving light | NEW: Massive queue to get into a club that opens in 13 minutes

Good for them! Let the people dance to their hearts content. I hope that they all had fun and the DJs, club promoters, security guards, bar staff and everyone else involved in the night time industry enjoyed being back at work. ZingDramaQueenOfSheba if there is one type of church my area is not lacking it's a majority black Pentecostal one! The music is good but the services are long- C of E services are often done within the hour (and at present even quicker due to no songs). Also a few of them have quite a stringent attitude to tithing so they don't really fit my needs. I know exactly what you mean about some of our dirge sounding hymns though! Not so much this one but the church I started worshipping at, the priest used to choose some of the most miserable sounding songs!

We’ve been lucky with church through Covid, and the plan is to be pretty much back to real normal next week (except no chalice yet). But it’s easy for us, we have a huge draughty barn of a building and if people are nervous they can easily keep their distance. We’ve had terrible trouble finding a church and settled here four years ago, so I’m really thankful that they’ve been sensible.

If any sociologist wanted to see what an 18 month diet of complete fear mongering and propaganda can do to a nation, they only need to take a look at the coronavirus board today. So many people feeling the need to justify their mask or no mask. Why don’t they just get on with their lives? Does anyone really think a post on mumsnet is going to make someone say to themselves “oh I never thought of that” and change their behaviour?

Bunch of fucking idiots!

@Worldgonecrazy

it's like a mask version of flouncing. who the fuck cares?
you are not a hero either way

For goodness sake! Youngest now has to self isolate due to a positive LFT in her nursery, waiting on results of a PCR to see if she can actually finish the Summer term. Am a single mum so worried about how to take the one in reception to and from school, no family around local enough to help this week.

urgh

poor you! how many days do you have left of school & nursery?

4 days. They break up on Friday. My oldest is year 6 and they have been lucky, no bubbles burst at all this year so fingers crossed she actually gets to finish her schooling properly. She can at least walk to and from school. My middle one is in reception so she can't go to school on her own, last time when she had to isolate a teacher came and picked my youngest up from our flats and took her home which was really lovely of them. Don't think they will be able to do that this time as the reception child is full time, the nursery one is only in for the afternoon.

I love that teacher. what a gem!

no school mums/dads to rope in? you could maybe offer an afternoon of looking after their kid/s in return?
I presume both staying home is doable but you'd rather claw your face with rusty nails at this point?😁

I think that maybe someone might offer, it's annoying as I live in a 5 floor block of flats. Loads of kids in the building but they all go to different schools. I will have to drop some subtle hints in the queue this afternoon as my ex husband is around today so he can watch her. In the meantime I am letting her watch whatever shit she wants to on the TV and ignoring my brother who thinks we should have a 2 week lockdown

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Unlurking to say have you seen the comments?
"Outrageous people are out clubbing with no masks... and I haven’t seen my mum in 16 months what a joke. Lock us down NOW"
etc etc

I was following the AD threads last year and have just come back to seek you all out. I didn't post then and prob won't much now but I just need an oasis of sanity and measured thought.

I bumped into a colleague last week and it turns out he is very much AD and we had a great chat for about an hour.. but most other people in my life (IRL and social media) seem to be desperate to remain locked down and continue with restrictions forever. It's getting me down! Fortunately DH agrees with me so it's not all bad.

Just - thanks for all being here and having a reasonable perspective on things. I'm grateful to be able to dip in and read your comments as it makes me feel loads better

Why haven't they seen their mums for 16 months?! If it's because they live abroad then I sympathise as they had little choice but if it's because they chose to stay away for that long that's on them.

small

don't hint. just ask.
or dare I say take her with you and just get someone to walk your child into class from your car at drop off and out to you at pick up? presuming you are driving.

or dare I say that if you are walking and don't need to go inside with your child then just fuck it, even stick a mask on your youngest (oh she's just playing) and do it yourself?
will she be actually in contact with anyone that way? will anyone even know she's supposed to isolate? can you test her? (sorry you may have said that already). if testing negative I'd find it hard to not ignore the request to isolate.

(and I'm saying that as someone who was an absolute stickler for all rules for myself & family until end of May. we were so good I think we should be given medals actually🤣
I'm now fed up and lost the will to care)

I don't drive otherwise I could have just left her in the car for a minute. There is no way school would let me on the premises with my youngest so I will have to be brave and ask, although my mum just had a point and said perhaps my 5 year old shouldn't be at school either as she was at the party yesterday where the person with the positive LFT was. As was I

maybe it's best to just call it a day then?

I appreciate your circumstances as a single mum will make it very difficult either way.
But the last few days of reception in hot weather is not where the top notch education is happening.
just throw in the towel. you've tried your best