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!

There's a lot of sense talked on this thread. Last year i thought you were all mad. This year...not so much.
Shall appreciate it now.

I will try but my poor little 5 year old is an incredibly anxious child as it is, she's already been referred to a mental health service as even pre pandemic the school had concerns about her. She sometimes tells me at bedtime that she hates home learning and loves school and a few weeks ago we were thinking about moving and she told me she wanted to die so I really need to try and keep some stability for her. If we have to isolate we will but I am hoping she can at least stay! Thanks for listening to me, I have rather monopolised the chat recently - sorry

Is your year 6 child walking to school herself? How responsible is she, could she take your reception child in, maybe not the whole way but the last few metres? They probably won't let her collect her but that would at least solve it for the mornings.

Really need to stay off Facebook. Lots of posts from the local council telling us to 'do the right thing' and wear a face mask on buses, in shops if we can.

small You're not monopolising anything, having somewhere to vent a bit is what we're here for.

Was I? I can't even remember. I chop and change my mind constantly about all this and agree and disagree at random. There's no one size fits all with me I'm afraid. As i said i found these threads crazy last year, now I'm agreeing with some of it. And still disagreeing with some if it.

Freedom can only come for me when the Prime Minister leaves office.

@IRanSoFarAway1

small masks outdoors are still high round here, even yesterday.

Have you got some aloe vera or even yogurt for the sunburn? Hope it's okay.

I'm struggling with the DIY but I'm worried I'll get trapped for 10 days by some plum reporting me to T&T because someone in their house tested positive....i'm trying my luck to see if I can find a trustworthy person in that regard but it's hard enough to get anyone in at the mo. It's all big jobs round here.

I'm so sick of looking at a computer and would like to get better at this stuff anyway.

Has anyone tried this kind of thing, it might save me getting a skim coat on one wall

www.polycell.co.uk/product/polycell-smoothover-for-damaged-and-textured-walls/

Re church, I won't go on about it as I'm not a churchgoer but I know the local vicar and he's really been a D through this. I'm inclined to be too busy to chat next time I see him!

Re polyfilla- when we were doing up houses with shit walls we used Artex, the powdered form you mix with water. When you sand it down it's much easier than polyfilla and much finer. From what I can remember, polyfilla dries quite hard and takes a lot more rubbing down! Things may be different now but we've always used artex, if you do just mix up a bit at a time as it goes off really quickly. Hth.

@Taswama

Is your year 6 child walking to school herself? How responsible is she, could she take your reception child in, maybe not the whole way but the last few metres? They probably won't let her collect her but that would at least solve it for the mornings.

Yes my year 6 child is, she starts school 10 minutes before her sister so isn't able to take her in and the school don't let older siblings pick their younger ones up. My poor little 4 year old has just said she wishes she could go out and doesn't want to be inside, my heart breaks that I have to keep doing this to my children. Have had to cancel a gas safety check too! May think sod it and order a takeaway tonight but probably shouldn't.

We just stopped off at a service station, I'd say 90% of people still wearing masks, though a few coach loads of older people had just arrived so that might have affected it. Most people not wearing masks were younger with a few of us older (I'm 50s). It felt quite liberating. Then opened FB to a post from a friend who is too scared to go anywhere despite being the same age as me, fully vaccinated and in good health. The fear people are experiencing is off the scale in relation to reality. Full of comments about selfish non-mask wearers. I feel for people who are genuinely vulnerable and think more should be there to support them, but the otherwise fit, healthy and vaccinated 🤷‍♀️

@smallandimperfectlyformed your child will be fine with you as her parent.

This might be helpful.

I was on the tube this morning, where it is supposedly compulsory.

I'd say masks were at 50%.

At Caffe Nero, masks were at 0% AND the water jugs are back 🥳

[quote chocolatesweets]@smallandimperfectlyformed your child will be fine with you as her parent. [/quote]
That is such a lovely thing to say, thank you! All 3 of my girls are important to me - as they should be - but she is the one who worries me the most. She is lovely, beautiful and exceptionally clever but a sickly little thing. It is so nice to be able to chat to all of you lovely ladies here

Just back from Waitrose. One other person not wearing a mask.

I don’t get the obsession with wearing a mask even once double vaccinated. People will say they ‘don’t want to get covid’ or ‘I’m protecting the vulnerable’. Yes, you can still get Covid even if vaccinated but it’s very likely to be mild. What’s the point of being vaccinated if you’re still convinced that stepping out of the house without a mask is certain death? As to the vulnerable, well people have never really worried about them much before so it’s puzzling that they’ve started now.

I will judge anti vaxxers but the people who are just trying to get something like their previous life back, good on them.

What exactly is an anti vaxxer? I don't quite understand as everyone I speak to gives me a different answer. Are they people who try to stop people having vaccines, are they people who say quietly, not for me thanks, are they people who are worried about some vaccines but happy with others, people who have doubts at all?

I think anti-vaxxers are people who are aggressively against them and think it's a massive conspiracy and try to convince everyone else the same. Not people who are waiting, uncertain, etc.

I think the real anti vaxxers are those who have been immunised but carry on as though covid is instant death. Why have a vaccine if you don’t believe it works?

(Except for my fellow anti vaxxers who have had it specifically to go abroad)

@smallandimperfectlyformed

aww, your poor little one.
that's really tough. I hope someone can come to your aid. I wish I was close enough to help you.

@Jourdain11

I think anti-vaxxers are people who are aggressively against them and think it's a massive conspiracy and try to convince everyone else the same. Not people who are waiting, uncertain, etc.

That's what I think.

Thank you. I have spoken to the school and they have confirmed that they are happy for my oldest to take my middle one to school. I will have to arrange for someone to pick her up on Friday though as I want my oldest to be able to say goodbye to all of her friends on her last day. Nursery has to shut anyway as their teacher has gone into labour a month early bless her! She has had a difficult pregnancy so I hope all goes OK. Have actually got some LFTs for us all as it turns out the positive case was from an adult at the party we were at yesterday - 11 year old didn't come though. Hoping they are all negative- none of us have any symptoms but I am just being cautious (please don't hate me!!).