When you kind of hope that a new thread meanders on quietly because it means that life is being fairly stable...
What are ADs?
Here's the copy and paste job...
Definition of AD
^AD stands for anti dementor.
There are creatures in Harry Potter called dementors, who suck all hope and happiness from you and eventually take your soul. Way back at the start of the pandemic thread after thread was posted on by posters like this and anyone who'd dare question anything or disagree with anything (like putting cheese in your coffee) was bullied off these threads. And so any actual discussion disappeared and it became an echo chamber of misery.^
We are the antidote to that. We follow the rules, but not the "roolz" and we question and discuss with respect to each other. It's all very civil.
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ADs and The Brave New World
BogRollBOGOF · 20/10/2021 22:55
. Anger is entirely understandable.Regarding lockdown lovers……many years ago I went on a coach trip, the type of short holiday that old people go on. I was the youngest by about five decades 
But I loved it. Why? Because for five days I didn’t need to think. I was told what I was doing, what time I needed to be at the coach each morning, what time and where I would eat, and there were no menu choices at most venues so o didn’t need to think about anything at all except what trinkets to buy to take home.
I suspect that same freedom from having to think is what many lockdown lovers enjoyed.
It's 2 years since I had a weekend away from my family. My big annual weekend is late March (so that was scuppered first weekend of lockdown #1) and I'm not guarenteed anything else through the year. I have seen far more of the insides of my house than is healthy because much of what I do to get out of the house wasn't normal until this September. (I'm not counting youth groups in the park in the freezing dark this time last year as normal!)
We've done better than many on Covid holidays and did a week in a caravan 2020, and this year a couple of weekends in the tent and the week in halls in Ireland, but they've all taken the domestic load with them, and then there's been the added logistics of having to book activities (which we often didn't bother because even DH who is far more obliging than me about masks doesn't want to wear one for hours in the name of pleasure) so it's been more trundling along outside making the use of natural features which is something we would do a lot of, but when it's all you've done in 18m it's not a significant mental break.
But gosh I long to fly out to an AI hotel in the sun and pick what I feel like eating and not need to consider anyone else (coz I'm selfish innit 
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Life is definitely improved at the moment, but I'm still feeling the lack of any mental gear change. It's like trying to get up the M6 on certain Friday rush hours when you average 22mph for the journey
Been out for a roast today
DH had been cagey about eating indoors for so long that we lost the habit, and roasts are nicer in colder weather, but he's away this weekend and the DCs are rather partial to a carvery (it works well for DS1 as he sees exactly what he's having and there's not too much dawdling). I've sent photos to DH, so it might tempt him to branch out a bit more again.
It was one of those things that were made less appealing by masks and "Covid meaures" and it was lovely that it was totally normal.
I'm out of Whamagedon already though. The place was well decked out for Hallowe'en but they'd started the Christmas playlist! Normally I'd be doing a lot of disgruntled muttering about it being October, but with not having had Christmas for 22 months, it was merely amusing
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