The clapping, please make it stop.

[orangejuicer]

Is it just every week we are in lockdown or is that it forever and we have become a nation of clappers? Do I need to move?

Stay classy redgal. I hope you don't get it either.

I love it - all the neighbours coming together and forgetting about lockdown for a couple of minutes. My 2.5 year old daughter goes down at 8pm but on Thursdays she stays up and goes to bed once it’s over. She just loves it.

My kids don’t want to clap. They want to do what their aunt who is a intensive care nurse tells them... to stay inside and keep away from people.

Yea, they are allowed outside though, might be good to let them out once a day even if Aunty says no.

I work for the NHS, our street and those around us clapped and cheered. Me and my colleagues on our WhatsApp group found it wonderful.

Mumsnet seems now populated by those with anxiety and children with anxiety and a strict bedtime regime. More anxiety seems to ensue if said bedtime regime is disturbed.
If anything is said to anyone holy crap, anxiety will magnify.

Yawn

I think it’s lovely. Each to their own.

Your children's aunt shouldn't make any young person promise anything of the sort, @MoreThan40**

My son is very politically aware, so it’s all good, thanks.

We live in London in a very expensive area and have fireworks and banging. I love it.

Perhaps the MC are out banging their Le Creuset? But carefully, as they wouldn’t like to chip the enamel.

@MoreThan40
Please read my post from earlier.
That’s exactly the situation I’m in, and it made my evening

@RedGal

You have summed up about a months worth of MN. Bet that felt carthartic!!

Hilarious. Best post of the week!

Here's some more cheers!

I think it’s nice. Just for the sake of coming together with the people I live closest to but don’t often speak to, to acknowledge what’s happening to us all, and to appreciate everything we have to appreciate, not only the NHS.

I like it. It makes me feel and appreciate how loved the NHS is, its a tiny way of paying respect, and I feel connected to the community around me when I watch them.

In that case, morethan40, why does he need to be asked to promise anything to anyone about his voting intentions?

This is all too pious for words.

My road has gone up in my estimation as there was no clapping here.

@RedGal might have a point.

Let people make their own decisions on whether they want to clap or not, and don’t inflict your views on others. But as a sick doc , I’m saying thank you.

I like it

Yea, they are allowed outside though, might be good to let them out once a day even if Aunty says no.

🤣 You’re funny. They go out to walk our dogs. One also goes for a run instead some days. Just not when there’s loads of neighbours out breaking the social distancing rules to run around like twats banging on saucepans though. Or all gathering around one neighbours drive to view his karaoke show like tonight.

Banging pans, blowing horns and playing You’ll Never Walk Alone in my street tonight

I fucking hate that song. The clapping here in Spain is every night though...

Yabu.

Giving up a minute of your time is no big deal let the kids join in and on a Thursday put them to bed 5 mins later, it wont harm them!
Think nearly all our close did it, nice to see the neighbours once a week! My fb nurse friends appreciate it and I cant see what harm its doing.

@smelbellina 😂 laugh all you like but it is low brow behaviour. My mums flat, in a rough-ish area, where I grew up, it is all people whooping out of windows, banging cutlery against pots, blaring music etc. It has then went on for hours, windows left open, music blaring out till the late hours. In my area which isn't rough, it's people clapping and clapping only.

Thank god I don't live with my mother anymore, because as a nurse working on the frontline and doing a variety of shifts whereby I need to get up at 5.30am for an early, like to sleep until 9pm for a late...it would really disturb me and affect me at my work.

I haven't clapped and it's not that I don't care.
I care a lot.

I just don't enjoy mass displays of emotion and made to feel I have to join in. I'm an introvert.

I am sure that everyone who is a key worker (and tonight was for all of those I understood) knows they are appreciated.

I think it was lovely to have it as a one-off gesture, but doing it every week kind of minimises it I feel. I worry that people will get bored with doing it the longer it goes on and then key workers will see it as a lack of support.

Here it was quite rowdy- fireworks, pans, drums, car horns, and clapping.

Some people are very tribal and feel the need to do things like this but some of us prefer a more low key way if possible of showing we care.

Perhaps the MC are out banging their Le Creuset? But carefully, as they wouldn’t like to chip the enamel.

🤣

Gave mine a couple of tins of Confit de Canard to bash together. Pe Creuset is far too heavy for a 4 year old to handle.

A neighbour, far enough away so we couldnt hear, put on a concert in her back garden, streamed live on facebook,

Bollocks is your hospital better...it might be done up a bit but the equipment,staffing levels and waiting times will be worse. DH is a paramedic. Waiting times in the last 10 years have doubled before this crisis.