Smelly drains,STD soldier but no Clap

[PrincessConsueIaBananaHammock]

Just in case we have more crimes,murders and general mischief to confess to.

Please leave your shoes at the door, have a Dettol wash and then stand awkwardly while not consuming any perishables.

Ironic smiles and head tilts are ALOUD but absolutely no laughter,fun or enjoying yourselves.

Disinfectant and disposable whips will be provided.

[FrangipaniBlue]

Anyone else looking at some of the posters and thinking 'but I thought you were sensible!'?

Yes!!!!

[Maxandezra]

morning repropbates.
have been for a lovely run already (smug!) and will be attempting to work from home today (most unusual - will see if I can get connected as the system is a bit dodgy!)
and in other news I managed to get an online food shopping order for tomorrow night , so no doubt the neighbours will have a thing or 2 to say about that and it will kill millions...happy days!

Under His Eye

[DancelikeEmmaGoldman]

I am so very sorry FrangipaniBlue, losing parents is a brutal experience. It’s good that you got to be with him at the end. I sat with my Dad as he was dying, and I’ve always been grateful he wasn’t alone.

Your neighbours should be ashamed of themselves for being narrow-minded and judgmental. We seem to have reached a point, past compassion, where social isolation has become an end in itself and not a tool to help prevent infection.

Your son needed to be with someone who loved him. Curtain-twitchers be damned.

[Pringletastic]

@FrangipaniBlue - so sorry to hear you lost your dad. Am very glad you got to see him beforehand. Curtain twitching Stasi need their sensibilities bleaching.

[PrincessConsueIaBananaHammock]

I'm so sorry for your loss @FrangipaniBlue . I can't understand how anyone would begrudge you being by your dad's side or your son some comfort. Big hugs .

[PrincessConsueIaBananaHammock]

Neither of us are, fuck the frothers and curtain twitchers.

[Catsrus]

I heard the sound of small children playing in a neighbouring garden this weekend.

None of my neighbours have small children but they do have grandchildren.

I smiled. They are sensible people and their offspring might be key workers / ill whatever. I did not call the police.

[Laniakea]

Anyone else looking at some of the posters and thinking 'but I thought you were sensible!'?

Yes and now I doubt my opinion of most humans could get lower tbh.

I had a lovely chat with our postman yesterday - we laughed because I accidentally called him darling ... I have been confined with dh for too long!

Dh took the car to the garage for a new exhaust, then went to screwfix to get a thing to fix our leaky loo. Then - omg this is just so bad - he went to Lidl and disguised his non essential purchase of 18 bottles of wine & 10 Easter eggs with some broccoli.

This evening we will be driving to dd’s house - we haven’t seen her since February - and leaving most of the wine & chocolate with them. Seven of them, all furloughed & utterly miserable ... fit, healthy, young people desperate to work & contribute confined to their house by this utter madness. They are more likely to die of a DVT from being stuck on the sofa in front of Netflix for 6 weeks (at least!) than covid ffs.

[Laniakea]

Oh & best of all dh drank most of a bottle of wine & drunk-ordered me a Kmix from John Lewis as an anniversary present it shall now be easier for me to distribute my virus laden cakes far and wide

[coronade]

Well I’m just off out to the post office to send a vital supply of hair grips to some poor women who obviously is in dire need of being able to clip her overgrown fringe back in order to see that she isn’t over eating from her daily allowance of gruel.
Dd sold them on EBay, but surely this counts as the entrepreneurial spirit our great chancellor was on about the other day!
Dd also wants me to buy her some white chocolate to make cookies - well Boris did tell us to bake.
I wish she would stop baking though, I’m going to have to be craned out of the house once lockdowns over at this rate 😬

[ohyesiknowwhatyoumean]

Well the french wine industry will be pleased - more than one case of red (on special offer, they made me do it) being delivered this afternoon. I might have been a teensy bit drunk when I ordered it 🤔

[Trebolla]

Sorry for your loss @FrangipaniBlue. at least you got to see him beforehand.

And @Pinkginhelps that post might just have been about the sexiest thing I’ve read for a while. Thank god for sanity.

[CrowCat]

Hello all, another sunny but blustery day in old Blighty. I feel a wander coming on later, possibly for biscuits and more Pringles

How are you today, @lilac?

@Frangipani I'm so sorry for your loss

The more threads I read on here the more my faith in humanity dies. Some people are just loving being able to police their neighbourhood. Report people for their toddler screaming and playing for an hour when it might be the only bit of outside world they get all day. Wishing death on people for 'breaking the rules'. Since when is a guideline a rule?? Are we suddenly a police state? Because this is how you get a police stare. Totalitarian bollocks.

Anyway. Biscuits and Pringles and later, much wine.

[isabellerossignol]

So sorry Frangipane. And don't give your neighbours a second thought. X

[Maxandezra]

frangi so sorry for your loss. Sorry I missed you post earlier.

my day is going rather well. Working form home is quite fun(ish) Less fun is the naggin ds2 to try to do some actualy school work at the same time.
Now making a jckt potato and salad for lunch. Trying to resist chocolate.
Have ordered some hair dressing scissors and deep conditioning hair mask form amazon to keep my kill count up.
Browsing new pumps for the garden pond (kind of essential) and quite fancy some new (non essential - I have many pairs) running shoes.....

[Pinkginhelps]

@FrangipaniBlue So sorry about your dad. Suggest you cough glare pointedly in your neighbour's direction...

@max Do you really need shoes for the pond? The mind boggles....

[Bananabixfloof]

Afternoon fellow slayers.

I've been almost good today, maybe only killed a little village.
Went for a humongous walk with dogs and friend. Saw hardly anyone. Did sit on a bench for a while though cos I was shattered. Only did 5 miles, I would normally do that every day and work too. Am sure the bench sitting caused hundreds of tens of deaths.
Am now too shattered to go see other friend. Ate more bread sigh.
Had a quick look through some frothy threads, decided to not ever do that again til this is over. My patience supply is very depleted.
Am probably just going to sit and eat orange cake til I explode now.
Laters assassins.

[LilacTree1]

Frangi I'm so sorry [flowers[

I have a really trivial question.....is Waitrose doing card only or something? I have a £10 John Lewis voucher. I think it's probably good to spend it before they go bust, but not sure if they will take it right now.

[loobyloo1234]

Sorry for your loss @@FrangipaniBlue :( Glad you got to see him though

I did lose the plot a bit on a thread yday and told the OP to get a life. Curtain twitching. The worst.

I honestly read most threads on MN now and think WTF is this world we are living in when people think its ok to report a neighbour for having a social distancing chat to their family?

Glad I have this thread though, makes me glad I am not the only rational person around

[LilacTree1]

“I honestly read most threads on MN now and think WTF is this world we are living in when people think its ok to report a neighbour for having a social distancing chat to their family?”

It’s not just MN though, now we have the guy who couldn’t put sun cream on his kid because they were shock horror, sitting down.

[CrowCat]

Can I just have a quick rant??

The lockdown is bullshit. The government is happy to throw some under the bus for collateral damage - kids from separated parents, nhs families, retail workers, elderly, and postie/delivery workers. But everyone else has to abide by the 'rules.' It’s really no wonder people have started making their own risk assessments.

There. As you were.

[Shitsgettingcrazy]

Hola!

Hope everyone is OK.

I see several threads have been taken over by the usual suspects....again!

Hope everyone is OK

[LilacTree1]

@CrowCat it’s ruining the lives of the elderly they claim they want to protect.

[CrowCat]

@Lilac I'm just so over it now. I was on a thread and everyone is banging on about their neighbour had their daughter in the garden and millions will die, but they seem perfectly accepting of how my 9yo DD 'should' be getting on public transport to visit her dad as normal, with no concern at all for whether she picks up covid and brings it back to me or indeed passes it to her dad and possibly many more. It's ok because the government says it's ok and it's in the guidelines.

Fwiw she isn't visiting her dad because the government does not get to decide that. We do. And as it goes her dad is on board after initially having a fit. It's not court appointed visitation he just sees her as and when, and he'll get plenty of time with her when this is done. He's pooped over a couple of times from a distance and apparently that's ok, so if that's ok then why is it such an outrage when an adult daughter pops by to see her parents from a distance??

It's bullshit. And I'm pissed off.

[CrowCat]

Popped over not pooped over Jesus Christ stupid phone wrecking my rant