10 villains breathing , 9 bbqs smoking, 8 online deliveries

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7 friends laughing
6 flaps bleached
5 covid masks
4 cool kids smoking
3 deadly hangovers
2 claps a' missin

And a partridge in a pear tree. Socially distancing of course.

Thread number something? Forgot to keep count.

That's why I have you murderous, despicable , flappy villains.

I hope you had a good evening Crow.

Welcome all the new normal. We need a name for it - Normal1m+

The business to get into is corporate signage, slot in, slot out sections for latest social distancing rules.

The return to the office is now being planned but at 50% capacity. We are invited in for a day of instruction on how to follow latest rules. Sadly I am on holiday that day so will miss it. I think my boss was hoping I would cancel my day off to attend but I'm ignoring the hints. My 10 days of holiday have already been reduced to two long weekends.

In the end the rules will boil down to 'pay attention'

Evening all.
Had glorious day visiting my aunt. Weather glorious sat in garden all day. Blethered for hours she mase is bacon butties and we ate cake, shortbread and drank coffee all day and she told us we were mad if we thought we weren't using her loo or making ourselves coffees as and when required.🤣🤣 She is one determined lady!

Quite right Gnome enjoy your time off.

Our local auction house has re-opened for online bidding. If you have never been to an auction think ebay on speed.

Feeling frivollous (it's payday) I have bid up to £20 on a large wooden bowl on a stand (about the size of a bedside cabinet). I have no idea what I will do with it but I want it!

If I get it I will post a picture so you lot can help me find a use for it!

Morning all it's going to be a scorching day today!

Gnome that sounds exciting. Good luck. Definitely don't give up your very paltry vacation days.

Willow sounds like you had a great day.

We did Princess but now i am guilt tripping myself for being too close to her in the kitchen! She didn't give two despite me saying stay outside I will make the coffee (with hand gel on every time i touched anything!) Should have worn bloody masks! But i did disinfect bathroom taps etc after using it. My brain hates me! If it can find a stick to beat me with it will.

Anyway I am a nice shade of pink in parts today😄 hoping it will turn brown and I won't be peely wally again.
Working later so better do something constructive.

Morning all. I have half a day off today and it's ridiculously hot and sunny so I will enjoy it.

Hey all, gloriously sunny and fat too hot for a northern lass. I'm melting, melting...

The joint birthday bbq for my DDs was fantastic, looking forward to doing another for DS in a couple of weeks!

My akita puppies are all going to their new homes tomorrow. I can reclaim my house and garden!

Just had a very depressing conversation with my mum. She doesn't watch the news or the government updates she just listens to my brother. These days she opens her mouth and his voice comes out. Her brother wanted to visit in November and she's told him no, because 'DS says it won't be safe.' Wtaf. She's not shielding and aside from a little high blood pressure that's well controlled she's the fittest pensioner I've ever known - and I used to work with the elderly so I've met a good few! It's really obvious that my brother is loving this feeling of power he has over her right now, it's sickening actually.

Meanwhile my DS is gutted because he thought his line of work cold reopen on July 4th and has spent money with banners and advertising only to be told no, you're not included in this wave of reopening. He's really struggling now and worried that he'll have lost so much custom by the time they are allowed to open that he'll never recover. I mentioned this to my DM, and all she said was 'oh well we don't want a second wave' like my DS opening his small business with minimal footfall would push the country's R rate over the edge 😡😡😡

Crow I think you might have to avoid all conversations of the kind with her , until we get a bit more settled as she can't see anything past COVID atm. Your brother's behaviour does sound quite worrying and controlling, and he seems to isolate her. Are there any worries that he might have a specific goal in mind to keep her at home and terrified?

On a brighter side...

Hey all, gloriously sunny and fat too hot

My fat is definitely too hot too. My fitbit claims I burn nearly 3000 cals daily. I'm sure it means literally.😂😂

Willow I know that feeling. And if there's nothing to worry about, I worry I missed something.

110 hope you enjoyed your half day off in the sun. Mine is tomorrow but it's supposed to rain and I have to pick up DD early. I love the kid but God do i need at least an hour on my own at some point.

Sadly I was outbid on the utterly useless but wanted wooden bowl. Probably for the best as I really don't know what I would have done with it.

CrowCat what age are your DM & DB?

Mine are 80s & mid 50s and I'm noticing similar. Since DF died 20 odd years ago DB sees himself as 'Head of the Family'. He sees it has his job to control DM's spending, what she does with her own home. All to do with what he sees as 'Dad's Money'.

Covid has brought out the worst in him. He has become angry and fearful and is trying to get DM to behave in the same way. In his opinion lockdown should go on forever.

Mind, I suppose it makes a change from him fretting about gangs of ferral youth marauding across their extremely quiet family oriented housing estate. There arent gangs of ferral youth but there could be!

Gnome my brother is late thirties and mum turned 80 this year. We lost my dad 4 years ago but tbh he has always tried to throw his weight around, even with my dad when he was alive. I hated seeing it. And he's clearly loving it now.

Mum was super independent until Covid and now she barely gets into the garden without my DB having an opinion on whether it's safe or not. He's gone so extreme and nasty, and my main concern is how and IF mum will bounce back from this, and why she's listening to him so vehemently! I can only think she's loving being wrapped in cotton wool and isn't seeing the bigger picture of how she'll emerge from this?

DB is a smart guy, but he talks about Covid like it's the plague and it'll leap on her if she steps foot outside. And she flat out refuses to watch the news or the updates from Boris, stating that my DB knows best. I apparently don't want what's best for her, and he does. It's really quite sad.

I'm amazed how many really quite intelligent, healthy people I know are acting like this is the black death. (In contrast, my actually very vulnerable shielding friend, while he is shielding pretty carefully, is being much less apocalyptic about it all.)

Piccadilly I just don't understand him. Aside from mum's age she's not vulnerable or shielding, he's late thirties and fit as a lop, girlfriend is mid twenties and equally healthy. Of course there's a risk but there's a risk to everyone really, and completely halting their lives and mums is ott.

I asked mum when she thinks it'll be safe for her and she said 'when there's a vaccine.' This is a woman who lived in a world where polio, smallpox, whooping cough and other beasties had no vaccine available yet, but she went to school and work and lived with that risk until vaccines were created. And these were illnesses that struck down all age groups - healthy or otherwise - really badly, kids in particular! I understand she's 80 and perhaps has more fear now than when she was younger, but my friends' parents are late eighties and just booked a holiday and his DF has been shielding due to cancer.

Meh. It just makes me sad that she thinks I don't have her best interests at heart. I'm obviously wanting her to catch Covid by suggesting my DC and I sit out in her back garden for a cuppa and a proper catch up. When I mentioned it she said that my DB wouldn't like that! We're clearly extremely contagious 🤷🏻‍♀️

I wonder how much is risk and how much he's setting himself to be the reliable one, the one who cares, the one who's opinion should be listened to.. and then extrapolate that to other things like finances or inheritance.

I know I sound very cynical, and your DB might be lovely but I'd keep an eye on it.

Then again mum's MIL and SIL stole my parents' wedding money and went shopping in the city capital, so I'm slightly biased.

Big question time, the thread has slowed down quite a bit which hopefully we're all slowly getting back to normal 1.0 . Should I make a new thread? I'm happy either way .

Heck yes if you want to Princess its nice to catch up even if at a slower pace. and we need something to keep us sane when the 2nd wave hits next week or month or the 12th of Never whatever is stated as a 'fact' today

Here it is. Kept my promise and it's all about Trev.. and his clipboard.

I licked Trev's clipboard and I liked it www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/3950262-i-licked-trev-s-clipboard-and-i-liked-it

Princess he and his gf live with my mum in what was the family home, and are keeps referring to it as his house now, so it would seem to me that should anything happen to mum he'll just carry on living there because he looked after her general welfare during the pandemic. Honestly whatever, my main worry is her mental health.

See you all on the new thread!