Bonny lasses assemble for the North East support thread 2!

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Shiny new thread for all your north east needs.

Hello 👋

There's an air ambulance fund raiser set up by the little girls mother if anyone is interested which can be found on Facebook.

@NeurotrashWarrior I saw that too

www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/health/coronavirus/14-northumberland-wards-most-positive-covid-19-cases-2982839?page=4

I haven't read the full new thread but spotted this today, I was shocked at the local rates. Do we not need to be in a stricter lockdown?

What's the crack with Hebburn on PickAChews picture!

Rates in Hebburn have been pretty high for the past week but have shot up in the latest figures. Bloody social clubs not helping, again www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-54256245

[quote PickAChew]Anyone fancy clubbing together for Crook Hall? Only 1.8 million
www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-85107937.html[/quote]
I got married here. Visited a lot too. Beautiful place. Absolutely devastated it closed. Hope whoever buys it opens it up to the public so I can visit again

Talking to a friend who has children at another local school, there's much less compliance and willingness to wear masks among parents on their school grounds than at my son's school.

It's interesting that many parents are hcps at my son's and so all wearing masks readily.

My DGCs' school sent out a note about mask wearing, but my son in law says that now people are wearing masks they are standing closer together. Can't win.

Just checking in from west Gateshead but work very central. Had a lovely encounter with a young lad at 7.30am Friday, shouting at everyone calling them cunts and Covid is just a hoax sticking his phone camera in peoples faces he passed. Luckily not a lot of people out. The things I have seen from my office window over the last six months has been quite disheartening to be honest.

@gingeristhenewblack43
I. Hope they don’t shut maccy ds.
My grandson needs the money
He’s having to self isolate from college as two mates have tested positive and SI from macdonalds as well where he works
Although he did di very well from the furlough scheme for being sat on his sofa

Anyone in local lockdown.
Can you give me a heads up about what it is like and how it differs from national lockdown please
🤞Hoping that it is different

@Dowser main difference as far as I can see is you can’t meet with other households at all, indoors or outdoors. Stricter than the rule of 6.

I’m hooked on this sky cam

www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam/espana/canarias/santa-cruz-de-tenerife/playa-los-cristianos.html

So pubs and businesses open as usual then

Yep, they're the same as elsewhere. I have a feeling we'll be seeing more measures such as a travel ban, shortly, though.

Oh the family of that poor little girl
Life is just too cruel
Plus they will have had to endure what we’ve all endured through lockdown..only leading half a life..then have had her little life taken away.
I hope every shouting for stricter lock down reads this and realises-her little life was taken before it began and it was cruel to subject children to what We subjected them to.

But they won’t.

@PickAChew I agree, numbers are still rising. Other measures will be brought in to try and get a grip on it.

Some of my friends are ignoring the not meeting up with other households. It's really hard to bite my tongue before I fall out with people.

I'm trying to tempt DD8 with a walk around Northumberlandia this afternoon. She's not keen 🙄 but with WFH I feel like the only time I leave the house is to take her to school or to do the food shop.

Oh, I visited Northumberlandia with DS1 a couple of years ago. We didn't stay long. He had an epic meltdown and I ended up chasing him along the road to the bus stop where he sat for over half an hour while I got increasingly cold and fed up. I'm not a religious sort but it was a suspiciously fortuitous coincidence that I spied a couple of coins jammed into the frame of the bus shelter. He was into coins long before he was into buses and loves a found coin, especially if it's damaged in some way. It was just the distraction he needed to break out of his funk and enable him to get on the bus back to civilisation (and some toilets!)

We haven't tried again!

See I thought we couldn't meet up with other households in public but apparently it's just advisory?

Afternoon all hope we are all doing well. Not much going on here today, got an email from Track and Trace telling me to download their App, Covid Messenger saw a huge jump from yesterday for Darlington, they are now receiving enhanced Government support, which I don't know what considering my eldest has been unable to get a test for a week and unable to get a GP appointment for his chest. Shocking but can anyone say we are surprised?
On a happier note, looking forward to watching Little Mix The Search again tonight, loved Zeekay performance last night, that young lad can sing and dance!

[quote LittleRa]Horrific news story from Gosforth Park First School, if anyone is in the area or knows the school

www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/tragedy-six-year-old-girl-19003102[/quote]

Only just reading up on thread, my god this is heartbreaking, poor little girl, 6, oh my this is just so so sad.

@juneybean

See I thought we couldn't meet up with other households in public but apparently it's just advisory?

It is, along with avoiding public transport. Though, despite being an habitual bus basher, I've been avoiding them since I got the novelty of Ds2 being back at school out of my system.

I lost the thread so just checking in! I love North East traffic cams. I started looking at them one time it was really snowy I think winter 2017 perhaps. Now just lokk randomly. It was a great way to check on the world in lockdown.

The story about the little girl in Gosforth is tragic. I actually had a nightmare about it as I heard it on the news just before bed. Poor family and all the community.

It's my partner's birthday so we went for a half at the Cumberland. We were the only ones there. They are just doing outside seating and have quite strict rules. I'm not sure I'd go aiang soon but it felt sad to do nothing for his birthday.

@Dowser yeah basically the main diff is not being able to visit other households or socialise in pups, restaurants etc with other households. So all of the non essential shops are open. As ar pubs, cafes and restaurants.

They did try to stop family child care. But obviously a lot of people rely on this to be able to work and there isn't capacity in the system for everyone to just find additional paid for childcare even if they had the money.

Mr ds birthday was in early lockdown in April. In fact I don’t think restrictions had been lifted.
It was 7 degrees and I took him to a country park, it was just the boost he needed and probably there were about 5 other people there.
It was lovely to see the wild bird life..in fact I quite envied them going them about there business.