Howay the lasses - it's thread (but hopefully not tier) 3!

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Haway if you're in Sunderland, of course

I hope he had a good Birthday @PickAChew

So is the metrocentre open tomorrow then?

Pretty decent considering he doesn't do birthdays, @shitfuckoh

Metro centre is open
Metrocentre reopens non-essential shops this week - full list of opening hours

www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/metrocentre-reopens-non-essential-shops-19374852#ICID=Android_ChronicleNewsApp_AppShare

Anyone going to visit 24 hours Primark, I would definitely visit maybe 10 o’clock. Someone said metro centre will be open.
Went to Arnison centre tonight, pleasantly busy. Wonder if Durham will be busy tomorrow. I want to see the Christmas tree in the market place. This will be the first year I won’t be going to the Christmas festive market.
Anyway hope everyone is still well.

I'm toying with wlking into Durham, tomorrow. The forecast for Friday is pretty disgusting and I need a leg stretch.

I'm not in a hurry to visit primark.

Anyone NE had a test lately? Just wondering how quick results are coming though. Had DD tested this morning due to cough

We got ours from a postal test the next day, a couple of weeks ago.

A friends test was carried out around lunch time and they had the result around 6:30am the following morning I believe.

Thanks both. That sounds hopeful for a speedy result. Last time we waited 5 days !

I’m going shopping today, even though the weather is awful. Let’s see how busy the city centre is

I got as far as bringing the bins in and decided against it.

Oh my god ...did anyone see the queue last night for primark at the metro ?
Absolutely ridiculous
It went all the way to the car park

I did @somethinginyoureyes it must have taken hours to get in!!

ScoobySnacker, my DH is one of the volunteers for the Oxford Vaccine and has to do a swab test every week. It catches the 5.00 pm postal collection on Monday - this week he had the text confirming he was negative before 2.00 on Tuesday afternoon. Amazing.

That's a pretty good turnaround @NUFC69. It seems things are getting better. Last time it took a while to even get a test slot. This time it took about 2 mins!! Sounds like the results times are improved too

I have just brought home 12 weeks worth of lateral flow tests to try to catch asymptomatic NHS staff before they infect their teams. Joy of sticking a thin cotton bud up my nose twice a week 😪. I had antibodies in June too but has to be done I suppose. At least the vaccine is enroute

As I have done for the past 5 days I intended to go to the Arnison today.

Didn't happen again.

Probably best to leave it a few days, anyhow. It was busy enough on Tuesday!

I've reserved a time slot for my markses shop, next week. You can, so I did. Even with the newly reopened shops, we've not had the normal December traffic past our house, mind. Usually, in December, you can forget trying to cross the road from about 8am to 6pm.

DDs test came back negative just after midnight. Pretty impressed with the turnaround time she only tested at 10am yesterday!

Arnison centre was quite busy yesterday afternoon. The weather is awful, but no snow so I’m happy. County Durham cases are definitely dropping.
Was going to feed the swans at the park, but is too wet now.

It's disgusting today. I've been no further than greggs!

Soaked 3 times today, not impressed!

DS1 is happy to be seeing his friends on Monday, a bit of a ''unlikely to reopen'' followed quickly by ''hoping to'' - It's been left as that along with ''looking forward to seeing him Monday'' so hopefully, all being well, back to school for him on Monday. I'll miss him but not the constant chatter

Went to Newcastle today - absolutely chaos. I ended up leaving as it was far too busy in every shop and no social distancing in place.

Hope everyone's ok this weekend!

Made it to Arnison Sainsbury's. Got most of what I wanted, except there were no parsnips. I even avoided the rain!

I may have accidentally bought a jumper, a t-shirt, and some socks.

Was it @Someaddedsugar? I thought the weather might have put people off. My plan is to go Monday or Tuesday, I would prefer to leave it another week or so to let things quieten off but DS3 is only just going back to nursery after 3 weeks and I'm worried either his or other dc bubble will close before I get to go!

Just had confirmation Theatre Royal are cancelling panto which is a shame but understandable.