Good News Part 10 - the picnic blanket of hope and good company

[InterfectoremVulpes]

Welcome to the new thread! I will copy over links from the previous thread soon.

Please note, this is a thread to share good news and for wobblers to be reassured. Doomploppers will be met with scorn and derision!

Haha at the murky murkers label.

Good to see transmission news in media this morning.

Very happy to see the efficacy and the transmission updates. Even more positive for schools to be back. I think the NI problem is about hospital capacity - they have far less beds, imo why they’ve extended lockdown.

On the issue of surface transmission, I read this about a week ago. It's specifically looking at sports equipment but says the risk is low.

www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/health-56007908

Something randomly positive to come from Covid restrictions. In our small village, with no shops, some enterprising locals have arranged for mobile vans to come and park at the village green, and open for business on a Friday. Last week we had a fishmonger, today we have a bakery. Just off to see what's available. Will let you know.

@BigWoollyJumpers
That's lovely. We're stuck in suburbia and plenty of stuff around if want to get it but no real sense of community like you can get in a village.

BigWoollyJumpers isn't it great when that happens? We've had tapas and pizzas in our village. (Can't wait to be let out of shielding to have the pizza, you can keep tapas!)

I'm having a slight personal wobble today, as tomorrow is vaccine day. Just have a feeling I might feel ill with it (based on previous vaccine experience) and I'm not looking forward to that. Send vibes (and chocolate bunnies) please! Oh...I really REALLY want the vaccine, don't get me wrong on that one...!

@CornishYarg that’s actually really helpful, thank you

ONS are reporting 95% of 70+ have reported they've received at least one dose of vaccine

I’ll order extra chocolate on my food order @FuzzyPuffling
Take some paracetamol post dose for next 48 hours maybe ?

Blimey - he's due to be there all day, but sold out already! Talk about pent up demand, it's not cheap stuff either, all Artisan. Got last loaf of sourdough, but all the Focaccia and other interesting tarts and random stuff gone. Will have to get out of bed earlier next week.

Fuzzy
I'm having a slight personal wobble today, as tomorrow is vaccine day. Just have a feeling I might feel ill with it (based on previous vaccine experience)

I felt the same as had a bad reaction to the flu vac years ago which put me off having any more.
But very mild side effects after the covid jab, just woke a headache and temp of 38C the next morning which Panadol sorted, a bit tired for the next couple of days then back to normal.

@fuzzypuffling I had my vaccine Wednesday afternoon and felt rough yesterday, but woke up absolutely fine this morning. Probably worth planning not to do much the day after and see how it goes? I'll take the vaccine aftermath any day over Covid.

Glad to see all the positive stories on this thread - toddler DD has had to come home from nursery this morning due to a positive case in her room, and we're waiting to hear if she had to isolate so I'm feeling a bit anxious at present.

FuzzyPuffling - DH had his jab yesterday and was fine all day. He was restless in the night and shivery and got up to put extra layers on. Slept in this morning too and says he feels tired. Apart from that, no problems - he says he didn't even know it was done!

Looks like all Sunday in bed for me then

Cheers lovelies. I think my issues are that I have an autoimmune condition which means my immune system vastly over reacts to all drugs/ vaccines etc, and a kidney condition.which means I can't take anti inflammatories. Bit of a double whammy!

I am looking out my big girl pants now. And may make therapeutic chocolate chip shortbread this afternoon
Just in case!

Hi everyone I'm struggling big time today. I know this isn't good news but I just wanted to share in a positive place. I'm a single mum with a toddler and I'm feeling myself starting to snap more and more and more and I don't know how much more of this I can take. I wrote to my mp last autumn to stress how much this is affecting new mums with all of the support stripped away from us and he basically fobbed me off and told me to go to the doctor for post partum depression and made out that there were still services being offered when there weren't. Anyway I get counselling on zoom once a week but the stage I'm at with my daughter I'm just going insane and I have so much old trauma coming up triggered by her tantrums and behaviour and feeling so out of control with having nowhere to take her to sit and talk to adults and let her play. I really really am desperate to just be in a support group or anything and let some of this trauma go. Even the counselling doesn't help that much because of it being on the phone and not feeling like I'm actually connecting or leaving the truama somewhere like when you go to an actual office. The isolation is fueling everything and I'm getting really dark thoughts and angry and feeling like a failure because I keep spending all my savings on just trying to get through this time with take aways and whatever I can to bring some kind of entertainment into our lives. I'm just really really struggling mentally. Have sat in bed whilst she is in nursery and don't know how I'm going to keep going with thinking of another dinner to prep.

welikebeingcosy I'm sorry to hear you're feeling so low and that counselling isn't helping as much as you had hoped. You're quite right in your feeling that you don't have a place to "leave" the bad feelings.
I don't have a magic wand ( I wish) but hang on for the positivity here and be reassured that this will not be forever.
Are you managing to get out every day for a bit of exercise? It's important if you can manage it, for both physical and mental health and might wear your toddler out a bit. And the weather should improve soon.
It's ok to feel grotty. I repeat, this is not forever. It will get better.

welike I'm listening. It is hard - I have a 2 year old so I get how hard they are to look after when there's nowhere to escape to that you haven't already done eleven million times.

Even though my daughter goes to nursery 3 days a week she still needs things to do on the other 4 days.

Oh Welike, massive hugs.
The first thing to remember is, it’s not you, it’s the situation.
The second thing is, it will get better. We are on the way out. They are jabbing people at a rate of knots, sometimes half a million a day.

Re blaming yourself for spending your savings, I think you are doing exactly the right thing in spending money to keep your head above water- keeping you alive is ultimately what it’s for. The chancellor Rishi Sunak is spending up the nation’s savings too, but nobody is saying that makes him a failure- it’s what you have to do to keep going on a national or personal level. Everyone is going to come out of this with depleted reserves in some way, that’s the nature of a crisis.
Just hang on in there and keep going a day at a time x

Thanks guys. Yeah we get out every day but it feels like the more we get out the harder it gets. Today's despair was triggered by going to the park and her not wanting to leave when it was time to go. She screamed all the way home and I actually had to drag her at some points and the mistake was in not taking the buggy because I had wanted to let her walk and mix it up a bit as there's so few options for her right now. But yeah I do need to probably spend more of the day being out in general and maybe take a packed lunch and be okay with buying more food out so we don't always have to come back home and start ww3. It's just really grey and grotty where I live so I don't like being out and again I'm scared of losing all my savings to grabbing food on the go. I felt good at the weekend because the weather warmed up a bit then today it's gone so cold again. We just got a dog which has taken a lot of the edge off the loneliness but now I just feel for the poor thing having to listen to her tantrums. I know my DD is just fed up more than anything and acting out because her social needs aren't being met but it's still so tough and I still feel so guilty all the time especially that I can't explain it to her. It feels worse because we moved back from.the USA just before the pandemic. Hot sunny Florida where their lockdown has been non existent and I feel sooo bad for bringing her away from all the freedom of there.

Yeah you're right @TheCountessofFitzdotterel that's the way I need to look at it. I have to see it as my crutch for something so unexpected and that we will get out of it and more money will come along. Maybe I'm going to look at my savings as my pandemic allowance and try to enjoy thinking of ways to enjoy it everyday. I'll make little things to do like going and buying an ice cream or getting us a toddler friendly skate board or something. I had just planned to use it to move back to the better weather this year but I guess it's about learning to be completely okay with going with the flow and accepting this and embracing the Great British weather somehow. I always try and look at how excited she is to get outside and think that well if grey clouds don't bother her why do they bother me?

Spend a bit on good rainwear and wellington boots for you both.

Welikebeingcosy - I'm so sorry you're finding things tough at the moment. Spring isn't far off - things will get better.

‘. Maybe I'm going to look at my savings as my pandemic allowance and try to enjoy thinking of ways to enjoy it everyday. I'll make little things to do like going and buying an ice cream or getting us a toddler friendly skate board or something.‘

I think that’s a brilliant idea.

Thought we needed another gratuitous picture of an easy-on-the-eye young man getting vaccinated.... apparently they’re offering a free drink with your vaccine in Tel Aviv 🤣

@Welikebeingcosy I feel you

I have a 3 YO and 6 month old. Neither in nursery yet so it's just me and them all day most of the time (DH works shifts) and I've long ran out of ways to entertain the toddler and I'm also a lot snappier 😩 it makes me feel soo guilty too and I feel so sorry for him because his whole world has been ripped out from under him (pre Covid we were at groups/softplay etc pretty much every day)

I'm just trying to ride the waves knowing that better times ARE coming! We will get there and we have this lovely group to get there together ❤️