Thread a naoi: heading toward year three

[JaneJeffer]

New thread as other is nearly full now.

We went for dinner. Lovely food, but I couldn't relax fully. Was happy to leave and head home- even though we told each other it could be our last night out for god knows how long. I was wary..
As a teacher I'm wary of going into school tomorrow too.

Me too halfpasteleven. I think it would have been smart to close. Don't like my daughter going in either.

Are primary kids wearing masks properly in schools? I work in retail, and they don't wear them in shops. I know at the start customers were discouraged from family shopping. I would quite like to return to click and collect

Hi everyone. Thank you very much for the new thread Jane.
I'm a bit nervous about the kids in school this week too. They love going in for these few days though - most enjoyable days of the year as far as they're concerned. Fingers crossed it'll be okay.
Mine go in to school with masks everyday anyway eggandonion. I hope they're wearing them properly while they're there. They put them on in shops too, not that they really go shopping these days. I rely on Tesco delivery a lot right now!

I really believe that there is a race of people who only emerge for the last 10 days before Christmas, and totally lack social skills and common sense. But the past couple of years they also like to cough a lot.
My kids, long past school age, are certain they would have been sent to school, and are equally sure which parents would have kept kids at home!

Does anyone else have to pay €30 to get a prescription renewed ?
They've emailed the prescription to my local pharmacy where i will pick it up.

Yes, I do too LadyEloise. That said, I rang the GP last week to get prescriptions renewed for three people in our family and was charged €30 in total for all of them. I know it's been €30 per person in the past though.

Yes i do, and the receptionist is very bossy about it! Also 35 euros for a blood pressure test for prescription renewal for that, but that's for 6 months.

@Ilikepalindromes

Me too halfpasteleven. I think it would have been smart to close. Don't like my daughter going in either.

Hope you got on ok today @Ilikepalindromes Glad to have it over- 1 down 1and a half to go!

I’d love to join in. I’m a displaced Dub. I got home once this year and was hoping my sister and BIL would make it here for Christmas. It’s unlikely now

They’ve both gotten boosters at the walk in at Citywest but travel is probably going to be impossible. The risk of quarantine when they get back to Dublin. I’m so sick of it.

Welcome to the thread LadyCampanulaTottington

I know. Traveling has gotten so complicated.

Hi, yes it's hard to travel. My friends are going to Birmingham , I don't think I would. Three weeks ago I would .

I definitely wouldn't travel outside the country atm. I was just saying to DH this evening that I'm so so glad we went away at Hallowe'en. That's probably going to be it for a good while.

Trying to remember when last I traveled outside the country.
I think it was to France in June 2019.
Absolutely ages ago.

I am planning to get the booster vaccine in the next few days. I think everyone is sick of covid and the rules. We are all just waiting to see what the new year brings. One of my friends decided not to go on holiday in Jan to Europe because they don't want to get COVID and be stuck abroad in isolation when they get better. I like to go abroad next year but I won't book with a anything until the summer for Sep/Oct travel but I am playing the wait and see game.
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Thanks @IsFuzzyBeagMise

We’ve booked our summer holiday but we didn’t book flights, we’re going to drive. Benefits of living on the continent.

Whereabouts are you? Im very nosey, and jealous! My husband watches travel programmes a lot now, and has dreams about being away.
I don't know where id like to go, I have got so used to not eating in restaurants, going to theatre and the like.
Maybe a spa resort in the Alps, something quiet but with people to watch.

Welcome @LadyCampanulaTottington I hope your family make it over to you, it's all the uncertainty that is so stressful for people isnt' it. My kids (primary & secondary) are in school until tomorrow, although they seem to be a very small cohort as lots of their friends finished on Friday (parents decided not to send them this week) DH and I both work ft so it was better for us that they go to school, not that they need 'minded' at home but they're up to 90 with Christmas excitement I don't think DH would get much work done trying to keep the peace between them!!

We are heading to in laws for Christmas and although I'm looking forward to it, I'm also worried about covid. We'll need to do antigen tests before we leave, we have done the few times we've visited recently, and I keep thinking wtf will we do if they're positive?! We'd have to stay home obviously, but we've got nothing in as I've been trying to use up what's in the fridge etc. We wouldn't be able to go to anyone else, or even get an online delivery (too late!) so we'd have to rely on family and friends to drop stuff to us. My head is full of what to bring/get/pack etc and then what we'd do if any of us tests positive - it's just more stress to deal with

Oh @LifeInAHamsterWheel, your nightmare is now my reality! I have been making my older 2 do daily antigen tests, DS1 had a very faint positive line on Sunday, took him for a PCR yesterday, and now we are all up the creek as it was a positive. He is asymptomatic and really fed up and I am trawling the HSE website trying to work out how the hell to salvage Christmas. We were expecting aunts, uncles and cousins and really looking forward to it.

We have enough food to do us for a few days, if I can't get a delivery I'll have to do a click and collect and ask a neighbour to collect for us.

We'll just have to make the best of it. Luckily dc are older, it would be much harder if they were little.

Oh god @chartreue that's such a pain. Thankfully your DS isn't ill, but still couldn't have happened at a worse time. I hope our tests are negative, keep everything crossed for us!!

I hope you get all your food stuff in, make the most of it - what else can you do now but eat and drink?!

Another thread, oh my Gosh. I'm going to walk in centre after work tomorrow for my booster.
A lot of Children missing from school here too, not a lot of our afterschoolers though. Covid is tearing through the school. I am terrified of getting it now and being stuck on my own for Christmas. This is the most worried I have ever been.
I will take another test before my booster.

The good news is we have lots of chocolate and rubbish I work to eat.

Can't believe Christmas is on Sat. Feeling a bit Meh about the whole thing

@chartreue & @LifeInAHamsterWheel
It's the uncertainty isn't it?
I hate not knowing where we will be on Saturday.. and the likelihood is we won't be able to call it until Saturday as that's when we will do the antigen tests.
Meant to be going to my parents but if we can't we have v little in to make a Christmas dinner for ourselves.. might have to go for some supplies just in case..
it's horrible. All the uncertainty is so unsettling.

Yes that's it exactly halfpast

If i had an end date, I would be ok even a long off date. Its the uncertainty of jabs, infections, figures, and nothing to plan for is exhausting. And its everywhere just now.

Nearly done with school. Last day tomorrow. Got my booster on Sunday.