Hogmanae

[rookiemere]

This is an ongoing thread for Scottish mumsnetters - or indeed non Scottish mumsnetters such as myself, to comment on ongoing covid matters pertinent to ourselves, in a hopefully not too partisan and friendly fashion.

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Hogmanay I'll be sharing it with Phil and Aly. Best program of the year.

Flocking over my disgusting germ laden Level (!) 4 ass

Illegally crossing thread boundary without a reasonable excuse to placemark. Thanks rookiemere.

Festively place-marking - should get some high level details soon!

Checking in, will need you all to keep me right as to what the bloody hell is going on.

Checking in, though haven't a clue what the thread is about never mind the wider world

checking in although just had a v bad moment at the end of the last thread with the chat about hugging mums (mine died last month) so might need to take the rest of the day off thinking about covid... can't even have a drink in a wee while cause i took advantage of that over the weekend!

PMK.
DD and her BF are, like us, in Level 4 (different one from us). Will they be able to visit his Mum, in England?
And visit us too? (that'll be a No)
My widowed brother usually goes to his (local) son on Christmas day and comes to us for New Year. He's in Level 2, so I can't see that happening either.
I will happily have Christmas dinner on any date, or even more than once but I'd be royally pissed off if we can't see family at all. We've been following the rules you know!

I despair at the current shop rules: are the supermarkets and other permitted shops not controlling entry these days? There's a pre-Christmas spike forming right there.... And you can guess what will happen next.

 for you @Sturmundcalm, I hope you're doing ok.

Puntastic new thread @rookiemere 👍🏼

Every time a new thread goes up, I still have to pinch myself-not in a good way- that this is all really happening. Hogmanay 2019 how silly we all were, we didn’t have a clue what we were drinking/dancing/sleeping/singing/hugging (delete as applicable) our way into...

@Sturmundcalm

Sturmundcalm I’m so sorry

I'm really sorry to hear that sturmundcalm This must be an extra hard time of year

I agree, bytheloch! Didn't predict any of this in my "what I'm going to do in 2020" list. And have to say, haven't got very far in that list...

@Sturmundcalm 🌸

Actually, I have to say the thought of a quiet Hogmanae is quite welcome.

We generally have friends and neighbours round, and whilst it's a great occasion it is a lot of work and quite costly. I'd been thinking for a few years that it's maybe time for a reset, so whilst this has been thrust on us, it's not a dreadful thing from my perspective.

Joining.

I discussed it with my immediate family and have decided that, with the exception of my sis who is single and child free this year, we won't be meeting up with family. We're going to plan a summer party instead.

Not having xmas nights out is the best thing about Covid. no more spending stupid money on a shitty meal with shitty colleagues.

NYE is shit too. Telly not as good as it used to be.

Sturmundcalm I'm so so sorry, it was me who mentioned hugging my DMum, I didn't mean to cause upset. I lost DDad a year ago, I understand how you feel

So sorry for your loss Sturmund. The loss of a parent is so difficult at the best of times.

Here in East Dunbartonshire I've just enjoyed lunch I bought from a shop in Glasgow. I sneaked in and out without passing any signs, which isn't an excuse of course and it's pretty obvious the west end of Glasgow is part of Glasgow. In my defence I found some food that I'm not intolerant to - I have so many food intolerances you wouldn't believe it - which I'm fairly sure is not currently on sale anywhere in East Dunbartonshire so I was going to class it as essential food shopping if questioned.

Bytheloch sometimes it's a good thing we can't see into the future. Let's hope for the best in 2020

Do you think a Christmas hug is really that dangerous? If you're having a right big hug then your faces are going to be over each others shoulders so you're not breathing in someone's face? And most hugs are less than a minute long surely. So is it any worse than breathing the same air in a smallish room across the table from each other for 90 minutes?

We're taking the kids out of school 7 days before Christmas Day, seeing my parents only, and giving them a hug.

So it looks as if Midlothian isn't going to be allowed into tier 2 tomorrow (East Lothian still is). It looks as if the 7 day per 100,000 rates, and % positive tests are now higher than Edinburgh's, so assuming SG want to claim some kind of logic to the levels, it couldn't be moved down as promised. But what a nightmare for the various hospitality venues who will presumably have bought in food and drink/ taken bookings for evening service, the leaders of group gym classes and so on. I know the SG says things need to change rapidly to respond to increasing levels, but really...? Give a week of hope and then take it away again at the last minute? If they went by the "actual" indicators, Midlothian would be within level 2 easily (apart from %positive cases which is around 5.6% rather than 5%) but those seem to have been discarded some time back.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm just really stupid.

Why would a government, advised by the best scientific minds, set out criteria for levels then completely ignore them? Why would you do that? Why go to all that effort then just do what you like anyway? Surely your clever advisors would say "Hang on folks, this might piss people off, maybe think again?"

It must be me that's thick because surely the government are not this stupid?