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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.

Sometimes I could kiss the DPD man

I hit peak DPD the other day- three separate vans came in one day. Too much online shopping

Respect @StatisticallyChallenged

@WouldBeGood

I’ll take any old shit of they let me out. 😂

Resounding yes to this

Today is my birthday and me and DH were supposed to be staying at the Witchery right now. It would have been our first night away just the pair of us since DS was born 3 years ago. I was so excited at the thought of going out for a nice meal and going to the National Portrait Gallery instead of the dinosaur bit in the National Museum (which is great but...).

So today we drove out of tier 4 riddled Glasgow and spent an hour on a beach with the wee one. It was bloody lovely and I feel it’s blown away some cobwebs. We weren’t within 10 feet of anyone else, didn’t go to any shops or touch anything but shells and stones. It seemed completely mental to me that we were breaking the law.

@AgentCooper happy birthday!

So rubbish to miss out on your nice trip. But I’m glad you got a run out, at least

Thank you @WouldBeGood

@WaxOnFeckOff sorry if I’ve missed it, but any news on Mr Wax? Hope he’s ok

Happy Birthday @AgentCooper. It really is rubbish. Out of 4 birthdays we've only managed to get out for a meal for 1.

@WouldBeGood, thanks for asking - I think I posted last night but now can't remember. Yes, he got out last night, arm is still the same but they'd treated it as dvt and Consultant re viewed the ultrasound and said he's 90-95% sure it is. They had him booked to stay in last night and have a CT this morning but agreed that he could go home last night and have the CT scan (without dye) as an outpatient. He's on a high dose of blood thinning tablets for 3 weeks and hopefully move to a lower dose for 6 months after that. He's going into work tomorrow . Slept a lot today and I gave him light chores to keep him active

he's to be very careful not to cut himself or bang anything and they said not to shave but at work he's only allowed to be clean shaven or have a beard - nothing in between so we'll see how that goes...

Agent Cooper Happy Birthday my youngest is in the Dino phase and I forgot about the dinos in the NMS. See when we manky folk are allowed to visit.

My family are all winter birthdays so just about to be hit with the whole issue. I'm just thinking maybe we will for once have birthday parties in the middle of summer...

Fingers crossed, @WaxOnFeckOff. Hope they get it sorted quickly

@Alittlewornout yes the student nurse in the car thing , we’ve been trying to figure out how I deep clean my car before I pick my dc up every day. Is this to be done in my time or NHS time of which there is no spare time in my day to do this

Exactly @giggly! We have said the very same thing. As they are our own cars I think we have the right to say no ( someone pointed this out to our manager). Besides the car thing the homes we visit at the minute you can't really socially distance so an extra person just compounds the situation.
But hey ho its typical of management ( who are all able to work from home with up to date IT).

Hope everyone is in Tartan Max today for St Andrew’s Day.

Re schools taking extended Xmas break I have written to my MSP and said if they decide to do this, they also need to make it clear that the February break should be no more than 2 days (i.e. a long weekend). As things stand in Edinburgh, kids would get 20 days at school after Xmas before being off again for over a week which is frankly ridiculous.

The feb holidays in Glasgow are already a day longer as that's where they put they day they took off summer.

I was taking the piss about St Andrew’s Day but our leader has addressed the nation.

I am not feeling remotely patriotic this St Andrew's Day. We've gone overboard for celebrating every possible celebration this year just to cheer us up, but I'm not feeling it today at all. What a shame, it's not Scotland's fault life is shit, or poor old St Andrew.

Maybe I'll nip out and buy a last minute haggis.

Certainly no patriotic feelings here for St Andrews day. Please don't tell me Queen Nic was in a kilt and the white stilettos 😬😎

I'm so fed up this Monday morning that I've eaten 3 kit kats. I had one, that didn't quite satisfy me so I had another one, then there was only one left in the packet so I figured I might as well eat that one too. Only 2 finger ones though, just in case you think I'm a glutton or anything.

Omg I hope not

@Rae36

I'm so fed up this Monday morning that I've eaten 3 kit kats. I had one, that didn't quite satisfy me so I had another one, then there was only one left in the packet so I figured I might as well eat that one too. Only 2 finger ones though, just in case you think I'm a glutton or anything.

I'm with you on this, I've opened the Christmas chocolate stash...

Sounds great. No point to leave a wee lonely kitkat

Me too. Kids will have nothing left for their stockings. Needs must

My youngest is home from school, a suspected covid case. I've eaten too much of the Christmas panettone after getting through a couple of work calls where I was interrupted every 5 minutes!

Oh dear I need to redo my resilience homework.

@littlbrowndog

Sounds great. No point to leave a wee lonely kitkat

omg spat out my coffee so funny