Tiers Of A Clown

[Bytheloch]

Thread #3456

Released from our dirty T4, but still bamboozled. Let’s keep each other sane on here...

Back to 2M cracker chat and questioning whether warmed up Irn Bru in travel mugs on illicit T3 to T3 expeditions could ever replace gluhwein and a mooch around a seriously overcrowded Christmas market?

I can't say I've ever tried warmed up Irn Bru. Would be interesting.

@Bikingbear

I can't say I've ever tried warmed up Irn Bru. Would be interesting.

Couple of cinnamon sticks in there, could be interesting?

(Not for you @WaxOnFeckOff with its warm factor)

Oh definitely not warm. The boys used to get hot squash at scout camp bleughhh.

So glad you got antibiotics yesterday wax. Given my pp about my big bro and his infected arm (also have experience from a couple of incidents with DC) I was sitting on my hands yesterday rather than lecturing.

Know of a few examples of parents being fobbed off and sent for a Covid test when the obvious symptoms of progressing chest infection etc are present. Extremely concerning given how quickly sepsis can progress. Please be persistent with 111 etc. if concerned.

Can confirm that original recipe irn bru tastes infinitely better warm and slightly flat washing down a poke of chips down the beach for preference. (I also prefer warm flat coke so this may be a niche view).

I know! I’m trying to stop mothering people online so I deleted a lot of my post 😂 please keep an eye on it!

So lovely to be reassured it's nit just me and I am in fact normal. All this social distancing etc has me left worrying we will all end up with absolutely no concern for anyone else.

I used to get warm lemonade when I was Ill was tasty . Mulled irn bru maybe not

Thanks all for your concern and advice. I really thought i#d happily fought it off yesterday but couldn't put off doing anything when it came back. Was hoping just to wait for GP opening on Monday. I know they are following their script etc but 111 is very frustrating and the focus is entirely on covid. As soon as they heard fever, then covid mode kicked in and they sent me the link to arrange a test and said covid nurse would call within 4 hours. However, an actual GP phoned back within the hour and was completely happy that the fever and elbow issue were linked. Just having a bite to eat and then will get my prescription collected :)

Flat lemonade is recommended for recovery from a sickness bug. DC would have that and salty crisps - always seemed to do the job .

I should mention after my moans about not being able to get dentist appointment and being loathed to pay for a hygienist for the LO. I phoned them up and said I'd pay for the hygienist. Then she puts me on hold, "the dentist will see him". Hes probably forgotten what the dentist is like. Hope it goes ok.

Aww I hope he gets on ok @Bikingbear DH looking forward to his appointment at new dentist tomorrow even if it in a different council area :o

I had to go to the dentist and had to take ebf DS2 with me. It was in an old building and up a narrow set of steps so I had to leave the pram downstairs and take him and his little sheepskin upstairs and i laid him down in the only free corner which was to the back of the chair. Young dentist starts doing the needful but keeps looking worriedly over my shoulder to where baby DS is. Eventually i'm able to ask if anything is wrong and she says she doesn't think so, she was just worried in case he crawled over to any equipment. He was 3 weeks old :o Start them early with the dentist!

Needs to be full sugar flat lemonade for the invalids. So frustrating to have everyone pushing fancy electrolyte medicines when it takes a full on expedition to track down full sugar anything these days (sorry, frustrations of going through the sicky toddler stage with a 10 year gap)

My lot all went to the dentist in their prams. We also have an assortment of dollies and teddies with a full check up record. DD1 very odd as finds the dentist reassuring. I am phobic so obvs have overcompensated in a good way.

We usually turned up as a family of 5. Dentist very grateful as gave him loads of extra time to sort his standard appointment overrun in the middle of the afternoon.

Oh yes, full sugar lemonade!

We also did family appointments, by that stage i'd got over my own phobio which had meant i didn't go at all for over 20 years! After all that time I needed 1 filling :)

Toddler years I found cheap ice poles or lollies invaluable. Nice to suck on when feeling ill and great for little bumps where i'd give them it as an ice pack that they could eat when they felt better. Funnily how quick they felt better.

Sweeties cure most ills in our house too. I am more measured in dispensing them than during my own upbringing. I had a mouth full of fillings by age 7. Hence the dentist phobia. None of my DC have fillings. I am also an absolute stickler for tooth brushing because I know how much I didn't brush my teeth when I was wee.

WBreezer I was all jealous about your trip to St A yesterday. Feeling slightly less so now. It is a 5 hour round trip for me without a toilet. DD1 is staying put and I do really miss her and the beach. However on balance it gives her and us a lot more freedom. When I went to visit during reading week I was already officially skanky (being in the GGCH area). She wouldn't take me to the coffee shop. Even going for a walk was problematic. Maintaining 2m distancing with someone who walks twice as quickly as you and knows their way around is "challenging". DD1 loves rules and order (at 2 she used to have tantrums at automatic doors opening themselves because it was Mummy's job to open heavy doors in case she caught her fingers). She now also has a killer sense of humour and copes with the ridiculousness of it all by literal enforcement at all opportunities. I absolutely love her to bits. I like a good rule myself (just not necessarily the same ones as her or Nicola).
The HH is much more laid back with DD1 away. DH, DD2 and DD3 are not fond of rules at all and largely ignore most of mine.

DSs now adults and never required any dental treatment other than sorting out a chipped front tooth. I had a childhood dentist who was very fond of an extraction so therefore where my phobia comes from too, add to that too much sugar and not enough childhood teethbrushing.

It;s a shame you are not all going to be together @Dinnafashyersel but sounds like it may result in more harmony :)

In the meantime, how am I meant to manage 4 times a day on an empty stomach! 2 hours after or an hour before food. Dh keeps saying things like "oh those nectarines are ready and delicious..." no snacking for a week it looks like.

I know DS1 went to the dentist about every 9 months from he was about a year old. I'm a nightmare for forgetting to actually book the appointments.
We were overdue appointments when lockdown hit. And its January is the first dates I could get.

DH, DS1 and I had appointments in October 2019, DS2 missed it as he was already away to Uni so his last appointment was April 2019. The plan was that he'd be home at easter for our April 20 appointment, which of course was cancelled and then no appointment again in Oct 20 and no prospect yet as we've just joined a new dentist so will be at back of the queue. Meaning that by the time we have a check up it could be 2 years since DS2 has been seen.

I’m really glad to read that you got some antibiotics wax (& over prescription is one of my bugbears!) hope you settle into a rhythm with the doses

Warm lemonade sounds grim to me & warm irnbru sounds like summer - finding a half can in the car & taking a gulp before you think

I’m so sick of bloody mud! I’m quite happy in rain but the ground is so waterlogged just now it’s really hard to find a decent walk that doesn’t require wading

I’m loving reading about kids coming home but I have to admit I hadn’t considered just how awkward the collection trips would be just now.

I’d just go with DP if it were me and stop where necessary. Road safety is pretty important 🤷🏻‍♀️

This is only the 2nd time in my adult life I've had antibiotics so I'm hoping that means they work superfast :o I think i have a generally good immune system which is why i was initially happy to let battle commence!

The mountain bike issue is one I am familiar with, DH is a walker and talks about it often..

Last year DS just came home on the train, it never really occurred to us to go and collect him or is it just that more people are collecting this year so that public transport can be avoided?

We aren't too bad, it's under 2.5 hours one way but DS2 has the car this year so will be driving himself home. Hoping for better weather next weekend.

Waxon I totally get it. We were probably due dentist this time last year, then I never got round to booking, between Christmas, a holiday, and LO getting injured needing an OP then the follow up appointments, then lockdown.
I reckon it must be 18mths since his last appointment which is a huge amount of time for a kid who just turned 4.

I definitely think more people are collecting students to avoid public transport.

Glad to hear you got some antibiotics Wax, hopefully you will be feeling much better soon

I definitely think more people are collecting students to avoid public transport.

That's good, i was wondering if that is yet another thing to add to my bad mum guilt pile :o

I think he is looking forward to the drive home, him and his girlfriend and the christmas tunes on the go. He thinks he might not really see her when they are home as I think her parents are more for sticking to the rules as one of them has been unwell and her siblings families are their bubble.

We aren't bubbled with anyone so wouldn't be at all concerned about her coming to ours so I've said that and then left it to them. They've been living together since August so a couple of weeks at most apart shouldn't kill them.

My DS loves the dentist, pretty much all down to having a choice of flavours for that lining thing (non technical term) that is applied to their teeth before school. He chose caramel, whilst I sat aghast at how trips to the dentist have changed since I was young. He loves a trip there, not had a check up since any grown up teeth came in though, as he lost the first back in March and 4 more subsequently. Tooth fairy has worked around lockdown and tier restrictions for cash, she’s a hero