Tiers Of A Clown

[Bytheloch]

Thread #3456

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

Endless entertainment from the 72 hour rule recently. This is apparently why we can't have homework jotters and why DD3 had to bring in her Christmas jumper 3 days early.

Puzzled as to why I don't have to quarantine DD3, her coat, shoes and schoolbag for 72 hours every day after she comes home. Public Health Officials clearly do not inhabit the same Universe as the rest of us.

DD2 reading about the cat and the hairbrush over my shoulder. DD3 has pinched her hairbrush. It is now way past 72 hours and I have even washed it. I may have to buy DD2 a new one (I would, except she would shout at me for getting the wrong one / implying she should brush her hair more often). Our High Street is also full of hairdressers and nail bars so we must also be up there in the ugly stakes. Now I can put my hairdresser phobia down to being naturally less in need of professional help (rather than beyond it).

NotAnActualSheep must be really difficult to deal with boys' hair atm. DH has masses of thick hair but he just gets DD2 to clip it with the home kit every 8 weeks or so and because he is so dark it looks fine. Different proposition for wee ones.

I haven't had my hair cut for a year! It's one of by lockdown entertainments seeing how long it can get. It started as an economy drive, the mobile hairdresser I've used for nearly 20 years kept putting her prices up and giving me nice but rather staid haircuts and I couldn't face finding someone else. I've decided to just have hair rather than a hairstyle.

Great to hear they last several weeks. I guess part of the shop bought thing also means they know it's been made to hygiene standards. TBH I wouldn't even know where to find a local baker and I don't exactly live in a small town.

I've had. 1 haircut this year and I've stopped dying my hair i have gone ferel

Yes, I'm doing hair rather than a style too. It does look better shorter than it is now, but given my limited social/ professional life, and the fact that I can't be arsed with all the masks and faff at the hairdressers, I haven't had it cut since August, I think. DS has never been able to cope with clippers. It's the vibration and noise on his head I think. So he's always been on the shaggier side, and decided he wanted long hair even before lockdown. But it's getting to the stage where he needs to brush it more/ better than he does, and he refuses to tie it back or anything, so it is getting to be more of a battle than I'd like. Though it does look quite cool when calmed down a bit, to be fair. I thought boy hair would be easy, but I have to say I'm glad I'm not having to manage anything with scissors.

Biking if nursery are quarantining cake I’d be surprised if they’re happy to cut up communal food. Maybe a pack of buns/cupcakes would work?

DH buzzes his (little ) hair, everyone else here has hair past their shoulders. I occasionally trim DS’s & DD2’s DD1 refuses all haircuts always. I cut about 6 inches off mine when it annoys me

It’s still dark here. Such grimness. Scaremongering 2.0 appears to be working, I’ve heard of two friends now not even meeting parents outside for a walk🤷‍♀️.

The virus isn’t going anywhere soon, it’s a virus. Christmas is effectively cancelled, with guilt laden headlines shouting at those who are daring to have some human contact. There’s no chance of living tier-free in 2021.

Meantime, the Brexit process hasn’t been halted. No sign of the May election being cancelled. Interesting isn’t it?

My Christmas wish is that ALL
back covering, avoiding future legal cases politicians are no longer managing the covid crisis in 2021. Bring in advisory groups, a strategy for the UK, even some project managers ffs. Anyone but politicians, bar a minister for Covid, if you really must, but please do the right thing before we have a full breakdown of society.

I stopped dying mine years ago it's very liberating. I only get mine cut about every 6 months to a year anyway and I had it done in September so I'm good until the summer hols if such things will be available then. My hair is very "easy" though. Completely straight and fine but lots of it so it looks medium thick, get it cut into a short bob, no fringe, little layer at the front and bottom and it just grows into a longer version and then I get it cut right back again.

It is liberating im embracing my grey my mum is horrified but im not arsed.

I think it depends on the shade of grey too, I love some of the steel greys and the pale white ones, mine is okay, looks like streaky blondy grey though I was a brunette before. I've been asked if it's dyed this colour which I'm presuming is a compliment.

I dont dye mine, its still the original chestnut at the front but is going grey at the back, it looks quite "young" at the front but I suspect I look more Mary Beard from the back. My hair had always been quite bushy and hard to control and weirdly it's getting curlier with age, its just easier if it's long enough to tie back or up, if it's short I wake up looking like Oor Wullie!

not posted on here for a few days. Is NS going to come on her briefing and say we can't have Christmas after all?

Yes it's a compliment . Im dark and it's silvery so it doesn't look awful I'm just going with. It.

I don't think she will out right say don't mix at Christmas but send Jason leitch out to say it isn't wise etc. Folk will go to family if it's permitted or not so she won't want to say No out loud.

Honestly, apart from when it's growing out dye, I've never seen anyone with grey and thought it should be dyed, I transitioned mine with a set of blond highlights and the just carried on with nothing after that. A work colleague shaved her head for charity and cut out the middle stage completely.

Yes I can't see they'll do a no formally at this stage, it's like the October holidays, they're just trying to do everything short of unenforceable bans to discourage.

As for changes to Christmas. I think they are on a hiding to nothing. People have decided if they are mixing or not, plans made, food bought etc. Vast majority will continue with existing plans. They'll just make people feel even more shite about it.

I'm guessing the original strategy was to have the whole country united in the covid battle and making Scotland different so we'd be part of one team and ripe for the election to vote as one for our esteemed leader who brought as all together and sailed a wise ship through stormy waters.

More divided than ever now.

I was blonde back in March, let it grow out and my natural brown in then snipped the blonde off myself so I have my natural hair colour for the first time in about 15 years. The odd grey in there but oh well.

They'll just make people feel even more shite about it. Entire ScotGov communication strategy summary

@Gibbonsgibbonsgibbons

They'll just make people feel even more shite about it. Entire ScotGov communication strategy summary

Ha!! Precisely! I did laugh at the reports that the governments are going to "strengthen the messaging" around meeting. I'm just not sure that's possible up here. We've had nothing but "this is so obviously really, really stupid, but if you're weak enough to want to meet others we're not actually going to stop you. But we will say 'I told you so' when all your relatives die horribly..." for weeks. How can they step that up?

How can they step that up?

Threats of plagues of boils and locusts and snatching of new born children? Kidnapping santa? spontaneous combustion of trees? Salmonella filled turkeys of greater than a four person size? Drinking in the home to be banned? Shutting of supermarkets and cancelling of all orders?

Banning crackers any bigger than regulation size and a nationwide gravy boat shortage?

I actually think she might ban it to look after us all