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Morning all.

@ikswobel I did wonder whether there were other party training colleges, but when I googled it just came up with China 😂.

It’s not a surprise the Tory one can’t be found!

Well if it is the SNP training perhaps the Scottish Usforthem folks for once have the right idea of boycotting online learning .

@WouldBeGood that conservative page is true comedy gold.
The SNP college looks mince but it's the kind of thing some folk like, do courses, get badges. Personally not for me but loads of professional / HR/ corporate training is like this too. It's probably about 5p to run it so maybe why it's popular?

@ikswobel yes, it’s not inspiring confidence in an opposition!

The snp one is a bit cult like though.

Elderly relative has conceded that perhaps the younger relative shouldn't stay with them on the way back to their East Coast home.
However there's a bit of tech for one of the DCs at ER's house and other younger relative who is already in the area of ER is driving back to Galloway tomorrow (as is legal - visiting a different ER).
I am firmly saying NO the Galloway branch does NOT want to (nor would they be allowed to) meet the East Coast branch in Glasgow to hand it over. No no and a thousand times no. All the nopes.

Glad to hear that @drspouse good work!

omg, snp learning. brainwashing more like.

My DF was discussing the lack of an effective opposition the other day. He says bring back Wendy Alexander.

Bytheloch
Maybe this is the online blended learning the kids are doing from the 11th? 🤔

A friend who works in a supermarket told me one of her colleagues served a customer yesterday who openly announced that she hadn’t seen her daughter/grandkids this year and there was no point in them travelling up from down south for one day so they would be staying for the week! 🙄🤦🏻‍♀️

That’s just one example, how many will be/are already doing the same.
Really makes me doubt why I bother following the rules.

Kinda disappointed it seems to be Member only restricted. I like my Independence so I can snipe at them all equally.

Not a huge fan of Wendy after she tried out her patter on me in the street once. Not fast enough on her feet if when I dissected her. Trust SNP College is addressing forensic interrogation from irritated middle aged Mums trying to get their shopping done in peace.

Do think Douglas and a few others losing their WM seats was a huge loss of influence and expertise though (in terms of Labour and Scotland as a whole).

Yeah even if i campaigned or voted for a party for one manifesto, I'd struggled to believe that much to become a party member. I was briefly a Labour member after mostly voting for them but I just don't have faith in politicians that much and all parties act strangely on some issues.

I liked the lib dems last general election and then they went all out for a crazy expansion of nursery provision i couldn't see was the best use of money, and the greens have recently hounded out Wightman in Holyroyd which is miserable.

I do love the grilling by annoyed middle aged mums, that's spot on.

@runningpink I think that might be quite unusual. We cancelled our plans to go South when it was banned and DPs don't want to see us just in case, and everyone else I know had no plans anyway.

@rookiemere I really hope so.

I think up to April will be a bumpy ride no matter what happens over Christmas and New Year. I'm just trying to hunker down and get through it as best I can and not worry about what others do - although it's taking every ounce of my self control not to post something sarcastic to a FB friend who earlier in the year was telling all the plebs at Portobello beach to stay the F at home, but sees no cognitive dissonance of posting pictures of his luxury Canarian break he is currently on. For the avoidance of doubt it's not so much the going away I disapprove of as the hypocrisy.

I know loads of people who aren't seeing anyone tomorrow or are doing a drive-by present exchange outdoors, when they would usually be indoors for hours in groups of 10-20 (grandparents, multiple grown up children and then grandchildren), so I would say the majority are abiding by the rules.

We're doing outdoors for brunch with a family member travelling from Glasgow and then doing dinner indoors with 1 other family household that's local.

@rookiemere it's funny as the only person this year I've heard admit to any rule bending is the same - someone lecturing on Facebook so relentlessly about all of the various covid rules I had to snooze them several times. Nobody else I know is doing much!

Yep, I've had to use the mute button on a few. But lately most I know irl are muddling along as best we can and trying our best while cutting everyone else a bit of slack.

Everyone I know is sticking to the rules about travelling. I know a few people with family locally who are being less strict. My friend is a single parent, she and her son are going to her brother's along with their mum and her brother's mother in law, as an example. But they seem to see each other in cafes and all all the time anyway.

We're travelling to have dinner with my parents. Not seeing any other family like we usually would.

Will be glad when it's over and we can stop being all fake cheery and just dig in for January.

An outdoor brunch is very brave! My block of flats is mostly singles or professional couples and usually empties out, but I’d say that vast majority are home. I think people genuinely are being cautious.

Awkward... ;)

That’s reassuring to hear so many people appear to be staying home. Thank you! Like you all I’m just fed up I guess.

I only know 1 family that are going somewhere/bubbling for Christmas day and that's because her DM was widowed recently so staying on her own on her first Christmas would be cruel and detrimental to her mental health. The family took their only school age child out of school early and are home workers and have had deliveries of shopping/click and collect so have minimised their own risk. Everyone else I know is pretty much just having a quiet one in their own homes and if they aren't they are keeping it quiet.

Most of the families locally that are getting together are childcare/ care bubbles anyway - if you're doing childcare 3 days a week for a 5 year old you're hardly introducing new germs!

I think up to April will be a bumpy ride no matter what happens over Christmas and New Year.

This will great big bells. We are in for a very rough winter. I'm praying that by Easter thing should settle down, with the vaccine roll out and the better weather, reducing the virus.

My mum is desperate to make use of the bubble window my sis whos her support bubble is trying to deter her. My heads burst with the two of them.
I think they are both slowly realising this is it until Easter.

Saw this on Facebook earlier... If the SNP wrote prescriptions?