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Morning all.

@Dinnafashyersel

For NRS figures yes does include death cert wax. I tend not to look at other CoD but just focus on what is reported as Covid impact relative to what is "excess" over total 5 year average.

I've never looked before but just took a quick squiz at them earlier and that's what stood out to me but yes, I think your approach is sensible.

@anon444877 that's a good idea about spreading celebrations over 2 nights. DH not a fan of fizz and I can't drink a whole bottle myself. Although still think I'll keep the champagne - Waitrose no less - until I can drink it inside with friends.

Yes I'm not sure this year warrants the good stuff @rookiemere - love Waitrose champagne but similar problems with finishing the bottle - must get one of those saver corks for fizzy wine.

In a normal Jan/Feb deaths are elevated by about 20% so they are giving themselves headroom. Now vaccine being rolled out to nursing homes assume any post vaccine deaths will no longer be "assumed Covid".

Sorry finding it increasingly difficult to engage my SoH. Press all sensationalising 980 deaths reported today as "highest ever". This is pure fear mongering as figures by date of recording (as opposed to reporting) show barely any movement from 300 per day or 3,000 per week which per pp is double the actual level of excess death. The excess death rate is approaching 10% of what it was in Spring.

I once au paired for a French wine making family. It was an unpleasant experience for many reasons, but one thing I did learn was that putting a teaspoon in the top of a bottle of fizz allegedly keeps the fizziness. I just googled to see if thats myth or reality and apparently there is so merit in it www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/747549/spoon-in-Champagne-bottle
I can use tomorrow's for Aperol spritz anyway. I'll need some mind numbing from the multi family zoom quiz that is planned.

When I read about family zooms and family WhatsApps, it does make me glad mine and dh's parents have never mastered more than the FaceTime button, and that too somewhat unreliably!

I've noted the teaspoon trick. Cheers to scientists everywhere for the beginning of the end of this nightmare.

@Dinnafashyersel across the media, conventional plus social, the hubris and hysteria has been incredibly unhelpful this year.

Agreed Anon. Still not sure whether it is incompetence or agenda driven. However it looks incredibly well choreographed for incompetence atm.

maybe due to the profit motive 'if it bleeds, it leads' - putting people's fears in proportion doesn't sell. I see your point though, media sales are well up I bet because we must have all this important news, pronto given the crisis!

See I now know why I am so so grumpy. You are all worrying about keeping fizz for a couple of days. I have a bottle from when DD3 was born 9 years ago. Apparently it goes off but I can't bare to either open it and confirm or throw it away.

DM is revelling in being zoom competent with all her friends and laughing at my Luddite tendencies. She even offered her consultancy services to DD2 for Uni tutorials. I went with telling DD2 I was sure she could master it given they had let her in.

DD1 and DD2 are on-line gaming together just the same. Usually they do it from opposite ends of the living room. It works just as well with DD1 in her wee Facetime corner on DD2's phone. I just have to shout louder if I actually need either of them for anything. DD3 beat me at scrabble this morning so I am in far too much of a huff for gaming with anyone.

You're in good company, I cannot beat my daughter at monopoly and she was 9 at this point. It's embarrassing. The first few games I thought I'd ease off, and then I realised I really couldn't beat her. Not a great day!

My 10 year old is determined to beat me at monopoly and scrabble. Hasn't happened yet...

Ha @StatisticallyChallenged hold onto that while you can! I have to pretend I'm still not playing my best game.

I do the pretending I'm not trying too *Anon. Determinedly not learning the rules to Munchkin (makes a great hangover game for anyone who just finishes the whole bottle). That way the DC can organise my moves on my behalf and everyone is happy whether I win or lose.

I've noted the teaspoon trick. Cheers to scientists everywhere for the beginning of the end of this nightmare.

I read that as being thankful for the end of flat fizz by using the teaspoon. :o

That trick used to be useful before everyone decided they like a bit of fizz and I now only get one glass. DS2 says he can force it down if it's very chilled - wtaf! don't force it down, pass it to your mother and get a can of cider from the fridge....

I find they're generally happier if you lose! I'm going to look into munchkin tomorrow. wax I'm grateful to them for so many things

@Groovee

I'm not watching any of the updates and dd has just told us our area currently has the highest levels of Covid in the city.

I'm not doing good post losing my dad and Christmas being crap. Someone wake me up when things are a bit more normal please x

Sorry for your loss.

I'm finding that quiet walks are helping loads despite it being freezing and we have been out of the house before 10 every day.

It might help and you can travel for exercise (even up to 5 miles outside your LA boundary).

@StarryEyeSurprise, i quite agree with what you are saying. Still what you say proves that they are just weasels trying to sow discord wherever they can. I don't really think they give a toss about the EU, but it gives them the chance to disunite the United Kingdom. That's all it is (as they video posted by @WaxOnFeckOff's showed). Had England been strongly pro EU, I am sure the SNP would be the Brexit party (which, for all intents and purposes, they already are).

@Groovee 💐 everything is pretty shit just now. It will get better

Sending a hug for @Groovee

I've not had much to say recently because I can't be bothered thinking up anything witty or cheery or uplifting or interesting. I'm fed up and flat and miserable.

But I did enjoy watching The Prom on Netflix yesterday. Meryl Streep, James Corden, Nicole Kidman, glamour, sequins, music.

That's the extent of my intellectual contributions to the discussion right now.

@WaxOnFeckOff that sounds a bit like DS forcing himself to eat scallops. I did tell him not to do it, but he continued mournfully complaining that they weren't as good as chicken nuggets.

@Rae36 how did Nicole Kidman look, on the Undoing she'd overdone the Botox and goodness knows what else.

I did have a successful trip to the worlds largest M&S today - sadly no fuzz to outrun on the city boundary- and few discounted bargains to be had apart from some red cabbage. Place was absolutely rammed mostly with elderly couples taking a long time to decide what type of cream to buy. I tell you it's not schools driving infections up - it's M&S.

I'm keeping cheerful well mostly by not being at work and just going la la la any time DS tries to discuss logistics of rolling out vaccine.

Sorry it's DH discussing vaccine roll out, DS has mostly been sledging for the past two days. Hurray for snow boo to ice.

I tell you it's not schools driving infections up - it's M&S.

Funnily enough we went in to the Princes Street M&S food hall during lockdown one (we lived within walking distance) and the place was rammed with mostly older people taking an inordinate amount of time to choose stuff.

I have to admit the thought of months more of this is just draining me.

In other news I got my breast screening appointment in the post today - obviously i'm glad that things have started up but it honestly feels like about 6 months since I was there last.

how did Nicole Kidman look, on the Undoing she'd overdone the Botox and goodness knows what else

Her face looked very smooth. Even ds commented on it. I overlooked that though it was a very cheery film