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Guilt free railing

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WouldBeGood · 10/02/2021 14:11

The place to vent, moan, rail, cheer: whatever you’re feeling about Covid, and the rules, and life and the universe.

I’ve started this as I’m feeling scared and fed up with increasing restrictions despite vaccines. I feel that what should be a more positive time is instead bringing more and more doom.

I want the simple pleasures of life back, as well as all the big stuff.

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WouldBeGood · 13/02/2021 11:34

Churros 😍

So romantic @StatisticallyChallenged 😂

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NotAnActualSheep · 13/02/2021 11:36

@StatisticallyChallenged

I'm making dh a t shirt as a valentine's present, but having just cut it out it's possible that my fabric choice isn't conveying the right message for the day...Blush
Ha! Love that! But I see what you mean. It's not really in the spirit of whispering sweet nothings...
StatisticallyChallenged · 13/02/2021 11:46

It's fine, he'll laugh, I think. Grin

titsbumfannythelot · 13/02/2021 11:52

Do you make those shirts to order stats? I'd love one for the constant work video calls! Size big fat heifer please.

StatisticallyChallenged · 13/02/2021 11:56

@titsbumfannythelot

Do you make those shirts to order stats? I'd love one for the constant work video calls! Size big fat heifer please.
I've already made a fat heifer one for me :D

Not braved it on a work video call yet but it's going to happen. I have leggings in a similar fabric which I wore during my annual review.

WaxOnFeckOff · 13/02/2021 13:01

Fab material Stats. It is indeed cold out there.

I've just vented on Sainsburys customer service messaging. Picked up my order and all my fresh food needs eaten by Wednesday, including all DSs cake stash by tomorrow and 12 yoghurts by Tuesday. We are supposed to limit to one shop a week. DS is contemplating the 2 chocolate croissants, 2 Maple and pecan Danish pastries and 4 large pieces of chocolate shortbread he needs to eat by tomorrow as then he has 4 eclairs and a family sized trifle by Monday. They told me my raspberries were short dated for tomorrow though but not about everything else... rant over :o

Chasingamy · 13/02/2021 13:03

@anon444877 there is nothing more disappointing than getting that email saying “we have exciting news about your ticker” than to log on and see you’ve won £2.50 Grin

Chasingamy · 13/02/2021 13:05

@shouldistop oh my takeaway churros would definitely motivate me a bit more to take toddler to the park! Smile

WaxOnFeckOff · 13/02/2021 13:11

[quote Chasingamy]@anon444877 there is nothing more disappointing than getting that email saying “we have exciting news about your ticker” than to log on and see you’ve won £2.50 Grin[/quote]
I remember being on my phone in bed - DH sound asleep and seeing that email and I nearly woke him up in excitement and then read it and yep, £2.50 :o

WaxOnFeckOff · 13/02/2021 13:14

I noticed our local-ish park being dug up at the moment. I think in general a good thing as they are installing some more accessible play equipment but i did think that poor kids might be even more restricted in what they can do for the moment.

When mine were small, this is the type of day that we would have been away to the cinema for the cheap early morning deal and home for soup and toasties for lunch. So sad that these simple treats are not available. The cinema I mean, soup and toasties at home is easily doable.

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WouldBeGood · 13/02/2021 13:22

I’m really missing the cinema as that was mine and DS’s special day out thing.

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rookiemere · 13/02/2021 13:29

Yes I was going to say cinema was a good - not too expensive- treat, particularly Wester Hailes with super comfy seats and decent pricing, or Dominion if we wanted to treat ourselves to Gold Class service by getting the bus and having drinks brought to our seats - not such a cheap treat then though, but memorable and different.

WaxOnFeckOff · 13/02/2021 13:31

we had helicopters overhead yesterday evening until the early hours presumably looking for a woman who has gone missing. Nothing on now so no idea if that is good news or bad Sad

anon444877 · 13/02/2021 13:32

You can't help hoping as you see the email! wax that's awful and surprising for an order picked up in a Saturday, should be good stock availability!! Hope you get a voucher.

rookiemere · 13/02/2021 13:35

I'm a bit happier now as single friend who lives in town asked if I was free to meet up and I can get bus rather than attempting to drive out of our street where I got stuck yesterday.

We're going to go for - you guessed it - another fricking walk in the cold. There may be coffee involved but only if we can do one of my toilet based routes. Am I the only one who is a slave to their bladder ?

WaxOnFeckOff · 13/02/2021 13:35

I loved the dominion as a kid - remember that screen that had seats only a few rows deep? Or the Cameo or the ABC. I once went to the cinema with my friend when we were maybe about 10, bus into town and when we went to get the bus home we got on going the wrong way. No mobiles then and neither of us had a phone in our house or money for one anyway. Bus driver took pity on us and flagged down his opposite number and got us on for free. It would have been a long walk home otherwise.

Don't think either of us mentioned anything when we got home either!

LetItGoGo · 13/02/2021 13:38

I'm missing the odd trips we made to the cinema. Such a typical bad weather outing.

I never did a lot of any one thing . It's the sprinkling of them through the year I am missing.

Today I am buying a (thrilling) thermal jug online to have hot tea in my garden with whomever I can entice in as the weather improves. I am resigned to no holiday but I am worried about not getting to visit family hours away.

WaxOnFeckOff · 13/02/2021 13:38

It was Rocky we went to see so I would have been 10 and she'd be still 9 but nearly 10.

To think then we'd go away swimming by ourselves on the bus, into town to buy scraps in Jenners etc while still primary. Can't imagine kids doing that now.

StatisticallyChallenged · 13/02/2021 13:40

am I the only one who is a slave to their bladder

My bladder was a blessing the other night - waking up for a pee meant I caught a major leak when it had only covered the kitchen floor.

rookiemere · 13/02/2021 13:41

I hope the Dominion survives. It always felt nicely decadent there.

Sad sight as I sit on the bus - slopes at Greenbank Park are covered in snow and should have hoards of children and teens sledging on them. Instead there's about 5 toddlers with DPs.

LetItGoGo · 13/02/2021 13:42

I've got a teenager now and watching a picture together is one of the better things to share.

The now adult kid when at that stage was arranging to go to the cinema with mates. (And failing to get it organised the first couple of times!) Do you think when released they'll catch up or will this generation be homebodies?

LetItGoGo · 13/02/2021 13:44

rookie glad you have a meet up. It always makes a world of difference to me.

rookiemere · 13/02/2021 13:44

Hah @StatisticallyChallenged good for you for catching the leak
@WaxOnFeckOff that is young to be out on your own. I grew up in Belfast so didn't get much freedom allegedly because of the troubles, but I do remember being dropped off at our local cinema aged 13 with my friend to see Educating Rita and smuggling in our boyfriends

StatisticallyChallenged · 13/02/2021 13:46

We were very lucky - the garden tap had frozen and caused a burst pipe under the sink so it was properly pouring an endless supply of mains water

WaxOnFeckOff · 13/02/2021 13:57

We had loads of freedom growing up. It was what would be described now as a rough council estate but it never felt rough when we were kids even though we had fuck all - most folk had fuck all :o

People all knew each other, My Dm regularly left kids outside the shops by mistake. I spent hours strapped into my pram down on the drying green with anyone around just keeping the occasional eye on me. We spent ages in the woods looking for the flasher Hmm and drinking water straight out the ground from all the little underground springs (a lot of them capped and supplied the drinking water for the area) sweetest and coldest water ever.

We often took the bus to Warrender pool and spend our bus money on hot chocolate or sweets and walked home through the braidburn valley - ah memories!