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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 · 10/02/2021 19:11

I went to Costco for shelving to complete my clear out/tidy up. It was pretty normal in there. I always get a bit excited but resisted further temptation

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WaxOnFeckOff · 10/02/2021 19:12

It's our silver wedding anniversary towards the end of March. Just gutted we won't even be able to have dinner out.

beepbeeprichie · 10/02/2021 19:13

I miss having quiet in the house.
I miss being able to into Silverburn and browsing and having a takeaway pretzel from the shops in the middle.
I feel like a shell of my former self.
The last year has just blurred into one big dark cloud.
I fear what happens next with the economy.
I hate how bitter and angry and divided my country is.
I wonder when it will all end. It seems like we’ve been in the circuit breaker since October with only Xmas day to punctuate the monotony. I can’t even remember what decent infection numbers should be to start to ease this.

Callisto1 · 10/02/2021 19:14

I am so happy we have snow so there is a bit of a change from going to one of our local mudpits. Every day I spend half an hour stuffing children into layers and waterproofs. Then when we get back I spend half an hour scraping the worst of the mud off. Sometimes I just can't face it.

It's so nice to moan! I hardly see any adults I can talk to anymore.

WaxOnFeckOff · 10/02/2021 19:15

We were only there about twice in the last year (nhs special opening), I renewed our membership and then it was illegal to go.

And yes, he might need me to go and check the steaks for quality...

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WouldBeGood · 10/02/2021 19:15

@WaxOnFeckOff I hope restaurants might be open by then..? Am I nuts?

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WouldBeGood · 10/02/2021 19:16

With you on the big dark cloud @beepbeeprichie

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WaxOnFeckOff · 10/02/2021 19:16

I'd love to think they might be open but I doubt it 😔

WaxOnFeckOff · 10/02/2021 19:19

25 years married I should be getting a card from the Queen IMHO.

Dinosauratemydaffodils · 10/02/2021 19:19

I went to Costco for shelving to complete my clear out/tidy up. It was pretty normal in there. I always get a bit excited but resisted further temptation

What's your secret? I go for 2 things and come out with a trolley load. It's all essential mind, even the 3ft light up Frankenstein's monster which came home just before Halloween and the gin, especially the gin!

beepbeeprichie · 10/02/2021 19:20

@WaxOnFeckOff I’m pretty sure the last year of marriage should be measured in dog years Grin

titsbumfannythelot · 10/02/2021 19:22

[quote beepbeeprichie]@WaxOnFeckOff I’m pretty sure the last year of marriage should be measured in dog years Grin[/quote]
Yes to this!

WaxOnFeckOff · 10/02/2021 19:22

I guess unless I have plans, I will not know which year is the last... 😂😂

Groovee · 10/02/2021 19:40

@WaxOnFeckOff

Remember folks, a few deep breaths will make everything fine... 😉
Breathe up to the hills and down to Cramond 🤬🤬🤬
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WouldBeGood · 10/02/2021 19:41

This is where divorce is a good thing. It was devastating, but now I get time with, and apart from, DP. 😂

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WouldBeGood · 10/02/2021 19:44

@Dinosauratemydaffodils I’m normally terrible as I get so overexcited! I think this time I was just focussed on my possibly illicit dash for shelving

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WaxOnFeckOff · 10/02/2021 19:49

I always thought a divorce might be good just to get every second weekend to myself :o

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WouldBeGood · 10/02/2021 19:50

😂 it has its merits, probably especially just now

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WouldBeGood · 10/02/2021 19:51

Plus my ex wouldn’t do anything with me or go anywhere do this is supposed to be my time to carouse

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WouldBeGood · 10/02/2021 21:39

Looks like the NHS should be protecting us from them, looking at hospital acquired infection

Guilt free railing
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dazzlinghaze · 10/02/2021 21:43

I work in a hospital and it's scary how quick it can rip through a ward. Two weeks ago the ward I was working on had 1 covid patient, the following Monday there was I think 19 positive patients. All of them had been on the ward for weeks so they all contracted it while in hospital.

dazzlinghaze · 10/02/2021 21:45

No deaths though, and I would say only about 3/4 looked unwell. And this is a ward full of elderly folk. So that's a positive at least.

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WouldBeGood · 10/02/2021 21:54

That’s both bad and good @dazzlinghaze 😊

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Pootle40 · 10/02/2021 22:04

@Chasingamy

So fed up of the stay within your local authority rule. We live right on the very edge of ours, and are rural. I have a toddler, there are playgrounds, good walks etc all about a 15 min drive away but can’t go to them but could legally go 2hrs to the other end of the LA. Walk round our village every day and hardly see another soul let alone another child for toddler to interact with.
I don't pay a single bit of attention to the local authority crap....for being outdoors, who cares?!
Theonlyoneiknow · 10/02/2021 22:16

Hi! Hope you don't mind me joining here :-) I have hit rock-bottom lately I am so bloody grumpy with DS 11 and DD 8 and feel like the most impatient nagging parent ever. Can't cope with it all and every little thing seems to wind me up. Have felt so claustrophobic too even although I do go out for a run most days inbetween work/home school.

It's good to vent. DP is more chipper than me and although we do talk I don't like to bring him down too much with how crap I feel. I am really worried about DS missing his enhanced transition to Academy (autistic spectrum).

I always feel a bit of a weight off my shoulders come Friday as I am not trying to juggle a million things but then Sundays come around and I spend the evenings trying to prepare for a week of FT work, meal prep and home school.

😞 to come straight on an vent ! It's nice to have a safe space.