Guilt Free Railing 3

[WouldBeGood]

Looks like railing is still needed.

Here is the judgment feee zone to do it.

@Groovee I can imagine it must be really tough for nursery staff too DS’s keyworker was absolutely lovely to me on the phone but I’m still feeling so anxious, I think it’s just the cumulative effect of everything and I’ve hit a wall. How are your new starts managing with parents not being allowed in?

Vinegar not compulsory. DH likes it, I'm ambivalent. DSs make without.

@anon444877

Well I know what I'm having for lunch now. I have a feeling it'll go horribly wrong though.

Report back later 😊

Zero Covid is an impossibility

But perfect poached eggs are possible 😃

I like an achievable goal.

See, it’s inspiring here.

S1 have not really had a chance to settle Into secondary.
S2 have not had a chance to choose their subjects in the same way or with a lot of experience of the subjects
S3 are missing the start of their exam year
S4-s6 are clearly going to. Struggle with exams

At least in England they are floating ideas about exans/catch up

Up here nothing.. It seems to me The SG don't care about education

Whether they care about it or not, I can’t answer to... but their track record on it shows they don’t have a clue what they’re doing. We’re no doing good in they league tables...

Drop off this morning, found myself feeling emotional seeing P4 siblings coming along too- one boy waving bye to his P2 sister going in to the playground, made me feel so upset. A P7 who was a brilliant buddy to the P1s back in August, has apparently been on a bike ride past the school every day this week and waves to the staff on reception and to a P3 classroom he can see. Jeez😞

@Bytheloch that's so sad. The P7 riding by, bless him. My P4 gets upset seeing kids playing in the playground (we can see it from the window). That's all he wants to do!

Ah the poor lad. So shit for them. All ages of children at school are badly affected but the P4-P7s are still so little. It must be hard to process it all.

I've been thinking about where is like to shop when things reopen. Planning a trip to Livingston, going to raid the big TK Maxx and take the kids to BuildaBear and spend £££ on shite. And Wagamamas.

@noname55 oh if they can see the playground ☹️

[quote AgentCooper]@Groovee I can imagine it must be really tough for nursery staff too DS’s keyworker was absolutely lovely to me on the phone but I’m still feeling so anxious, I think it’s just the cumulative effect of everything and I’ve hit a wall. How are your new starts managing with parents not being allowed in?[/quote]
We don't have any as we've been full since November. We did doorstep drop offs of a welcome pack but that's been stopped. But as we have a huge outdoors, we invited parents in as long as they kept their distance from adults and most of the children. We had a few that did struggle but parents were able to sit on the other side of the gate for easy access to return.

It went much more smoothly than we expected. Our return this week had us not knowing what to expect, but the ones we worried about were fine and it was only a couple who struggled but with gentle support (and once their friends were there) totally fine within the first 20 minutes.

I'm expecting next week to be harder. The excitement of 9 weeks off and back to routine can be hard.

Meanwhile Mr G seems to be turning yellow again. 😭😭

@Groovee thanks for your kind reply when you’ve got so much else to think about I really hope Mr G is ok.

Groovee surely they are readmitting your DH? This is exactly what happened with DD1. They pumped her full of antibiotics and drip fed her for a week to get rid of the pancreatitis. As soon as she finished the antibiotic course and started to try to eat normally she relapsed. Didn't help that they were accusing her and me of covering up anorexia. By the time they'd finished mucking about she had so much food and health anxiety it took about a year's worth of MH support from me and some brilliant school teachers to stop her actually ending up anorexic. Very thankful for her surgeon who treated her as an emergency (helped that she also had teenage daughters).

Long winded anecdote to say teens need to be in school and we need to stop the abuse of them and their MH.

On poached eggs I need some advice. I can keep them together but I am hopeless at judging how cooked they are so they end up rubbery or too runny. Doesn't help that DH is very fussy about such matters (I blame his French DM).

...to say teens need to be in school and we need to stop the abuse of them and their MH.

This.

@Lockdownbear

Now it may be that we can get everybody back in three weeks or it may be that we get the rest of primary back, the rest of S4,5,6 back, who are the certificated kids, and then S1-3, unfortunately, and I am really sorry for the houses that are housing S1-S3s, they may not get back for a little while.

This was the JL comment last night. Tells you maybe/ maybe not but they seem to fire out ideas and see how the reaction is.

Is it just me that has issue with the comment "the houses that are housing S1-S3"? They're children...not animals being kept in kennels? It's families....not houses 🙄 I don't know why this annoyed me, maybe I'm having a bad day on the corona-coaster. But the lack of any kind of understanding or sincere empathy is shown all too often.

Wee one settling in to nursery here too, told them that he often calms if you sing to him. They reminded me that the guidance means that they can't sing to the babies just now 😔. I know they'll have music and other means, but it makes me so sad about everything all over again.

ah grovee I hope your DH gets prompt help today, what a lot of worry and stress.

And I can't keep my poached eggs together (totally trivial). The second one I tried dropping in from a small bowl. Is it too high a boil when I put it in? My 10 year old is about as good a cook as I am.

you should get a lot of shed of the watery white anon - that's not a mistake. You should be left with the yolk surrounded by ball of white but not it all and a pan full of whispy white water.

But yes, doesn't need to be a high boil.

Also hoping MrGroovee gets the attention he needs today.

Really heartbreaking report from Bradford on radio 4 earlier. While clinicians used to see 1-2 children or young people a week experiencing MH crises now it’s 1-2 a day. Kids taking drugs and drink not because they want to get high but because they want to blot everything out.

I’m just scunnered. How much fucking longer? This isn’t last year, we have vaccines.

Wee one settling in to nursery here too, told them that he often calms if you sing to him. They reminded me that the guidance means that they can't sing to the babies just now 😔. I know they'll have music and other means, but it makes me so sad about everything all over again

@latortugafeliz this is beyond a joke now. Not allowed to sing to babies.

Noticed NS isn’t doing the driving today.

@Bytheloch

...to say teens need to be in school and we need to stop the abuse of them and their MH.

This.

Yes