Guilt Free Railing 5

[WouldBeGood]

Just in case railing remains required.

MIL & BIL are round for a bbq. Baby ds is meant to be having his last nap just now to keep him going to bedtime. MIL was walking him round in his buggy to get him to sleep but keeps chatting to him so obviously he's not sleeping. DH is annoyed, I just think it's quite sweet as she's hardly seen him and I'm just glad someone else is in charge of him at the moment!

Over the past few months I've literally left home to go to work (essential) to the shops (essential shopping) for a run (essential exercise) or for a walk, alone or with DC (essential exercise). I'm not sure what extra things I could do with my new freedoms.

Haud, me neither. We've walked everywhere that we're allowed (and a few that we weren't). Been to supermarkets twice each week. Been to B&Q about 3 times in total. Did 1 C&C at Dunelm. Have nobody local to meet for coffee or a walk, family & friends are all miles away.

Nothing material changes for me until 26th April. I got the rage when I realised that we'll have been in this lockdown for 4 sodding MONTHS at that point.

I just go where I want. And have done for ages. No contact or risk of transmission 🤷🏻‍♀️

Agree with @WouldBeGood. We're going where we want as well. Not taking the piss by crossing the country backwards and forwards, but going int Glasgow, Stirlingshire, West Dunbartonshire and even crossing West Dunbartonshire into Argyll for leisure and walks.

I'd be more than willing to pile the kids in the car and drive to my parents to sit in their garden, but mum's a stickler for the rules and is worried what the neighbours would say.

We can do nothing in Scotland at the moment. Fine if your parents/friends are very local or at least within the same council area. If they're further away, seeing them is still illegal. No retail, no hospitality.

Saint Nicola's plan for releasing us is at least 2 weeks slower than England, and England have had ALL CHILDREN back in school since 8th March. She is so detached from reality - her and that Jason one - have they not got eyes in their heads to see what's going on all around them? They just can't scare us like they did last year. We're not taking it any longer.

I've been avoiding mixing too much until Mr G has his vaccine. Our most local nearest school at work had no staff last week due to them either having Covid or isolating as a close contact. I've been avoiding being too long in that area because of it.

Found out the family member who berated me for mixing too much is in Edinburgh nearly every day. She has to leave Perth and Kinross, drive through Fife and into Edinburgh. The same person who wouldn't isolate when they claimed they had it.

I've been using the excuse that they aren't vaccinated so far to not see them.

We're going to see my DPs in Perth tomorrow from Edinburgh. Can claim it is caring responsibilities- they're 80+ so it kind of is. Am thinking we might sneak an illicit trip to Loch Levens Larder on the way back.

How is Mr G @Groovee?

@WouldBeGood

How is Mr G *@Groovee*?

Lots of improvement going on. The drain has changed so much this week. So think he's getting somewhere now.

Just chilling just now. No plans for Easter bar dinner being delivered.

It’s too hard to try and think what any rules are

We are just doing whatever we want

It’s bonkers to think that we haven’t been in a cafe since December
Can’t wait for Morrison cafe to open
Jeez can’t believe I am saying that

That’s good for mr G 🙌🏽

This really has been an exercise in dampening expectations hasn't it.

Good news on Mr G. Hope you have a nice weekend and a chance to chill @Groovee

Hasn’t it just, @titsintiers!

@littlbrowndog DH and I "treated" ourselves to a KFC lunch after our jabs on Wednesday as it was the only place we could think of that was open.
Interestingly KFC does a salad box which is half rice, they also do a rice box which we guess might be half salad .

I may die of excitement when everything is open.

I'll be like a kid in a sweetie shop

Going out on a wee spin in the car today as it’s sunny.

Likewise, Raspberry seeing as how ED is so small. We can hardly step outside our door without crossing a boundary. We even go into Glasgow for our weekly shop.

I'm the same with Morrison's Cafe. They don't sell anything I particularly want to eat, and the coffee isn't great, but the kids macaroni cheese is cheap and someone else does the dishes. I was so excited last time it reopened. I'd only popped in with the kids to kill a morning do some essential shopping so it was such a bonus!

Ironically @ICouldHave, one of our very few illegal trips out of area was to ED to the Gruffalo trail in Bearsden.

Me and Ds painted my mums new fence. Then have sat in our own garden all afternoon. This is the life.

It’s much better with the nice weather.

Seems more and more people doing their own thing now, with observation of Glasgow yesterday and chat with neighbours today. This can’t last. They’ll have to free us!

Cracking the emergency rose to celebrate

I no longer know or care about the rules. Obviously I'm not going to take the piss but am so over it all now ... It's easter DC have nothing to do so we are going to do things relatively local but not necessarily within our council area

and we are going to grubby Covid-ridden England in July to see MiL (will be essential care visit come what may) as she is in her 80s and hasn't seen us for a year.

Surely to god that'll be fully allowed by July, Trouble.

Haud I hope it was worth the prison sentence

Thankfully we arrived at Dalkeith Country Park ( I got a bit distracted by the swimsuits in M&S - want to buy one as means possibility of wearing it, but am I too fat to fit it and serious deforestation required beforehand I bought one in the end, but as you'll understand it took a fair while to mull through these considerations) just as the police were leaving, as we couldn't quite agree if we were allowed to be there as outside Edinburgh city boundary but within 5 miles and were there for exercise, but we did drive there.

Anyway real hidden gem,totally recommend it. Posh shop selling chocolate, beer and clothes, ice cream and panini outside and a stream for rookiedog to cool off in. Obviously in usual Scottish temperatures it would have less to recommend it, but on a day like today was glorious and car park was big enough to house all the denizens of Mid Lothian and - gasp - other places that were there.

That sounds lovely
Not railing but I'm fretting about my vaccine this weekend (while being v happy to get it). I'm going to a drive thru but I don't want it in my right arm. Do you think I can squoosh over to the other window? Or turn round in the seat or something? No one I know has had it in a drive through scenario so can't get any intel!