Guilt Free Railing 8

[WouldBeGood]

Can’t believe it’s needed….

@HappyPumpkin81 is that a private nursery?

I read that Manchester flights are cancelled, sorry that’s impacting you. Hope you can get sorted.

@HappyPumpkin81 I'm so sorry about your holiday, that's absolutely shit.

My biggest question tonight is do I wash my hair, shave my legs and moisturise tonight losing my relaxing time or do I do it in a rush in the morning while baby ds squawks at me like a seagull?

Rush in the morning! Relax tonight @shouldistop

I'm swaying towards that @WouldBeGood I'll probably regret it but it's worth it tonight
Just about to watch the tudors, hopefully it's good.

My reasoning is that the morning with dcs will be shite anyway, so might as well enjoy tonight 😊

Ooh I love the tudors! Must re watch!

@Bytheloch it’s a private nursery. I am sorely tempted to turn up at the nursery and refuse to leave until they call the police, unfortunately I cannot afford to lose my job, or my nursery place 😢 I have written (another) letter railing to my MSP, MP and regional MSP’s sadly I feel I am just giving them something to giggle over before they wipe their arses on it.

Enjoy your bath @shouldistop

@HappyPumpkin81 I'd be considering the train or bus.

My concern wouldn't be the Manchester ban, how can they possibly enforce it?
I'd be mildly concerned about taking little one.

[quote shouldistop]@Groovee aw gutted! Ds graduation party tomorrow, nursery have organised a bouncy castle, icecream van and pizzas. Ds is ridiculously excited Nursery will send us a nice video. [/quote]
Aww sounds fab. We did a sausage sizzle x

[quote latissimusdorsi]@shouldistop nursery parents have a terrible reputation for going on the rampage and hugging and licking everyone in sight
Can't be trusted to stand nicely outdoors 2m apart so you'll just have to stay away.
Now if only you were football fans....[/quote]
😂😂😂

@HappyPumpkin81

Sorry, I haven't read the posts I've just come on here to scream so my poor daughter won't be subjected to swearing. We are currently in our second isolation period in six weeks as my daughter's nursery has a positive case. My daughter developed symptoms the day we were informed so I had her duly tested the next day. Not a pleasant procedure but to my surprise she tested negative. Informed nursery she has been ill as she is likely to still have a runny nose and cough next week, now nursery are saying she can't come back when isolation is over despite her negative results. I have also just read on the BBC website that our holiday is cancelled as they have banned travel to Manchester, we’re travelling to South Yorkshire but flying into Manchester to be collected by relatives (who also aren't from Manchester). I need to try and arrange another day off of work to salvage our holiday, I'm significantly out of pocket and I'm so done with the fucking message "we're all in this together". No we're fucking not!!!!

Wtf she's tested negative as she's poorly which is still a valid illness. It's not Covid so they should be allowing a return. I'd be tempted to contact the care inspectorate.

@riverrunning

Ooh I love the tudors! Must re watch!

Yes. Henry Cavall is 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

Why paediatricians aren’t more worried about Covid and rather about school closures

@riverrunning

Ooh I love the tudors! Must re watch!

Where can I watch? I loved this.

Whats RSV I'm sure I've asked and been told before?

I really hope the self-isolating thing is brought to an end before next term. Kids are missing out on so much. Not just time away from school but some parents are reluctant to allow kids to go to clubs and stuff for fear of coming into contact with covid and kids having to isolate.

DSs cub haven't restarted since last March, lack of outdoor space with access to toilets, being some of the multiple hoops they needed to jump through. Meant it wasn't possible.
I'm fingers crossed they manage to get going again in autumn. But that will be another issue, not all kids or leaders wanting to return, filling their time with other stuff.

Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection (RSV)

Respiratory syncytial (sin-SISH-uhl) virus, or RSV, is a common respiratory virus that usually causes mild, cold-like symptoms. Most people recover in a week or two, but RSV can be serious, especially for infants and older adults. RSV is the most common cause of bronchiolitis (inflammation of the small airways in the lung) and pneumonia (infection of the lungs) in children younger than 1 year of age in the United States.

It's definitely on amazon@Groovee but you have to pay I think.

One and a half days of term here, what can possibly go wrong?!😆🙄

@Groovee I had to buy it on prime. Couldn't find it free anywhere

Oh happypumpkin - that's definitely railworthy. What are they playing at?! Surely even if it's a fever they cant insist she's off for more than 48hrs after it goes? They're just making up health rules - which, as a service you're paying for, isn't on. And Arse about your holiday too. Not sure why easyjet have taken that approach tbh, as travelling through Manchester isn't "banned" - and they won't get any compensation for the lost custom, but hey.

bear I agree... It's seemingly not covid itself that is making people reluctant, but the risk of isolation. The "cure" definitely being worse than the disease in this case. And the additional rules put in place by national organisations/ governing bodies making local groups impossible to operate will come back to bite them I think.

DSs gymnastics place used to run a daytime preschool gym thing. But the Covid rules now say parents have to stay to supervise their child, and they can't bring any siblings. So they have had to stop that, because it was limited to families with only one child, or who could rustle up daytime childcare (or school - which is no longer a certainty!) for any not attending. It was just unworkable. So parents have, I assume, gone to do something more sedentary instead, where at least baby siblings can go along to "watch".

I'm not surprised you have to buy tudors - I'm glad it's been long enough since I saw it to watch again!

They really do seem to be forgetting that childhood is very short lived. And time is limited between school, and nursery and parents working.

Like pre-school year is 18mths for many kids between turning 3, being old enough to do stuff and starting school at 4.5.

Beavers and Cubs basically 2 year programmes kids have missed out on huge chunks of stuff.

Then throw in how easy it's going to be to get these things back up and running again. Kids are drawing the short straw.

Those of a certain vintage might remember the teachers industrial action of the mid 1980s. All extra circullum stuff stopped. Inter school competitions that had ran for years never restarted.

Also throw in that beavers/cubs etc are run by volunteers.
I escaped from scout committee a few years ago, but basically it was compromised of retired people and busy working folks. Fine to keep the wheels turning, but little capacity to absorb additional Covid regulations.

I stepped back from running brownies. My venue wasn't reopening and zoom was not my cup of tea.

Yes - I feel very sorry for new parents, and preschool parents, who have basically missed out so much of the "fun" (and developmental) stuff for a huge proportion of the child's life. The socialising, learning communication and so on, which has either stopped, or is done with adults in masks... Unless you have a ready made group of mum friends, willing to meet in parks, it must be so isolating. And children will be starting school without having had any "normal" nursery time, basically, despite the valiant efforts of all the early years teachers. As well as the standard thing that parents who can afford private groups (who needed to restart to have any income) will be much better catered for than those using groups run by volunteers or the council/ government, who are still hamstrung by rules set by venues, unavailability of church halls and so on, reluctance of volunteers to restart, priorities of funding..... Bleargh....

I worry about the council peripatetic music funding to be honest. It keeps being threatened to be axed, and this year they weren't able to provide anything other than emails/ PowerPoint presentations until about february (even when the schools were open). Then they started Zoom lessons, and finally, when the schools went back, fortnightly in-person lessons (previously weekly, and now the lessons have to be in bubbles, so have been cut to a third of the time to allow for the 3 classes in a year group, albeit there are fewer children in each class). But the huge gap has meant so many kids just weren't able to practice, lost motivation and haven't restarted. And they obviously didn't take on any new starters in p4 this year. So I can see the council saying "ah well, take up has dropped so people don't really want it, so we'll cut it..." We were in the position to be able to afford private group lessons, so DS did those as well as soon as it was clear there wasn't going to be anything from the school. I'm tempted just to continue with those next year (weekly and reliable, albeit still on Zoom, though hopefully will be normal next year, but a right PITA to travel to) but don't want to become "another" statistic for the council to beat us round the head with!