Guilt Free Railing 16

[WouldBeGood]

The festive special!

As always, all railing welcome, along with good things or humorous asides. No resilience wankery. This is the safe place to let out anything that’s doing your head in.

@mapleleavesreturn

scottishskifun you couldn't helpfully turn up with extra pigs?

Oh god its not worth the argument! WW3 nearly broke out a few years ago when I made a different pud!

DH hates Xmas Dinner would be happiest with a Indian. After a Xmas away in the warmth and beach couple of years ago I'm coming round to the thinking we should just go to Thailand every year! 😂

@ecceromani Public Health Scotland Report (weekly?)

I'm very sorry to hear about the squashed covid plans. It must be so very disappointing.

@ecceromani

Oh fingers crossed it's negative *@ssd* And I'd be doing the same, can't have him on his own. I think you and DH have had your boosters so should be ok?

Yes both boosted. We'll all be sensible. I don't know the rules, We'll do our own thing. I trust my instincts now.

@ssd 👏👏👏👏👏👏
Got to go with what your comfortable with good on you!

Ah thanks @mibbelucieachwell
Useful to know that's published

Absolutely @Scottishskifun. I'm meant to be meeting a friend later but as she has elderly inlaws I'll let her know and cancel, just incase. I'd never do anything daft but I'm done with advice.

@WhatWouldTheDoctorDo

Def not your sis *@Lidlfix*, but sadly lots of people in our situation this Christmas. 😞 Sorry your plans are screwed too. I feel robbed of almost two years of family experiences and memories - Christmas, holidays, birthday parties etc. Life is short, and the time DC are living at home even shorter, it's just not fair. Gah.

Oh I definitely agree! I absolutely hate what DS considers normal that a not even 3 year old tries to wear a mask, that he constantly wants to wash his hands or wants sanitiser (don't just mean meals and toilet), that everything is do not touch even a bloody petting zoo! And he's unlikely to get a birthday party for however many years as his birthday is mid winter when either restrictions are in or cases are high so friends can't come anyway!

Have been on these threads under previous names and just back for a good rail. I am really struggling at the moment.

DD (16) positive a week ago, hardly surprising as there are so many cases in school and she's only had one vaccine so far. She's been fine, headache and sore throat which in non-covid times I would have probably kept her off school for one day. Completely recovered now. Rest of us are all negative. But the knock-on effects... we were supposed to spend the day with my parents and siblings last Sunday which had to be cancelled. In between DD testing and getting her result I managed to do a 200 mile round trip to literally throw their presents at them over the hedge.

Over the past 3 years dad has been becoming increasingly confused and was totally thrown by me turning up out of the blue, then my brother and his family arriving later on. He doesn't cope at all with a change to routine and different people in the house. We have been trying for over a year to access support for them but it's all on Zoom which isn't really proper support anyway and which my parents can't access anyway.

Plus i'm menopausal, having levels of anxiety which i've never had before, and trying to see the GP is almost impossible. I know the anxiety will pass as it has in the past, i always feel better at the start of the year. But at the moment it's just so dark and grey and miserable and i just can't be arsed with the whole covid christmas thing.

Oh, @MarshmallowFondant that sounds hard 💐

Everything is quite depressing so feel free to vent here anytime.

And discuss Christmas food, which is really making me hungry!

to everyone having a rotten time or dealing with cancelled plans. It's so shit.

Out of interest anyone who has had a PCR test recently, what have the waiting times been like for results? I know it's anecdotal but just curious if our guests have any hope of getting results back before Christmas Day.

Still waiting on Tuesday 1600 tests, DH ((who is waiting for his to claim essential worker exemption #hero) was in a call with Public Health Scotland and they were shocked at how long it was taking

Last weekend mine took about 29/30 hours to come back, which is the longest I've ever waited.

Its usually 24 hours here or less, am hoping ds hears today. Obviously im staying clear of folk till he gets the results, but am supposed to be working tomorrow and as its retail i have contact with loads of people. Not sure what to do there. I'll call them later, but tbh i find them pretty shit guidelines wise.

What's his LFTs saying SSD? Contact tracing kicked in with us from DD's positive LFT. Not sure what the advice would be if he tested due to symptoms but neg LFTs.

We are hugely overthinking and now convinced that ours are delayed because they are omicron and getting DNA analysis. But I can be melodramatic

Negative lateral flow but he has symptoms so not sure how much lateral flow counts now. Being cautious getting pcr anyway. He also works in a supermarket and has lots of oldies in he loves and doesn't want to pass anything onto them.

Probs best being cautious DD was symptomatic for a few days before her LFTs were positive. The tests look ok for different things.

Trickier for you and your work though.

Ours just in, DD4 positive (we knew that) the rest negative so DH gets to be essential and save the poor sod who was covering him's Xmas 🎅🏻

And she sits in her room on Xmas day . 💔 we're not irresponsible, she wouldn't have risked infecting us if her LFTs showed she was still infectious

I'm currently in work (NHS) and one of my colleagues is in. Her son tested positive two days ago. She's had a negative PCR so she's expected to get back to work. There's no way she can be isolating from her wee boy. I'm not annoyed at her, I'm annoyed at the rules. Sturgeon has the bloody cheek to be telling me to limit my social contact, meet max 2 other households etc, and then I'm forced to be around someone who's a household contact 36 hours before Christmas. I'm seething.

Thats so wrong @Bavarois

It’s all a bit nuts @Bavarois.

I’d be the same as you @ssd, couldn’t leave DD on her own for Christmas. She’s moving back in over the festive season just in case.

The messaging doesn’t seem to be going down well. Anti-Sturgeon and anti booster chants at the football.

Could it all backfire?

I wonder which way it will go, both for this and the omicron restrictions. Johnson or the devolved nations right in the end?

Now they’ve shut nightclubs.

DH is going back voluntarily - no pressure his boss and union were quite clear about that. My union is advising against voluntary exemption. I know the classes that I have which contain CEV pupils and not sure I'd be comfortable potentially exposing them. My HT also made it clear there would be no pressure. Sadly, the pressure is often guilt thinking about colleagues and workload.

I hope that this is Lidlfam Covid time but DDs seem convinced we'll all get it. Hopefully milder than DD4 who is quite sick but due to age only had one doze of vaccine.

Eh what? Whose shut nightclubs@WouldBeGood please?