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Guilt Free Railing 16

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WouldBeGood · 19/12/2021 09:43

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.

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Icannever · 29/12/2021 10:52

@mapleleavesreturn don’t worry there are not a lot of middle aged golfers around at the moment 😀. I can recommend north point cafe for kids pancakes and hot chocolate if that helps. Clayton caravan park on the road between Cupar and st.Andrews has a new pool you can book if your stuck for something to do. If your kids are very small then they have a small soft play area there which you currently have to book a table for, it only costs a pound though

mapleleavesreturn · 29/12/2021 10:59

Thanks for the tips, they do love a pancake!

Dh always buys me cheese for christmas - usually good but this year he bought a pecorino that had been buried for days and then dug up and was grey and mottled. Too strong even for me!

mibbelucieachwell · 29/12/2021 11:25

G'morning railers.

I'm feeling pleased with myself as my (android) phone thought the Git Yir Booster text was spam and suggested reporting and/or blocking it. As this is the second one and I am boosted I blocked it and reported it as spam. I know it'll have no effect on anything but it was still satisfying. Grin

Closing swimming pools at this time of year is surely stupid from a public health pov.

DS is heading back down south tomorrow as he has a Hogmanay function. He desperately needs the money so I'm very pleased he can still do it. Gigs in England in January less certain.

JS saying they're reviewing the clinical evidence for allowing people back to work 5 days after testing positive negative LFs. So that'll be a no though. Even though the public health benefits surely outweigh the slight theoretical possibility of transmission. The LFs claim to test whether you're infectious which is surely the most impressive thing. A negative test is described as indicating that you're probably not infectious so if they discount that in their review of the evidence they might as well discount all LF testing.

Lockdownbear · 29/12/2021 11:39

There is definitely pressure mounting over the 10 day isolation. They can't hold that up much longer, it's on the front page of just about every paper.

Much finger wagging about Scotland's Traditional Winter festival. They seem to be forgetting that in some areas of the country it still is the Main winter event.

OnceUponAWhine · 29/12/2021 11:41

@mapleleavesreturn

Thanks for the tips, they do love a pancake!

Dh always buys me cheese for christmas - usually good but this year he bought a pecorino that had been buried for days and then dug up and was grey and mottled. Too strong even for me!

Oh woah! That would challenge even the most hardcore cheese fan. Good gift from DH though. The older I get, the more I want to try cheese that can get up and leave the room itself.

(I should probably go through my cheese therapy over on the nice thread🧀)

mapleleavesreturn · 29/12/2021 11:47

Glad I tried it! He was right I'd definitely have bought it if I'd seen it....although this looks less cadaverous than the slice we had!

www.valvonacrolla.co.uk/pecorino-di-fossa-12-months-umbria-200g

ElephantOfRisk · 29/12/2021 11:51

I've got lots of railing today.

Firstly, waitrose click and collect in the pishing rain and they've moved the spaces from where you could mostly be under the walkway. Plus short dates and no nice uncut loaf I was going to have for lunch.

Secondly, the lamb that we are having for dinner tonight takes at least 5 hours to cook and it's still feckin frozen despite being taken out yesterday evening.

Thirdly, it's peeing rain, i'm not working and I just want to curl up with the book DH always buys me for Christmas, only he didn't get me a book this year, he got me a book token and that doesn't take very long to read.

Phew, feel better getting that off my chest - any safe ideas to defrost a leg of lamb quickly?

ecceromani · 29/12/2021 11:51

I reckon they'll change the isolation "advice" for the schools going back.
When they realise realise the current whole household isolation for 10 days means there'll be loads of staff and pupils missing Hmm

dementedma · 29/12/2021 11:54

Flowing before going is a reminder to have a pee before you go out.

Feel so sorry for DS(19). As a budding musician he had several shows and gigs lined up when Covid struck. All cancelled. 18th birthday last year, party with mates cancelled. Gig at Festival cancelled. Now all NY gigs and parties cancelled. What should have been the most fun years of his life have been spent sitting at home. Ironically, even double vaccinated he has been the only member of the family to catch Covid! He was ill for a week and that was it. Now he can barely be bothered to get out of bed. Dont k ow who I'm railing against really. Just shitty life in general.

Scottishskifun · 29/12/2021 11:56

@elephantofrisk put it in the sink or a large container where it can be covered with luke warm water (not hot!) it should defrost it quicker. Change the water every hour or so. Should defrost much quicker and is safe.

OldaRailer · 29/12/2021 11:57

Use cold tap water to defrost bagged meat? Quicker than air. Replace cooled water with fresh every 20 minutes or so.

ElephantOfRisk · 29/12/2021 11:58

Thanks @Scottishskifun, I've no idea why I didn't think of that. Great idea. It had better hurry up!

ElephantOfRisk · 29/12/2021 11:58

Thanks also @OldaRailer

OldaRailer · 29/12/2021 12:03

You see I said cold water:
I am pretty risk averse but not even I am at ScotGov levels!😂

Iwantthesummersun · 29/12/2021 12:03

The are already ‘starting to encourage’ school staff to ‘voluntarily’ not isolate if they’re a close contact. Said it before, the biggest threat to schools reopening is lack of staff.

ElephantOfRisk · 29/12/2021 12:09

@OldaRailer

You see I said cold water: I am pretty risk averse but not even I am at ScotGov levels!😂
I'm less risk averse with red meat than poultry and it's going to be slow cooked to the point where you can just fork the meat from it so not really worried about it being undercooked. However, i have two half legs and one is frozen and the other not (long story) so I need to even out the cooking time to do the two together.
OldaRailer · 29/12/2021 12:13

Absolutely I think lukewarm is fine just I really am a worrier. And if I give advice it's probably going to be too cautious!

Groovee · 29/12/2021 12:17

@Iwantthesummersun

The are already ‘starting to encourage’ school staff to ‘voluntarily’ not isolate if they’re a close contact. Said it before, the biggest threat to schools reopening is lack of staff.
Where about? I've had nothing from my employer.
ssd · 29/12/2021 12:40

Meanwhile my first world problem is will the Cheesee Peasee fromage van get my order to me in time for NYE ( the Royal Briard with truffle is amazing)
Sorry @rookiemere, i had to laugh at that Grin, soooo very mumsnet Grin

frasersmummy · 29/12/2021 12:43

The isolation times ae nonsense..ds's girfriend tested positive on lft on the 26th mine and ds were negative .. we all went for pcr and dad and I were negative but ds is positive .. not really a surprise

So our contact date would be the 25th. Making our isolation end date the 5th (10days from contact) but because we couldn't a a pcr till late the 27th and the result came in today my isolation date (with 3 vaccinations a negative test and no symptoms ) is the 8th!!! aye right

Its complete nonsense..

Do you think history will look back at this and say ... they kept healthy people away from their loved ones for weeks at a time ??!!

Lockdownbear · 29/12/2021 12:51

Do you think history will look back at this and say ... they kept healthy people away from their loved ones for weeks at a time ??!!

YES!!!

We will look back in absolute horror. At stuff that was said an done during this period of time.

Keeping healthy adults apart is one thing, remember the advice that children who'd been a contact, not even positive themselves had to isolate from the household, children as young as 5. Preschoolers they advised a parent or adult could isolate with them.
WTAF - how to mess with kids brains. You can't see your Mum because they are locked in a room with your sibling who's perfectly healthy but might have a virus.

tigger1001 · 29/12/2021 12:59

@Lockdownbear

Do you think history will look back at this and say ... they kept healthy people away from their loved ones for weeks at a time ??!!

YES!!!

We will look back in absolute horror. At stuff that was said an done during this period of time.

Keeping healthy adults apart is one thing, remember the advice that children who'd been a contact, not even positive themselves had to isolate from the household, children as young as 5. Preschoolers they advised a parent or adult could isolate with them.
WTAF - how to mess with kids brains. You can't see your Mum because they are locked in a room with your sibling who's perfectly healthy but might have a virus.

Totally agree!! My teen had covid and we didn't isolate from him as he was already feeling like he had Black Death so wasn't about to make that worse by treating him like that.

People at my work (I worked from
Home while he had it and tested before I went back as I work with someone who is vulnerable) were horrified that he wasn't in his room, with meals being left outside his bedroom door.

ssd · 29/12/2021 13:06

I think history will look back at this and be appalled.

ElephantOfRisk · 29/12/2021 13:13

The restrictions applied during this will be one of the biggest scandals of the modern age, I really can't see how we are ever going to recover or get back to some sort of normal society without protests (probably violent) on a massive scale.

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