🔏 Lockdown MkII

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Austria were objecting too

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Everyone is going to flood into Switzerland if everyone else shuts theirs

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And I’ve got 2x a couple of hundred round mile trips to bring my moaning mother to my house for Xmas as well as accommodating the mother in law

These Xmas rules haven’t been thought out

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just say no!

We are not going anywhere near anyone to ensure we don’t accidently spread germs (and Christmas cheer). Thankfully the other 3 households we may have interacted with (we’d have of course said no to 1) are all in agreement we shouldn’t spend Christmas with each other. One set are in their 80s and the FIL isn’t a massive xmas/people person. My mum’s been in hospital for last 2 weeks with Hydrocephalus and had 2 ops so feel best to keep away from her as she is 70 next year. My sister’s partner hasn’t really been anywhere so unlikely he’d want to go to anyone else’s either.

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Here is the dilemma

Oldies in our lives ranges from late 70’s to late 90’s

All of them have some sort of malfunction

Covid could kill them

But there again just about every thing else could

My view is - let the olds decide - even without Covid it could be their last Xmas so if they want to take a bird in the hand, who are we to say no

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We had my Dad’s funeral literally at the start of lockdown and Mum has been a nightmare being in and out of hospital and becoming more care dependent- scarily.

She’s also scarily adamant she doesn’t want to be away from family this Xmas and my siblings have both conveniently come up with all sorts of excuses. So, realistically what do you do? :man_shrugging:t3:

Oh, and the mother in law is coming down from Madchester as well.

Couple that with YoungAdult#1 having a holiday job as anXmas Elf in a grotto and YoungAdult#2 coming back from Uni…what could possibly go wrong? :roll_eyes:

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Please, please get photos of YoungAdult#1 in costume.

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did-someone-say-operation-yew-tree

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Wrong in so many ways…

:joy:

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Easy mistake to make. If you are thick, ignorant cunts.

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I’m currently getting pissed off with these MPs who are lobbying for a more local approach to the tiers

The argue meant is that more rural areas shouldn’t be disadvantaged by a city that has a higher rate

What these bellends fail to understand it that we, the British people have unlimited capacity to fuck things up

If the New Forest was put into tier 1 and Southampton was left in tier 2, the Forest would be rammed with the townies coming for a bevy

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The sooner those vaccines are ok’d and people get their jabs the better…

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Ah but if you’re in a tier 2 area and visit a tier 1 area you still have to follow the restrictions for tier 2…

How they enforce this is another discussion for another day…

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So if I go in a pub on the IOW, they’ve got to make me a “substantial meal”?

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Just tell them that you’ve had gastric band surgery and that ‘scampi fries* are quite substantial enough thank you very much’.

*Feel free to substitute for another type of fish flavoured snack.

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Lockdown.
Day 14,756.
It’s grey 4C.
It has been grey & 4C for what seems like the last 13,931 days.
Mother flew off this morning, sorting out her eyes so she woke me at the crack of 10am.

I then did something unimaginable. Beyond belief in fact.
I took a bus going “The Other Way” to collect the family shuttle from the next village.
I have also achieved 432 steps today. An outstanding effort as my knee now seems to only be suffering from a torn Meniscus & strained ACL
I may watch some TV today

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Just read the follow up by @Waylander - Deeper Shadows of Faerie

Enjoyable it was too - Hythe and its charity shops even got a mention.

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