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As a fellow healthcare worker (doctor), I entirely respect your choice but I think it’s an irresponsible decision and you should consider working in a non patient facing position, sorry.

I cancelled my diet. I figure the more layers of fat I have the better, should I have to quarantine.

Ever since Hancock made his announcement in the UK an hour or two ago, along with mentioning a new strain of the virus that has entered the UK from SA, I am getting quite a few hateful text messages and emails from what I thought were friends. Basically blaming South Africa for the current problems in the UK, and that because I am South African by birth, I should "hold my head in shame" and "not bother coming back to the UK. We don't need your germs!"

I like to think of myself as a fairly tough character, but i have to admit to feeling quite upset by those comments. Just shows who your real friends are!

Hi all,
I’m going to just post this and log off for a while.


My wonderful, lovely dad is now a statistic on Britain’s Deadliest Day.
They aren’t just numbers anymore.
I am heartbroken. I kept him safe for so long, we did everything right, locked down for 10 months so I am proud of that and of him.
Stay safe xx

A lot of people are using the ‘there’s no long term data’ excuse but how would that even matter and how would that even be possible? It’s a new vaccine for a shiny new pandemic?!

Come for me if you want but I honestly think those who are able to get it and are choosing not to are really stupid. Of course those with health issues, pregnancies, breastfeeding etc. aside.

I highly doubt there’d be a vaccine released into the world that was gonna kill us all, put microchips in us or turn us into bastard frogs. It’s a bit wild that people are so weary of it and wondering why we’re all encouraged to get it thinking that there’s some ulterior motive behind it. I think people spend way too much time on Facebook reading their conspiracy theories.

Personally I was overjoyed to finally be invited to get my first one, which I did within 2 days of my age group being announced and I’ll be just as overjoyed for my second one. The last year and a half has been absolute torture for everyone and if this is our way out then jab my deltoids with your vaccine babes I’m ready for normal xo

We've had the best news!

My Dad was rushed to hospital last April with Covid, he was initially on a ventilator for a month, then had to go back on for another week when he had another dip. We nearly lost him 3 times, Mum got called to go and say her goodbyes one night as he was so weak they didn't think he'd last the night. He had a tracheostomy and has been PEG fed since July as his vocal cords were so damaged from the ventilator. Since August he's been recovering in a care home.

Last week they finally removed the tracheostomy and next week HE'S COMING HOME

It will be exactly a year to the day the ambulance took him to hospital

Zoe88 said:

I'm not having it cause I'm recently pregnant and I don't want it to get messed up. I've read it changes lots of women's periods so who knows what could happen.. don't want to miscarry

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There is no evidence for it affecting menstrual cycles or causing miscarriages, please don’t scare people. Since you’re recently pregnant, that’s a good enough reason but why speculate. I’m outta this thread, makes my blood boil

I need to share my joy with you lot....

After nearly a year of doing our weekly shop online and having it delivered, I had a mini meltdown yesterday and declared that I was doing the weekly shop (2 adults, 3 kids) at.....wait for it....M&S. It's our closest store but obvs I have only ever driven past it because we ain't rich. We are more of an Asda Smart Price kinda budget.

Husband looked like he might say something (something eminently sensible to be fair.....something like "Are you fucking kidding me....we can't afford that" etc) but then I gave him THE LOOK. You know the one....the one that you can give after knowing someone for over 20 years....the look that says " You do NOT want to pick this fight." I have not socialised in I don't know how long. I am Mary Poppins to our kids and an unpaid Homeschooling guru. All I do is cook, clean, homeschool and walk the dog. For months. I need this.

So I drive the 2 mins to M&S like I'm in my way to fucking Heathrow to embark on a 5* break to Dubai. I am high on life I spent over twice our normal weekly budget....a blistering £197 in total. But do you know what I handed over my debit card like a bad ass mother-fucker like YEAH BABY...

Husband looked quite tearful when I gleefully showed him the receipt- it was like the opposite of one of those TV shows where they show you how much you can save by swapping to Aldi. I was like "Aren't I clever...I managed to nearly spend £200 on food"

Anyway, I bought a few tins of 8% Mojito so hubby will have gotten over it when I drink them tonight and turn into a crazy drunken horny Mum, let him feel my boobs (maybe more ladies...just maybe!) and fall asleep by 8pm.

We'll be on Asda smart price for everything for the next 2 months to make up for it but I do not give one solitary shiny shit.

I’ve been working in ICU. We have many pts on CPAP. I left one shift last week and some of the CPAP pts looked terribly unwell , then I was back on the bay three days later and they were sat up in bed with just a small amount of nasal oxygen and a cuppa . We have more recovering than otherwise . Cmon Bojo

My father in law died just after midnight

Cancer, delayed treatment due to covid.

All I've said all year is i just wanted all of us to make it out alive. It just wasn't to be

As horrible as this sounds i now have to hope my kids primary school opens as planned otherwise i can't go to the funeral.

We are tier 4. Are we even allowed funerals? My head hurts. My heart hurts.

I made it onto our local Facebook neighbourhood page last week because I had a skip delivered. They put it on our drive, no contact was made, he tapped the window to let me know it was on the drive and I responded with an awkward thank you thumbs up gesture. The road was not happy that I was endangering the skip lorry drivers life and that a skip isn't essential.

I've still got my skip and lots of lovely space in it and the same arse who took a pic of the front of my house with the skip and put it on there to slag me off has spent 3.5 hours in the queue for the tip today and is "furious" because they were only accepting garden waste and household waste, not the chest of drawers he was trying to dispose off.

The neighbourly thing would let him use my skip but tough, he can fuck off!

Just needed to share with you all that I've just got home from the hospital where my latest biopsy has shown no cancerous cells. After 8 months of chemotherapy I've finally done it!

Can I just say ( if I'm allowed ) tattle life has had such bad press and people have tried to close it down,
But I have to say a MASSIVE thank you to who ever started tattle life it has actually been so helpful and my saviour while the coronavirus is going on, people on here are so supportive of each other , help strangers on here when they can, it's been my light relief, made me smiles and sad and has kept me sane while living with just my son and not being able to go out and see other people , you don't try and sell or push products on people and you all don't try and live in a perfect world with perfect family and homes ,,, so thank you to each and everyone of you on here , you may not be working on the front lines but you are helping with people's mental health

Is that 18 or 19 countries that have now closed all schools, uni and mass gatherings?

Meanwhile over at Cheltenham

I’m not having the jab. Neither is my partner and neither will my children. We live a relatively healthy lifestyle and trust in our immune system. We don’t have the flu jab either and have survived quite well all these years.
We are in the minority and I’m totally fine with that.

Not sure what part of my comment is funny but I’m guessing you are both vaccinated.
Judging by the comments by those that are vaccinated I would be inclined to believe they stick something in it that gives you an ‘I’m better then you’ complex because they feel it’s their job now they’ve been jabbed to berate those that have a difference of opinion

I was so fine for a new lockdown

but it has completely broken me tonight, my husband has now been told he won’t be coming home again until at least March

12 weeks since this time last year I’ve seen him now. And i have to endure another lockdown without him
I’m broken

Probably a massively unpopular opinion, but Keir starmer is really begining to get on my tits.

Complaining about not following "the science" when if the scientists (on their gold plated pensions without the worries that the majority have) would love to tell everyone to stay at home for the next few years with no thought of the ramifications. Along making other petty low blows and misleading comments.

Yet again I'm in the wilderness and if there was an election tomorrow there would be no one I'd want to vote for.

Someone posted about this whole thing making you realise you hate your job.....I had this reply typed out, so you’re getting it now whether you want it or not

I resigned from a high-stress job 6 months ago. We moved 3 hrs away, to a more rural location; the house price difference meant that we could pay off 65% mortgage so I can be a lady of leisure for a good few years, with hubby working from home. (sorry if I sound like a smug asshole; I’m still chuffed that we pulled it off )

Ironically, my previous role will have been off-the-scale busy and stressful during this crisis and do you know what, despite a little professional interest in how my successor is handling it, I can honestly say that 90% of me is so happy and relieved that I don’t have to concern myself with all that shit. I read a quote somewhere that said ”If you die on a Monday, your role will be advertised on the next working day.” and it’s true......unless you have a genuine vocation, the vast majority of paid employment is just that- an exchange of money for labour. So many of us become so invested, because we’re conscientious and hard-working, and it’s a shame really because it comes at the expense of what really matters which is our own life, family and friends.

I feel irritated now at the amount of time my work laptop was ’on’ at home when I wasn’t officially working, the number of nights my husband would put my kids to bed as I sat downstairs still working (I was only in a 9-5 role but there was a culture of working outside of those hours), the amount of my leisure/family time where I would take a work call when I should have turned my phone off.

My 3 kids have been home from school with me for several weeks now, and opposed to frantically trying to homeschool them alongside working from home, which would have been my previous situation (and would have brought so much stress on us all), we’ve (strangely) had a really lovely few weeks. Don’t get me wrong I am aware how lucky we have it, but lockdown has been....well....kinda nice? Our lives have become smaller; no outings, no cinema, bowling, a holiday cancelled, no swimming, hobbies,.....but we go for a long walk every day, we have watched films together, baked cakes, played games, probably got to know each other better and laughed more than we have in a long time. Don’t get me wrong it’s been a fucking ball ache having them all home as well (much gin has been consumed), but it’s confirmed for me what matters and it sure as hell ain’t work. Those fuckers haven’t missed or needed me at all....and Jesus I worked my god damn ass off for that company for years.

justhavinganosie said:

I follow the rules completely by social distancing, wearing PPE and washing my hands but I am refusing to be forced into having a vaccine for the sake of it because it is our human right to choose what we want injected into our bodies.

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So did I follow all the rules completely and still got it. It’s a highly infectious disease. I don’t understand why anyone working in healthcare would want to put their patients at risk.

I am not having it. Just my personal choice but I work in healthcare and have seen they are trying to make it mandatory to have it but that means I will leave because I am not being forced into having it. Anyone else here NOT having it and if so, why not? Ps I am not antivax and definitely not up for a debate about it I just want people's input on it x