MakeMineADouble
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Just been announced that Chester Zoo is reopening on the 15th
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Londoncailín
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That shop gives me a migraine from at least a mile away.
prinnygrace
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“Zoos are very close to my heart... because... uh.... uh.... because... erm..., I’m from Chester... zoozooozoozoozoo”
prinnygrace
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This is the saddest part of lockdown. The left picture I took the last time I went to see my cousin’s baby boy. The right picture she just sent me of him now. My whole family have missed out on so much of his first months
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Jellycat99
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Just read that our local zoo has been told to stay closed indefinitely and it's made me feel a bit weepy, sometimes it feels as if we will never go back to normal.
I don't care about going to primark or pissing ikea, I just wanted to be able to take my kids out to the place they love best.
I don't care about going to primark or pissing ikea, I just wanted to be able to take my kids out to the place they love best.
I seriously just don’t think the protests are anywhere near in the same league as having parties or meeting friends and family during the strictest part of the lockdown. Endangering people during a pandemic because you just want to socialise vs making a stand against systemic wide spread racism are two totally different things.
JLXRD
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I've actually started getting up every day and putting on makeup and dressing as though i were going to work to work from home at 9 in my living room the last few weeks. I feel like for me, it's had a really positive impact on my mental health and productivity. Also running before work 3 days a week has really helped.
My company announced today that it's likely my team won't be back in the office in 2020, so I'm glad in a way I've got some semblance of routine now to see me through.
My company announced today that it's likely my team won't be back in the office in 2020, so I'm glad in a way I've got some semblance of routine now to see me through.
prinnygrace
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Compulsory face masks on public transport is a very good move in my opinion if they want people to be comfortable going back to work
xoxo GG
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My cousin is BAME and he says he’s far more terrified of ‘normal’ things like going on a night out, a spot check by the police or even starting a new job than he is covid. He’s faced racism and derogatory remarks his whole life, he just wants to be seen as an equal. It breaks my heart because he has the kindest soul, he’s intelligent, has a masters degree yet all anybody ever judges him off is the colour of his skin, not the person he is. It’s wrong, just so so wrong.
MakeMineADouble
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When will the sex ban between various households be lifted?
Asking fora friend Boris
Asking for
SarahGard83
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Husbands work just emailed. He's not back at work until 1st September at the earliest 
xoxo GG
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I will openly admit I’ve eased my restrictions slightly. I spent 5 minutes in my Mums kitchen the other day before we went outside just having a chat and it’s helped my mental health so much. My little one will be going there again whilst we are at work as my parents are healthy, no underlying conditions and still relatively young. We won’t be visiting inside the house and dropping off our little one will be done via the doorstep but I feel like the weight of the world has finally been taken off our shoulders.
leoladyxo
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I have been shielding for weeks now and still don’t really feel safe enough to start seeing the outside world. My boyfriend, who I have been with for three years and living together for 2.5 years, has been doing his best to keep me safe and has been running errands for us regularly. I have been furloughed but he is still working from home. He very kindly bought me an iPad to keep me entertained. I think that he is starting to get fed up of being cooped up at home. He, like everyone, is missing his family and friends. We don’t live near either of our families, so meeting up outside is not an option sadly. He has been to play golf with his friend once.
He has begun taking his work stress out on me. His office space during this time is in between our bedroom and en suite. It’s realistically the only space that we had to build a desk in. He is quite senior at his company and has been doing 7:30 to 18:00 most days. He snaps at me a lot and calls me lazy because I’m not working, which was out of my control. I am revising and preparing for my finance exams at the moment and cooking and preparing lunch and dinner for him 5 days out of 7. I’m trying new recipes for variety and he seems appreciative of this, but that is really as far as his kindness goes at the moment. Most of the time he treats me as though I am in the way - he even takes issue with me walking behind him whilst he is on a video call with work. I can offer him a drink whilst he is working and he snaps at me. He’s started smoking weed every night to cope with his work stress so when I do get to spend time with him in the evenings, he isn’t really himself. He’s a giggly, sillier version, which the first few times were fine, but it has now been every day for 2 weeks. It’s really upsetting and I suggested that he ask his work if he could work from the office because nobody else is there and the internet connection is better. I just really feel like we need some space. I hate hearing him be nice to everyone else on the phone, whether that be work contacts or family and friends and comparing that with the way he speaks to me. I’ve told him that I feel unappreciated and he doesn’t seem to acknowledge that there is a problem.
I needed to vent because as strong as I am mentally with dealing with lockdown itself, my relationship is now starting to suffer and I feel very conflicted.
He has begun taking his work stress out on me. His office space during this time is in between our bedroom and en suite. It’s realistically the only space that we had to build a desk in. He is quite senior at his company and has been doing 7:30 to 18:00 most days. He snaps at me a lot and calls me lazy because I’m not working, which was out of my control. I am revising and preparing for my finance exams at the moment and cooking and preparing lunch and dinner for him 5 days out of 7. I’m trying new recipes for variety and he seems appreciative of this, but that is really as far as his kindness goes at the moment. Most of the time he treats me as though I am in the way - he even takes issue with me walking behind him whilst he is on a video call with work. I can offer him a drink whilst he is working and he snaps at me. He’s started smoking weed every night to cope with his work stress so when I do get to spend time with him in the evenings, he isn’t really himself. He’s a giggly, sillier version, which the first few times were fine, but it has now been every day for 2 weeks. It’s really upsetting and I suggested that he ask his work if he could work from the office because nobody else is there and the internet connection is better. I just really feel like we need some space. I hate hearing him be nice to everyone else on the phone, whether that be work contacts or family and friends and comparing that with the way he speaks to me. I’ve told him that I feel unappreciated and he doesn’t seem to acknowledge that there is a problem.
I needed to vent because as strong as I am mentally with dealing with lockdown itself, my relationship is now starting to suffer and I feel very conflicted.
leoladyxo
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I think that as a white person, I can’t even begin to truly understand the rage and hurt that people of colour feel. I can’t condone looting, but in terms of violence, if you felt victimised every single day of your life, then you might resort to violence too if you felt it might help to change what you are experiencing relentlessly.
Hannah8812
Member
We are definitely getting there! I know some people think we are going to have a rise in a few weeks but I don’t believe we will have a massive spike or second wave. I think they are just trying to terrify people now. Just have to be positive and see how much it’s going down! 
SarahGard83
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I told my husband that the Icelandic people had adopted all the penguins
. I didn't realise it meant the shop!Just reading about the shops opening and saw this “Kurt Geiger is planning to quarantine shoes for 24 hours after being tried on, and Waterstones will take books off the shop floor for three days if they are touched by someone who doesn’t buy them” this is ridiculous.
First off that’s just a ridiculous amount of work for staff especially in somewhere like Waterstones. I mean what are they going to do follow every customer around in case they god forbid touch a book.
Sorry this whole thing is just becoming a circus
this is ridiculous. First off that’s just a ridiculous amount of work for staff especially in somewhere like Waterstones. I mean what are they going to do follow every customer around in case they god forbid touch a book.
Sorry this whole thing is just becoming a circus
MakeMineADouble
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This is very much conspiracy but does anyone remember Sylvia Browns claims in her predictions
“In around 2020 a severe pneumonia-like illness will spread throughout the globe, attacking the lungs and the bronchial tubes and resisting all known treatments.”
“Almost more baffling than the illness itself will be the fact that it will suddenly vanish as quickly as it has arrived, attack again 10 years later, and then disappear completely.”
I take these things with a pinch of salt but I can’t quite help but believe it will go as quick as it came.
I will get my tin hat and make my way out.....
“In around 2020 a severe pneumonia-like illness will spread throughout the globe, attacking the lungs and the bronchial tubes and resisting all known treatments.”
“Almost more baffling than the illness itself will be the fact that it will suddenly vanish as quickly as it has arrived, attack again 10 years later, and then disappear completely.”
I take these things with a pinch of salt but I can’t quite help but believe it will go as quick as it came.
I will get my tin hat and make my way out.....