The Start of Insanity!

Deep breath - the days are getting longer and the nights are getting shorter - and we have a vaccine - everything to look forward to. You have got this far......not long to go.

Thanks Luckygirl - wise words ?

Sounds like a nice day to me.
You've just described pretty much every day of my life for the past ten months, minus the children, grand children and the walk.

Sending love and best wishes to you FannyCornforth ?

Exactly the same for me Fanny. It seems interminable!

Enjoy it while it lasts, NanaPlenty!

you think you had enough. !!! i'm on my own with really noisy neighbours day and night ,and no this not just over christmas .all day every day ...they get up late and dont go to bed till 3/4 am ,teenage boy talking at the top of his voice on his mobile or whatever .mother screams down the phone .tv blaring all hours . i could scream .i really could.have reported them 4 times .am so stressful and got high blood pressure too.. am going to get dressed and go out for an hour walks ..my ears hurt from blocking them up.am totally peed off from not seeing my brother over christmas ,did talk to my gc/daughter on christmas day ..can feel a headache coming on...

Thank you for your kind wishes.

Poor moggie
That sounds truly awful. I really feel for you.
We all take so much for granted.

I've got lovely, wonderful neighbours who I love dearly one side, and a bunch of lunatics the other, but nothing like that.

You must report them and keep a diary. I have you thought about starting a thread moggie or already done so?
I'm sure that you would get lots of support and advice. Another bunch for you

Oh bless you moggie I know just what that is like. I hope things get better for you. We had neighbours like that. We moved in the end.
I am finding myself very weepy at the moment. Unlike me but I hope it will soon pass .
Love to you all

Oh dear moggie that sounds stressful and miserable ?

oh BBbevan,, me too,,, I hate it.. weep when least expect it, no particular reason comes to mind, almost like a weakness..
I do meditation, read, walk, have my cat ,, so much to be thankful for, I know!!! so why!!! tell me how to stop it!!

Don't worry, NanaPlenty I hear there will be more positive information/news coming out within the next week or so and
soon the mainstream media will not be able to hide the truth any more. Get ready for revelations!

NannyC2

nanaplenty there have been a couple of times over the past few months when I've felt like you but somehow the feeling passes and is gone by the next day. It is a horrible feeling though. Once I mentioned it to a friend in an email and she instantly rallied and cheered me up. The end is in sight.

NanaPlenty, I came on with the intention of starting a new thread, but the title of your thread just appealed. Your same old, same old has certainly resonated and I do feel for you. It comes to something when the highlight of the week is to buy provisions from the supermarket.

My particular insanity is a deep seated ignorance of technology, exacerbated by those whose explanation of something that I don't understand, being: "Oh it's easy!" I have to admit, whenever I hear oh it's easy, a profanity forms in my head, but I do keep it to myself.

My current frustration is printing envelopes, never been able to do it. Three different advice or help quotes all start:
Open OOo Writer. I have searched and searched for the OOo Writer and finally gave up, ended up writing the envelope by hand. I always give up, I have given up trying to fathom my smart phone, it's too smart for me, I can't record a TV program, set the satnav, recall anything of the dashcam or buy on line. But I'm still here, so it can't be that bad, just as long as cash isn't consigned to history. Damned if I will ever point my phone at a gizmo to pay a bill.

I think some of us might have to dig deep to locate our confidence when all this is over.

Hardly seeing anybody, not going anywhere and missing what were once normal activities is making me feel that it's going to take a lot of effort to get back on track.`

And we'll all be a year older!

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

Spangler really? Printing envelopes?

I think we e kept going because Christmas was on the horizon. It was something to look forward to , one way or another. Now it’s over and we need something to latch on to, for the future.
Poor Moggy is there nothing you can do about it? How awful for you. ?

I too have the post Christmas or early January blues today. I’ve had the odd day feeling like this during the last 10 months so I’m hoping this will pass quickly too.

I m another who really has had enough I m not housebound so should be looked on as privileged but I can’t find anything at all to urge me on I m doing all the right things and doing my best to keep others’ spirits up but all my day seems to consist of is going to bed and getting up and precious little in between
I think we d all manage better if we had an end date (which I know isn’t possible) but something to work towards makes a huge difference

I am so pleased that this thread has been started, i have been thinking that I have the beginning of dementia.
My brain is like mush sometimes. The less I have to do, the less I want to do. And I have found myself wondering why I am in this room. what did I have for breakfast? What is today's date?

Boy oh boy I shouldn't be allowed out on my own.

I think part of the trouble is that at the beginning of the pandemic a lot of us really hoped that with lockdown and social distancing etc the virus would be kept under control. In the summer it really seemed that this would happen. But as restrictions got lifted infections rose and probably a lot of people stopped being so careful. We were promised so many things. A World Beating Track and Trace System, lots of parts of the country would be offered mass testing and now mass vaccination. We were let down on the first two and the vaccine is not going at the pace we were promised. No wonder people feel there is nothing to look forward to seeing you when hopes have been dashed in the past.Decisions are made that make no sense and then changed at the last minute. It feels like being on a bus without a driver. We need a Government we can trust and have confidence in, only then will people feel they have a future to look forward to.

Noisy neighbours can really get you down, have you looked at Noise Cancelling Headphones my Dad wore them so he could read without being disturbed by the sound of a loud TV, said they worked a treat.

I'm sure my brain is going to mush. All there is to think about is supermarket deliveries, whether or not to put a wash on and checking the diary for DH's medical appointments.

I even watched a couple of episodes of Jeremy Vine on channel 5 just before Christmas because watching ignorant, bigoted people arguing the toss was strangely therapeutic.