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badmemory

warby68 said:

Sun_Addict said:

ladyholly said:

I had a text from the NHS yesterday to say if I test positive for covid I may be offered one of the new drugs. This is due to a medical condition I have. Hopefully it's an offer I won't need. 

Mr SA had a letter to the same effect. They’re sending him a PCR test to do if he gets symptoms.

Me too

My PCR test arrived today.

Still can't decide how to play Christmas. There should be 7 of us, 4 of whom are vulnerable and 2 are students who have been out and about. One is doing lateral flow tests every day because of a contact at university before he left. Day 8 and negative so hopefully that's ok. My inclination is that everyone takes a lateral flow test on Christmas Eve for better or for worse but at least 2 family members are now very anti-testing without symptoms now and believe its time to just get on with it. Tricky

If they aren't prepared to test to protect other family members then I would be inclined to disinvite them.  After all isn't that what a lot of us have been doing for the last 2 years - protecting other members of the family.  You wouldn't get in a car with them driving if they had been drinking too much, the risks seem about parallel to me.

Seasidegal58

Just caught up with your diary SA - I glad the funeral went as well as can be as expected in the circumstances and the upside was that you got to meet your cousins. I hope you manage to meet up again at the family wedding next year. My own cousins are scattered about the country so we only get to meet if there are weddings and funerals. Unfortunately more funerals than weddings these days.
 

And I'm sorry to hear about your friends catching Covid. I do hope they improve healthwise. 

warby68

badmemory said:

warby68 said:

Sun_Addict said:

ladyholly said:

I had a text from the NHS yesterday to say if I test positive for covid I may be offered one of the new drugs. This is due to a medical condition I have. Hopefully it's an offer I won't need. 

Mr SA had a letter to the same effect. They’re sending him a PCR test to do if he gets symptoms.

Me too

My PCR test arrived today.

Still can't decide how to play Christmas. There should be 7 of us, 4 of whom are vulnerable and 2 are students who have been out and about. One is doing lateral flow tests every day because of a contact at university before he left. Day 8 and negative so hopefully that's ok. My inclination is that everyone takes a lateral flow test on Christmas Eve for better or for worse but at least 2 family members are now very anti-testing without symptoms now and believe its time to just get on with it. Tricky

If they aren't prepared to test to protect other family members then I would be inclined to disinvite them.  After all isn't that what a lot of us have been doing for the last 2 years - protecting other members of the family.  You wouldn't get in a car with them driving if they had been drinking too much, the risks seem about parallel to me.

I can't disinvite, they live here and we are the hosts!  I'm hoping for reason by Friday.  

alt80

I know a few who’ve had or currently have covid, all been mild symptoms or asymptomatic but tested positive. Generally I’m in the we need to get on with it camp but with the exception of where we are going to be around people who are vulnerable to covid. Fortunately we are all fully jabbed including boosters and apart from in-laws being older no one coming from Christmas lunch has any health problems.

@warby68 I assume the 2 family members are your children? Tbh if my wife was in the clinically vulnerable category and my adult son was refusing to test, I’d have told him to stay at uni.

Buffythedebtslayer

warby68 said:

badmemory said:

warby68 said:

Sun_Addict said:

ladyholly said:

I had a text from the NHS yesterday to say if I test positive for covid I may be offered one of the new drugs. This is due to a medical condition I have. Hopefully it's an offer I won't need. 

Mr SA had a letter to the same effect. They’re sending him a PCR test to do if he gets symptoms.

Me too

My PCR test arrived today.

Still can't decide how to play Christmas. There should be 7 of us, 4 of whom are vulnerable and 2 are students who have been out and about. One is doing lateral flow tests every day because of a contact at university before he left. Day 8 and negative so hopefully that's ok. My inclination is that everyone takes a lateral flow test on Christmas Eve for better or for worse but at least 2 family members are now very anti-testing without symptoms now and believe its time to just get on with it. Tricky

If they aren't prepared to test to protect other family members then I would be inclined to disinvite them.  After all isn't that what a lot of us have been doing for the last 2 years - protecting other members of the family.  You wouldn't get in a car with them driving if they had been drinking too much, the risks seem about parallel to me.

I can't disinvite, they live here and we are the hosts!  I'm hoping for reason by Friday.  

I can see how that would awkward! We are doing a LF test on Friday and going on the results and what my sister thinks. We would be risking the life of brother in law and frankly I would rather see him in the Summer with the sodding windows open!! 

badmemory

I guess they are too old then to be sent to their rooms.  I am probably going to cause offence here but I think that is really bad mannered not to protect vulnerable visitors but they probably don't want them to be there & hoping it will be a get out.

warby68

badmemory said:

I guess they are too old then to be sent to their rooms.  I am probably going to cause offence here but I think that is really bad mannered not to protect vulnerable visitors but they probably don't want them to be there & hoping it will be a get out.

Its not even the sons. I can't send OH to his room. Its just frustration of trying to run a business, get an education, still being where we are for a 2nd Christmas etc. If I ask they will do it. I'd just prefer they came to it themselves. It does seem to be everywhere as well at the moment so there is a bit of what's the point? Plus the vulnerable ones themselves are sick of it and are going out and about probably a bit more than wise. Its hard to keep 80+ year olds cooped up for 2 years. They want to live the time left. I am somewhere in the middle of all the views but tests before a gathering just seems a sensible precaution. Everyone is jabbed to the hilt thankfully including sons.

No, sons not trying to avoid the grandparents. Quite the opposite. They love looking after the oldies, see it as their turn now and all are close. I'm actually a bit proud of that. They have volunteered for taxi duty Christmas Day. 

I've probably given the wrong impression.

badmemory

It is part of the problem of being on here & trying not to give too much personal info away.  I sort of assumed (and we all know about that) that they weren't fully jabbed.  Very pleased I got it wrong.

Sun_Addict

Morning all, last working day of 2021 for me 😁

Should be a quiet day work-wise she says hopefully.

Have been out this morning to the big Mr T, it was quite busy but not too bad, but then it was only 7am. Managed to get the last few bits, don't need anything else now. The veg box arrived yesterday and it was full of really fresh looking veg, the cabbage still had frost on it. I've got nowhere to put anything so I'm having a kitchen cupboard reshuffle to try and make best use of the space. When we had the new kitchen I wanted lots of cupboard space, I struggled to find things to put in them at first but it didn't take me long to fill them up!

The kitten just climbed up the back of my work chair and is now on my shoulder. You don't get that in the office 🤣 She's been hassling Mr SA for his toast too. She won't sit still for 5 minutes she constantly wants to play.

It's tricky with the virus and Christmas gatherings as in warby's case. We've only got DS and the GKs coming tomorrow so there won't be many of us. I did a LFT before I went to the funeral but whether the others did who knows, it's the risk you take at the moment unfortunately.

Sun_Addict

Morning, happy Christmas Eve 🎄🥂

DS and the GKs coming later to pick up/drop off presents. I’m just going to put out a few buffet type snacks for them. A vast improvement on last year when we had to stand in the drive. 

I need to go out and get some milk, didn’t realise it was running low. I don’t use it and no one ever tells me it’s running out, same with bread and marg. So annoying. 

Will take the dog on the park, then have a quick clean/tidy round before the guests arrive. When they’ve gone it will be time for a long soak in the bath followed by a chilled evening watching TV with champagne 🥂