It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas Off Topic Chat

TRS30

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118865116#Comment_118865116

Yep, can feel an improvement after the first 48 hrs or so. Cough is still hanging around which is annoying more than anything else.

Will test again Monday & Tuesday and hopefully be negative so can finally leave the attic!

Loughc

antimatterx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118871917#Comment_118871917

I'm tempted. Mine goes up start of November, so only 7 months.

freshpopcorn

I got these bath bombs at Christmas. They are 5 in pack. I used my first one for Rudulph Day in March. They next four over the next four sort of Christmas free months.

Then I'll have the Brown Thomas Christmsd shop in August.

BK5

Traffic quiet here the last few days, does having a hangover qualify as Christmassy? 😄

Hope everyone is having a great weekend, weather is great here.

Posy

It's been a lovely day! I sat in the sun for most of the afternoon, as I doubt I'll see much of it next week! 🌞

TRS30

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118875221#Comment_118875221

I've been looking at the sun out the velux window :(

DvB

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118875286#Comment_118875286

Still isolating? Hoping you feel a bit better anyway.

freshpopcorn

Census Time!

Posy

Love it. 😁

TRS30

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118875360#Comment_118875360

Today is day 7 should should be finished. Took a test yesterday and came back with a strong positive! Will do another one this morning and see.

Hope everyone had a nice weekend.

Looks a bit grey and dull out there, where I am.

Caranica

I didn't test negative until Day 10. I had a feint second line on Day 6 and a strong one on Day 7 so I understand the frustration!

jellybear

@TRS30 Make sure to read up on ending isolation on the HSE website. As Caranica said, you may still test positive on antigens for days. It's based more on synptoms, minus a cough, which can linger. You need to be symptom free for 48 hours.

My husband finishes his isolation today- thank God!!!- and he'll be wearing an FFP2 mask around us and will still sleep in the spare room, eat separately etc for the next few days, just to be on the safe side 🙂

Hope you're feeling better though and I'm sure you can't wait to see the back of that attic room!😄

DvB

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118877223#Comment_118877223

I had covid at the time the guidelines said that if you tested negative on Day 10 you could stop isolating (full isolation was 12 days I think at the time) but it was Day 12 before I returned a negative test. As i was more or less asymptomatic it was incredibly frustrating. Very few people I know have tested negative after just 7 days.

CheerLouth

Hope you are feeling better, @TRS30 & not going up the walls. I didn't test negative until Day 11 so I feel your pain! We had to do a full 14 days of isolation as a family as our smaller kids weren't vaccinated & we couldn't isolate from them fully.

DvB

FTR i noticed that today is day 100 since last Christmas... that's been an incredibly fast 100 days IMO!!

TRS30

Thanks all. Have felt fine the last few days, just the cough, which seems to be a regular thing. Have done the 7 days so got up this morning, had a shower and came downstairs. Kids are all in school and wife had now got a positive antigen this morning! She only had it at Christmas, as most of you know, so seems like this particular variant is very very transmissible as she kept her distance as soon as i tested positive last week.

It just seems like it's never ending and looks like youngest's birthday party is going to be scraped again. She is only 3 so have never had a party :(

Sorry rant over.

jellybear

Awh @TRS30 that's just the pits 😔 You guys must be so disappointed! I'm glad you're on the mend though and hopefully your wife won't feel too unwell.

CheerLouth

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118877820#Comment_118877820

Ah jeez, that is awful, TRS! Hope she is not feeling too ill! It's a nightmare

Cork Lass

@TRS30 - that’s awful. Have heard of lots of cases where people who had it recently have gotten it again. Hope things improve for you soon.

BK5

Happy Friday everyone. We finished off a big tin of Quality Street last night, I think it was the last thing in the house from Christmas.

Anyone else have anything left over?

DvB

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118896772#Comment_118896772

Still have 2 dozen mince pies in the freezer. Usually oepn a packet around easter so they'll be half gone in a week or two! The rest I'll defrost & eat in the summer. Started doing this a couple of years ago & love the odd treat of a mince pie out of season.

antimatterx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118896772#Comment_118896772

In the past we've over estimated how much we needed and often had it left for months after as people were sick of eating it. This year we bought a good chunk left and have nothing which has its pros / cons 🤣

TRS30

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118896772#Comment_118896772

My wife just took a Christmas pudding out the press earlier to check the BBD. It's May so probably have it over Easter.

CheerLouth

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118896772#Comment_118896772

I think we've a tin of heroes in the press...probably through them into a chocolate biscuit cake in the next few weeks - we've two birthdays in the house in April & I love making a biscuit cake cos it freezes so well 😀

Aisling(",)

Thank god its Friday!

Did anyone see dragons den last night? There was a company where they made black Christmas ornaments. One of the girls daughters asked her if angels could only be white so she set out to right it.

CheerLouth

SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It is snowing...it's the 8th of April 🤯

Cork Lass

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118898122#Comment_118898122

We just had a heavy shower of hailstones and it's gotten very cold. Wouldn't mind a bit of snow.

Loughc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118896772#Comment_118896772

No Christmas stock left over. But Easter stock is building nicely. Why can’t holidays be sponsored by fruit and veg and not Cadbury’s. It’d save me a fortune in gym fees.

Loughc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118897121#Comment_118897121

Yeah I seen dragons den. Decorations were a great idea. Love seeing Christmas pop up unexpectedly on tv.