Little things about Lockdown that you miss.

[Marina Salty]

The luxury of getting up for work 5 minutes before you actually started working and not having to worry about bus train taxi commute time

 

[disneyteletubby]

Discovering new (old) music, including Enya

 

[Marina Salty]

Going for a quick swim on my lunch break

 

[Indie]

I hated just about everything to do with lockdown.

However:

Cycling on some main thoroughfares without many cars around
The opportunity to alphabetise my herbs and spices
Bread making

 

[RJN]

Hanging out and drinking in the park instead of at a bar, which is so much cheaper

 

[Soldi]

Jumping to the front of the queue at supermarkets with my NHS badge despite not being remotely clinical

I am somewhat clinical but was still calling myself a HERO KEYWORKER for months

 

[AGinAg (37)]

I miss watching old Eurovision.

 

[Soldi]

Eurovision 1999 rewatch anyone?

 

[Generic Account]

My online writing class on a Friday morning.

COB karaoke

Morning walks and audiobooks without rushing home for work

 

[RS]

Low interest rate and inflation

 

[Ellie]

QUIET roads and lack of air pollution in London.

 

[Jocasta Clun]

I MISS EVERYTHING ABOUT IT

 

[BoysForSeles]

The first few months where I was furloughed.

I didn’t get a single hour off having been inexplicably categorised as a key worker. #fumin

 

[RS]

As macabre as it sounds, and I’m sorry for that, but the country stats and charts were kind of thrilling.

 

[Marina Salty]

That sudden spike in Italy is still terrifying.

 

[Ellie]

I didn’t get a single hour off having been inexplicably categorised as a key worker. #fumin

Same. I wouldn’t have minded so much if it was all of us, but our work sorted through the workforce to identify the ‘key teams’ they needed to keep on at all times. Then we’d have Friday meetings on Teams and the people who were furloughed would swap around on rotation every 3 weeks. They’d literally be on laptops sunning themselves in a garden going “byeee, see you next month” while the rest of us sat in a stuffy room every day.

The worst part was that the furloughed people originally agreed that they’d lose a few days accrued annual leave as a result, but when it came to Christmas and they realised, they all kicked up a stink and managed to get it put back

 

[Rita]

The weather really was glorious throughout lockdown. I remember painting outside with my easel in a bikini the majority of the time and haven’t painted since. To begin with I loved it as I got to spend every moment with the kids and didn’t have to share them with anyone else but it was a very scary time and felt a bit like we were going through an apocalypse.

 

[Rita]

I must ask though. Did everyone stick to the rules? I was very stringent with them initially but by Christmas we had gave up with them completely and were sick fed up.

 

[ZenGiraffe]

I remember painting outside with my easel in a bikini

In PERTHSHIRE!?

 

[ZenGiraffe]

I must ask though. Did everyone stick to the rules? I was very stringent with them initially but by Christmas we had gave up with them completely and were sick fed up.

I was pretty good, to the point that I watched the presidential election night coverage outside on the balcony to remain within the rules, and exchanged Christmas presents outside with my parents while watching literally every other house on the street break the rules.

But I am fuelled by SMUG RIGHTEOUS SUPERIORITY so it didn't bother me

 

[Rita]

In PERTHSHIRE!?

Yes. From memory we had it over 20 degrees from April right through. It was GLORIOUS.

 

[Generic Account]

We followed properly for the first lockdown, but got a little less intense about it by June (though I can't remember if that was still proper lockdown or not). Then I was in Italy all summer and when I came back it was all very wishy washy and it mostly blends into one big blur of half sticking to rules until early 2022.

 

[Generic Account]

I forget when it felt normal to visit people's houses again. There was definitely a point in late 2021/early 2022 when we had a puzzle night and felt like we were breaking the law.

 

[Rita]

My house here is literally in the middle of nowhere. I don’t have any health issues, and neither do any of my children. I wasn’t visiting anyone who did have any health issues nor did they come here as I was still terrified I would pass something on and kill someone.

 

[Dark Carnival]

I didn’t get a single hour off having been inexplicably categorised as a key worker. #fumin

Same. Which was complete and utter bullshit. But my boss was a bastard.

 

[Dark Carnival]

Eurovision again was fun and the first week where we got drunk over FaceTime. Everything else was awful I hate that time and still haven’t fully recovered.

 

[Music]

Drinking wine everyday during the week around 5pm when I finished working.

 

[Generic Account]

I liked the month or two when clapping for heroes didn't evil.

We had scrabble on a Thursday evening, followed by a clap, and then a little walk around the roads by sunset.

 

[octophone]

As someone who had to work in an office the whole way through it, very little. I enjoyed drunk Eurovision on here.

 

[Ellie]

I must ask though. Did everyone stick to the rules? I was very stringent with them initially but by Christmas we had gave up with them completely and were sick fed up.

The only rule I broke was when everything opened up and we were restricted to socialising with one other “bubbled” household. For my 40th birthday meal, we went out with technically 3 households worth.

 

[octophone]

I was an absolute bugger for the rules. My nephew was 2 months premature and was on an an oxygen cylinder until he was 9 months old. He was 3 and 3 months when this started and we were all petrified of him catching anything.

 

[Kratz]

Everything

EDIT: OK not the mass death but the slower pace of life.

 

[Marina Salty]

Sometimes I texted the national number for requests to go out with the "walk the dog" request code, even though I didn't have a dog at the time.

 

[RJN]

You had to ask permission to go for a walk?

 

[rhythmbandit]

I must ask though. Did everyone stick to the rules? I was very stringent with them initially but by Christmas we had gave up with them completely and were sick fed up.

I was until the December when Wonder Woman 2 came out and I went on three buses to Harrogate Everyman Cinema because they weren't under such strict rules. It was such a thrill seeing everything open.

 

[Marina Salty]

You had to ask permission to go for a walk?

Yes, otherwise you were risking to pay a fine if u were caught outside with no declared purpose.

 

[GNL]

Yes, otherwise you were risking to pay a fine if u were caught outside with no declared purpose.

What if you were caught without a dog?

 

[RJN]

What if you were caught without a dog?

The only way to go for a run was pretending to be searching for a lost dog

 

[Marina Salty]

What if you were caught without a dog?

Was living in a village at the time, the txt msgs thing was trying to regulate the movement in urban population, in reality nobody was paying attention to us.

 

[lolly]

I didn’t get a single hour off having been inexplicably categorised as a key worker. #fumin

Yes, I STILL carry an amount of resentment about that. As well as an equal amount of gratitude that I could carry on working as I'm quite sure I'd have lost the plot if I hadn't.

But I'm sure about a month or so of furlough would have gone down a right treat before the rot set in...