What are you going to do when all this is over?

[Twospaniels]

Daughters (in their 20’s) and I will go to York or Leeds for a shopping trip, possibly overnight stay.

We will go for a lovely meal out

We will get a Big Mac Meal

We’ll go for a spa day

I will drive the 80m to visit my parents. I feel bad because they are in their 80’s, mum is disabled now and they are lonely. Can’t wait to visit them.

The above are not necessarily in any order 😁

Drive to my Mum and Dad's house. Hug them. Stop at my best mate's house on the way back. Hug her, her bloke and her kids.

Cook an absolute fuckton of delicious food and have an open house afternoon so all my friends can drop in and eat and enjoy each others company...

Go to the charity shop and to the tip to get rid of all the decluttering we've been doing

But also go and visit my dd and give her big hugs.
Go to the seaside
Go out for some meals

Hug everyone in sight.
Visit relatives, including the new one, who is due to be born quite soon.
Buy some new shoes.
Pick up my hobby where I left off.
See friends.
Go to the supermarket without gloves on.
Make an appointment to see my osteopath.

Drive to Chester to see my dp, go on lots of lovely dates and have lots of sex

Big joint 60th for DW and I, but first have DGS overnight for the beach, splashy bath, playing catch on the stairs etc. Full Turkish barbering, have our friends up to stay, go to the cinema.

On a more sombre note, help to organise a wake for my uncle. He died 2 weeks ago, and of course there couldn't be a funeral.

@DisgraceToTheYChromosome

So sorry for your loss. It must be hard having to wait such a long time until you can have the wake.

A neighbour of mine has died and I don’t suppose we will be at a wake for him for some weeks yet ☹️

Going to have a massive party (obviously only when it is completely safe to do so)

Go and give my nephew his birthday presents.
Go and visit my best friend and her new baby.
Go to the beach for a walk and an ice cream.
Get on a train for a day out, I don't mind where to!
Oh, and go and buy new bras!

Have a bbq for Dsis' 50th/Dnephews 1st/late Easter/1st anniversary of Ddad passing away.
Get a haircut and my eyebrows done
Go to the beach

Buy an annual ticket for all the museums in my town, plus an annual ticket for all botanical gardens. I already have one for the zoo.
Got to the dentist.
Have my hair cut.

Organise a HUGE meal out somewhere posh for me and my (adult) kids. Drink too much, eat too much and hug the hell out of all of them.
Go shopping into the city and buy all the stuff for my new house that I've been itching to get!
Ditto garden centres and get loads of new plants and tubs for the new garden.
Arrange for someone to come and paint my bedroom.
Get friend over with spanners and electric screwdriver and take my bed to bits so I can swivel it round (I had to rush to move and the bed isn't right but it's too big to move without taking to bits).
Have my sodding hair cut. 2020 is the year of Dreadful Hair.

Book a weekend away near a beach for me and dog
Take dog to localish reservoir so she can have a good run off lead.

Have my nails and lashes done.

Buy pasta - still none in our supermarkets and all of a sudden it’s all I want to eat.

Go to the beach with the DC.

See friends and hug them

Get my huge garden landscaped.

We kept putting off clearing the concrete, trees and random obstacles, as it looked like it would cost us a few thousand, and wasn't a priority.

Now we're stuck in the house looking at the unusable space out of the window, and DS3 and DD2 are too little for us to walk with them on the main (pavement less) road to our local nature reserve (3 minutes drive away), and they've now closed the car park.

Load the children (DS9 and DD7) in the car and drive straight to my parents' house (5 hours away, very rural, we're in Central London), hug them, and then stay with them - riding the horses, swimming in the river, having picnics, walking the dogs etc.

Go back via my sister and her husband and their farm on the coast, see my nephew who is a baby (my children miss him so much), hide in maize fields with my children, pass their lunch up to them in their tree house, have supper and toast marshmallows around the fire pit at night, go to the beach and lie in the sun and swim in the sea.

Go to church and take communion and shake hands with everyone when it is the Peace - all the services are on YouTube at the moment.

Re-arrange the various fundraising activities I had lined up for Children with Cancer UK (DS has been receiving treatment for cancer for nearly 4 years now, he finally finishes chemo in July, until then he's high risk/ sheilded etc. Which is hard for a 9 year old boy....)

Go to the theatre and the cinema in real life.

Go to the Tate Modern and the V&A, visit paintings I love and keep in my mind's eye.

Organise a giant picnic with all the children's friends and their parents, and spend all day watching our kids be so happy just to be together again.

(All this in no particular order except 1. That is definitely happening first.)

DisgraceToTheYChromosome

Sorry for your loss. We will be doing the same for my Mum when my sister can fly back and my DD can travel home from London.
What I'd most like to do is give my Dad ( coping with bereavement whilst in isolation) the biggest bear hug ever.

Getting KFC for tea and going running twice in one day.

Have booked to go to Butlins at the end of June so possibly that (though expecting that to be cancelled in all honesty - still hoping though)

Thank you OP. This is truly an uplifting post, & I enjoyed laughing & smiling reading all the responses.
All really achievable. Especially mooching in Primark. Love it.❤️

Go and see my mum and dad. Go for a sea side trip somewhere. Go out drinking one night with my friends.

I suspect I will be the first in the queue at the divorce solicitors. I have realised what a miserable sod DH is and that I can't face retirement with him.

Take DS for his birthday trip to Chester zoo.
Via my parents house for a big hug
Take the family to a restaurant for a big slap up dinner.
Go to London and visit my sister and go to the national gallery. I've never been, and have kicked the can down the road.
Go to Primark and buy lots.

Hoping against hope our UK holiday at end of July will still be ok.....

Lots of day trips! Dover castle. Dymchurch beach. Chessington and/or Legoland (never been to either and think my sons 4 and 7 would love it).

Book a holiday somewhere hot and unbearably beautiful.

Have a Thai massage.

Get a gel pedi and a spray tan.

Bar crawl round Soho with work colleagues and a 5 Guys at midnight - miss the last train home.

Shopping for non essentials - YES to Primark!

Eat out: lots. Everywhere from McDonald’s with the kids to posh sushi up town with DH. I hate cooking and miss eating out so much.

Afternoon tea, plan and go on holiday. Firstly Cornwall. Not been for around 10 years. A long leisurely escapade around the Cornwall.
If dh and I still have jobs that is.

Picnics out, lots of walks in our area.

Chinese in London., show and invite my dearest friend around. We normally host him at Easter told.

Visit my mum and dad so they can give my 3 year old a hug and hold my newborn baby.

Then visit the in laws for the same.

Hug my friends