On a scale of 1-10, how are you enjoying or hating this lockdown ?

[Lardlizard]

1 being hating it
10 bring loving it

I’m kinda about 5
But it might fall lower as time goes on

Things I’m enjoying more time with the kids, actually playing rather than doing tasks all the the time or quite a lot of the time

The weather has been kind

Lucky enough to have things to entertain is like games garden toys crafts cooking photography books

But sad about missing family n friends, and missing going out on days out, holidays, shopping, restaurants, seaside theme parks

Hoping people can come out of this more grateful for what they have and those around them and realise how important supermarket workers are and bin men, food production people, government people,all staff that work somewhere medical inc the cleaners
People hopefully realise every single person is important

10

9 so long as I block bigger thoughts about the pandemic out of my mind. Loving not getting up at 7 and having more time. Still finding weekdays busy as working from home which hasn't been easy. Missing family and the fact that normally I get to see student daughter at Easter.

Probably 9.5. Very lucky not to have been furloughed yet. I'm speaking to my friends more. Life is slower and there is no daily stress anymore. I have time to get all the jobs done. I'm not spending 2.5 hours a day commuting. I'm seeing loads of my DS. Getting out once a day to walk the dog. This is pretty much how I've dreamed retirement will be, except I'm still occupied with work, just the right amount.

I'm so sorry to anyone struggling. I know not everyone feels this way.

9 - I'm loving it except being able to just nip to the shops to pick up little things as and when I need them, like a missing ingredient for a recipe or a frame for a nice photo I've just found in a drawer.

1. I hate it, I want it to be over.

1. In a flat with no garden and a toddler. Depression is beginning to seep in around the edges and just see no light at the end of the tunnel. Normally working full time, toddler in childcare and outside all day. We are all struggling with the changes.

I too am well aware of how lucky I am. I also know I'm lucky not to still be in a relationship with an abusive arse who didn't let me leave the house other than school runs and shopping for twenty years.

It fluctuates but probably a 5 or 6 I'm fine ,teacher so have a job.Nice house with a garden, have nice teens,but am single parent so really missing proper adult company This time has made me realise what is good in my life,my kids,home and friends,but has made me reevaluate my job ,this has to change !
I want to get in with my life now,I am sociable and miss people. My kids have now left school and I want them to be able to get on with their lives. In some ways I have enjoyed the pause,but now want to press play on our lives again.

10. Mostly because it has brought into focus all the good things I am usually too busy to notice.

I am extremely grateful that my family are in good health, that we actually enjoy spending time together, that DH and I are able to work from home, that we have a little garden, that we have food on the table, etc.

All the things I don't take for granted as such, but rarely stop and think about.

I am really enjoying not commuting, not having to do my work in a noisy open-plan office where I keep being interrupted, not having to try and snatch a bit of leisure time in between endless school runs, food shops, and drives to and from DD's various activities.

Even though my job is manic at the moment, I still get to enjoy a slower pace of life, and I am actually a lot less stressed. I do realise that this makes me extremely privileged though, and I try and find ways to help those less fortunate

I dont know. Need to work it out.

Positives.

• WFH. Love this soooo much. I never want to go back to the office again. Some day in the future when we can go back to work I will have to go back in. I'm dreading this, but trying not to think about that right now.
• I'm lucky that I still have my job and getting full pay. It gives me a reason to get up in the morning. It gives me something to do throughout the day too.
• Live rurally so I'm lucky in that respect. When I go for a run or a walk I hardly see anyone and its so easy to keep that 2M distance for the seconds it takes to pass each other.
• I've not filled the car up for over 3 weeks. I usually fill it up every 5-7 days. Sometimes more depending on my weekend plans as I often drive to take part in different parkruns and races. Plus family live a 75-90 min drive away so see them once a month normally.
• My bills have gone down due to saving money on fuel, I've paused my sky sports subscription and my gym has frozen the direct debits.

Negatives

• The unknown. I like to have an idea of what's going to happen. I absolutely hate not knowing a plan of what is going to happen. I wish someone could give us a plan. However, I'm totally aware that they can't and why they can't. It would just be a lot easier if we had definite dates when things were going to change.
• Shopping. Not a fan of grocery shopping anyway, but right now its awful. There's a real tense atmosphere in the supermarkets. The Asda where I usually go to feels unwelcoming. Like they dont want you in their shop and that they're all going to die just because I need to feed my family. DH is a much better shopper than me and knows what to get better than me, however he can't drive so now I have to go without him (we used to go together before) and I have no idea if I'm getting the right thing or not.
• Parkrun. I miss parkrun. I'm also missing the races I like to do. I miss meeting up with my running friends at these races and parkruns.
• Family worries. My parents are in their 70's. My mum has diabetes, but they are both going out shopping. My mother in law is in her 70s and has COPD. Back in Dec/Jan she had a chest infection that lasted weeks. It was then that she was diagnosed with COPD and told that she had 60% lung capacity. Yesterday she broke her foot just by going outside in her garden for some fresh air. She was in and out of hospital quickly, but she lives alone. I worry for her health both mentally and physically. I think both her and my parents never thought of themselves as old before all this.

So thinking about it. While there are some things that are a great positive for me, there are definately some negatives. I think I'll go for a mid 5.

I’m about an 8, wfh easily, older teenagers so they’re sorting themselves. I am really enjoying the slower pace of life.

My dh is probably about a 2, he’s really missing all his social interaction. He’s usually at football/rugby/seeing bands.

I’ve realised (after 23 years) we’re not very well suited

If I wasn't so worried about lack of income I'd be about a 7..
Obviously all that is going on is a massive worry and I have friends who have been affected by it.
I am however being at home with Baby DS (1) and DS (11) we live in a terraced with no garden however are lucky to live very close to both a nice coastal walk and also are on the outskirts of town so have one or two more rural walks also. I have enjoyed this as our daily fresh air.
I am enjoying having DH around however we are so used to him being away its taken a little adjusting to.
On the flip side however I miss seeing family, friends and the normal routine.

8/9

I go out to work 2 1/2 days a week and the short drive to work is a doddle.

I'm saving money as I'm not going out shopping or buying fripperies online. I go shopping for food but I'm buying much less than before.

The weather is good, my veg plants are growing, the kitten is going outside.

I can be an anti social hermit at the best of times so no-one to miss popping in or meeting up for tea and cake.

8 or 9. Enjoying the peace and quiet and slower pace of life. Making the most of having more time with DS and sleeping much better. Missing friends and family though.

Well this thread really separates the haves from the have nots doesn’t it?

^Not really. Yes I have a small garden but am in private rental which eats up most of my salary as I don't earn enough as a lone parent to get a mortgage. I'm just used to not having money for expensive days out/socialising etc so my life hasn't really changed much. I'll be into my overdraft for food by the end of the month but am grateful I at least have that to tide me over the next couple of months. Plus I'm an introvert and can happily spend a lot of time alone which probably has a lot to do with how content I am right now.

Like many others, I bounce between about 3 and 9.

Good points - I am quite introverted and enjoying being more relaxed, I love reading, I'm binge watching great stuff on Netflix, I have a garden. I live in rural France, everybody seems to be obeying the rules, I can walk along our beautiful river. I have no money worries and no vulnerable relatives. I have more time to experiment with new recipes, baking etc. and there are no food shortages here.

Bad points - I miss going to the beach and having some time with friends just hanging out, shopping, a drink etc.

But the main problem for me is my DH. He is vulnerable because of health and age, and that makes him absolutely paranoid about risk. He doesn't go out at all, I do the shopping and have to take what I consider ott precautions e.g. everything has to be quarantined for 72 hours before it comes into the house. Even things I could wash like tins and bottles, even things I am going to cook like a cauliflower because he thinks the virus can spray off it when I cut it. So that obviously restricts what I can buy. I don't need to shop more than once a week, just as well because car is also quarantined for 72 hours after every shopping trip. I'm just glad that the over 70 rules doesn't apply here because he would never trust anyone else to do what I do (and he doesn't really trust me, always checking up). It's the loss of control that's killing him. And I have to go along with it because he gets so stressed if I try to discuss the reality.

But compared with the posts I read about women who are locked down with abusive partners, this is nothing.

6/7. I'm an introvert who has previously had long periods out of work in the past due to CFS, so I know how to get through the day. I'm certainly unmotivated a lot of the time and I'm not dealing with my anxiety issues in a healthy way, apart from daily walking. I'm often restless, so can't really settle to anything and often end up wasting the whole day half-reading stuff on social media rather than getting on with reading and all the deep cleaning the house needs.

About 8/10. I quite like being at home anyway and my DS seems to be enjoying a less stressful life without deadlines and timescales. Miss going out for day trips with him but they'll happen again in time.

4

Enjoying my permitted walks each day, exploring local footpaths.

Terrified for a daughter frontline medic, that she gets it or brings it home to her young family. Worried for parents in eighties that I will never see again if they get ill. Worried for sister who lives alone many miles away.

Terrified that there is no exit plan and we will all have to get this illness over the next year or so.

Very worried about huge economic depression when and if it's all over.

Very bored of doing the same things every day. Miss sport and I never thought I'd say that!

7 for me, relatively content pottering along but I miss my friends and family and although my ds is generally an "easy" child and pretty good company, I do sometimes struggle with being the sole recipient of his internal dialogue.

8 or 9 if I ignore the news.
We are fortunate to have a big garden and my husband works from home.
I do miss taking the children out to places like the library or the zoo though.
We are able to get a weekly online shop due to one of the DC being on the shielded list, so we don't have the stress of that.

1. It's very detrimental to my wellbeing and I'm struggling with depressive thoughts. I'm sticking to it though but think if this is what life was always like there would be no point to it. We went in early BTW because I had some symptoms. So we're early 5 weeks in.

That's actually a difficult one to answer.

Today, maybe a 7. I think overall we're very lucky, in that we have a garden, have nice places we can walk, enough money, enough food, no real threat of job loss (I'm a SAHM anyway, so just referring to DPs) My DD seems content enough so far with doing home/online schooling and also is happy to chat with her friends on the phone, YouTube, do crafts, baking, mammoth jigsaw etc, but.... I miss my friends. I miss my family like crazy and I worry so much about them. My DM became ill just before lockdown, so it's been tough listening to her struggling, worrying that she's not getting the right treatment and just not being able to give her a big hug 😥

On a less important note, I'm really missing going to the pub, not going to lie! Especially on days like today. You can't beat a glass of something cold in a beer garden with a bag of nuts or salt and vinegar crisps 🥰 and just being around other people. Even if you don't really know them. Just to be around others.

I’m finding that I’m fine in my little home bubble, but I get really anxious if I have to step outside of it- even virtually. I don’t want to FaceTime, go shopping, talk to anyone except family, or think about work. It’s a bit like when I lost my mum and my brain went into power saving mode.

But then on a different day I can feel really positive. So about a 7/8, I think.

73Sunglasslover, and anyone else struggling, hang on in there, this will pass. And it you need to, call your GP. Mental health services are still running just in a different way.

An 8/9, key worker but with less to do than normal. Lucky we have running water and the NHS , have some money worries from loss of an income but could be much worse.