What’s Comforting You In These Scary Times?

[BrandyandBabycham]

Making lists
The BBC
Familiar things around me
DH & DD11
Phoning my Mum & Dad everyday & knowing they are well & have everything they need
Knowing all my extended family & friends are well
Cooking & baking. DH is doing lots more than usual & it’s great!
My wonderful bunnies
Living in Cornwall where ( for now at least) our case/death rate of CV is relatively low
Sunshine
Playing the piano
Still being able to laugh
Turned out I wasn’t an alcoholic as I’m doing ok without wine. Was getting dependent though which was worrying
A good old cuppa!

A cup of good wine
Books and magazine
Scrabble
Pine cones
Netflix
The Internet seriously
My neighbors
My camera
Amazing partner and my children too
Sunshine
Going on walks
God

The garden
My DCs being safe at home
My greenhouse
DH
The dog
Books
My hammock
The sunshine
The birds singing

My children and how calmly they're dealing with it all
My Dog
Messaging my sister silly memes and observations throughout the day.
Going for a run each morning, early so few people about on a big, open green space - in a city so getting away from people not easy
The Sopranos and various other box sets.
Making big cakes
My neighbours opposite - we are not that close but they're lovely people and knowing they'd take my kids until I could make alternative arrangements has helped me to to feel less panicky - am a single parent.

God and prayer!! The only thing for me

Cuddling DP and kids.
Colouring
My work (part time carer for one elderly couple)
Prayer
My gratitude journal
Chopping veg and making soup. It really soothes my soul!
Flylady

Coffee
Hugs with my 5 month old
Walks in bluebell wood next to house
Going to bed at 7.30pm - exhausted

DH seems to be recovering
DC have no more symptoms
Sunshine
My dog
Mumsnet for company
Keeping track of statistics

1. Being able to chat to my neighbour in our own front gardens.
2. Video calls to friends and family
3. My dog and cat
4. Writing my stories/blog
5. Netflix and my favorite DVDs that I have watched so many times but make me feel that life is normal for a bit
6. As I am working from home, the video calls with my colleagues cheer me up.

Reading

My son and DP
we're all healthy so far
Our jobs are both secure for now
We've managed to rearrange our wedding and insurance without losing any money
My garden
Netflix
Video calls
Easter eggs
Wine
The knowledge that this won't last forever

Aromatherapy oils
Walks in the country
Sitting in the garden
My cat
Video calls

Walks in the countryside
Birdsong
The garden
Alcohol

The Lord Jesus, obviously, and my old Sex Pistols singles and dark rum

Books
Music
Memes
The internet
Comfort food
Sleep
TV

my cat
hope
peanut brownies
Skype with family
Scrabble
walks
ungodly amounts of TV
internet rabbit holes - a new subject presents itself every day

Cappuccinos ☕️
My Maine Coon 🐈
View of Mt Blanc & lake Geneva 🏔
FutureLearn & Coursera 📚
My garden and the alpine forest that borders it 🌲
Knitting 🧶
Running 🏃🏼‍♀️
🧘‍♀️

Community spirit locally and nationally
Family and friends (obvs)
Good recent weather
Internet memes
Old TV shows

Prime movies
Scrabble
Learning Portuguese
My amazing partner
Dog walking
Mumsnet
Will learn lip reading just for fun too

Sunshine.
My DH on the whole has been brilliant - calm, helpful and good company.
My DM has been a brick - she's stayed at home, been stoically cheerful, and called daily to entertain the DC.
Hobbies. I've taken up both knitting and Spanish and find them both rather soothing.

The garden. My mood directly correlates with how much time I spend out there. In that sense it’s been a massive blessing-I’ve watched my mum and grandparents get so much pleasure from their gardens over the years but never really managed to recreate it for myself due to other priorities.
Now I’ve realised how happy it makes me I will continue to prioritise it even when this is over.
The little jokes me and dh are sharing about the situation (even though we are fully aware of the horror of it all)
Being able to exercise in the countryside on our doorstep.
Spending time reading, watching tv or colouring with the children without feeling they should be doing something more ‘worthwhile’ (not that these things aren’t worthwhile-especially the reading)

God
Wine
Neighbours, lovely people
Long calls with friends while I walk
Amazing weather, spring springing, blossom
Staying in the day, not looking forward too much, or back too much

Living in Scotland
Going for walks in the village/fields
Watching Mass on the TV, listening to hymns - despite having been a very lapsed Catholic for years, I’ve never felt more need to believe in God before
My v v good friend, GP, who keeps texting saying she firmly/confidently believes this will end
Watching very gentle TV - friends, dinnerladies, vicar of dibley, last of the summer wine, GBBO
Watching the flowers budding and the bees, birds coming past the garden
Nicola Sturgeon - I’m aware she’s not everyone’s cup of tea but I find her enormously reassuring, in part because she feels like ‘one of us’

Cigarettes, alcohol and chocolate.

My children and dh
My garden
My workmates in a supermarket who have amazing humour and make my shift less stressful

My cat’s entertaining daytime habits I don’t normally see
Sun lounger out in April
Seeing colleagues in their homes on zoom
Exploring bits of the area I’ve never seen before
Two new pastimes with DP which shall remain nameless

My beloved motley crew hunkering down with me
A thoroughly decent cuppa
Books!
Music
Better Call Saul
Our garden and daily walks with doggo and the kids
An obnoxious amount of screen time