How are you REALLY finding lockdown?

[MinnieAnonyMouse]

Full disclosure, I am very lucky in that I'm able to wfh, we have a nice sized garden and no kids yet. I appreciate my position is very different to some people who have no access to the outside / houseshares / living with abuse / lost jobs etc.

How are you finding lockdown? Aside from the minor issues like I miss being able to go to the shop just because I fancy something and I'd like to see my mum, it's not affecting us too badly. I'm quite an introvert at the best of times and this has reiterated that I am very happy at home and am not all that bothered about leaving. I'm loving not having a very long commute!

I wondered how everyone else was getting on - I can't be the only one who isn't overly fussed by it all? As I say, fully appreciate I'm very lucky. Feel free to rant!

Furloughed with a DH who has always WFH, a preschooler and a primary aged child.

I’m bored fucking witless.

I honestly can’t believe I ever found the summer holidays hard!

I’m still working out of home. I still go many walks. I still get an online shop every week with no problems. The only difference is that the shops are shut. No one at work is remotely bothered about the virus and nor am I.

And that job was my first in 7 years after being a SAHM.
It’s seasonal, hospitality and I’m pretty certain I won’t still have it in a few months.

Beyond horrendous. Feel free to 'advanced search' my posts - it's all too tedious and miserable to write it all down yet again. If it's extended, I won't be complying.

Not much different really. I'm still working

I didnt much of friends and family anyway

Working from home, helping school 2 teens. I'm up and down. Not bored just incredibly worried and frustrated. Mainly for how my kids life is going to play out from here. It's not going to be what any of us expected I guess.

Stressful really. Mentally. Struggling with lack of routines and missing work.

Parents in their 80s and a DC at Uni so can’t help them much, I worry about them. Missing my wider family and friends too.

I am finding it absolutely fine.

I am teaching online lessons to my normal timetable and I think that is going fairly well.

Too fucking hard. If the lockdown is extended again I'll be ignoring it and visiting my parents with my two preschool children. I will pay the £30 fine and the further fines for multiple breaches to be honest. I'd rather be £2000 down than suicidal.

I'm furloughed, dh still going out to work Monday to Friday, teen in his bedroom all day, dd occasionally comes downstairs to cook or have a brief chat.

I'm bored shitless and want to go back to work.

It's just Groundhog Day, we are living the film aren't we?

I am actually ok with it, I won't go as far as saying that I like it, but I am fine.
I am wfh and going in occasionally.
I am used to juggling the dc school work, house work etc now.
We've got a big garden which has helped and my dc are dts and pretty much the same level academically which means I don't have to split myself in two.
I am really lucky to have a supportive bunch of people in my life who I have moaned too when I need to.
My parents who are both vulnerable are taking this really seriously which helps.

I'm really enjoying it but I'm worried to death on a global level - how on earth are we going to come back from this the longer it goes on

I keep joining in with everyone grumbling saying I’m bored and can’t wait to go back to normal but truthfully having so much time at home has made me realise how much I love being at home.
Normally I get up really early, commute for an hour, eat crap because I’m tired and oversocialised, get home and veg in front of the TV. At weekends start to feel normal again and then repeat.
Now I have been working from home (I appreciate how luck I am), have spent time with my OH making us closer than ever. I have the time to cook healthy food, exercise and enjoy my home. I found a lovely walk the other day and a woods a 10 minute walk away.
I hope the positive from this is that more companies allow working from home more and the work/ life balance is a bit more equal.

I’m a SAHM with a 2 year old and my husband works on the yard we live on so life is pretty normal really! We are enjoying the peace and quiet but we have a large garden and yard to entertain ourselves. It’s not forever so we can cope quite easily.

As Morrissey sang

“Everyday is like Sunday”

Fed up now , it will be 6 weeks tomorrow since I was last in work . Also I was due to go on holiday this week.
I got up this morning and thought what can I do today ? I never thought this day would come that I would say that , with working full time and dc I never have time to get stuff done . I'm fed up of cleaning I'm not a stay at home kinda mum and I'm bored of it .
My job is impacted on the hospitality business so it's unlikely I'll be back at work for a while .
I really miss my mum she doesn't do technology so it's phone calls or texts only .

Slight improvement on non lockdown life. My son has sen and we were very restricted before lockdown. There was a restaurant i wanted to go to for 5 years and its now doing take out so i finally got to taste the food, there are national theatre shows i couldnt get to being streamed. Friends that normally are very busy are setting up quizzes i can attend. My dh is home from abroad so i have company and can get out for exercise daily as he can give me a break.
Down side is a huge fear about the economy and illness and i miss my mum.

I'm on the rota to teach (babysit) keyworker children. On other days I'm homeschooling my own 2 primary age children. They aren't massively keen but we're getting through it. They are enjoying free time to play and watch films. DH has been furloughed on full pay so we are very lucky. He's doing quite a bit of DIY using stuff we already had.

Erm, not too bad but could be better. No kids though, just me and DH and we do have a garden for a change of scenery.

Work in a nursing home so for 4 days a week I sort of go onto auto pilot for 12 hours. Basically doing my job but with a mask etc on, which gives me a cough anyway so end up getting the side eye from a few people.

When I'm at home I either can't be bothered to do anything because I'm too knackered from work, or I go on a mad one and scrub the life out of everything. I've got my grown ups colouring stuff out to get out of my own head, also got back on the couch to 5k.

I do find that when I do a shop (once a week maximum), I get too frazzled because the systems a lot of supermarkets near me have put in place make zero sense. So I've learnt I need to write a specific list and in store order because else I just get frustrated at peoples apparent inability to keep to the rules and then I forget half of what I need. Or end up buying crap....

Both DH and I are working part time from home and we have a 2 year old. Working whilst looking after a toddler is quite painful, we are using YouTube a lot, doing childcare 'shifts' and not working as many hours as usual (employers have been great about it). Also our holiday was cancelled, and if the weather is bad, weekends can be pretty boring when we can't go on days out.

But, secretly, I'm quite enjoying not having to commute, not having to iron my work clothes and seeing my little boy all the time. We have a decent size house and garden, plus quite a few businesses are open around us for takeaways etc. So I appreciate I'm really lucky compared to lots of other people.

Wouldn't want it to go on too long though! I'd very much like to be able to actually go somewhere in the near future, see my family, take DS to the park etc!

Honestly...ok!

My partner and I are both working from home so we have a set routine from 9-6. We only see each other for lunch breaks.

My partner is shielding so we're looking down the barrel (IMO) of probably 6 months minimum so we'd better get used to it!

I'm being furloughed for 4 weeks as of next week so have signed up to a coding course to keep structure in my day.

Also, I'm hoping for good weather as I have a pretty big DIY project lined up. My porch was probably built in the 1930's and needs some serious attention. I'm planning to sand, fill, replace windows, re-tile and repaint the whole thing.

FYI - No kids.

Little has changed except DD is around in the day time. It's no hardship having my child around more.
I'm loving the queue and one way system at local Tesco, but it always pissed.me off when morons decided to have a chat in the middle of the aisle when others were trying to get passed.

Bored and lonely. Husband is a cop so he’s out the house every day 7-5. I’m stuck in the house every day with a baby with eczema who scratches til he cries despite the steroid creams and a four year old who asks several times a day why he can’t play with his friends, go to the park, go back to nursery and has taken to wetting and crapping himself as a reaction to it all. I’m having to bribe him with a star chart and toys to get him to use the toilet again. My only break is when I go to Tesco after their bedtime and join a huge queue to get in. All my plans for mat leave are up the spout. I can go and buy paint in B&Q but I can’t take them to the beach ten miles away. And I’ve had to cancel my UK holiday in June. My leave period when I go back to work will be October so guess we won’t have a holiday this year. Pretty scunnered, to be honest.

Actually loving the ‘freedom’ that having time gives me. Keeping work ticking over but also having the opportunity to decorate and finally get on with a major garden revamp that I’d been intending to do for years. It’s like being retired (am far off retirement and I’m looking forward to it now I know how it feels). I’m an introvert who likes pootling about, so lockdown suits me fine, although my hobbies involving others have been curtailed sadly. Have DH and a son working from home.

However, I feel quite guilty that my lockdown is easy whilst others are really struggling to juggle work, children and finances. As I’m in the strict social distancing group I can’t do anything to help others either. Strange times for sure.