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Daftest thing you've missed in lockdown?

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Anycrispsleft · 22/03/2021 05:42

I was reading DD2 a bedtime story last night when out of nowhere I had this Proustian moment of absolute longing for a baked potato out of the food hall in the St Enoch's shopping centre in Glasgow. I don't even know if you can get a baked potato in the St Enoch's centre these days, as it's about 25 years since I last had my dinner there. It's never been high up my priority list when I go back to visit. But suddenly all my feelings of homesickness and utter scunneredness with lockdown just boiled down to this baked tattie. Anyone else craving stuff they didn't even know they missed?

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LagneyandCasey · 22/03/2021 07:57

Costco! I haven't been since last summer. There are a million supermarkets between my house and Costco so I don't feel justified to pop there for browse.

I also miss smiling at people in shops.

ChessieFL · 22/03/2021 07:58

Browsing bookshops.

Buying different lunch every day.

BendingSpoons · 22/03/2021 08:04

DD is in Reception. I really want to see in her classroom once! I have seen photos but don't have an idea if the layout in my head. You can't really see in at pick up. I would like to imagine how she spends her day.

I also miss post work drinks. Casual chat, relaxed. I still see my work colleagues but there's always an awkward social distancing dance to get to the printer etc.

cricketmum84 · 22/03/2021 08:04

I miss the seaside. A nice long walk from north bay to South Bay in Scarborough, a cone of chips while the kids go on the 2p machines followed by a lemon top on the beach.

IHateThinkingUpANewUsername · 22/03/2021 08:06

Me and a friend were reminiscing about horrible pubs with sticky floors where you can dance to ‘Come on Eileen’, the wine options are ‘red. Or white’, and you have a go on the fruity despite not really knowing how it works.
We haven’t been somewhere like that in years but I think it’s like if you’ve been eating excellently for months -you crave the worst, greasiest food imaginable.

LaurieFairyCake · 22/03/2021 08:09

I said to my daughter last week - she's 22 that I was going to a nightclub when this is over

I have not been in a nightclub for 25 years Grin

She looked at me as if I was batshit

EyeDrops · 22/03/2021 08:16

Soft play. Never imagined I'd miss it, but suddenly the idea of sitting drinking hot coffee while my child is off playing safely and happily seems BLISS.

Stronghold · 22/03/2021 08:30

Weirdly this morning, I was thinking about the toy railway shop in Burton on the Water.

Purplecatshopaholic · 22/03/2021 08:36

A good old browse round the make up and beauty hall in Harvey Nics in Edinburgh. Can’t wait to do that again. I also really miss chatting with colleagues while making a tea in the kitchen at work.

firstimemamma · 22/03/2021 08:39

Going to our local crap / tat shop. It sold the best photo frames! Pound land never closed where I live so the whole thing makes no sense to me, either close both or open both ffs.

dubyalass · 22/03/2021 08:50

For a while it was simply doing a food shop. I was staying with family due to issues with my accommodation and we got a supermarket delivery each week. It was so dull and I got into a real rut. Now I'm back in my own place, I can just go for a mooch round the supermarket and have a bit more inspiration. And fresh crusty bread! That's how small my world has become.

SanFrancisco49er · 22/03/2021 09:01

Going shopping with my mum. We would meet mid morning, have a piece of cake and a drink then a good browse before lunch. I used to watch mums and their babies do this with Grandmas and say to my mum, that will be us one day, you me and a baby - had my baby in lockdown so we've not been able to do it.

I just do lots of walks on my own with him instead and pop to M and S!

BabyBee93 · 22/03/2021 09:09

Gah so many things!

Drinks after work with my colleagues
Shopping trips to actual shopping centres
Wine and cheese nights
TK Maxx trips x100
Brunch
Sports massages
Weekend getaways
Browsing charity shops!!!
Going to the beach (we don't live near one and travelling to one is technically illegal Hmm)

And lastly, general alone time. We are all so on top of each other and inseparable at the moment, I miss taking time for myself to nip out on an afternoon for a browse round the shops or to sit in a coffee shop on my own

jessstan2 · 22/03/2021 09:18

I love jacket potatoes too! I often have them at home.

I can't say I've missed anything during lockdown but I am retired and on my own so life is not hard.

Arrowheart · 22/03/2021 09:20

Charity shops

namechange63524 · 22/03/2021 09:21

Being abl to take my baby to groups

muckyhoover · 22/03/2021 09:29

On Saturday morning my first thought when I woke up was 'Ooh, let's go out for breakfast!' Then I remembered that cafes aren't open. We don't have breakfast out very often and as a pp said, I could recreate the food at home but it's just not the same.

Also, our nearest decent sized supermarket is about an hour's drive away and technically in a different county- so I'd have difficulty justifying a trip there is stopped. I'd really like to be able to do a food shop somewhere with a good range of products- rather than just use the small local shops and online deliveries (when I can get them)

AgentCooper · 22/03/2021 09:52

@namechange63524

Being abl to take my baby to groups
@namechange63524 that’s such a tough one. I don’t know what I would have done without groups in DS’s first year. I hate it when folk say well, your mother’s generation got on fine without baby groups and soft play because if that was the case they could still go around to each other’s houses for company. And my mum took me to playgroup about a million mornings a week as was the case with most babies born in the 80s! Confused
ThatOtherPoster · 22/03/2021 10:01

Trying on clothes before I buy them.

Kezzie200 · 22/03/2021 10:03

Seeing my kids.

They moved away for careers and have worked throughout. We've been unable to see my son all year. Daughter luckily we did in the non lockdown period last summer.

YukoandHiro · 22/03/2021 10:06

I'm with @Etherealhedgehog - I just want to sit on the sofa or round a kitchen table with a friend at either of our houses. I would give up restaurants/pubs for another year just to have that back immediately

YukoandHiro · 22/03/2021 10:08

Also burritos from the Whole Foods canteen near my office

AdaThorne · 22/03/2021 10:16

There's a garden centre near my house that has amazing scented candles in there and also, coincidentally, does an amazing crispy skinned jacket potato with prawn mayonnaise that feels like a decadent choice for lunch but just on the cusp of healthy-ish.

I want to go out. Alone. I want to browse the garden centre, maybe buy some plants, take the lids off and sniff all the candles and then have a jacket potato sitting on my own reading a magazine.

BogRollBOGOF · 22/03/2021 10:18

Lifts. I could go on forever about stuff that really matters, but for some reason it struck me surprisingly hard that I've not been in a lift for over a year. Plus I'm the kind of person who tends to charge up the stairs quicker. But a lift is something mundane that you don't really think about using normally.

SingingSands · 22/03/2021 10:20

Wow OP that is a blast from the past! Think it's also 25 years since I had a baked potato in St Enochs! I used to get haggis and a dollop of soured cream on top when I was a student in Glasgow!

I'd love to get the train up to Glasgow, jump on the underground to Partick and visit my wee auntie H!