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What were you doing 2 years ago today?

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RosieLemonade · 14/12/2021 14:53

I was in London seeing a musical aftet dinner and then having a few drinks. We live quite far from London so though we went a few times a year it was always exciting and a big deal! One of my friends I was with has severe OCD and it seems unlikely we will ever have a trip like that again.

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blablablack · 14/12/2021 22:58

Probably sitting feeding a 2wk old baby, absolutely exhausted. Knowing that it's going to be another night of very little sleep 😫

FavouriteMug · 14/12/2021 23:05

Chatting to my DH via text as he waited to board his flight home from a work meeting in China.

He was telling me about his cough and sore throat and complaining he couldn't taste his pre flight G&T .....

TheTafia · 14/12/2021 23:05

Looking forward to going on a cruise around the Caribbean for Christmas and New Year...it was fabulous!

St0rmTr00per · 14/12/2021 23:16

Packing to leave for our house in France for Christmas. Stayed till mid January 2020 and havnt been able to go back since.

PieMistee · 14/12/2021 23:21

I do worry for toddlers and babies but my Mum pointed out that she was born in a major city in Poland in 1943 and then years of the family being persecuted by the Communists and had a terrible childhood because of an ill mother. Yet has lived a fulfilling wonderful life. People are very resilient.

tintodeverano2 · 14/12/2021 23:22

Looking after my mum who was really poorly with what we now think was covid.
I didn't know that would be my last Xmas with her.

FavouriteMug · 14/12/2021 23:28

@tintodeverano2

Looking after my mum who was really poorly with what we now think was covid. I didn't know that would be my last Xmas with her.

I'm so sorry 😞

RoseMartha · 14/12/2021 23:45

It was the dc's and my last Christmas in our house. I had mixed feelings knowing we would live somewhere else the following year, which would be smaller with no garden. I went in the garden and took a picture looking in with the tree lights on.

Imissmoominmama · 14/12/2021 23:53

I was spending my last night in Madeira.

I wish I was there now.

Pieceofpurplesky · 15/12/2021 00:15

Working in a school with loads of staff off with a virus ... cough, chest infections, headaches. Lots of staff off for 2/3 weeks (staff that never had time off). One ended up on oxygen in hospital. Loads of kids off with similar or stomach upsets.
We were all talking about it and our WhatsApp group was all doom and gloom about catching it for Christmas ...

justjuggling · 15/12/2021 00:46

I was in Bali, enjoying a beautiful hotel, wonderful food and relaxing.

Ayd7815 · 15/12/2021 00:46

The very first days of my pregnancy.. with my baby girl who is now 15 months

halloweenie13 · 15/12/2021 00:51

I had just moved house a few months previously and had recovered from pneumonia , I was preparing for Christmas by working as much as I could and still with my ex at the time

AnotherMansCause · 15/12/2021 00:55

Frantically packing things to go into storage, getting rid of stuff, etc, as we were about to be made homeless in January.

It's interesting how many people had (what looks like, in retrospect) coronavirus so early on!

notangelinajolie · 15/12/2021 00:59

I'd just been admitted to hospital with internal bleeding caused by a chronic cough

Lentil63 · 15/12/2021 01:08

My dear dad for whom I’d cared in my home for the previous 3 years died (in my home) on the 12/12/2019. Two years ago I was grieving and dreading his Christmas Eve funeral.

Fontella · 15/12/2021 01:26

Two years ago today, I was working hard. I had a thriving business as a freelancer (which I had been doing for 27 years) and pre-Christmas was my busiest time (entertainment industry) rushing to get everything done, knowing I could put my feet up in the New Year for a month or so, before work picked up again.

I had plenty of money coming in, no need to scrimp or scrape and happily cruising along.

Fast forward two years and I have one job in and I feel lucky to have that given how dire things have been since Covid hit. It will at least give me a little money in the New Year.

My business is fucked, I'm financially fucked (particularly now the SEISS grants have ended, which is basically what kept me going through lockdown) and I feel like the work of 27 years has been wiped out.

I know my business will never recover as people have found other ways and means during Covid and I now find myself somewhat defunct.

So quite late in life I'm having to try and think of other ways to earn a living, and after 27 years of self-employment, 'getting a job' is not a viable prospect.

This Christmas will be a frugal affair and after that who knows.

DinosApple · 15/12/2021 06:37

Planning MIL's 90th birthday, meeting up with friends who we usually see annually, planning Christmas with my side of the family and watching DD1's final Christingle service.

Mil sadly died of Covid in a care home in May 2020.
DD1's year 6 finished suddenly in March 2020. And we haven't seen one set of friends children since 2019. They've moved very far away and we won't see them again until August next year.

It's very, very odd. The last full school year our children had were year 5 - now year 8, and yr 3 - now yr 6... if they can complete this year with no further disruptions.

Children are resilient, there were evacuees, wars and pandemics in the past. But it would be nice if that was it for school lockdowns🤞.

Roselilly36 · 15/12/2021 06:40

On holiday in Lanzarote, had a fabulous time staying in a lovely villa.

Slayduggee · 15/12/2021 06:45

I was tired and 4 months pregnant and working in a shit job and looking forward to maternity leave.

From my pictures it looks like I did a bit of Christmas shopping with DD who was almost 2 and stopped for a bite to eat in the John Lewis cafe. Then we went to B&Q and looked at paint!

Practicebeingpatient · 15/12/2021 06:52

It was the morning after Kelvin and Oti won the Strictly final. I would have been emptying the dishwasher after my annual girls night, watching the show with homemade score paddles and too much wine. Then Mass and church social club with my friends followed by Sunday dinner with adult DC. Just a normal, happy, sociable weekend that I took for granted.

Dumbitdown · 15/12/2021 07:04

I had my annual dinner with the ladies, followed by a pub crawl and clubbing until 6am. Earlier that day I collected the 50 year old classic car that would become my salvation during the isolating times of lockdown and unemployment.

TheWestIsTheBest · 15/12/2021 07:14

I was on holiday in Bali and having an absolute ball! It was great timing really as our border shut a few months later, and has been shut ever since (reopening in Feb!). We had also just bought a house than we moved into in Feb 2020, just before Covid hit here.

Boxbox2 · 15/12/2021 11:19

I was getting over a bad flu-like virus that floored me in early Dec (fever, cough, soreness, fatigue etc.) and was still going home from nights out early etc. Was preparing to take my brother skiing as a 30th birthday treat the following week, we spent Christmas in Austria and it was fantastic. Something made me go into credit card debt to treat him to his first ski holiday that year...I was just adamant it had to be then and that it couldn't wait.
I remember thinking how crowded and sweaty one of the après-ski bars were when we were out there, and me and bro were mucking about pretending to inject ourselves with the fake massive needles full of booze

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