What we're the most bizarre/memorable moments of the pandemic for you?

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Just wondering what they are for you?

I'll start. One of mine was seeing a children's playground cordoned off with tape, including all the park benches.

Listening to ex husband on the phone after I told him his children most likely had covid and were infact very ill he promptly told me he definitely did have it as did his live in girlfriend he said they had the "ambulance out and they confirmed it (no testing was being done at the time) he also claimed the ambulance crew told them they had to keep to seperate rooms and "not cross air streams" despite them both allegedly having it.....that was surreal

The children’s playground taped off

And passing children as they went to school happily and we were in depths of second lockdown closure for us. Something so essential not allowed - felt film like.

Starmer saying nurseries should probably close, I remember it was a Sunday and luckily private ones didn’t

The image of an old man separated by a window from his wife

The first time I saw the queue around the whole Sainsbury’s car park in the freezing cold

Oh and the state of the aisles after panic buying hit

Watching my mother's funeral via Webcast.
The air corridor opened between here and there the day after.

The sun shining as I drive near my home and news of first vaccine success was on the news - big uplift in emotion

In Scotland visiting the Garden Centres on the day they reopened after the first lockdown (25th May 2020). They were queued round the block with elderly people, meanwhile the outdoor play parks for children remained firmly locked with chains for quite a long time after that, some months if I remember correctly.

We do a lot of walking in the countryside and never normally see anyone. It was like a tourist hotspot during lockdown and all the paths widened due to footfall. I remember feeling quite panicked and upset at the thought of my adult child being stuck in London on his own with no job and the rush to get him on a train home to us

My son reaching the UK on the last ferry and getting home about 5 minutes before Johnson's speech.

Talking generally about our wishes if we died and son saying how he would like his savings split up between some people he had worked with abroad.

We live in the middle of nowhere but after a few weeks we went out for milk and to charge the car battery and it was a shock to see our local pub not just shut but with the car park closed with chains.

A popular local couple died with covid within 3 days of each other and no one could go to the funeral (apart from their sons) so everyone stood outside their houses along the route as the hearses drove past. Their sons asked my mum (who is an organist) to play the hymns they wanted on her piano as they drove by, which she did although everyone knew only my dad would be able to hear them. I had to sneak down the night before and leave some of the sheet music at the bottom of their drive, wondering if I should have made an unessential journey. The day of the funeral upset me terribly and I wasn't even close to the couple really.

Going for a walk and seeing some children had broke into the play park they stared at me looking scared I said don't look at me go enjoy yourself never thought children would be so scared to enjoy themselves

When my nan died. We called 999. 4 paramedics came in. We offered to leave. And they said dont worry. We knew was too late. We had to call a relative who had her paperwork for such a situation knowing what funerals directors. He and my aunt came. And loads of other relatives.
Her flat was tiny. At that point no one cared about covid we all got to say goodbye. Paramedics said it was lovely to see everyone cared.
Never in my life will I forget that.

And the funeral being 30. She had 4 kids and 7 step children ffs our family is massive with their OHs. Their kids, and grandkids. Her biological ones and the ones who sae her regularly went inside..
I had to sit alone with my teen son.
My db wasnt allowed to sit with us. Despite he was our bubble. My dh had to be outside with many others.

We made uo for it in the summer i had a huge bbq at home with lotd of family and all my nans grandchildren she would have loved it she was the heart of our family. And would have loved us all being together.

Stripping off my clothes in the hall as I had sat on the edge of a bench outside a shop to prevent a dizzy episode during the first week of lockdown.

Throwing a pack of toilet rolls over the garden fence for my neighbour.

Taking a rescued cat miles away to hand over in the car park of a vet I had never been to, to be neutered and left for someone to collect and look after because none of the local vets would neuter.

Having to continually move into the road to allow able bodied people with children to continue on the pavement, whereas I am not. Made it clear how unimportant I am.

Waiting in the car while partner queued for Waitrose, just to get out of the house, and checking my phone in case there was a question about the shopping.

Moving for a yelling woman in the supermarket (start of lockdown) who practically climbed the shelves, screaming at everyone to stay back, one arm out to fend everyone off and the other across her face, before she grabbed whatever it was she wanted and ran away to do it again in another aisle.

Posting soap to a friend who lived miles away.

Going to a seated gig - we drove 3 hours away we were that desperate for some live music. It was masks up to our table. Only a household per table and no singing.
The first song that the band played was one that you couldn't help but doing to and they made a pretence of stopping people, which thoroughly enjoying the mayhem it caused!
Can you believe that singing was banned!

Going outside for first time for dd to get her jabs - only a handful of people were outside and all masked up , glancing at each other warily and turning heads away/ stepping away as I walked past - tbf I was also scared and wanting to keep a distance ! Having to queue for Asda in a mask ! Only being officially allowed out once a day for “exercise”

Also the most shocking thing I saw was in Italy in a care home and they found a room full of elderly that had just been left there truly shocking. Also here in Ireland they moved the elderly to care homes without checking them for Covid and that started the massive spread and deaths in care homes and was such a bad mistake and so many died in care homes alone.

oops mean to say they were dead and had just been left there and morgues overrun was just awful.

When I had Covid I couldn't get my head round the fact, that although I had done nothing wrong. I was not allowed to leave the house. Such a strange feeling.

Garden centres and nurseries full of dead plants because no-one was allowed to go in to work, or buy them.

Standing at the train station on my way home from work and a breaking news alert came up on my phone telling everyone to wfh. I never realised at that time it would be 2 1/2 years until I go back into the office (I'm on mat leave now so although everyone is going back in a few days a week now, I'm still at home)

Having my half a class sat in rows all facing me and talking at me and wondering how this was supposed to work!

The most memorable part was the Friday night games we played with friends online. We used Zoom so we could talk to each other then played Jackbox for hours and laughed so much. I miss it!

Oh, and crying in my local supermarket when I was finally able to buy eggs again.

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Everyone queuing at the vaccination centre. All of that felt like a film for me.

The one that really stands out was in 2020 the children who couldn’t graduate from primary school as it was closed. The principal stuck a big rainbow wooden sign on the school gate wishing them all well. And when you got closer you could see loads of signatures from children saying ‘goodbye’ they had obviously all signed it when out for a walk. I felt so sorry for them all.

Oh god, this comment has got me! How awful for them.

Hugging my mum when they let us set up support bubbles and feeling like I'd committed a crime!!

A fight in the queen at Tesco! One man butted another over a comment over Covid and knocked him out !
Wish I got in first for some popcorn 🍿