What reminds you of Lockdown One?

[Charlavail]

DD loves Donald Duck. So in Lockdown one we watched The Three Caballeros most days on Disney Plus. Today she put it on and it took me right back to that feeling of boredom and stress! Same with spag bol. I had never eaten it before lockdown and then decided I liked it so we had it most weeks in lockdown. Now the taste takes me instantly back to that time.

Sitting in the garden drinking tea after a few hours' hard work.
Jigsaw puzzles.

I’m not sure about lockdown 1 but the theme tune to Ben and Holly traumatises me because of how much we watched it in Winter 2020

Google classroom. A particular documentary series we watched. Blossom on the tree outside the sitting room window, which I spent hours staring out of wishing I could go out by myself and without the DC.

Listening to the blackbird singing in the garden.

Soda bread.

I got up every day and made it and we had it with boiled eggs for breakfast in the garden in that beautiful weather. Ds still talks about it now and how much he liked it , I'm not sure Ive made any or eaten it since!!

I'm really hoping that next year I can look forward to DDs birthday without the panicky memories (mid March). She got her party this year so fingers crossed.

Otherwise... sunny days in the garden, but thats a good memory.

Peroni, the type in the red bottles. A local wholesaler started delivering to the public so we got a case of that, along with flour & pasta.

Banana Bread and Tiger King!

The sun! We’ve never spent so much time in the garden. We made a mad dash to our brilliant local charity shop when it became apparent lockdown was on its way and bought loads of things to keep them amused, the best one being a huge tent we got for a fiver. It was up permanently that summer, and we are outside almost every day. I’ve totally rose tinted it in my mind as it feels like it was such a glorious, carefree time when really it was anything but

Sunshine and sitting in the garden. Also sipping wine into the evening, whilst sitting in the garden.

We watched all friends, so that. I’m weirdly nostalgic for lockdown 1, when it was all new and exciting and summer was on the way haha.

Normal People. Cherry blossom. The Skype tune.

Walking and press conferences.

The weather here is like it was 2 years ago. Yesterday we all sat at the bottom of the garden with a drink and we reminisced about lockdown. Everyone was saying how great it was .

My shark steam mop, I’d bought it the first week and just the act of getting out takes me back, I rarely use it now but somehow it seems to have retains the smell of the detergent I used in it.

My god I hated it SO MUCH. I can’t pinpoint one thing that reminds me of it but I can’t think of it without feeling sick.

Joe Wicks, zoom gym classes, making banana bread

@Charlavail

DD loves Donald Duck. So in Lockdown one we watched The Three Caballeros most days on Disney Plus. Today she put it on and it took me right back to that feeling of boredom and stress! Same with spag bol. I had never eaten it before lockdown and then decided I liked it so we had it most weeks in lockdown. Now the taste takes me instantly back to that time.

Queuing round a carpark and timing the shops so it's in and out asap, then riding to town and it's a ghost town, with medical vaccination type information and virus aware posters ect.

Uht milk

Blinded by the light.

Tiger King.

The little wooden art work boards that sprung up around our local area. There were loads of them and even though they are faded now, it reminds me of exploring all the little paths where we live. I’ll never underestimate the quiet maintenance of wildlife areas around here again.

TikTok. Some of the tunes on there take me right back to March 2020. It's a funny sort of sad nostalgia. I kind of miss the simplicity (for us, I know it was far from simple for most people) and the quiet. I don't want it back though.

Me and DP taking it in turns to visit our daughter in NICU. Staying at a very old fashioned hotel close to the hospital where they couldn't serve food due to the risk and having to visit our baby on our own, staying in NICU for the entire day as if you left the hospital, security wouldn't let you back in on the same day. One day I'd visit her, the next day my partner visited her. The one left at the hotel was confined to a very tiny hotel room with zero facilities (not even a vending machine) with nothing but a phone and TV for entertainment. Day in, day out, for weeks and weeks on end.

One morning I woke early one very sunny morning in the hotel and put the following status on Facebook:

"I've just been woken by the most beautiful orchestra on Earth - the Dawn Chorus, conducted by a male Blackbird. Again, they herald a bright new day completely unaware of the utter catastrophe that surrounds them. And why shouldn't they? Long may they continue to sing."

It was at a time when everyone was terrified. Thousands of people were dying every day and the general public were just starting to wear masks.

It was so hard and it still makes me very very sad to think back on it.

What an interesting question!

Yesterday at 8 in the morning it was cold but sunny so I went out for a bit of walk as I usually do. The streets were almost deserted and quite eerie.

In the first Lockdown I was working in Mayfair (home nursing) and used to walk along Oxford Street at 9 on a Saturday morning and the place was deserted apart from the odd security guard and street sweeper. Absolute silence.

So quiet streets and sunshine remind me of those days.