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.

@AnyFucker

Going to work on covid ICU

Not much changed for me then

Are things still bad Fucker?

I can't believe that is only 2 years ago. Feels way way longer! Being so bored, the job I was just about to start was 'put off for a few weeks'. All the lock downs are a complete jumble. I did get the garden in a nice order though and planted lots of veg at one point.

@Squiff70

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.

Must have been hard - how is your daughter now @Squiff70?

When the weather is warm and sunny and the lane is very very quiet. Buying nice things in the shop to eat as there was nowhere to go out to. Timeless days.

My ex having a lockdown affair 🙃.

Morning sickness

Rainbows. Can't stand bloody rainbows anymore.

Jigsaws - never again..

that pink cake from Gail's bakery. queuing up to get into tesco finchley central with the trolley

The only time I got out really was to go to the supermarket once a week and a walk in highgate woods on Sunday. we would stop at gail's in highgate village to buy a coffee/cake. We would talk at length how lucky we were to live within walking distance of highgate woods. but secretly i was dying for a bubble tea and dim sum and I never wanted to trudge through mud for the rest of my life. DH bought me wellies over lockdown (think it was probably lockdown 2/3). After lockdown 3, I locked them in my storage cupboard, they will hopefully never see the light of day ever again.

The first thing I did after lockdown 1 was to go to a shopping centre. I could never live in the countryside, covid taught me that.

There is a route that I ran almost every day in lockdown. Between 8 and 10 km per day. I can't do it anymore - I will only run on the treadmill in the gym. Running outdoors on a route which starts and ends at my mum's home brings back awful memories of this time, the thoughts that went through my head, how I was apart from my swimming team and thought I'd never see them again, that I'd never see my home abroad again, desperate to keep my fitness, so much I got obsessed with it.

The peace, the beach, the sea, time to sit and stare, swimming in the sea..... liking the little things...

Playing in the garden. We have small children (two of them now, one of them then) and a lovely big garden. Playing in it still gives me a physical reaction, that feeling of being trapped and bored and tense and managing toddler moods and work emails.

Other bits were nice, and we've been very lucky in all, but that first lockdown ruined the garden for me.

time to sit and stare

I take it you didn't have kids to home school then?!

Crushing loneliness.

A month or so ago my ds school was closed for a week due to storm damage and they had to do home learning. It honestly massively triggered me. It was horrendous

No eggs in the shops.
Worrying about getting toilet rolls.
Making a cake with out of date flour (although I didn't realise at the time)
Getting tipsy in the garden when the sun was shining (seemed to be every day) and wondering why I had nodded off by 6pm!
Long hair as we couldn't get a haircut.
Not needing an excuse for being unable to socialise.
Christmas with my Husband and no stress.
I loved it!!!

Blinding lights 100%

@Jumpup5

Blinding lights 100%

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Bluebells. They were out just at the worst point, after a couple of weeks of stressful homeschooling attempts. We threw all that off and went searching the local woods in the lovely sunshine.

'Schools out for summer' (Alice Cooper). We walked past a secondary school on the way from picking up DS on the last day before lockdown, and someone had it absolutely blasting out of a car. Made me grin and completely lifted my mood from the rest of the day had felt like planning for the apocalypse.

@shumway

Crushing loneliness.

This one for me too. I lived with OH and eldest (still do) but was pregnant with my middle child at the time. It felt so incredibly lonely even though I lived with people. I imagine it was total hell for people who lived alone.

It’s interesting the extremes for different people- I know plenty of people who loved it whilst I found it horrendous being trapped in a tiny house with children including one toddler with (then undiagnosed) autism. I honestly feel physically sick and stressed at any reminder of the first lockdown and push it far to the back of my mind.

Having a newborn!

Queuing to go into the supermarket standing 2 metres apart.

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