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.

Sunshine and being in the garden. And the excitement of doing the supermarket shop as it was the big day out of the week.

Joe Fricken Wicks.
Rainbows
Painted stones
Twinkl

@dragonDan

Sun and scrabble with my husband and teenagers in the garden

Yes, we played cards in the garden and put the dart board on the shed to have darts matches with the kids (14 and 16) They wouldn't do that now!

I do not miss lockdown or anything linked with Covid except for spending more time than we would have done with the teenagers over that first summer.

Just this morning as it's the Easter holidays trying to sort DC breakfast and hearing my Teams going off in the background. So horribly stressful!

Fortunately, DC have now gone to DM's, and I'm off for the rest of the week!

Tiger king and twinkle. Zoom.

Spending 3 days at work triaging urgent patients. We couldn’t see them but handed out prescriptions and advice by the bucket full. No surprise that we were the first area of NHS to go back to face to face consults and treatment after 12 weeks of total shut down.
I was kept busy cancelling patients, most of whom recognised me and had a welcome chat. I often went home feeling that I’d made someone’s day just by taking the time to chat. So many elderly patients had little contact with anyone during the first lockdown.

Glass milk bottles. We got in just in time before the milkman stopped accepting new customers and he was amazing because he bought not only milk, but juice, bread, toilet roll and fancy Easter eggs at Easter. I was so excited to go down and find stuff on the doorstep. Loved it. Too expensive to keep it on out of lockdown however but it was a real lifesaver

Things that made a different to your experience were:

1. if you were a keyworker
2. if you had space at home, particularly a garden.
3. How hectic your life was before.

For those, even if WFH with home schooling, it was a breather from the commuting grind, the endless childcare juggles and the constant rounds of clubs and playdates and parties. It gave people a chance to reflect on just how relentless that life was. Lockdown (1) was simpler.

Normal People
Crocheting
Jigsaw puzzles
Any time I get even the faintest whiff of Dettol All-In-One!
Home hair dye packets
The paddling pool
Tiger King
Yellow Tail wine

The heat!!!
Blinding lights is our lockdown song too! along with Watermelon Sugar and Don't call me up.
New sound system to play music as we sat in the garden...
classic fm replaced the news
no tv so therefore no news of covid
cocktails, cocktails, cocktails
slamming the laptop shut at 5.30 every night and thanking God I didn't have my long, long daily commute. I had never had so much time in my home.
bubbling up with a neighbour and pouring cocktails into a glass through the window
working out like a maniac then..stopping and not been able to since
cheese fondue from Aldi and long delicious after work dinners shared with family for the first time in years
lots on MN talking about COVID and avoiding those threads!
going to our local shops and the high street busier than I had ever seen in my life and all people were buying was takeaway coffees and ice creams.
2 hour queue for meds for a friend...freezing!

My life did not change; I worked throughout.

I live on a busy main road; at certain times of day its empty now like in first lockdown. I still don't think traffic levels are the same as pre-lockdown

When I hear a plane above I remember the no fly. In fact again, I think the skies are quieter

Tuyo by Rodrigo Amarante. I'd be listening to music and DS2 would put it on for a laugh when I wasn't looking so now it's our lockdown theme tune.

Joe wicks , tiger king, honey on toast , times like these the song, yoga with Adrienne

We live really near some fields and there’s a footpath through by the river that we walked most days. We saw the same field go from being down, to growing wheat, to being harvested. I went back and picked a couple of bits and stored it in the bag for the children’s memory box. We don’t walk that way often now, but it always takes me back. That and rainbows, banana bread and cosmic kids yoga!

Keeping a four year old and a two year old busy was hard going, but there were also a lot of nice bits. Just being able to stop everything for a bit made us realise how crazy our childcare drop offs and work arrangements had become on top of sleep deprivation. I think I was on the verge of a bit of a burnout at the time so it was good to regroup a little, though obviously not for a great reason!

The Skype tune
The smell of hand sanitiser
Rainbows in windows
Teddy bears in windows

*sown even!

I loved lockdown. Easy to get to work, no visitors, mountains were quiet. Kids were home enjoying their time together. It was bliss.

I loved the sun, tiktok, and walking on the mountains

I deliberately try not to think about it.
I wish none of it had happened.
I can't face walking locally anymore I did so much of it then.

I think even as a keyworker (as I was ) and still going to work- every day life was still very different . No traffic no kids clubs nothing open at weekends very quiet in many non urgent nhs areas everything going to phone and online appointments . Driving to work through a city centre with every cafe pub and restaurant shut was very surreal. Dropping the kids off at key worker school with ten other kids out of a school of normally 500. I have to say I was glad to have work to go to as it kept a sense of routine and normality . I remember that first week when things felt a bit apocalyptic thinking at least there was loo roll in the toilets at work !

I heard ‘You Ain’t the Problem’ by Michael Kiwanuka the other day and I was immediately transported back. The sun and spring flowers as well.

C25K with ds, dp being a lot less stressed, games over zoom, the packs of playing cards that sit in the bookcase because no one can face them anymore. Customers being a lot nicer at work for that brief time. Bloody Twinkl, a Michael Morpurgo book my son’s teacher used to record herself reading and we’d sit listening to her after lunch and the painting he had to do as part of the topic, I’ve had to put it away now.

I wish I’d kept a diary at the time, even thinking back only now I can’t really remember all the feelings of it all. And there were lots.

@Westfacing she's doing really well thank you. She was born at 22 weeks so spent a very long time in hospital (5 months in NICU followed by another 3 months on a children's ward). She was, at times, extremely poorly but somehow she made it through and we brought her home that summer.

It was made harder by the fact that, although they were born in November, we couldn't have her twin brother's funeral until March which was just before the first lockdown so we were grieving too.

Joe Vicks?

The Cbeebies 'Time to Say Goodnight' song. It meant the end of a day trying to work while looking after a 13-16 month old, get him to bed and try to catch up in relative peace between 8pm and midnight.

My garden furniture. When I wasn’t at work I spent my time sat in my newly purchased garden furniture, nothing else to do and all that!

Not had such good weather or so much time since! Don’t sit out very often now😢

It’s odd because I remember lockdown 1 as a really worrying time with no staff and the fear of getting COVID but with everything being closed, I did relax when at home.