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.

Jigsaw puzzles
Scrambled egg on toast (actually, just having the time to make a decent breakfast)
Thirteen Reasons Why & Tiger King (What I watched on Netflix at the time)
Zoom and skype

We had it ok, could both WFH and we had a garden but with CV family members it was a hard and lonely time, I wouldn't go back.

Frozen 2. The kids watched it practically everyday, we bought it on Sky then got Disney+ so they had a choice of how to watch it

Jigsaws! And that song by Ariana Grande and Justin Beiber 'Stuck with you'.

Wall-E reminds me of the early days of lockdown 1. We got Disney+ and watched it as I struggled not to panic about my cough and breathlessness and whether or not it was going to end up with me in hospital.

Joe Wicks. I did one of his hiit workouts last week and it was from lockdown 1. His room and voice took me back to trying to get the kids to exercise whilst wondering if me and DH would be able to work and homeschool.

Really loud music (my horrible ex neighbors), lack of sleep, anxiety. I have nothing positive to remind me.

I remember the sheer utter peace. It’s was so quiet, there was no cars on the road, and no airplanes in the sky. I remember the beautiful weather, and going for my daily walk with ddog. Disney plus, and then eventually the socially distanced street party for VE Day.

Watching 'a series of unfortunate events' (the episodes) with our children. We had never even heard of it before but watched an episode each evening. It was something for us all to look forward to at the end of each day :-)

Sitting in the garden. It was the hottest March ever. That, and Tiger King. Everyone in the country all watching the same thing and ther same time, just like when I was growing up.

The other thing i remember is walking in the woods and seeing a woman I vaguely know sitting down on a log at a time when we weren't allowed to sit down. She looked up at me, so scared, as if I'd shop her. I tried to give her a reassuring smile as I passed but her fear at having been caught doing something so innocent stayed with me.

Every so often if we have baked potatoes we end up singing the baked potato song, that was pretty surreal.

We were talking yesterday about how our shopping and cooking completely changed, we cooked so much as we had so much time in the house, things tasted different because we could not get our usual brands/preferences. I can remember the feeling of being worried about not being able to get basics and the fact I kept some posh chocolate in stock just in case (priorities )

Home schooling before Google classrooms - printing off lots of work sheets every day, taking lots of photos of them and then emailing back in to school.

Being really bored (furloughed).

Walks.

Once a week visit to a shop, usually home bargains, was a highlight.

Watching a lot of tv

Just Dance

I had terrible morning sickness and put a lot of TV on for my 2 year old DS. I still get PTSD flashbacks to nausea and lockdown 1 when I hear the theme song to ‘Floogals’.

My daughter was released from NICU three days before lockdown, so the only memory I have is taking the same 1hr route around my town for her nap and the complete lack of cars on the road.

My most vivid memory comes from later in the year around late October/early November when Boris said we were going back into lockdown. It was my birthday in mid-November and had planned to see them for it (I live 2 hours away) and I was crushed that I couldn't do it. The months of missing my family (with a brief reprieve over Summer) and basically a whole maternity down the pan meant I just had a breakdown.

I ended up going to my mum's the next day as my DH could see how devastated I was at the thought of not seeing them again.

I've been lucky in that I've never really experienced a true emotional low before but that day was extremely close. My heart just hurt.

Banana muffins
Watching Normal People
The song Country Roads because DS2 decided it was his favourite song and listened to it on repeat
Evening walks in warm sunshine but veering miles out the way if another person walked by!
Early morning walks with empty roads, blue skies and the smell of cherry blossom
Dreading Thursday evenings because I didn’t want to stand outside and clap but felt guilty if I didn’t

Blinding Lights by The Weekend takes me straight back to the Feb half term before lockdown. I love the song but it makes me feel sad at the same time because of all that we lost.

Setting my alarm at 11.45 on every night to get in the queue for a tesco delivery, growing increasingly concerned that kids weren’t allowed in supermarkets but as a single parent, not being able to get food otherwise
Juggling home schooling with a toddler and my own work
Relentlessly long days doing that, and piercing loneliness not being able to see an adult for ages until bubbles were bought in

Joe Wickes for sure! He posted a clip from March 2020 on his FB a while ago, and watching it, I was right back there.
During the first lockdown DP was furloughed so not doing his usual early mornings and DS didn't have to be up so early for school so I used to get up early and have my first coffee by myself. I used to enjoy having a peaceful half hour to myself. I did it today for the first time in ages, and it was really nice

@Westfacing

It’s not as bad as March-June 2020 but there are still covid patients being admitted to ICU. Still the requirement to wear the soul destroying PPE while everyone else “enjoys wine in our sunny garden”

I hated every minute of it. I hated every person who said they were enjoying the record temperatures and getting a lovely tan on furlough. I hated how other people got to “take stock” while me and my colleagues sweated and cried and took risks with our own health every single day. I hated lining up 2M apart on the roads of the hospital while the funeral cars went by of staff whose families sat alone and un comforted inside. I hated talking to relatives on the phone who weren’t allowed to visit people who often went on to die. They never got a chance to say goodbye.

It was awful and I don’t think I am the same person I was.

I hated lockdown. I didn't care that I couldn't go out but being around my DH and DC 24/7 nearly made me go insane. Love them all to bits but I'm an introvert and I couldn't cope with never being alone. It was like a form of torture

Running with my teen before wfh.
Walking with the other when I'd logged off.

In the the first lockdown I used art as a coping mechanism. I decided I was finally going to crack digital painting, so I paid for some online courses and started doing loads of art challenges. I was monstrously hyperfocussed on it and for about three weeks I cranked out one complete painting a day. I tried all sorts of styles and techniques and programs and made immense progress (more progress than I'd made in the last five years), and got into a habit of regular painting that's stuck.

Looking back at the paintings from my mad art marathon takes me right back to it - sitting at my tablet scrawling furiously, and only vaguely aware if it was afternoon or night time.

Oh and Mallorca Towers on BBC. We all watched that. I haven't seen the second series as it is just too wedded to lockdown.

[quote Squiff70]@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.[/quote]
I'm so glad your daughter is doing well - that's quite an early arrival and a long time in hospital.

I'm really sorry that your little fella didn't make it

The beautiful weather, hardly any traffic on the roads, no aeroplanes. There was so much uncertainty, but I still look back on those days with a certain fondness.

Lots and lots of sunshine.
Reminiscing about my pregnant
Walks along the canal
Disney plus

**pregnancy