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.

[quote AnyFucker]@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.[/quote]
Yes a reminder that it's not gone away.

I hope you're not too exhausted, nor damaged by your experience, and come out the other end in one piece

Blinding Lights definitely. Those first few chords...
Getting the most technical person in our friendship group to set up Zoom links for quizzes. We're all proficient now.
Going braless all summer.
Waiting up past midnight for online shopping slots to open.
Singing Happy Birthday whilst washing hands thinking what a hoot this all was... until I found out a friend had died alone in hospital.

Raa-raa the Noisy Lion. Lockdown was horrendous and there were so many awful things, but what brings them back more strongly than anything is hearing that bloody theme tune that youngest DC wanted on all the time. “Raa-raa! You are! A noisy little lion…”

I work in the NHS and remember the daily vulture like frenzy every time some shop donated some soon to be out of date wilted veg or bread and people almost fighting to get something for free.

I remember at the beginning of lockdown having a go on some rollerskates on my patio for something to do. After 10 mins I was bored and had fallen over numerous times. I thought 'this is fine it will be all over next week'. Seems decades ago now.

I don’t like to think about it at all, all that time lost and all of the wonderful experiences my dc missed out on in those years make me want to cry, honestly what a shit time it was.

Not lockdown one but we were meant to go to Disneyland Paris with DD and DN. The pink hotel, breakfast with the princesses. They were the perfect ages for it. We don't have much money so it was a massive deal. Got cancelled because of covid and I still feel like crying if I see any adverts for it or influencers on trips there.

Jigsaws - never in my life have I done so many one after the other (and none ever since!).

Sunshine and the smell of tomato plants. We’d managed to get a bunch of seeds literally the day before lockdown and I reinstated the greenhouse (previously a general dumping ground and kids’ playhouse) and spent so many happy days pottering and growing things.

Silence except for birds. We’re rural so it’s pretty quiet anyway but the total absence of cars and planes was blissful, and we had loads more wildlife visiting. It made me realise how rare it is to hear nothing but nature.

Seeing anyone being aggressive or entitled - instantly reminds me of watching a burly bloke loading a teetering trolley with the last packs of pasta and loo roll in Tesco, while an old lady stood there with an empty basket (this was before ‘rationing’ started). Makes me seethe at how cunty so many people really are.

Overall I loved the first lockdown, having everyone at home, enjoying the sunshine. But we were really lucky - we have outside space, my kids were older teens and could sort out their own zoom lessons, and we’re freelance so our jobs were majority wfh already. I really felt for everyone who wasn’t in such a fortunate position.

Sunshine , birdsong, gin in the garden , daily walk by the sea , Thursday night street party and bunting - so much bunting. Seeing my son blossom when free from the daily stress of school.

Also Zoom quizzes and zoom drinks. We wore black tie to our first one.

Also some bad feelings and anxiety but prefer to forget that.

Joe Wicks
Rainbows
Ducklings on the village pond

Nintendo/PlayStation.

My DH has kept all of his game consoles from when he was little. During lockdown we got them all out. He has a 1980s Gameboy, so I was playing Super Mario like I did as a kid.

Loved it so much we bought a Nintendo switch and played the new Super Mario game. We're late 30s haha.

It passed the time!

Sunshine and seedlings.

It was a strange oxymoronic time. I was super busy and stressed trying to teach online and homeschool my two, and being terrified having to go in to teach the keyworker kids too. Yet I also had more time to think and breathe and be without the madness of kids activities, normal work and life.

I now loathe the smell of cheap hand sanitizer. And zoflora, which I madly used to wipe shopping down.

Lockdown was stressful for me, had DS who was a toddler, pregnant and working 3 days a week teaching virtually while DH had a horrendously busy time at work. But this weekend went for a walk and I had our 18 month old in a sling and it was glorious weather and it took me right back to that time.

Also started having a coke a day and that often takes me back.

Champagne, we only drink it a few times a year but have lots of expensive bottles that DH has been given from clients. We were like fuck it we might die let's start drinking them. Flavoured gin as we would normally only have plain, we started drinking pink, orange , lemon and god knows what else. Baking I would only do very occasionally was happening most days with the younger children and exercising in the garden as the gym was closed.

For me it was the stress. I was pregnant with my second child, my first was 18 months old. Nursery was shut, the business my husband and I both worked it was closed down and I was working from home while everyone else was furloughed. I've never worked so hard, the stress of redundancy organisation, furlough, JSS scheme (never happened!!) and a newborn is something I hope never happens again. It honestly nearly broke me

Zoom. I fucking hate it now.

Also evening walks as me and DS spent hours having our daily walk in the tiny deserted city where we live. It was depressing and beautiful in equal measure.

My poor teen DS stuck in their rooms studying for exams they didn't even know would go ahead.
And when they weren't doing that, sat in the garden eating Easter eggs with them and playing Trivial Pursuit.

Sunshine and the 5 o'clock glass of wine with the press conference. I actually remember the sunshine more than the anxiety.

The second lockdown last winter was worse I think - I had a proper flashback when I went for a walk along one of the routes we used to take when it was muddy. So bloody muddy. And we were a lot more stressed then (DH's job had properly hit the rocks by then).

Our local parks and playing fields. Whenever we go to them now I feel really sad and panicky. DH just doesn't understand it but then he wasn't the one bored out of his brains trying to keep 3 young DCs entertained!

DC who was born during Lockdown One

Blinded by the lights.
Zooms
G&Ts in the garden
Baking (in particular scones take me right back)
Empty roads
Cleaning shopping
Crime tv
Mood swings between being happy enjoying the sunshine and the slow pace of life to having meltdowns feeling anxious and overwhelmed

Snaking queues to go into asda. Brilliant blue skies. Birds singing. Panic. Anxiety.

My cat died . Every time I see a tortie it aches like hell.

The early days when there was still a panic about food and supermarket supplies - DH went into full hunter gatherer mode queuing up outside supermarkets to get a specific ingredient or something PIL wanted, then the excitement if he had a successful trip. Mealtimes and walks were the linchpin of our days, this and sunny afternoons in the garden.

The theme tune for good morning Britain, I hadn’t watched it before and haven’t watched it since, but we had it on to get the up to date info. I also binge watched Disney’s Fairytale Weddings, I can’t bring myself to watch it again.
Also the sainsburys local close to my house, I used to walk round with DC if we needed anything rather than brave the big Tescos, we live very close to the big supermarket so it wasn’t something I had ever wanted/needed to do before.

I had a ‘lockdown moment’ at Lidl at the weekend. A group of people were standing around at the entrance and I automatically thought ‘oh good, nice short queue today. Shouldn’t take long’. Then I realised we don’t do that any more…