To be sad we've done nothing.

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I can hear everyone outside having fun. Everyone's in their front gardens laughing and talking. I've got a headache and feel sick. So I'm in bed. I've had to shut the window to drown out the noise.

All my friends have had afternoon tea, BBQs and fun today. I figured we are locked down and it's just another day.

Now I feel bad ive not done anything. My kids are only 2 and 5 so war is too much for them to understand anyway. But I feel I've missed the point of today judging by everyone else.

I have shared a picture of my wonderful Grandad on Facebook who fort in berma. Very proud to be his Grandchild.

I can't believe I didn't realise how big today was going to be.

POPPY
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Oh and I agree the massive amounts of nostalgia in this country is unhealthy. Not just VE Day. We should be looking forward. And had we done so, we wouldn’t be in this fucking mess

I haven’t done anything either even though the 5 houses to the right of me had a distanced get together. I didn’t join in, just sat in the sun reading my book. Many of us are all just coping however we can at the moment and thats ok.

I haven’t done anything just as I don’t ever do anything, it’s not mandatory or disrespectful to not make a big show of things, just like I don’t clap, I don’t need to make a bunch of noise outside my door to shoe my appreciation of the NHS but I fully understand others truly enjoy doing it and love trying to make anniversaries such as these a special day.

I put a poopy out

No parties in my street. As my fb is full of garden parties and afternoon tea I have felt bad we haven't done anything. Today has been the worst of lockdown, as our family walk was constant bickering and the dc have mostly been gaming. We did talk about why houses had flags so the dc know it is ve day.

I meant poppy
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We should be looking forward. And had we done so, we wouldn’t be in this fucking mess

YY to that! The gung-ho attitude that CV was an enemy we could defeat by making fake-churchillian speeches. All the talk of 'heroes' and 'frontline' and being in it together, it's genuinely pitiful.

It really isn't a big deal that you've missed. We've not done anything, nobody I know on Facebook has done anything. A few houses in our village had bunting up but only one was doing the cream tea on their driveway thing.

Sorry but..'put a poopy out'

You are not alone, I can smell bbq's hear kids playing but for us it's another boring lockdown day. Waved at neighbours at 11am but that's the only external contact I've had. Thank goodness for tv. Sent dp to chip shop, I'm seriously fed up

Well there was absolutely nothing in my street, thank goodness, so I wouldn’t worry about it.

If you're not well you need to rest.

My neighbours are all out dancing in the street. I hope none of them has Coronavirus because if even one person had it they'll have spread it to lots of others this afternoon. Why would anyone want to be part of that.

I'm not alone then.

Yes I can imagine it was a depressing time 75 years ago. I doubt people were over the tradgedy for years. It was a very tragic event. A huge loss of life. I wonder if people are even thinking about the meaning of it all?

I do think it's important to remember what happened. We must never forget how racism (haulocaust) created such evil. But sadly war goes on today. It's never truly stopped. Sadly humans will never live side by side peacefully. It's a nice idea though

The road behind me were making a big deal of it. I think it got such a good turnout because of lockdown and the weather! My kids made medals in school but I really don't think children have the capacity to understand the horrors of war, although I may be guilty of judging others by my own standards.

I doubt half as much effort would have been put into today were it not for lockdown. It’s been a positive focus for many and something to take the mind of Coronavirus and the financial shit storm that’s coming our way. Don’t feel bad OP. We haven’t done anything either; doesn’t mean that we don’t have huge respect and gratitude to those men and women who gave up their lives (on both sides) so that we could keep our freedoms today.

Further down our street they were all out chatting, eating and drinking in their front gardens. We sat on our garden wall eating ice creams with our homemade bunting up and no-one near us came out, so we went in the back garden and got the paddling pool out instead!

Agree with pp who says we should be looking fw. Too right.

And in this house we call it the peace day.

I wasn't organised enough op. I put done bunting out, had a gin. No caje or social8sing at a safe dustance with any neighnours here. I was in my back garden alone whilst the teens watched Netflix!

I've had my own mini celebration but n9t joined any great event in the street.
Honestly, don't worry about it. Just relax and try and feel better

Hey, don't give yourself a hard time. You're feeling unwell and if you had have tried to celebrate it would you have had a good time? - no probably not, and the kids would have picked up on that. You did nothing wrong. Nobody celebrated it where I was, so I called my Grandmother and spoke to her about it and what she was actually doing during that time. It was an amazing history lesson, and I discovered that she worked for the Wrens in telecommunications. She spent the last year of the war underground and never saw her family and friends - she was 17. Listening to her story made my VE day, and made me very proud of her. I hope your feeling a bit better, and I doubt the kids will be wounded by this.

This is on right now if you want to do something a bit in the mood of things...

I sort of feel sad that we seem to have gone back to the same old commercialised shit again in some ways.
Loads of people on Facebook today asking about buying scones or ingredients to make some ( no cream, milk or flour in Lidl’s, queue a mile long in Waitrose , no baking powder anywhere, scones all sold out by 3pm apparently). Lots of bunting and flag making involving Amazon and hobby craft. Dressing up etc etc.
It was nice seeing the neighbours out and bits of the town looked jolly but it was absolutely rammed. It’s like Christmas here again despite probably a majority not really doing much.

Don’t be sad, you aren’t missing out . And you’re ill. It’s just a nice sunny day really and excuse for a beer.

I worked today as I represent Germany on a project and I wanted to keep a close eye on all of the press looking for things to be germanically offended by. Nothing. VE celebrations? none where we live but it's London zone3/4 and very international.

I feel a bit flat and disappointed as well.

I got a letter through the door about it a couple of days ago and presumed nobody much would join in.

Was surprised to find that loads of people on our street are in their front gardens chatting and drinking with bbqs etc. My partner is working today and I am glad because it’s not my sort of thing! If he were home I’d feel obliged to join in.

I so feel a bit guilty for being antisocial. But for some people it doesn’t look like they are practicing social distancing out there very well.

A man came around a short while ago handing something out to people. He handed whatever it was out to everyone on the street.

I think VE day celebrations shows an unhealthy obsession with the past

What? That's a bizarre comment.

Don't feel bad, a lot of people didn't do it.