You have a time machine and can back exactly six months - what advice would you give yourself?

[Grumpylockeddownwoman]

Just that really - would you have quietly stocked up on hand sanitiser? Done something sooner? Taken up a hobby? Changed job?

Don't change jobs.

@Shefliesonherownwings I am so so sorry to hear that.

@Shefliesonherownwings I am so sorry. How devastating.

When you get to New Zealand at the end of December, stay there.
Or don’t, and do exactly as you have done. Life is wonderful anyway.

@Shefliesonherownwings I'm so sorry. You had no way of knowing. Be gentle with yourself.

@Shefliesonherownwings oh my goodness, I’m so sorry. You couldn’t have possibly known, it’s not your fault. Be kind to yourself

Move to New Zealand, buy shares in toilet roll company, go to dentist and optician even though not due for a few months.

Buy a treadmill, swing ball and a trampoline

@Shefliesonherownwings I'm so very sorry for your loss, you couldn't possibly have known

Start the new kitchen sooner and not tell the fitters I'm a key worker they're scared to return.

@Shefliesonherownwings I can't imagine your pain. I am truly sorry for the loss of your daughter.

get the fucking paint you plonker...

buy more pasta.

get the stuff you need from your mum's house.

buy a fridge before it breaks.

Here's the control box. Go back further. Stay there.

Stock up on flour, yeast and hand sanitizer. Get my hair cut and coloured. Get ds's hair cut. Bought lots of paint, tiles and grout. Went to see in-laws, my sister's and DD and dgs's. Stock up on victims for whole family and seriously tried to lose some weight. Go to gym more while I could. The one thing I am so glad I did do just before lockdown was to let D's take day off school to play disability cricket at Lord's at beginning of March. I thought twice before letting him have day off from school but do very glad I did now.

Tell my dad to go to hospital and demand a CT scan and to stop listening to his GP
and to hug him every single day

Insist that DH's oncologist gave us a plan of dates for scans and bloods. He is 39 with stage 4 terminal bowel cancer and we haven't seen or heard from anyone for scan dates, blood tests etc until I started getting on at them last week.

Cancer patients have well and truly been left in limbo during this pandemic

Sell the Bitcoin and buy shares in hand sanitiser, face masks, pasta and loo roll....🤣

I had a 5 week old. I'd of told myself:

Please don't put yourself through the struggle of EBF, it isn't working for us - introduce formula and STOP feeling so guilty.

It gets easier. You've got a great DH and DS, they'll get you through

not much so far
Had a month long holiday in Cuba in Feb so came back to all this crap
But already WFH & so does DH so for us not much has changed .

I would have told myself to stay at my parents (was on a trial separation from DH).
Visit my grandad.
Go to a dentist to sort out dentures

I would have pushed my house move through faster so we didn’t fall into the corona limbo!

Not booked holidays for April, July and August.
Gone away in January or February instead.
Bought about a hundred second hand books.
Not spent a fortune on new clothes that are still just hanging, unworn, in my wardrobe.
Bought a bike.

I’d tell myself to start the diet now instead of waiting til 1st January. I’m sure if I had got down to a smaller size those first two weeks of WFH wouldn’t have done so much damage!
I’d have used my Christmas money to buy an office chair for the spare room, or made a note to tell myself to bring my chair home from the office on the 19th March! It was on the list of things to bring home if we had to WFH but we got the call to self isolate at home over the weekend due to a colleague being sick and the office has been closed since.

To not catch covid just before lockdown.