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?

Buy home gym equipment!

Brought a treadmill, spin bike and noise proof room to retreat (hide) from the children during home schooling and live in multi purpose au pair /tutor to help deal with home schooling and the squillion meals required & mess the family generate....

@MrsKCastle I am so so sorry

Maybe take the kids and move in with my parents as they live in the countryside and have a huge house and we are in a flat. Also I don't know when I will get to see them again, probably not this year.

Booked a flight to NZ.

Not taken those extra hours at work. I'm bloody knackered.

My advice for myself would be to get out of England as fast as possible. Anywhere would be better than here for the virus, I can’t believe how unlucky I am to have been born in the country with the most deaths. I refuse to even leave the house because I don’t want to leave my baby girl without a Mother in this cruel world.

Get the piano tuned. It’s well overdue and will become painful to play.
Oh yes, this too! Poor neighbours.

Gone to say goodbye to my DGD, before he was hospitalised for pneumonia then sent to a nursing home with symptoms of dementia. I doubt I'll see him again now.

Taken my DD to visit my DS and my nieces and nephews.

Thrown all the crap out of the tiny yard space we have, pulled up the paving slabs and planted every conceivable flower I could think of.

Not told my DP off for thinking about buying a dog. My DD is an only child and she's lonely in lockdown.

I would tell myself to book that trip in February Half term which I decided not too as I didn’t want to go alone but couldn’t find someone to go with. Now I’m keeping my fingers crossed for my trip October....

I would have stocked up on more DIY stuff! Paint especially!

I would have bought a shed in the January sales.

I would have made sure I had seen people each weekend instead of having lazy weekends because I’ll catch up with everyone in the Easter holidays! Should have battled through exhaustion

Bought a hot tub.

Move to New Zealand

Major decluttering.

It would be a week before my son was born.
I'd tell myself that it's okay to ask for help or have someone else hold him so I could sleep, and doing so wouldn't mean I was a bad mother.

Refuse the induction.

Buy shampoo.

Go to get some winter sun, just book the holiday. Book an amazing hotel, eat your body weight in free chocolate crepes, take a million pictures of your lovely baby in the pool, and be happy.

Wish we hadn't booked our first summer holiday abroad in 8 years as it's not looking like we can go now.

@09Grumpylockeddownwoman
Thank you.

Have a haircut and a dental check-up at the beginning of March!

Made sure soon to be ex husband had moved out! 🤣

Hired a skip.

learnt Swedish and got a nice cabin just outside stockholm

I'd have stayed abroad.

I would have bought a lot more seeds, bulbs and compost.

Have my hair cut and highlighted. Am looking like Wurzle ATM.

Make the most of every moment!