Lockdown is ending and we are off to the shops!!!!!! :)))))))))

[pigeon999]

Yes we can book hair appointments, nail appointments and banish the roots in a matter of weeks. We can shop today!! We are counting down the days to hotels, restaurants and bars opening. We are breaking out.

We have turned a corner in England people!!

The lockdown is ending at long last - so what are you doing today?

Yep, second week of annual leave here and need some things that haven't been able to get online, so hoping the shops will have them (mainly clothes for DS as he seems to have had a growth spurt!).

Wish I had the luxury of being able to go out shopping all day.

Weekends? Take some annual leave? Salty much?

Staying at home.

Standing in a queue for hours to get in a high street store is in no way desirable!

Homeschool this morning - lunchbreak we are going to see the shops! Next weekend will be a visit to the local wildlife park. I have waited for over three months for this moment. Just seeing people back in our local town will feel like progress compared to the scenes over lockdown of utter desolation.

WFH and shielding

Not shopping.

@pigeon999 a service user is someone who uses the OPs service. assuming in this case they're likely a support worker. Support workers can support the elderly, people with disabilities etc

Staying home in bed as my ME has flared and I can’t cope with anything else.

I will potter along to the shops today or tomorrow (quite happy to wear a mask, although given the number of cases locally & our WFH life my chances of being infectious are beyond miniscule). We're lucky to have a good high street with lots of indies so I want to give them some support.

Shielding again...so none of this applies. ☹️

fatal I doubt we will see queues if this thread is anything to go by. We are having icecream too. My dc need new shoes and we need to buy birthday cards. We have had no infections at all here for 18 days so feeling very positive.

Staying at home working. Same as every other day.

Was totally hacked off to hear someone I know last week who had been furloughed saying it had been like a three month paid holiday for some maybe.

Sleeping after working all night, not that id go near a shop anyway

I shall be doing plenty of shopping...online. Where no one can breathe on me.

I doubt we will see queues if this thread is anything to go by

Really? I don’t think MN is a reflection on what happens in wider society in any way.

My friend works at a high street store and they’ve been told to expect queues and been given training in how to handle people being abusive over the situation. It’s depressing.

Mostly staying at home and working, while also looking after the kids. Might pop to the card shop to buy Father’s Day cards and to support a local business but not rushing to shopping centres etc.

the virus is still out there.

So are SARS, and MERS, and ebola. It's reasonably probable that Covid-19 will be "out there" for the rest of all our lives. What then? Cower at home forever? We're all dying; some of us want to live first.

Oh pigeon999 you sweet summer child. You’re going to get 50% “I’m working I can’t go shopping” and 50% “how can you go shopping while the virus is still raging”. If you wanted a friendly chat about going to Primark you’re in the wrong place.

@hopeishere what do you expect them to say it felt like? They've had 3 months off work, we the express order not to do any work.

My husband has gone back to work today after been furloughed since the beginning, I have worked throughout (NHS) but I don't begrudge him his 'holiday'. He also still got paid more than me even though he was down 20% - that I was a little jealous of!

I'm so jealous of those south of the border. Nicola has us all locked up still. My options today are....

Supermarket
B&Q
Takeaway coffee from a drive through
Walk (but only very locally)

Staying at home and working, I have an appointment to get my whopping cough jab soon and I m sticking to only leaving the house for exercise and appointments the same as I have been the past 3 months. I m pregnant and have asthma so I don't plan to go to the shops for weeks yet until it calms down if at all before their born.

Definitely not going to the shops...it's going to be horrendous.

Staying at home. 35 weeks pregnant and have gotten used to this way of living now.

Was totally hacked off to hear someone I know last week who had been furloughed saying it had been like a three month paid holiday angry for some maybe

Good for them, presumably they were talking about themselves. Should they have been wallowing in misery and despair for 3 months because of something out of their control?

No not for me , until the 2 metres is relaxed or I need anything. I can't face the queuing so shopping is not really a pleasure .
It'll be busy today anyway , like Ikea was and I went last week no queue so just wait a week .

SAme as I've been doing for weeks - staying home and sewing PPE for hospital staff and carers because you may think it's all over but the virus has other plans.