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?

How about people thinking about those who can't set foot outside their front door yet, let alone go shopping, have fun at the beach etc and consider how it feels reading about what a fabulous time everyone is having?

No one is compelling people to read these threads.

If you think people are going to where hair shirts and flog themselves because others are miserable, you have another thing coming.

I admit I was gloating and bragging about my assemblage of pheasant from booths because I am considerably richer than yaaoow.

@Musicforsmorks

And dementors is like remoaners, it’s bloody childish. We all have different opinions. We need to get the fuck over it.

I think it’s incredibly descriptive. It’s perfect shorthand for the miserable attitude some joy suckers display.

understandmenow and quite a lot of them are.

you do realise the people you are dismissing as "Dementors" are people who have either dealt with illness in themselves or their family, or deaths

I certainly have. I lost a child. It's her birthday on Friday. She died and the world still kept on spinning. I had to learn to live with it or die myself, and she'd have been furious with me to waste the time I have been given being bitter and miserable - plus no one would care, anyhow, if I were. Both my surviving children have additional support needs, my son quite so. It's not fair. That's life! Get busy living or get busy dying. The choice is yours.

Oh god dementor in chief and me-railer extrodinare is here

I'm sorry for your loss @DisobedientHamster, your DD would be damn proud of your attitude though.

Oh @DisobedientHamster, so sorry. 💐

How about people thinking about those who can't set foot outside their front door yet, let alone go shopping, have fun at the beach etc and consider how it feels reading about what a fabulous time everyone is having?

I’ve not been out the door since December. I have hyperemesis gravidadum. I’ve not been to work since then, I can’t look after my DS on my own, can’t wash my hair, brush my teeth, still can’t tolerate food or water, can’t even remember what fun is, yet I’m ecstatic that some people are getting back to normal.

I know my condition isn’t going to last forever, and neither will your need to shield.

Get over yourself.

@Alsohuman, yeh, it’s a catchy one but it does get a good bun fight a-goin.
I used to call a family member a dementor, it was fitting, but I never said it to her face 😁

Sadly such terms further alienate opposing sides from each other, so nothing ever resolves.

I agree with you @DisobedientHamster I think it's people who've had horrible things happen who can be happier to seize life while they can, whilst realising it might be short.

@DisobedientHamster, so sorry for your loss.

My local high street had quite a few people about, all observing social distancing and any queuing and directions in shops. Some were wearing masks (including me).

I've been out shopping for throughout lockdown, different supermarkets, chemists, farm shop, bakeries, deli, post office and bank, and today I went to the haberdashers, jewellers and gift shop. Hand sanitisers in each of them, all well organised. These are independent, local businesses, and I want to support them.

I do feel for those who are at extra risk, not least my own parents, in their 80s and reliant on me to take them anywhere. With no mixing households, I can't do that at present. I can't wait for that regulation to ease.

Have had very nice shop, bought something frivolous in all my favourite shops. I plan to revive the local economy entirely single- hande d.

@BillywilliamV you lush!

I think a lot of it is certain mumsnetters are loosing control, telling everyone to stay at home and be miserable. We are allowed out 😊 sticking to the guidelines and we are going to enjoy it.

I have lost good friends, not to Covid. I have had cancer and recovered. I will live every moment in the most positive way that I can.

@BillywilliamV I'm happy to join in...

Good lord @Vivi0 that sounds awful, did you suffer the same in your first pregnancy, does it last up until birth?

for you!

@BillywilliamV high five ✋ with you!

@reginaphalange101 because your pregnancy scan isn't putting money into the economy of course. Nothing to do with safety, all about the £££. Business interests are much higher up the govt list of priorities than anything like health concerns.

DisobedientHamster I am so sorry for your loss.

It's because I don't want other people to needlessly lose people they love that I am on these threads, not urging misery, but urging caution.

People will always die, it's true, and life goes on. I lost a dear friend a couple of weeks ago to cancer, not covid (although the current circs certainly didn't help). What I don't want to happen are more of the excess deaths, the ones that could be fairly easily prevented. I find the gleeful "sod you all" tone of these threads really worrying.

I’ve not noticed a sod you vibe in this thread.
There’s a lot of caution and concern, and a lot of people happy to get a bit of normality back. Both equally valid.

Can’t we have and combine both, sensibly?

Hearhoovesthinkzebras

You can't visit your mum because you are shielding, but you won't be forever and you'll get to see them again. I, however, will never see my mum again thanks to Covid. Imagine if I took your stance and was resentful of everybody posting about having a coffee and a catch-up with theirs. Be grateful for what you have and let other's live their lives.
I'm pleased that the OP had a good time and that her children enjoyed it, I'm pleased people go to the beach, sunbathe and do whatever else they want. I don't expect everybody else, especially those who I don't know and who don't know me, to be grieving just because I am. I take comfort in knowing that life for many is slowly getting back to some sort of "normality" for them. Self pity is soul destroying and benefits nobody, least of all yourself.

But @ArcheryAnnie as you've alluded to, the current situation did not help your friend with cancer.

That's why we need to get back to normal, get people treated and diagnosed for other life threatening illnesses.

The economy needs to start to continue to fund the NHS, the NI paid does that. Without it the NHS would be in an even worse position.