Easter

[Frozenintime]

It's going to be rubbish. Nothing open for the kids

"I don't get this, adult population should be vaccinated by end of July yet mass mixing in June so many unvaccinated, if that's the case let the under 50s go back to normal as just as likely to die now or in a few months"

It isn't about them dying or not dying though is it? It's about pressure on the NHS.

How are you still not understanding that?

@Chimeraforce

Op it is shit. We had a week away booked for 2nd April. What bloody difference would it have made to open up then? By the 12th, my child will be back at school. Yeah it's a pandemic but yeah it fucking grates. Another annual leave at home. Can't fucking wait.

I'm so glad you understand this too. Many people are saying to have an Easter roast dinner and hunt Easter eggs. We are not interested in any of that and are not religious ! just wanted to get away for a few days and teen to have some fun with friend(s)

@DavidsSchitt

Why can't 14 year olds have Easter lunch with their family? I wouldn't be happy if mine went out at Easter, it's family time

We aren't religious or interested in Easter. It would just be another Sunday lunch to us

He might not be used to making his own fun, but there’s so much else a couple of teenagers can do that aren’t organised activities.

Have a game of football, rounders, rugby, go on a hike in the countryside, swim in a (safe) river, go on a bike ride, go to the beach... I’m sure other people could offer even more suggestions if you were open to listening.

Seriously can you not just be happy that in a few weeks time we’ll be able to meet in small groups outside again, your DS can meet his friends, and then not too far away we will have normality? Of course we can’t open up everything straight away but we can see the end now.

"We aren't religious or interested in Easter. It would just be another Sunday lunch to us"

Your thread title is literally "Easter". Hardly surprising that people started discussing, erm, Easter

Now I have no idea whether this is about Easter, the fact you've taken distancing to extreme levels for the whole year or you just wanting a caravan holiday

There’s nothing open now?! What have you been doing the last few months Parks,beaches,national trust etc etc

Or just stay in and eat all the chocolate !

No one has yet explained to me why it's ok for ten thousand people to gather together in a stadium to watch sport (including all the travel to get there etc) but staying overnight with 1 other household is apparently one of the last things to open up. It simply makes no sense.

Pilot events in April:

The government says it will run a series of 'pilot' events in April and the English Football League (EFL) said it would be "engaging" with the government over the potential for a small number of fans to attend the Carabao Cup final at Wembley on 25 April.

If the pilots are successful, "up to 10,000 people or 25% of total seated capacity, whichever is lower" will be allowed in stadiums for sporting events, but not before 17 May.

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/56151863

*"This is why I'm fuming."

Fummin for ya babe.

How dare those children socialise?*

Nurseries & preschools have been open for months .

Why must it be one or the other? Why is there this total refusal to allow anyone to go inside someone else's home?

I am willing to bet a lot of you on here who dont understand my position have family relatively close by, and are have maybe met them for walks during this lockdown, perhaps met them regularly outside during the summer, and are now looking forward to meeting them in parks etc within just a couple of weeks. Please have some sympathy for people isolated from hundreds of miles from family, who may be suffering badly with their mental health and are desperate to visit the people who can support them.

"Why must it be one or the other?"

Because we can't do everything all at once. It has to be gradual.

And you can bet whatever you like but my parents live as far away from me as yours do, along with the rest of my family.

If you chose not to visit them, or they to visit you, back when we were last able that's your look out.

I’m excited that we can have one other family over for a play in the garden. As long as it doesn’t rain that will be great. The stay local thing is dialling down too then so we can go on some day trips to NT places or the seaside. It will feel brilliant after not seeing friends and family for months.

We aren't religious or interested in Easter. It would just be another Sunday lunch to us

So... Why start a thread about how Easter will be rubbish?

Why hasn't your 14yo seen his friend for a year? It's perfectly legal even now to meet up with one other person outdoors.

I hope you've not enforced this isolation on to him for no reason.

I am willing to bet a lot of you on here who dont understand my position have family relatively close by, and are have maybe met them for walks during this lockdown, perhaps met them regularly outside during the summer, and are now looking forward to meeting them in parks etc within just a couple of weeks. Please have some sympathy for people isolated from hundreds of miles from family, who may be suffering badly with their mental health and are desperate to visit the people who can support them.

So sorry you are struggling🌷we are nearly there now, I know it seems like ages but it will come round and we will be able to see them again. Meanwhile at least we have phones etc so we can talk. I know it’s not the same but it’s something . My family aren’t close either, it’s not easy but it will pass.

You bet wrong.
We've been shielding for a year, hundreds of miles from family.
And we're still going to have a lovely Easter.

@NoIDontWatchLoveIsland I’m hours away from any family, my parents live in another country. I had a baby last year that hardly anyone has met and had months of no help. I still think the road map is sensible and we can’t open everything or allow everything at once. Outside is much lower risk so it makes sense that’s allowed before indoor mixing. It sucks for those of us with family far away but it is what it is. It’s not safe at the moment for us to all mix inside.

I'm sure they'll live! Maybe be grateful for what they have and appreciate it more. The 15yo girl in my area who took her own life won't live. She was only 15 and felt she had no one to turn to, no support was available, she'd not seen anyone. Had her whole life ahead of her and she felt she couldn't continue with life any more. This has been the case for many people. Many more deaths have also occured because of escalated domestic abuse. The virus isn't the only danger to us.

@Frozenintime

It's going to be rubbish. Nothing open for the kids

What about us poor adults too? Not everything is about children you know!

In our village we have a local “bunny” who brings a chocolate egg to each child (leaves it on the doorstep) and waves to every child.
We also have a locally organised (management company) Easter “hunt” around the local park/woods, which kids can do socially distanced and fill in a card which parents print at home. Once the card is filled in, we take a photo and upload it to the group and the management company drop a small gift off on the doorstep.
We also buy masses of small chocolate eggs and leave them in a basket outside our house on Easter Sunday, if a child passes, they can sanitise their hands (hand sanitiser tied to the fence) and grab an egg. Plenty of houses around here do similar with packets of sweets, little toys, bracelets, keyrings and even little hanging decorations.
So get your neighbours involved, see if you can’t contribute to the Easter festivities locally. We are an atheist family, but we still join in. Heck even our local Jehovas Witness church gets involved and buys chocolate eggs that they encourage the children of the village to “hunt” for on their carpark!

I am willing to bet a lot of you on here who dont understand my position have family relatively close by, and are have maybe met them for walks during this lockdown, perhaps met them regularly outside during the summer, and are now looking forward to meeting them in parks etc within just a couple of weeks. Please have some sympathy for people isolated from hundreds of miles from family, who may be suffering badly with their mental health and are desperate to visit the people who can support them.
We are in both situations, my parents and sibling are overseas, looking at summer 2022, but we have other family more local. It would be difficult to have no local family.

Lots of things to do that will be allowed from 12 April. I am hoping for all of these: water park/swimming, visit to Hobbledown and Chessington, mini golf, walk to a pub and have lunch in the garden, British Wildlife Centre, picnic with friends. Also considering a drive-in movie - Back to the Future is on which my DS has not seen. My sister has younger children and is already fully "booked" for permitted outings with friends. If it rains we will don wellies and take an umbrella. Fingers crossed figures keep going the right direction.

I actually didn't realise when I heard Boris' roadmap that Easter this year was on the 4th April, so yet another major holiday/festival in lockdown. I didn't clock there was another national holiday to be got through alone or without family. It's hard to do when we are supposed to be going in the direction of normality now, and when death rates are so low. I don't blame people for feeling gloomy or "not again" about it.