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To find this Easter vaguely depressing?

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daisiesinmay · 01/04/2021 16:59

Not a big fan of Easter anyway since I'm not religious but I feel like the whole fact of it just seems a bit depressing - could be because at Christmas I'd expected things would be somehow much more normal by now. Also seems too early. Anyone else?

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OnwardsAndSideways1 · 02/04/2021 08:58

It might not be going to be warm, but round here (SW) it looks like it's going to be sunny. I am feeling more upbeat than last year, had my vaccine, and compared with my relatives on the continent, we are doing really well, they are not vaccinated and all stuck at home. My teens have been out with their friends to the beach, once round someone's house (I know the latter is not legal but they all had covid tests that day and went straight from school where they were sitting in together). We are mentally recovering from a very dark time. I'm off to sit outside with local friends this evening, same Sunday.

I agree going for walks is boring and I wish the cinemas and shops were open yet, but it's not too long before non-essential shops open up, for schoolchildren the second half of the holidays will be more exciting than the first. They are going out though, taking picnics, having ice-creams, friends meeting up, it's not anything like as depressing as, say, 6 weeks ago for us anyway.

MadgeHarvyy · 02/04/2021 09:04

@Allmyarseandpeggymartin

I cant stand wee Nicky! When she starts paying my mortgage she can tell me who I can have in my house.

Ds staying at my parents tomorrow, noonger care dh and I need a break.

Iveforgotten · 02/04/2021 09:07

@AnyFucker last Easter was beautiful weather here. We had lots of meals outside and we were still in the discovery phase of local walks rather than the utterly fed up phase we’re in now.
I actually remember most of the first lockdown being unusually lovely weather

Goldieloxx · 02/04/2021 09:13

Be glad you are alive to complain about it. In a couple of months things will be much more normal. Look on the bright side

AnyFucker · 02/04/2021 09:15

@Iveforgotten that’s what I recall too

Last spring/summer I was redeployed to COVID ICU so pretty much missed all the lovely weather. I am so run down physically and mentally. Missing another “normal” Easter feels like a big blow.

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daisiesinmay · 02/04/2021 09:15

Last Easter we weren't so ground down and exhausted from a year of it, or at least that's how I feel. It's good cases are down, but without a vaccine yet I don't feel the optimism many on here seem to have. Perhaps also depends where you live and whether you have a garden and things like that. I can see that if you've got or friends have got nice garden set ups that probably helps.

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daisiesinmay · 02/04/2021 09:19

Be glad you are alive to complain about it. In a couple of months things will be much more normal. Look on the bright side

I know that is well meant, but can't just jolly myself out of it personally.

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AnyFucker · 02/04/2021 09:20

Be glad you are alive to complain about it. In a couple of months things will be much more normal. Look on the bright side

Tone deaf

Iootraw1 · 02/04/2021 09:22

Yep it’s pants let’s face it. Was lovely weather beginning of week now cold again so not exactly appealing to sit in a garden! In saying that I have sporting comps this weekend which is great. Although they are highly restricted which does make it a bit ‘meh’.

RaspberryCoulis · 02/04/2021 09:23

@Goldieloxx

Be glad you are alive to complain about it. In a couple of months things will be much more normal. Look on the bright side
Fuck me. that's a low bar to set. Simply being alive must mean you are happy and jolly and not allowed to complain about the never-ending lockdown.
Same4Walls · 02/04/2021 09:25

@Goldieloxx

Be glad you are alive to complain about it. In a couple of months things will be much more normal. Look on the bright side
Christ is that how low some people are actually setting the bar these days!!!
Onlinedilema · 02/04/2021 09:25

It is always cold at Easter, those are the rules. I used to have to take Easter as annual leave and I cannot count the number of wasted days spent sat looking at torrential rain beating down at the window. Even going away for the holidays resulted in me having to put the kids to bed wearing wolley hats I kid you not. Ahh the fond memories we have.

Babdoc · 02/04/2021 09:28

My church is reopening for Easter Sunday, albeit with masks, distancing, no singing allowed.
I live alone, and will be having my DD and her partner to stay for the first time in 6 months. They are in my bubble, but he was shielding for a congenital heart condition - he’s willing to risk it now we’ve both been vaccinated.
So I will be celebrating the end of my solitary confinement, as well as the resurrection of Christ, this Easter. And there will be roast lamb, hot cross buns and Easter eggs. And a scenic walk round the local loch, up in the hills. Lots to be happy about - including the fact that I am alive to celebrate, after being hospitalised with Covid last spring and ill with long Covid for a year.
I think the secret is to look for the positive and celebrate it, rather than focus on what you can’t have, or are missing from previous years.

EternalOptimist7 · 02/04/2021 09:35

I mainly feel a bit sad & nostalgic. DD12 has said she doesn’t want an egg hunt & we have done that every year since she was tiny, either in the back garden or at an NT property. Doubt we’ll be able to go anywhere as she spends a lot of time in her room. Plus I think it’s due to get quite cold.
Having said that, I am loving the longer days & there is chocolate!

Lovesacake · 02/04/2021 09:40

I’m going for a picnic with my brother and baby niece who I haven’t seen since Christmas and I don’t care how cold it is, we will have fun! And booked a nice take away lunch for Sunday. So not feeling depressed at all, I think we will make it a good Easter.

CateTown · 02/04/2021 09:59

We have people coming over to our garden for two of the days, so we will be making coffee, lunches snacks etc

Can't you just enjoy coffee and shop bought cake? Why make such a chore of what should be a relaxed and enjoyable get together?

CateTown · 02/04/2021 10:00

That's the spirit @Babdoc - Happy Easter 🐣

PicsInRed · 02/04/2021 10:18

Where I am, Monday and Tuesday will be sunny, but chilly highs of 6° and 7°...then we get treated to highs around 12° and 13° oh, break out the t-shirts for the rest of the week...but it's also then pissing down with rain. This is exactly the Easter and weather European hols were invented for.

To add insult to injury, the mall isn't even open for a good (warm & dry) walk, coffee and browse.

Over a year of this shit!

Forgive me, but I'm going to save my "bright side" thinking for an occasion which deserves it.

PicsInRed · 02/04/2021 10:22

To be fair, I think what really did it for me was the lovely, hot sunny days we had earlier this week...in the working days before the break so couldn't enjoy it! Now it's Easter hols and it's back to cold and dreich.

Fab. 🤣

Itsalonghaul · 02/04/2021 10:32

Be glad you are alive to complain about it. In a couple of months things will be much more normal. Look on the bright side.Fuck me. that's a low bar to set

Honestly? I think that is exactly where the bar is set for most people.

I am still alive, just about, wheezing and exhausted staggering out into the spring sunshine feeling like we have had six rounds in a boxing ring, and there might be still more rounds to come... All different shades of fucked off misery about to coming to an end, and when we should be rejoicing at least the end of the dark days it somehow quite hard to muster the energy to care anymore. But care we must, and the show folks needs to go on.

Make a chocolate Easter house, dust down the BBQ in a ski jacket and six layers and thank god this might actually be the last sodding lockdown we ever have to endure if we consider Whitty's latest update. He apparently now thinks this IS going to be our last lockdown Hmm

Ledkr · 02/04/2021 10:40

It would be better if it was warmer but I am actually quite happy with no pressure to put on some kind of event.
I am just having a rest and maybe getting a few jobs done.
Will do easter egg hunt Sunday for DD and partake in the local one too.
Dh always works so I always find it sad watching all the families together doing nice stuff so maybe that's behind my not feeling too bad.

JeanClaudeVanDammit · 02/04/2021 10:49

Be glad you are alive to complain about it. In a couple of months things will be much more normal. Look on the bright side

Bloody hell the bar has been set low now.

MarshaBradyo · 02/04/2021 10:50

I am still alive, just about, wheezing and exhausted staggering out into the spring sunshine feeling like we have had six rounds in a boxing ring, and there might be still more rounds to come... All different shades of fucked off misery about to coming to an end, and when we should be rejoicing at least the end of the dark days it somehow quite hard to muster the energy to care anymore. But care we must, and the show folks needs to go on.

This is me too. Although I haven’t had vaccine so not out of woods yet.

And I did get to spend this week in the garden. I’d probably be more annoyed if I missed the nice weather.

DinosApple · 02/04/2021 10:57

I feel a bit down. Weather is grey and cold. We saw my parents last August and I saw them last week for two hours in their garden. We've missed each other so much.
My wonderful MIL died last May of Covid. It's shit.

The children haven't had other family or friend adults around with different perspectives to share, and really they need that.

But fuck Covid, I'm making a fabulous meal to eat on Sunday, will enjoy the sunshine whilst it lasts and planning places to hide Easter eggs.

I'm not at all convinced that Christmas will go back to normal this year, so when it's spring and summer and warmer than 6 degrees we're going to make the most of it.

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daisiesinmay · 02/04/2021 11:00

Sorry about your MIL DinosApple Flowers

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