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What are you missing right now?

67 replies

ssd · 04/04/2020 12:47

I'm missing seeing friends for a coffee/walk/chat

Am missing nice coffee so much and I'm a tea drinker!! I just like a coffee out.

Am missing drives out to the beach with dh for a good walk

No extended family to miss unfortunately

OP posts:
girlicorne · 04/04/2020 15:15

Theme parks, my sons football, mcds, our local pub, my job, my lovely cousin and my best friend who live miles away and we were due to see over Easter, having lots of exciting plans, National Trust places. Just being able to do what we want when we want. I think not being able to make plans is the biggest one for me, I live for my plans and plan the whole year after Xmas, now everything up to July is cancelled but I doubt we ll be able to do any of the things we have planned after that either. We also won’t have any money to do anything in 2021 as financially we are broken and it will be a long road back for us.
I know these are minor things compared to people separated from their children though.

mindproject · 04/04/2020 15:23

I'm missing reliable news and being told the truth by the mainstream.

But I guess we never really had that.

OhYouBadBadKitten · 04/04/2020 15:26

Being able to see anyone face to face, being able to hop on a train and explore. Brie.

Longdistance · 04/04/2020 15:28

I miss visiting my mum and dB.

I’m also missing going away. As I work term time only I take dds away with me somewhere. We hadn’t planned for Easter, but dh was going to book flights for us somewhere sunny 🌞

Laiste · 04/04/2020 15:31

Miss the company of DD2 (she's 25 lives with BF and his parents in next village so is stuck there with them) We normally sit and watch Masterchef together during the week. It's her birthday on Monday :( we face time of course but it's not the same.

Missing going out to the garden center. Need soil for pots, rockery plants and tree bark mulch.

Missing the freedom of just popping anywhere really.

We don't eat out much normally so not missing that, but miss a coffee and a toasty in costa.

Laiste · 04/04/2020 15:32

OhYouBadBadKitten Brie?

HotCrossBungle · 04/04/2020 15:37

I miss popping out to the shops every few days to get something for dinner. I hate meal planning so tend to get fresh ingredients as and when depending on what I fancy. And then not having to queue to get into the shop!

I also miss going to the cinema.

ToTheDoctors · 04/04/2020 15:39

My local Indian restaurant Sad

SauvignonBlanche · 04/04/2020 15:40

Human touch.

HoffiCoffi13 · 04/04/2020 15:41

My mum.

Iamclearlyamug · 04/04/2020 15:43

My fiance. He's abroad and I don't know when we'll next be able to see each other

OhYouBadBadKitten · 04/04/2020 15:43

I know it's very specific Laiste. I just miss it, despite buying it infrequently. Grin When I next do a shopping trip in eleventy billion weeks I shall buy some.
Also basil.
And crisps. I like crisps a lot.

OhYouBadBadKitten · 04/04/2020 15:45

Obviously I miss more serious things too.

Trumpspeach · 04/04/2020 15:45

My boyfriend.
and sex

Laiste · 04/04/2020 15:50

There was loads of it in Tesc last time i went (Wed.) (or was it thurs??)

I feel i want to get you Brie!

BurgerQuean · 04/04/2020 15:50

My mum Sad

BarkandCheese · 04/04/2020 15:51

Normality. School, work, National Trust dog walks at the weekend with tea and cake, seeing the family, pottering around charity shops, coffee with a friend, cinema, looking forward to Friday, guests on TV programs not Skyping from their houses, Pointless on BBC1 not BBC2 because of the daily briefing, driving my car.

CtrlU · 04/04/2020 15:51

McDonald’s and my friends.

Polkadotties · 04/04/2020 15:53

My horse. Human interaction not through a screen. Being able to pop to the shops or to get a coffee. Basically my old life.

BiBiBirdie · 04/04/2020 15:54

Being able to think, today I will go X and do y

Freedom basically to make my own decisions

I know that with the weather today and tomorrow, after weeks of pretty crappy weather, we would have had a barbecue today, with some of our friends coming over and probably staying over. The tomorrow we would have gone to church at 10am, caught the end of a local bootfair/flea market in the next village, had a spot of late breakfast in our fave spot there, come home for a bit, then all gone to the pub for a laugh. If it's really nice the landlord, who is a great friend, would've got the barbecue out and possibly the bouncy castle for the kids and we would've had a laugh until about 8.30pm, we would have walked round the corner home, chucked he kids a film on and finished a bottle of wine.

Now it's just, well, a void. No church. No pub. No friends visiting. No bootfair. You even feel bad having a barbecue incase the neighbors don't appreciate the smoke.

Juanmorebeer · 04/04/2020 15:55

Everything really. But seeing my friends mainly. Doing body pump at the gym or going for a steam. Coffee out, the pub. All of it.

Sparklingbrook · 04/04/2020 15:57

My nephew was born in January. He is quite a drive away but managed to see him when he was 10 days old. Not seen him since, I am so sad about it. He is nearly 12 weeks old now. Facetime is great but I want a cuddle.

Devlesko · 04/04/2020 16:00

immediate family who don't live with us, including my granddaughter.
That's it, really.

Splodgetastic · 04/04/2020 16:01

Wine, mainly wine!

HoffiCoffi13 · 04/04/2020 16:03

I have lots of wine Grin

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