What is the worst mistake you have made during the pandemic?

[Lockdowner35]

I would say
A time where I went to the shop with my mask in my pocket but forgot to put it on.

Not getting DCs hair cut pre lockdown. He can't see out now so I'll have to her the clippers out. There will be tears and tantrums
Why oh why didn't I pop him up the barbers when I had the chance.

On a more serious note not seeing my mum for 6 months in what turned out to be the last year of her life.

Thought I was doing right and protecting her at the time as she was shielded due to cancer chemotherapy but it would up with my only having visited twice in the whole year before her death.

Hindsight is such a fucker

If I could have known she would die anyway I would have hugged her so much more and taken the DC to see her. They only saw her through the window and on Skype that last year and she loved and missed them so much.

It's a huge regret for me and I can never undo it.

Putting on too much weight. I can't seem to shift it either, it's a huge regret.

Wish we’d seen family in the summer, who all live in Europe. We thought if we hung on a few more months it would get safer, and we might get to travel without quarantine (if accurate rapid tests became an alternative). Now we haven’t seen them in over a year.

I was pregnant throughout the first lockdown and scared of what covid could do. Now I’m on mat leave and think I’d be happier with work as a distraction during lockdown. I don’t regret having DS at all, but it wasn’t the best timing!

Not realising that daughter coming back from Austria in Feb may bring Covid with her. Contracted it then have suffered long Covid since

Not trying to keep up yoga. Now I feel too unfit to do anything and I was running 5k pre Covid.

Didn’t put my foot down at work about being the main person in charge in the office while every other fecker has WFH. Overnight it went from 100 people in an office who would print, scan, dispatch their own documents (to customers), to........me. It has been horrendous. In fairness, more people started coming back in and did their own from September but this has now gone back to how it was before with the new lockdown. The irony being I’m the 5th oldest person in the company too, the rest are mostly 20s/30s and I’m closer to 60.
I can’t do another 6 months of this, it’s so hard. I’m going in early, taking no lunch, just to try and keep on top of things.

Plucking my own eyebrows. Just about got them back to normal now and another lockdown! I am just going to try and leave them alone this time and embrace the mess.

Oh and I also did so much running in 2020
As there was quite frankly nothing else to do that I have trashed my knee and now can't run at all!

Getting chickens after 12 years of deliberation. I've now scratched an itch that can never be satisfied and I'm already planning on expanding my little flock once flockdown is over (yes, the chickens are under flockdown due to avian flu and believe me it's far stricter than the human version!)

Becoming much less active, which combined with non-ideal work station setup on a small desk in the spare room means I've seriously trashed my back. I'm getting physio, but I'm not sure it will ever be back to normal.

Also sad I didn't manage to see my parents during summer. They live in Europe, and the travel to get to them felt risky. I was struggling to make a decision, then had a covid scare (we saw the ILs, then DD spiked a fever the next day. Luckily negative) and got scared, and decided not to risk it. Then again, you don't know the what ifs, and perhaps if I had seen them - and had taken them covid as I feared - that would have been my biggest regret.

Not blocking Mumsnet.

@Funkypolar

Not blocking Mumsnet.

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@maddiemookins16mum this sounds horrible and so unfair. If you can put your foot down, please do. I know firsthand what that kind of treatment at work can do. It's insidious.

2 regrets:

Cancelling a varifocals fitting appointment because I woke up too tired- admittedly, I wasn't sure it would have been a good idea to do it with tired eyes, and you're not allowed to just pick frames and try them on, so I imagined, probably correctly, that I'd settle for any old pair and regret it.

Now I stuck with my single vision specs of the slightly wrong script for the foreseeable (see what I did, there? 😂).

And not pushing DS2 towards his driving test, back in March. Now postponed twice.

However, on the plus side, I saw my ailing aunt twice, 200 miles away; the first was on lockdown day (March 23rd?); BoJo made the announcement at 5pm as we'd begun the journey home; and again in Oct half term. I am delighted she's still with us and was looking pretty well in October, although she's palliative.

Stopped doing my exercise and stopped logging food so after 2 years of dieting and maintaining put weight back on. Now shops are closed and I don’t fit into any trousers.

Getting too scared to go for proper walks in the first lockdown in case we bumped into someone, luckily we had the garden so we got fresh every day...
But now we are going out for walks every day and I feel so much better for it.

Incidentally cases are 1000 over 100,000 where we are but I'm feeling much more able to deal with it...
Also regret not having more pub garden lunches in the summer, we had two in total since March and I wish we had had a few more....

Oh yes and listening to the mumsnet myth that we were only allowed out to exercise once per day. So I counted my dog walk with the kids and wouldn’t go out for a run too. Which was ridiculous. So much nonsense on here and people making up their own rules.

Not getting my haircut before the first lockdown. Not a mistake I’ve made since.

DS' fringe.
Looked like jim Carey out of dumb and dumber

Also forgot to put a mask on once

Eating.

Not eating on its own but eating far more than I needed too and spending time trying too many lovely (fattening!) different foods.

I started my diet New Years and then decided to wait until after this lockdown to start again

Delatron it's a myth shared by any. Even Andrew Marr asked MH if he was going to go back to the one hour a day exercise rule. I wish MH had said "no, because it never existed"

Not going to see my parents in the summer. Now I can’t as I’m in mainland Europe and they can’t come here due to lockdown/no Uk citizens allowed here.

My regret is very trivial compared to others on here, not seeing family members before they died etc.
But mine is that I didn’t make the most of being being furloughed from March to June.
I have friends who did online courses, exercised and lost weight etc.
I stayed up late every night, got up late, ate loads of crap, put on a stone (having put on 2 stone in the last 3 years already!)

Also regret not making the most of having my teenagers home all day and spending quality time with them whilst the older one had no work (was meant to have GCSEs) and 14yr old had not much work at all in first lockdown.

I bought a termly school bus pass for over £300 on 4th December. I wouldn't mind but I left it right til the last minute until I was sure schools would go back. Non refundable