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WhatWhar little 'everyday' thing are you most looking forward to?

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Cattitudes · 11/01/2021 17:45

Once it is all over I am looking forward to a leisurely coffee and cake with a friend in a nice warm coffee shop.

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hamstersarse · 12/01/2021 14:14

Proper conversation. Long meandering conversations not over technology.

Conversation is food for the soul, 'n all that.

I really miss proper, proper conversations.

wanderings · 12/01/2021 14:18

Netball.

Bloodyfrostycar · 12/01/2021 14:28

I'm actually rather missing my teens having their friends over- even the sleepovers. I loved them chatting atwith me. They still speak over technology but clearly that does not involve me!

ILookAtTheFloor · 12/01/2021 14:35

Sitting inside of my girls' dance studio and being able to peep in and watch them through the door window 😭😭

I'd take them just being able to go to dance again, but I dream of the day I can sit inside again.

Namechangedforabet · 12/01/2021 14:52

Concerts, visiting castles, wasting a day in an art gallery having a tasty soup or salad lunch and a browse through the gift shop. My crafting group get togethers. Meeting friends for coffee. Going for a day out, driving somewhere different for the day discovering little independent shops especially second hand bookshops and having a nice lunch. But mostly being able to see my mum in her house and have a cuppa and a custard slice, her favourite. Also my adult children coming home for a visit and being able to just hang out, playing board games and laughing about nothing in particular. My DH being able to see his mum in a care home face to face I would like to see her as well but it would be okay even if it was just him who was allowed to.

LindaEllen · 12/01/2021 15:07

To have the house to myself when 17yo is allowed to go back to college and to his mates' houses and just generally out and about. I'm finding it really testing having him cooped up here, in such a small house, as his alternative to socialising is to play on the PC with his mates. He seems to spend half the time screaming and swearing at the game and it sets my anxiety off - after a bad relationship I'm not good at anger, even when it's not aimed at me. I know that's not his fault though!

MerciSeat · 12/01/2021 15:11

Thinking of a day in the house with nothing to do except read, binge on Netflix and eat chocolate as a treat.

heLacksnotluster · 12/01/2021 15:12

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TyroTerf · 12/01/2021 16:55

Posting "Now that's a beer garden coloured sky..." on fb and seeing who bites.

Not so everyday, but also really looking forward to packing DD off to her paternal grandma's for a few days. Haven't spent more than ten waking hours without her since summer 19 (except for when I was in hospital, which doesn't count as a break!).

OUB1974 · 12/01/2021 17:32

I cant wait to have a spa day...I think I'll feel it's really over then.

Also my sons starting their new school (we have just moved house). I want to make some mum friends and go for a coffee. Also cant wait to go for a wander around the library and a coffee afterwards and seeing my in laws and our best friends (the whole family).

wannadisc0 · 12/01/2021 18:18

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Ellapaella · 12/01/2021 18:52

Concerts, festivals, live music in the pub and having a meal out.
Having the freedom to get in my car with the kids and drive the 300 miles to see my parents and friends from back home for a few days.
Having our friends round for a meal and drinks.
Having the house full of the kids friends again.

theseriousmoonlight · 12/01/2021 18:56

Have my friends meet dd2.

Have my extended family meet dd2.

Go to the pub.

Sit in my brother's house with a brew and watch dd1 and my niece play while my sil and brother coo over my baby.

jarviscockatiel · 12/01/2021 20:35

Going dancing. It used to be such a big part of my life and I've not done it for nearly a year. Miss it so much.

TheRuleofStix · 12/01/2021 20:40

Having a busy house - the kids friends over, our friends coming for coffee and dinner. Long evenings around the dinner table putting the world do rights.

I miss life.

SeldomFollowedIt · 12/01/2021 20:47

@LindaEllen

Oh I can’t cope with gaming/headset noise.
I allow my son for set periods only,
Especially if space is an issue. Tell him to come off for an hour for your own sanity.

Katie517 · 12/01/2021 21:04

All of the big things like holidays and parties of cause, but I also long for a normal mundane Tuesday evening. Finish work (in the office) meet my husband at the gym where we would do a class together, dog going crazy welcoming us home when we pulled on the drive, make dinner and chat about our day. Something that once seemed so “everyday” is now what I long for most.

Mayvis · 12/01/2021 21:37

Going out for drinks, gossip and a dance with a big gang of female friends.

Goatscheesewithhoney · 12/01/2021 22:29

Looking around charity shops. It sounds a bit boring, but I loved a browse and a bargain hunt if I had some time on my own. Then maybe stopping in a cafe to sit on my own for lunch, to enjoy being on my own but still with people around to watch.

CaffiSaliMali · 12/01/2021 22:32

Seeing my parents again, haven't seen them since February Sad

Also just things like going to the shops, a trip to Nandos and a getting a haircut. Even going back to the office and seeing my colleagues again - haven't been there since March.

GriseldaChop · 12/01/2021 22:36

Just being able to pop for lunch or a stop off in a coffee shop when you're out and about. Can't wait to be able to go for a meal or some drinks and catch up properly with people. Just generally not worrying what's coming next!

makinganavalon · 12/01/2021 22:59

Seeing my mum

whatshalliget · 12/01/2021 23:07

I don’t know 😫. I fear that once this is over I will have become a complete hermit, and won’t know how to do anything remotely social.

The big thing I am looking forward to is seeing my Dad. He lives abroad and I now haven’t seen him for a year and a half.

Madhairday · 12/01/2021 23:22

All these feel like they're from another planet, don't they :(

I'm shielding, so:

Hugging my dh and DC
Hugging my mum and dad and spending time with them
Going in a shop (not set foot in one since march)
Likewise, having a haircut/colour
Going for a coffee/breakfast with friends
Singing really loudly in church
Pootling round National Trust houses with my friends
Going on a spa weekend with 3 friends - we're planning to go as soon as we can :)

Feeling tearful now. But maybe a bit hopeful too.

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Cattitudes · 13/01/2021 14:27

Wow, so many little (and not so little) things to look forward to. I think that if you had asked me before the pandemic what I would miss I would probably reel off some of the big things, but like others it is the little things that also matter. I just hope that those people who we occasionally bump into in our everyday lives will still be there when we get out the other side.

This is going to sound crazy, but, there is a certain junction, it is not even a particularly nice junction, the buildings are a bit run down, it isn't particularly in a town that I would drive to but I occasionally drive through a few times a year for work. I think that it is just knowing that I can't drive that way as there is no reason for me to do so.

Madhairday I think that we have to be hopeful that these days are not too far off.

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