What are you missing most from 'life before lockdown'?

[Hannahpearson]

If you could have back 1 thing from pre-covid restrictions... what would it be?

1. Family. Being able to just get on the bus and go to stay at my parents’.
2. Having my class in as normal.

My mum is my only close family member, other than DD and OH and she lives with us, so I’m lucky not to miss family. I do miss the freedom to meet up with friends though

I miss eating out, we used to go out for breakfast every couple of weeks and fairly regularly used to pop out for lunch or dinner

Work stuff! I miss my colleagues, our team meet ups, training and conferences

Mooching around the shops and just popping to the supermarket to pick up something for dinner. Now we’re minimising supermarket trips, meal planning and making do

The freedom to plan ahead- we used to plan weekends away and look forward to them. Last February, we went to London for DD’s birthday weekend and we were planning a return trip this year, but we can’t contemplate it at the moment

Live music, would love to be able to walk down the road to the pub and listen to a local singer, nothing big just a man and his guitar singing covers type thing.

Oh would love for dd to go back to university, want my house back!

Holiday, my favourite things.. Even one night away locally!

Also popping into pubs in winter after a walk... Playing cards by the fire...

Outdoor music events, musical and theatre shows

Community - singing, sitting together and talking, live music, eating together, sports events, traditional fêtes, local theatres, school concerts and performances - when ordinary people get together. Stimulating events for family (people) in care homes or severly handicapped family members.

Now we are isolated in our homes having stuff delivered - kind of a second hand life.

My health

But if you mean something we might get back one day, I’d like my teenagers to have proper social lives again

Travel
Festivals
Live music & theatre
Popping out for tea & a snack

@Cripesitsthegasman19

Socialising with people in person instead of on a sodding screen.

Yes, yes and yes again!!!

Not living with the fear that every outing will result in a police visit, I suppose.

If I could choose one thing, then proper in person teaching to DC tops the list. Especially if they could interact normally with peers while at school/Uni/college, study hall, teachers able to stand close to show them things, streamed ability rather than every class is with exact same other pupils (very mixed ability) all day.

Toddler groups, my lifeline.

Shop bought sandwiches for lunch at work. Sad but I used to really enjoy it.

Also, obviously seeing my parents whom I haven’t for over a year.

Bring on the vaccine!

Normal school for both me (teacher) and DD. Live theatre. Being able to visit my mum.

Spontaneity.

Family and schools.

They are both so good for my and the DCs wellbeing.

Seeing my dad.

What i miss the most is being able to go for a walk and not having to avoid people. Every where is crowded with pandemic walkers. I have to now change my usual walk now and go out silly times with my dogs. I live rural and we have been plagued since March. I've never known anything like it. No I don't own the countryside but these people shouldn't be driving long distances to come here and littering etc.

@lovemirage

I don't miss anything. I am used to covid life and hope it will be like this for a long time.

You can feel free to live a miserable existence with no friends, family or social life, I won’t be.

How bizarre from Love Mirage..

For me it's travelling (family live abroad).

People, real life people. My friends, family, colleagues, random strangers, all of them.

The gym, foreign travel and beauty salon/hairdressers being open.

Crowds. I really love being around people. Just walking in the street or going to a crowded concert.
I fear we may never get back to that sort of thing for so many years. I look at pre Covid tv programmes of people walking with loads of other people around them in the streets and I feel so sad we can’t do that.
I really hate my life. I am of an age where things may never get back to where they were and I am young enough to do it.

I can't pick only one thing.

If I'm being completely selfish and thinking of things for me rather than school, swimming, playdates etc for my daughter and in no particular order:

Just sitting in my friend's house drinking coffee and putting the world to rights

Going out to lovely cafes and restaurants for lunch

The gym. Teaching classes, attending classes, I miss it terribly. Getting a lovely savasana assist at yoga class, I'd kill for that now

Just pottering around shops

Going on holiday

Going home to Ireland to see my family and friends

Our daughter and partner.
She and her partner have gone travelling they can’t get out of the country they are in only just been allowed to move from where they were working for seven months. Now if they can get a flight out they can’t get in .They have been away since May 19 and were away in 2018 for six months. The intention was to go for about a year. I can’t imagine we will see them any time soon.

In no particular order:

Meeting someone for a coffee and sitting down.
Swimming.
The cinema (seeing kids' films as a treat for them mainly) .
Not having my DS(3) ask every day if coronavirus is over yet so he can go to his friend's house to play.
Going inside my parents' house for a chat.
Talking to colleagues face to face.
DD(11) going to trampolining, Scouts and school and not being online all the time.
Visiting a museum.
Soft fucking play!