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Which specific moment from this will stay with you forever?

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RosieLemonade · 13/02/2021 15:18

Positive or negative.

OP posts:
keffie12 · 15/02/2021 12:22

Yes I did a positive post earlier and didn't put up any of the negative.

Your post reminded me of a situation last summer where this woman who likes stirring for families tried to do it on our eldest son and DiL.

She also did it to someone else. In both incidences the accusations ended up with services involved because of her nasty vile behaviour.

It was sorted straightaway in both situations but my God it caused some hurt and pain with no need.

The woman hates families. She has 2 daughters who are both gay. She won't be a grandma because of.

She regularly goes round trying to stir trouble with lies about people who are married with children.

Jocasta2018 · 15/02/2021 12:28

I travelled to London a lot during April 2020 & during Monday morning rush hour, only 10 people got off a 12 carriage train at London Waterloo.
In central London, there was no-one around. I walked from Oxford Circus to Piccadilly Circus without seeing another person or a bus or a cab or even a police vehicle.
I felt quite nervous - what if someone ran out from a side street to mug me? So I walked down the centre of the road.
Finally I found a cab in Haymarket - I was his first fare of the day at 3pm. He was only out & about as he'd dropped his MiL at a London hospital & had some time to kill.

myfaceismyown · 15/02/2021 12:49

I live in the Midlands but come from the home counties. Kids born here. It has to be the moment I realised after so many months stuck home with me, my DD and DS now speak with a southern accent!! Poor DH...

ginghamtablecloths · 15/02/2021 12:54

I recall the pettiness and lack of common sense shown by both officialdom and individuals and the fear of being stopped for daring to leave the house.

CaughtInTheCovid · 15/02/2021 12:56

@T0pcat7 I've just read your post and gone cold. That must have been the most awful moment. I'm sure you were a wonderful support to those children at that time.

AubergineDream · 15/02/2021 12:57

BoJo on BBC news announcing the first lockdown. It's the most a news story has shocked me since 911. I had chills down my spine

Winterlight · 15/02/2021 13:05

After an appointment in Canterbury I dropped into the Cathedral which was closed to visitors but open for prayer.

Apart from the track and trace lady on the desk and a couple of workmen, I had the whole magnificent space all to myself

Had a bit of a panic moment faced with the choice of hundreds of empty chairs.

Chicchicchicchiclana · 15/02/2021 13:09

@SandwhichGenerationGal

My toddler twin granddaughters telling me on facetime that they felt sad not to be seeing me but ‘Boris says no because of the virus’. We FaceTime every night but they refuse to talk to me and are becoming more and more disengaged, (obviously furious and perplexed but can’t express it verbally). We are so very close and I am terrified we will never get that back 😢
I'm sorry to hear you are so worried about this but perhaps they feel that having a Facetime phone call with you every night is too much? It seems a very big "duty" to put on your dgds. I'm sure things would much improve if you cut it down to once a week.
Chicchicchicchiclana · 15/02/2021 13:12

Collecting my daughter from her University Halls. She was just so cheerful and lovely and happy to see me. I felt that she hadn't fully grasped how massive this whole thing could be. My husband was ill at home (covid) and I had to drive 6 hours in a day to do it. We brought nearly all her stuff with us but not all of it. Poor darling child thought she would be going back for the summer term Sad.

Also hearing that someone I knew (not very well, not a close friend) but who was younger than me had died.

T0pcat7 · 15/02/2021 13:23

[quote CaughtInTheCovid]@T0pcat7 I've just read your post and gone cold. That must have been the most awful moment. I'm sure you were a wonderful support to those children at that time.[/quote]
Thank you, the children are young adults and I am glad I was able to be with them.

Bonnieweejeaniemccall · 15/02/2021 13:30

Mine was having my baby at the start of lockdown 1, I ended up in for 5 days in a room on my own. She was in nicu for 2 days and I just sat and cried on my own for hours. I will never forget the midwives and how wonderful they were. The feeling of getting out on that 5th day and seeing DS1 waiting for me at the hospital doors I will never forget, we just just cried and cried. We have a pic outside the scbu that a nurse stopped to take of the four of us and I just cry my eyes out everytime I look at it.

Also the look on my mums face when she first met her and couldn't hold her will stay with me forever, she looked absolutely heartbroken.

The one positive I can take was I was meant to be going back to work a few weeks ago but have been furloughed. I could never have afforded to take any more time off so I'm thankful everyday I get to have this extra time.

And now I'm crying ha ha! Great thread though, so hard to hear how everyone's lives have been affected by all of this.

SallyB392 · 15/02/2021 13:38

Hearing that one person in Britain had the virus. I remember saying to my husband that our lives were going to change, I didn't realise then that my life was changed forever.

MarylinMonrue · 15/02/2021 13:54

I spent the first lockdown in Tottenham Ct Road and for me it was seeing the BT tower rolling bright yellow with 'Stay At Home, Protect the NHS, Save Lives' blazoned across it 24/7 over the empty streets. When it briefly changed back I cried with relief. It's back to that now. Also hearing the constant 'beep beep beep' of the timed pedestrian crossings telling non-existent people it was safe to cross deserted roads.

anon666 · 15/02/2021 14:23

I remember the week if the 20th March where everything started to happen quickly, lockdowns etc.

It felt like I couldn't mentally keep up with the change, so disorientating. I'd keep having to change my perceptions of what we could and couldn't do.

satbythepoolside · 15/02/2021 14:39

Sat at my desk leading back to back virtual crisis meetings while my son sat next to me crying as he couldn't do his school work - and not being able to help my son.

EmmaGrundyForPM · 15/02/2021 14:43

I've just remembered that DH and I went to.the cinema in early March. When we came out, DH said to me he was glad it was a good film (Parasite) as that was probably the last tine we would go to the cinema for 6 months. I just laughed as I thought he was being ridiculous.

I was in the hairdressers after work on Friday 19th March when it was announced that pubs and restaurants had to close. My hairdresser said "we'll be next, you're probably my last customer for the next 3 months". He was right.

Lunaticmess · 15/02/2021 14:55

The last day in the playground before the first lockdown. All the Mums just stared at each other with haunted, scared expressions and tried not to cry. We didn’t even know or understand what we were feeling when we said goodbye to each other. Also, having my new job taken away before I’d managed to properly start and being denied furlough ALL the way through this nightmare. I feel such anger towards this government for abandoning so many taxpayers for such a long time. It’s inhumane and prisoners are treated better.

Positives: our community has rallied and people have looked after others. I hope people continue to be kind to one another when we start to find our way out of this.

crazeelala2u · 15/02/2021 14:58

Falling in love with someone I reconnected with during lockdown.

Chicchicchicchiclana · 15/02/2021 15:00

We went to see Elvis Costello at Hammersmith Odeon on 13th March. We drove there and back to avoid public transport whereas we'd usually go on the Tube. I remember seeing all the buses crammed full of people and thinking they will all be empty in a week's time. We met up with our friends and couldn't hug or kiss them. Elvis said during the set that he didn't know if that would be his last night and if he'd have to abandon the rest of the tour ... he did.

Not being able to buy any paracetamol in the shops when my DH was ill with covid was really scary.

ChannelJackieWeaver · 15/02/2021 15:11

Negative
The scenes in Italy, coffins lined up in a church.
Boris announcing the 1st lockdown and his announcement the week before where he told us to stop all non essential social contact and DH called to say he had been sent home to WFH with immediate effect.

My parents distress at not seeing their grandchildren.

Positive
The lovely spring/summer weather and getting into good habit of daily walks.

The slower pace, no stress rushing from place to place, not having to keep in laws happy by visiting every weekBlush

Nameisjustaname · 15/02/2021 15:13

The tears of relief I had when I got the text for my Mum to have the vaccine.

Duggeehugs82 · 15/02/2021 15:27

In the first lockdown after about a week, i took my 2 girls to the park next to our high street , it was so quiet noone around and then this young man in 20s walked though looking really ill coughing and just awful walked past us, i quickly moved my girls away from him and then felt so awful like i was in zombie film and the virus was out , was awful feeling , on way back from park i seen an old man with his dog, i asked if he was ok as he looked a bit stressed and he said that hes scared , he went to the coop with his £8 like he does every week and he put few more things in his shopping but didnt have a enough money and the man behind him paid for his shopping and he couldnt belive that people would do that, it was really sad to hear that he was scared and i still wondered if hes ok but have no way of knowing, ive spent all day reading this thread.

nopuppiesallowed · 15/02/2021 15:27

I am beyond grateful to live in a nice house in a village with a lovely husband. I love it that the church we go to has embraced YouTube videoing and dealt a it well (Bradley Stoke Evangelical church) and I love it that I can also still go to the services in the church (though not for a few weeks now because I'm still recovering from Covid). Those are some of the positives. Having read some of the posts I feel almost guilty to say how sad I was when my 5 year old grandson said "I asked Daddy if I can come to see you and he said 'no'.

hopingforabrighterfuture2021 · 15/02/2021 15:31

The main one for me was when Fiona Bruce read the news live on the BBC that schools were shutting back in March. It was so totally shocking (not that it was happening, but the fact it was something that had never happened before). It felt just so odd, scary and I really felt a sense of dread, like something massive was happening.

Other moments have been less intense, but for me that was the one.

The whole situation has definitely made me reevaluate many things though.

Gingernaut · 15/02/2021 15:43

Buying a set of hair clippers, royally screwing up my hair and WhatsApping my work group to warn them in advance.

Having to vacuum the bath full of hair clippings.

Clipped my hair twice since.