Which specific moment from this will stay with you forever?

[RosieLemonade]

Positive or negative.

the novelty of spying for rouge kids at the start of the first lockdown

So many people have said about schools closing. That demonstrated that something was really, really wrong.

Agree this should go into classics. It has given me shivers.
Negatives: being home alone with my newborn, feeling the loneliest I've ever felt and just wanting a hug from my mum and for someone to tell me I was doing a good job. It broke my heart that family missed so much of his early months and now he is over a year, have not seen how he is growing into a wonderful little person.
Positives: Rule of 6 picnics with friends, taking baby to soft play for the first time in tier 2, going to watch Tenet at the cinema. Film is a massive thing to me so being back in a cinema (albeit masked up!), I just cried through all the trailers thinking about how great it was to see a film on a big screen again.

Negatives: walking into shops just before and after the first lockdown had started to get things that my (shielding) relatives hadn't prepared for, e.g. hand sanitiser, and weren't prepared to compromise on, e.g. they had to have broccoli and carrots, and seeing the shelves empty, with people acting very suspiciously and aggressively towards each other. It left me very shaken.

Positives: having a whole train to myself when I had to go to work in lockdown #1 (essential worker); Zoom quizzes with family and friends; my husband - it's really cemented how happy we are and that we both made the right choice in each other

Really panicking that my adult daughter wouldn't be able to get back to us just before the first lockdown. She did.

Watching and reading and hearing the number of deaths rise and rise and still not quite believing it.

Positives - get to know more of the local environment. Realising how lucky myself and my family are.

Getting the news that my gcses were cancelled. Whole year group at school running around like headless chickens the morning after. We didn’t all necessarily get on but in that moment, we did. Huddled around the year 11 hun absolutely freezing as we all signed one another’s shirts and took pictures, the sense of dread sitting in. Scared of what was going to happen, wondering if we’d ever be able to go back to school again, saying goodbye to my teachers and not being able to hug any due to CEV family members. Empty dining hall at school which had been full for almost every day prior and was usually very loud was unusually quiet.

Going to tesco and finding no toilet roll, baby wipes, pasta, etc. Then when lockdown 1.0 started going to tesco and it looking like a zombie apocalypse, barriers with one way systems.

Having to start college while socially distancing, having to wear masks and only getting to go in once EOW.

Hearing Boris announce lockdown 3.0, Twas terrible

Good parts:

Starting work. Bloody love my job and can’t wait to get back to it once it’s safe to do so

Despite having to wear face masks on rollercoasters, my one flew off and into the distance. I found that rather funny

I found it a bit unsettling queueing up for my vaccine - was 40min start to finish (including the 15 min after). Thought I'd feel euphoric...

Normally would have someone with me, waiting, chatting, helping to pass the time. But we all just stood in line, 2m apart, shuffling forwards, giving details, shuffling forward, giving consent, shuffling forward getting the jab, then onwards to our seat to wait for 15 min... have never felt so like a sheep in my life.

That’s sad @BeyondMyWits. I felt like I’d won the lottery when I got my letter on Saturday. I can’t wait to get the vaccination on Thursday.

The big crying moment for me was sitting down with my kids (15 & 19) just before Christmas and asking if money was no object what would you want for a Christmas present.
They both said to hug and kiss their nan and grandad again.

Watching Boris Johnson attempting to pronounce "sarilumab" and "tocilizumab" during a press conference about life-saving drugs.

It was a moment of genuine absurdist comedy that left me hysterical for a good 5 minutes.

I've just seen the press conference and thought good for him. He could have just passed quickly on but he obviously wanted to make sure he got it absolutely right.
Not remotely funny to me but of course people find different things funny.

On 15th March both of my children started with a mild cough. The following morning I rang their school to say they wouldn't be in and rang my work to say I had to stay at home to look after them. It felt so wrong, like we were all skiving, I would never have kept them off for a mild cough before this. It felt like such a momentous decision that I cried when I got off the phone and cried when I told my children.

A few days later we had a supermarket delivery booked. I was watching for the van and as soon as it arrived I shouted from the doorstep not to come any closer because the children had coughs. I was really terrified of possibly infecting the driver. He was so calm and told me they had a process to follow and that I should wait inside while he bagged up all of our shopping and left it on our doorstep. I cried again with the relief of being able to get our food in a safe way for him and us.

We didn't leave our house / garden for 2 weeks. When our isolation was over we went for a walk round the local park and it felt like the whole world had changed in those 2 weeks. I held both children's hands the whole time, we were really scared of walking past people. Although it was good to get out, it was also such a relief to get back home again afterwards.

Sunbathing on my flat roof, police helicopter circling! Socially distance lock down drinks with my neighbours in the road. Not thinking of bad stuff too grim, had enough.

@Keepcalm123

The big crying moment for me was sitting down with my kids (15 & 19) just before Christmas and asking if money was no object what would you want for a Christmas present. They both said to hug and kiss their nan and grandad again.

My DS(12) has asked for a dog at every opportunity since he could talk. Last birthday (in the autumn) he changed it to “hug Granny”.

Having my first covid vaccine. 16th Dec NHS frontline same day as stating antIdepressants for first due to to the psychological and physical burn out of previous exhausting and draining 12 months. Not had my second yet. Still feel the same and working FT.

This thread does need to be in classics. Listening to The Day of The Triffids - lots of interesting parallels. still near the beginning and the Official Record woman photographing and recording what she can made me think of this thread.

After reflecting, the biggest thing that will take the longest to get over is the fear of coughing... And more specifically, my children coughing.

Quietly running round the supermarkets from January on buying tinned food etc. Feeling like I wanted to tell everyone to do the same and knowing they would think I was a nutter.

@Bubblemonkey

the novelty of spying for rouge kids at the start of the first lockdown

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Right, Mumsnet HQ, this thread HAS TO go to the Classics, please!

to all who contributed to it

@Aroundtheworldin80moves absolutely agree with this. Its awful isn’t it. Even if they are a bit snotty I get the fear.

Unexpectedly having to have my amazing cat PTS on 18 March. My lovely vet saying “sod social distancing” and giving me the biggest hug as I cried. That lovely bit of kindness will always stay with me.

Reading the monthly newsletter from the paediatric diabetes team. Instead of the usual mundane reminders, March's was urging everyone to check they had enough supplies in and to organise prescriptions, a reminder of sick day protocol (there's set rules for extra insulin if ill) and a list of phone numbers for out of hours and children's wards for all the areas.

I remember being horrified wondering how ill they thought everyone would be.

Seeing people out and about early on wearing masks was very unnerving. It bizarre how quickly most of us have grown used to them.

I don't think that this thread should go in Classics. People have shared very personal stuff on here and not all of them might want it in Classics. If @MNHQ are thinking of that they should ask everybody on the thread.