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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:
NeverWillIEver · 13/02/2021 17:13

My beautiful dad dying and not being able to give him the send off he deserved.

bagginses · 13/02/2021 17:14

Negatives:
The night Boris announced the schools were closing. We were in a staff meeting (teacher) and we all stuck around to see what he said. We had guessed it was coming but it was surreal when it was announced. Instead of driving straight home, I went to a supermarket and did the most random shop I have ever done. I think I just felt so panicked with a lack of any control.

My youngest DD (10) breaking down on Thursday night as she just misses her friends.

Positives: My in laws and my DF having their first covid vaccinations. Just waiting for my DM to get hers.

Lockdown 1- the weather was lovely, it was easier to be positive as we live fairly rurally so lots of walks etc.

That so far we haven't caught covid. I am in school twice a week and I thank my lucky stars every day that I haven't brought it home.

IncludeWomenInTheSequel · 13/02/2021 17:17

The last day my team was all in the office together.

3 months later one of us was dead and three had been made redundant.

TomatoesAreFruit · 13/02/2021 17:18

March / April / May 2020 Watching my DH lose a job he loved and our income almost half. Then feeling shit scared about him getting another job which would expose him to the virus.

Watching my DS play with the little boy next year, whilst separated by the garden fence.

Going in the car for the first time in months.

June / July / August 2020
Watching my son see his grandad for the first time in months.

My first post lockdown costa.

Seeing my friends and family again. Just so lovely and special.

Nellodee · 13/02/2021 17:18

So sorry for all those who've suffered losses. This is a heart breaking read.

ArchbishopOfBanterbury · 13/02/2021 17:18

Lost my auntie to suicide during the first lockdown. 5 of us, immediate family, socially distanced at the funeral. No singing, and no hugs.

That evening, watched the news with Dominic Cummings in the rose garden, justifying his trip to Barnard Castle.

FakeRealist · 13/02/2021 17:20

The press conference where hospitality was closed for the first time. I was at work at the time and was one of the ones to implement the shut down of a building that wasn't ever designed to be unattended (large hotel).
My sister video calling me after a shift on a covid ward and seeing the red marks and indentations on her face from the ppe she'd been wearing for 12 hours.
The first morning after schools closed and I was not at work my dd said (year 11) "What now mum?" And I just said "I don't know ". Because I just didn't.

Someone from the council telling me that everyone has to pay their council tax, even during covid, in response to me calling to say my payments would be delayed while the furlough was sorted out. I had had no income for 2 weeks and had no idea what, if anything I'd get, much less when. I just cried and cried after that call. I wanted to just give up.
Long sunny days where I got to enjoy them (at least on the surface ) Sat in the garden with a book because it was free and all I could do at the time, and took my mind off my work/financial situation.

MarinPrime · 13/02/2021 17:21

Going to tesco the day before the first lockdown.
Horrible atmosphere, queues and empty shelves people forced to crowd together in the aisles.
I left without buying anything.

psychomath · 13/02/2021 17:21

On a lovely warm day around mid-March, I was walking home from work and saw a beautiful magnolia tree in someone's front garden with clear blue skies behind it. It was after Italy had been all over the news but when we still had only a small number of cases here. I vividly remember thinking how surreal it was to know that in just a few weeks' time we'd be seeing similarly horrific scenes and there was absolutely nothing we could do to prevent it, and yet everything still felt so normal.

HeelsHandbagPerfumeCoffee · 13/02/2021 17:21

To those of you who have suffered bereavement I’m so sorry,there are not adequate words

RedcurrantPuff · 13/02/2021 17:22

@Shelovesamystery

When Rishi announced furlough.

DH and I both work in a restaurant and it was so bloody scary at the start. First Boris announced that everyone had to stay home, and then the restaurant was so quiet. We were all scared that they would just refuse to close hospitality and the restaurant would just go under. Then they announced that everything had to close, which was sort of a relief, but no word of financial support. We spent those few days frantically figuring out how we were going to pay our bills and whether we could get jobs working for amazon and whether our shifts could work around each other for childcare. Then I can remember me and DH sat in our living room watching Rishi announce the furlough scheme and I burst into tears and we just hugged. I have never felt relief like that in my life.

That period of time between Boris telling everyone to stay home and Rishi announcing furlough was such an emotional roller-coaster for us. I feel a bit wobbly just thinking about it actually.

Yes furlough being announced here too. The incredulity and despair that the government could just shut down people’s work on a whim followed by the relief of at least having a lifeline
Cheermonger · 13/02/2021 17:23

At the beginning when there were stories about empty shelves, I didn’t really believe it. My work is next to a big supermarket so I thought to be safe, I’ll go before work as it’s always empty. Anyway it wasn’t, it was chaos, queues all up the aisles, empty shelves and scared people. Behind me in the queue was a man with a trolley full of dried fruit etc and I assumed he worked at one of the local bakers. He was on the phone to his boss and explaining about the chaos and the queues and his boss was properly screaming at him down the phone to get back to work, the man was really distressed and was trembling - his boss obv was accusing him of skiving. He just kept saying to the queue that he didn’t know what to do, his boss was recalling him but he’d get into trouble if he came without the stuff, he needed the job. It was bloody awful. Anyway I offered to pay for his shopping and take it to my office so he could go back to work and show the boss the pic on his phone of the chaos, then someone could come and pick the stuff up and settle up with me. He did that, all ended ok, they collected the stuff later but it was such an illustration of the precarious nature of some jobs and how people can lose their shit on a sixpence. Scared me too.

mynameisnotmichaelcaine · 13/02/2021 17:23

Having to manage the absolute bewilderment of my Year 11 and Year 13 classes when their exams were cancelled and their schooling abruptly ended in March 2020.

Winterlight · 13/02/2021 17:23

Looking up at the plane-free stunning blue spring skies.

Visiting Dad with advanced dementia at the nursing home with a full length Perspex screen between us; him confused and struggling in his wheelchair to reach forward for a hug.

FlamingGoat · 13/02/2021 17:24

A photo in the news of a bewildered elderly gentleman staring at the empty shelves with a shopping list in his hand.
The day I was sent home at midday from work to be furloughed.
The day MIL got admitted to hospital in April. It was the last time I saw her.

funniestpersonyouknow · 13/02/2021 17:25

After first lockdown and restrictions began to ease telling my 9 year old we could see our family... he sobbed and through the snot said "these are happy tears". There have been many tears since.

Gottalovesummer · 13/02/2021 17:26

Receiving the email from my teenagers school confirming they were shutting. I knew it was coming but it broke my heart for both my teens and all their friends. Some of their friends have suffered really badly
with their mental health and it's heartbreaking.

megletthesecond · 13/02/2021 17:27

When I bought some masks at the start of February 2020 and was amazed to find some left. I couldn't understand why everyone wasn't taking it seriously already.

And when Johnson was seriously ill in hospital. I was thinking he's an idiot but he had better not die. Dark couple of days.

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 13/02/2021 17:27

The relief of knowing DH ànd his colleagues had made it to Calais in time for the last ferry last March.

Then in October... My friends DH finally making it home.

sashagabadon · 13/02/2021 17:28

Driving to work on the A road into London as the sun was rising, maybe 6am ish the last week of March and being overtaken by a convoy of maybe 10 large army trucks was pretty unnerving and then meeting my manager in the staff car park shortly after and both of us wishing each other luck!

trappedsincesundaymorn · 13/02/2021 17:28

Remembering the look that passed between me and mum as she was going into the ambulance. Both she and I knew at that moment that we would never see each other again.

OnlyToWin · 13/02/2021 17:28

When Boris got taken to intensive care. Don’t know why it bothered me so much - I didn’t vote for him, but it was just a bit of a oh this is real moment.

Nannewnannew · 13/02/2021 17:28

My friend of over 40 years text me to say that she wanted to call an end to our friendship, apparently I took it out on her because I live on my own. To say I was shocked and hurt is an understatement and I have racked my brains to try and understand what exactly I have done wrong but am at a loss.

WhySoSensitive · 13/02/2021 17:29

My mother in law threatening me because in the middle of that first strict lockdown I wasn’t comfortable with her seeing my son. (Or anyone)

She took it upon herself to act like she was been tortured and singled out over others. Her behaviour was the worst it’s been in ten years and I’ll never forgive her.

TokyoSushi · 13/02/2021 17:29

My 40th birthday which was mid March 2020, we had to cancel everything. I had gone on my 'friends' birthday night out the weekend before and we knew it was likely the last time (but not for this long!) and when the first lockdown was announced, how odd that line seemed 'You must stay at home.' Everywhere was so so quiet the first time around.