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A year since the last weekend of normality - can you remember what you did?

166 replies

TheVampiresWife · 20/03/2021 13:29

Well, relative normality anyway. The last before lockdown, the last night the pubs were open. Can you remember what you were doing? For me, nothing more exciting than desperately trying to buy basic food but all the shelves were empty. My local pubs were absolutely packed and I admit I was tempted to join them for one last hurrah but thought better of it. We also opened our kitchen bar on the Saturday night and made a 'quarantunes' playlist - there was a surreal sense of novelty about everything.

It's also a year since we were told that BJ was confident we'd send this thing packing in twelve weeks. I think (however naive it seems now, and how disbelieving I am of the government usually) I sort of held into that thought to keep me sane - goodness knows how I'd have felt if I'd known we'd still be in lockdown a year later. Probably for the best that I didn't!

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smellyolddog · 21/03/2021 00:54

I was in a&e with chest pains and a UTI told it wasn't covid by some flippant nurses and sent home with antibiotics, 5 weeks later I was still struggling to breathe.. 😬

FrankiesKnuckle · 21/03/2021 00:54

2 days before I'd started to feel unwell....

newnamenewposts · 21/03/2021 00:58

Saw my mum for the last time as she was then diagnosed with covid and died 10 days laterSad

ClearMountain · 21/03/2021 01:16

I had already been social distancing for over a week because I could see what was coming. People were calling me hysterical and crazy. I had stocked up while the shelves were still full and grabbed several bags of compost and a load of seeds. Turns out I was right, although it’s lasted way longer than I anticipated.

motherrunner · 21/03/2021 05:44

I spent a whole weekend preparing lessons ready to start live teaching and feeling utterly anxious about how I would teach live to timetable and care for my own two primary aged children.

whereiwanttobe · 21/03/2021 06:23

I got married.

Our guest list of 55 was cut to just 8, as our wonderful venue and registrars agreed to go ahead with just the ceremony. A staff member FaceTimed my mum and sister, so they could be with us.

Our florist had already made all the arrangements, so we gave them to the staff, registrars and photographer, who were delighted with their free Mother's Day bouquets. The venue gave us free champagne and cooked our meals as a takeaway, and we then bought lots of flour, pasta, draught beer, milk etc that they were going to have to throw away.

It was a lovely, funny and sad day, but I treasure the memories.

bengalcat · 21/03/2021 06:27

Feeling miffed - was due to go skiing on 21st March 2020 - maybe 2022

babyyodaxmas · 21/03/2021 06:29

We were staying at home. Watching scenes from Italy in horror. Worried best sums it up.

PurBal · 21/03/2021 06:43

My Dad got the last commercial flight from the country he works and I collected him from the airport. Then we went to the pub.

lightand · 21/03/2021 06:50

Oh yes!
Not going to say too much, but had been to a big life event type thing Was warned the day after that someone there had developed symptoms. Our household split to get away from each other, in case covid developed in any one of us. It did. Me! Thankfully no one else in our household developed it.

lightand · 21/03/2021 06:52

@newnamenewposts

Saw my mum for the last time as she was then diagnosed with covid and died 10 days laterSad
Sad. Sad
WorriedMillie · 21/03/2021 06:58

We’d already pulled DD out of school, as she’s got asthma and back then, the risks to children/asthmatics weren’t clear
So we didn’t want to risk going anywhere inside and instead, we walked to through our local country park, down to the cafe and fed the ducks, on Mother’s Day
I remember OH saying “we’ll make it up to you next year”
For Mother’s Day this year, we did pretty much the same Grin

TurquoiseDress · 21/03/2021 07:02

Yes I remember that weekend clearly, glorious sunshine and people out & about all over south London- in the parks, shops, bars & cafes

Think I spent most of it trying to buy loo roll & pasta & giving up on finding any delivery slots ever again!

The weekend before was the last one where we met & socialised with friends

worriedwithhindsight · 21/03/2021 07:30

Went to see Parasite at the cinema, and for a drink and a curry afterwards. Seems like so long ago!

worriedwithhindsight · 21/03/2021 07:34

Oh, and I had taken my car in to the garage for its MOT on the Friday. Just squeaked in before they shut.

CeeceeBloomingdale · 21/03/2021 07:35

I can't remember other than I couldn't see my mum on mothers day as she was over 70 and had been told to isolate already.

CeeceeBloomingdale · 21/03/2021 07:45

Schools and pubs had closed on the friday iirc so it wasn't quite normal, I remember the lockdown announcement being late evening on the Monday as I was at work with skeleton staff and the phones went crazy with customers at about 9pm.

yearinyearout · 21/03/2021 07:46

We were away on holiday (uk). It was really eerie as everywhere was so quiet, people all looked worried and scared. We went for a meal in an empty pub that was closing the next day, and the landlord was terrified both of the covid and his future. It was a weird week...we were already there when the "stay home" message came on the news and it felt like we were in a disaster movie.

NoseinBook3 · 21/03/2021 07:47

It wasn’t normal. Exactly a year ago today we were supposed to be going to Chessington to ‘stay and play,’ but it was cancelled.

I only know that because it was on my child’s birthday which is today.

Hairyfairy01 · 21/03/2021 07:54

It wasn't normal for me. I had already pulled both dc out of school a few weeks ago, had been stock piling basic food for over a month and was only going to work (hospital) and home. Work was all about mask fitting and 'finding' beds for the expected onslaught of Covid cases. Staff were scared, you could see in other countries what was coming our way on the news, PPE was minimal and no one quite knew what they were doing. Meanwhile I was getting increasingly frustrated at the general public going out to pubs, care homes etc. For me it was a bit like watching lambs go to the slaughter, yet knowing the vulnerable would be paying the price.

OpposableThumbs2 · 21/03/2021 08:15

Decorated the kids bedrooms of our new house. Actually moved in on the 23rd. Nothing like cutting it fine.

Nix2020 · 21/03/2021 08:21

I'd been temporarily laid off on the Friday for ten weeks, as was my other half. We Were both quite stressed, hoping that the rumours of government help were real, I remember getting home from work and rushing to see what the chancellor was announcing. A massive sigh of relief came after that, when he announced furlough.

We also went to the farmers market on the Saturday and probably for a cup of coffee at costa, then my bootcamp instructor came to drop off a kettlebell for moving classes onto zoom.

It's strange what you remember.

HelloDulling · 21/03/2021 08:26

Definitely wasn’t normal for us. Schools had closed, stockpiling in shops had started, DH and I were both WFH.

Have just looked through my camera roll. We spent the weekend getting work stations ready for hone schooling, made a menu planner for the week (that didn’t last) and tried not to freak out.

Stillgoings · 21/03/2021 08:32

We went for a.mothers day walk out in the Lakes. I opened all the gates with my coat sleeves. There was a dog off its lead at one point bouncing around us and I freaked out at its owners and told the kids not to touch it in case it had.covid on it. They were mortified and wouldn't speak to me all the way home. All my normalities had gone way out of the window by then...

MrsBDarcy · 21/03/2021 08:48

Already isolating for 14 days as is developed a sore throat and cough the weekend before and a GP friend told us we needed to isolate so kids missed last week of school. I then got very heavy feeling on chest and was exhausted - I'll never know if it was Covid but nobody else got sick and we'd been with friends for a meal at their house so maybe just coincidence
It's actually freaking me out a bit reading back, remembering the only going out once a day rule, the not driving etc