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

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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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Pissedoff1234 · 21/03/2021 15:39

On the Friday night I went to Asda to get the remaining parts of my shop that I hadn't got because others had got there first. My youngest DS went to stay at his GP's on the Saturday but came home on the Sunday morning with a temp that lasted a week so we were in isolation anyway from then for 2 weeks.

Apart from that we didn't go anywhere.

catinbootsx · 21/03/2021 15:40

I had a terrible ONS Grin

rhowton · 21/03/2021 16:39

I will forever remember what I did! Sometimes I cling to the memories to get me through the utter shit! I really can't wait to get back to normal.

CC1991 · 21/03/2021 20:33

I had just come out of my 1-week isolation (I live alone). Went to the supermarket which made my legs hurt because of a week of not walking anywhere, and bought a mother's day present which I then took round to my parents' house. Didn't go to their house again for about 2 months when we were allowed to sit in the garden, but I did see my dad before that when we were allowed to meet one person outdoors.

NotQuiteUsual · 21/03/2021 22:43

We booked a shit load of house viewings and a premier inn 5 hours away and got in the car. It was an exhausting, but amazing weekend. I remember watching the kids play with another families kids in the restaurants soft play area over breakfast, thinking to myself it'll be a while till we see this again.

We've been living in house number 3 for 5 months now. That weekend was one of the most life changing weekends of my 30 odd years.

ChocOrange1 · 21/03/2021 22:49

We knew lockdon was looming. I Waddled my 40 weeks pregnant self round all the local outdoor attractions with my 3 year old, as I had a feeling they would be closed for 1a while. We went to the farm park and the local arboretum. Also stopped at the garden centre and bought some primroses to cheer up the garden, and some strawberry plants and sunflower seeds to give her something to do.

DrWankincense · 21/03/2021 23:20

Honestly, I can't recall exactly.
I remember friends from Italy and Spain messaging me to say it was really, really bad and if I could pull the kids out of school.
So I did. About a week before the orders.
I remember looking at one of the nursery staff and her saying, we are waiting to be told to shut, we know it's coming, don't worry about taking ds out.
I was very frightened.
Worrying about the crazy panic buying, can I feed the kids? Work, will I lose my job? The kids and dh who works with the public.
Worried about my family who were still having to work.
Feeling a huge ball of anxiety in my gut and playing it down so the kids wouldn't be scared. Trying to Mary Poppins the shit out of it.
I felt very bad for a long time but I put on a good game face. I'm quite exhausted by it all now and would really just like it all to fuck right off.

MarchingOnTogether · 21/03/2021 23:37

I remember doing a mad dash to argos on the Saturday to get a few last bits for my daughters birthday (she turned 9 day 3 of lockdown) and also laptops for the kids for home learning. It all seemed like a bit of a novelty, oh and sainsburys was clean out of bog roll!
And now we are preparing for her to turn 10, still in lockdown Shock

marriednotdead · 21/03/2021 23:38

I was already ill with COVID and had inadvertently passed it onto my adult DD the weekend before so both households were isolating. I remember vividly a couple of days after lockdown having a sob alone in front of the TV. Ironically DP had said earlier how calm I seemed to be about it all but inside I felt terrified at that moment.

We'd lent a piece of electrical garden equipment to a grateful lady on a local forum and she arranged to drop it back.
When I asked her to leave it in the porch and explained why, she asked if we needed any shopping. I ventured that some fruit would be appreciated and although I have still never laid eyes on her, she went to Sainsbury's and left us two carrier bags full of fruit and veg. Her kindness meant so much.

DogsAreShit · 21/03/2021 23:46

Tried to do shopping which involved walking miles with my trolley and rucksack because none of the shops had much. Shat myself about going into work the next day because I knew I'd have to get the bus and every cunt was in the pub infecting each other. Wished i was more senior so I could work from home and/or have enough money to buy a car. Worried about leaving my kids on their own. Worried about elderly family members. Worried about friends who are medically vulnerable. Wondered if one of my kids was classed as medically vulnerable (he is). It was a pretty fucking shit weekend tbh.

Howmanysleepsnow · 22/03/2021 00:13

It was ds’s 8th birthday. We’d brought his party forward by a week to 16th so managed to fit that in (though only 3 friends made it with 24h notice). No party this year, so glad we managed it.
DH set off to Scotland on a 1000mile sponsored walk. I was worried he’d develop covid up a mountain: he thought he’d be safer there than anywhere. 2 days later I drove 8 hours to collect him. 1 week later he had covid (so glad he was home.)
Dc and I were already isolating and I’d pulled them out of school on the Wednesday before schools shut as eldest DS was worried about people coughing/ no distancing/ no sanitising.

wildthingsinthenight · 22/03/2021 00:15

Whole household was already isolating as I had symptoms which started on 13th March Hmm

BorisJohnsonsleftnipple · 22/03/2021 07:49

Nothing apart from shopping in a crowded supermarket. We'd already started social distancing.

Jellybean27 · 22/03/2021 09:01

@animalcrossinglockdownsaviour 💪🏻🙌🏻

happymummy12345 · 23/03/2021 22:36

Same as usual. My husband works every weekend, usually both days. Either a morning shift so he may start at 6 and be home between 4.30 and 5, or start at 8 and be home by 6. An evening shift so start at 3 and be home about 11 Saturday night or 9.30 to 10 on a Sunday. Or a double shift so start at 8 and get home around 11 on a Saturday or between 9.30 and 10 on a Sunday. It literally depends on how busy the place is. So he was at work. I was at home with ds. Same as always. We have no other family or anything so.
In the last year my life hasn't changed at all. My husband has been at home a lot more, my son couldn't go to nursery last year or school this year. And I haven't been able to go to my nail and eyebrow appointments which is the only place I go.
I know I'm very lucky and for that I'm extremely grateful.

userxx · 24/03/2021 08:28

@happymummy12345 What about seeing your friends or going out to restaurants/bars?

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