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Dancing with tiers in my eyes, Weeping for the memory of a life gone by

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dancemom · 01/09/2021 20:27

New thread, a very appropriate title I feel ...

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dancemom · 01/09/2021 20:29

Thanks to @titsintiers for the title

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KatySun · 01/09/2021 20:30

The title is very sad 😞

bebanjo · 01/09/2021 20:32

Have we had the 3 minute warning?

WouldBeGood · 01/09/2021 20:34

Never thought my feelings would be summed up by Ultravox

Thanks @dancemom

Scottishskifun · 01/09/2021 20:37

Thanks @dancemom

Popitdontstopit · 01/09/2021 20:41

Anyone else see Midge at Let's Rock last weekend?

sartorius · 01/09/2021 20:44

Thanks @dancemom Great title.
I'm one of your loyal disciples
Just fancied a wee name change

IsurviveonCoffeeandWinein2021 · 01/09/2021 20:47

Just placemarking for the figures from @dancemom really. Just feeling really flat just now

Rae36 · 01/09/2021 20:58

Another thread.

I'm feeling pretty flat right now too @IsurviveonCoffeeandWinein2021

I have been thinking a lot recently about life gone by, I don't know why I'm feeling so down. It's been a lovely day here, lovely walk this evening, but just flat.

I'm thinking about the October holidays (separate thread about my madcap Shetland on the bus plan) but will it even happen? Who knows. We got away in October last year, our last trip before the winter lockdown hell, so with luck we'll get away this year again.

I keep thinking back to last Christmas and how bloody sad it all was, having about 4 hours with my parents, not having a clue when we'd see them next, trying to be all cheery and happy and not watch the clock the whole time.

I need to give myself a shake. Gratitude and all that.

ResilienceWanker · 01/09/2021 21:01

Ah, fab. Thanks dancemom and well done tits Grin I was going back through the last thread cos I thought someone had suggested a title earlier on (was something with "pretty pointless posturing" just in case we need it later!) but you'd got there first. Was an interesting read, actually. We were sub 1000 cases a day at some point early on (early August) and railing about the vertical drinking guidance. Aaaaah, happy days.

Haudyourwheesht · 01/09/2021 21:02

Checking in. Smile

titsintiers · 01/09/2021 21:07

Thanks for the new thread @dancemom

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dancemom · 01/09/2021 21:13

@sartorius disciples 😆

@IsurviveonCoffeeandWinein2021 no pressure 😆

@titsintiers thanks for the title although it's struck a nerve

I do wonder if we will ever get a resemblance of normal back and if we will ever look back on this period and have forgotten how difficult it was ...

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sartorius · 01/09/2021 21:15

Are you doing ok @dancemom?

GoldenOmber · 01/09/2021 21:16

Thanks for the thread dancemom. Yeah I’m feeling quite like that at the moment too.

I have done Shetland on a bus Rae36 but only in/around Lerwick with a trip down to Sumburgh Head to see the puffins and a boat ride over to one of the little islands. Was fine though!

mapleleavesreturn · 01/09/2021 21:45

I'm trying not to keep dwelling on the length of time gone by, the season change into autumn and the end of the holidays is always a bit of a low point though.

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dancemom · 01/09/2021 21:49

@sartorius yes thanks for asking, just a little melancholy at times as to how much Covid has changed things.

Im still WFH so feel isolated at times, colleagues who I would have classed as best friends I now haven't heard from in a year .... it sometimes feels like it's all so permanent.

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OhWhatsTheDifference · 01/09/2021 21:54

Thanks for the new thread @dancemom

(I've name changed too but have been here forever).

I am resolutely trying not to give into feeling too low. So many people I know have it,
DD's best friends all have it (although being the Mean Girls they are she wasn't invited to play over the weekend so she has escaped another isolation and test situation).

I feel like we're days away from our turn. My brother and his three kids all have it. My MIL had to get tested today.

When I think back to last August,things felt better than this and we were all desperately counting down to getting a working vaccine Sad

sartorius · 01/09/2021 22:08

Glad your ok Dancemom
There's one of my colleagues I was quite close to and I actually can't remember last time I saw her in person.

The time has just disappeared.
I keep thinking last time I did such and such was last year.
Then I think no it couldn't have been, it was 2019.
Scary

ssd · 01/09/2021 22:17

Checking in

RubyJam · 01/09/2021 22:42

@OhWhatsTheDifference

Thanks for the new thread *@dancemom*

(I've name changed too but have been here forever).

I am resolutely trying not to give into feeling too low. So many people I know have it,
DD's best friends all have it (although being the Mean Girls they are she wasn't invited to play over the weekend so she has escaped another isolation and test situation).

I feel like we're days away from our turn. My brother and his three kids all have it. My MIL had to get tested today.

When I think back to last August,things felt better than this and we were all desperately counting down to getting a working vaccine Sad

Feel exactly the same

It’s so strange …
Currently my DC and best friends all awaiting. Results , multiple classmates positive, the school is being classed as an outbreak school

We are all double vaccinated but I feel more stressed than last year

Haudyourwheesht · 01/09/2021 22:50

It's such a long winter too. I'm desperately hoping things will stay open so there's an alternative to the park to take the DDs this year.

Icannever · 02/09/2021 07:06

I also feel somewhat overwhelmingly sad, I feel like all the sadness and worry and anxiety I’ve kept stuffing back down inside me for the last 18 months is just refusing to stay down anymore. I keep having these feelings of total misery just flooding me and I feel like it’s impossible to be happy, like all the joys been sucked out of life.
I can look at my life and objectively see that is a nice life, I have nothing to be sad about really but I just feel so low.

I’m worried about my kids, I’m so sad they are fancy another year of this. It’s my eldest’s p7 year and he’s been so looking forward to it and I was sure by the time he got to p7 he’d be able to have a completely normal year but it’s not looking like that at all.

I feel like I’ve missed out on actually enjoying two years of my kids lives with actual holidays and most fun cancelled for almost every school holiday and now it looks like October will be a repeat and I’ve made plans. I pulled myself out of my slump to make plans (honestly so hard to do just now) and now I think they’ll all be cancelled.

It nice knowing I’m not alone though

titsintiers · 02/09/2021 07:12

Oh @Icannever I could have written your post too. Planning something nice usually helps me but there is sweet f a to look forward to right now Thanks

Rae36 · 02/09/2021 07:28

Here's a nice story, today is the first day we've opened our community cafe for old folks since March 2020.

I have no idea how it will work, we've had a real mixed reaction from our usual visitors, half of them are desperate to come back, half of them are very nervous about leaving their house and sitting indoors with other people. A fair few of them have aged so much after being indoors for 18 months they're not sure they will manage the journey.

But we're open, the kettle will be on, the cakes and scones are ready, if even one person walks through the door it will be a start. In the olden days we had anywhere between 20 and 30 people during the 3 hours we're open, I'll be happy to see 5 this morning.

(Ignoring the feeling that we're on borrowed time again and we're going to be shut again in just a few weeks, ignoring my worry that with 3 kids in school I'm going to be spreading symptomless covid around, I'll do a test before I leave the house, ignoring the fact that I'll probably cry my eyes out when our first customer arrives....)