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

[dancemom]

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

Love this @Rae36- hope a fab day is had by all

Oh I hope they come @Rae36 , even my DM is talking about going back to her Probus meetings - gawd knows if she'll let DF out the house though.
We're all definitely negative, thankfully DSs test results came through really quickly so he only missed one day of school. Going to try to work today (wfh) obviously, although still feeling peely waaly - at least I can work horizontally from bed provided the camera is switched off.

It's like Field of Dreams.....if you build it they will come

@Rae36, that sounds brilliant

That’s lovely @Rae36 😊

Have I missed something? Why is everyone sad? I'm in Scotland

Don't think you've missed anything, think it's just a bit of a lull. Things feel a bit overwhelming as we head into autumn and winter.

@Horehound

Have I missed something? Why is everyone sad? I'm in Scotland

It's the current threats about restrictions due to case numbers coming from the SG which is making people nervy and sad

I think I’m my case it’s the end of summer holidays, back to normal life which I’d imagined would feel more normal by now and it’s not.
It’s also having too much time to think and feel after the craziness of the summer holidays. I’ve caught up with my work and don’t have enough to distract myself with.

I am also sad because DD is heading off to university this weekend. I hope she settles in and does not have to self-isolate too much (she has only had one vaccination so far). And yes, it is the end of summer.
I was a bit rude to jump in with my comment about the title being sad, though, especially as I am more of a lurker, and not thank dancemom for the thread.
The community cafe sounds lovely Rae36 thats made me teary but in a good way. I hope it goes well.

My soon to be fresher DS got his timetable yesterday. No in person lectures for the first semester 😟. Luckily he has practicals too, lab work, and these are going ahead 🤞.

He does not need excuses to stay holed up in his poxy uni hall bedroom. I fear a bit for his mental health.

I'm new to the thread but been lurking. I have Covid and so does my son, my other two kids are negative so far (but one of them had it last year) and so is DH but I feel like it's only a matter of time. My son missed so much school last year and he only managed two weeks this year before it all went wrong.

We went out for dinner, once in the last year and my PILs had the kids overnight and now they have Covid and so do we. I'm feeling really down about it all.

If anything I feel more anxious and pandemic-y now than I even have before.

Sorry, what a whinge!

It is everywhere just now. I think the disruption it causes are almost as bad as the illness.

@mistermagpie, hope you and the family feel better soon

@mistermagpie no need to apologise for moaning.
Reflecting on it this morning the thing that's getting me is the lack of hope for the future. Even in the grim lockdown in Q1 I had real hopes that the situation would settle down by summer, but it just feels never ending, particularly for school kids and students.

Same. I really thought it would be over by now and if anything it seems worse than ever. My son had it at the end of last year and he was the only person I knew who had it, now I know loads of people who have it and it seems to be spreading so quickly. I think England are in a false sense of security because the schools are only back this week I think.

We've been lucky, I feel a bit rough but I've had worse illnesses and my son is just a bit snotty and off his food but otherwise fine. I'm grateful for the vaccination, but I feel quite low about the world we seem to be living in.

I think in some ways it's a psychological blow that it's September now (which means it's autumn, according to DS). The start of the bleak 6 months in the West of Scotland where everything gets greyer, colder, and is generally hard work. This autumn/winter is expected to be worse than previous years too with the flu resurgence and COVID still working it's way through to endemnicy, and I have real fears about the capacity of the health service in general (not from COVID necessarily, but from everything else). There's just a feeling that we need to brace for a difficult few months, a fear of the unknown in terms of whether freedoms will be snatched away again, and the sense that I haven't quite recuperated enough over the summer to be able to deal with it all again. I'm hoping the fog lifts a bit soon!

Ah right I've not really seen much from SG. Maybe that's the way to go :)
Honestly I feel like life is pretty much as it was 🤷 I've been out for dinner a few times and lunches too. Have had folk round and us to them. Can go shopping, can go to cinema. I don't really feel that hard done by thankfully.
The only thing left that's not "normal" is still WFH but our company is about to start phasing us back. Although I am pregnant so I'm not sure if I will be back before I go on maternity leave.

@Y0uCann0tBeSer10us I love autumn. It's beautiful colours and actually you can get a fair amount of sunny days. Ok it feels crisper but it's certainly not a hard season to live through.
For me winter is really Feb, March and sometimes April!
My aunt has come to the NE coast to take my granny back to achiltibuie and she did say she'd repacked my grans case from flimsy t-shirts to Warmer clothes though!

@Y0uCann0tBeSer10us I think you've captured it. I think we all know it's going to be a rocky winter and I've certainly enjoyed myself and seen as many people as possible over Summer, but I've got very little resilience left to cope with the doom and gloom.

Really hope we get to Tenerife in October - even the worry of a positive lateral flow is hardly bothering me any more - more of a worry that one of us will get covid in advance and test positive on the Day 2 PCR from historical covid as SG doesn't recognise that as a thing for travellers, but apparently they don't really check that so I'll just delay sending them back.

• 6,400 new cases of COVID-19 reported
• 61,410 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results
◦ 11.1% of these were positive
• 17 new reported death(s) of people who have tested positive
• 55 people were in intensive care yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 624 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 4,111,513 people have received the first dose of the Covid vaccination and 3,699,250 have received their second dose

@Horehound

Ah right I've not really seen much from SG. Maybe that's the way to go :) Honestly I feel like life is pretty much as it was 🤷 I've been out for dinner a few times and lunches too. Have had folk round and us to them. Can go shopping, can go to cinema. I don't really feel that hard done by thankfully. The only thing left that's not "normal" is still WFH but our company is about to start phasing us back. Although I am pregnant so I'm not sure if I will be back before I go on maternity leave.

Thinking about it, I mostly don't feel like this. More often I feel like you - we can go for lunch, for a drink, etc, things aren't as bad as they could be.

I've been stuck in the house for almost a fortnight (not Covid related) so I think it's probably been easier to feel like things are closing in a bit.

One thing that bothers me is the cinema - DD and I went in the summer and loved it, but now that there's no distancing I don't think we'll go back. Wouldn't feel comfortable with that.

I know this won't be popular with everyone but we need to stop self isolation or relax those rules in some way.

They're pretty relaxed now as it is!

My brother just tested positive 7 days after being a contact. If he wasn't WFH he could have been in the office for three days infecting plenty of people. As it is his three kids also have it and have likely shared it around school.

Popular with me @Pootle40. This is a ludicrous way to live.