How Are You Coping With Lockdown ?

[SparklyKid]

I have to say I am getting used to it now. Click and collect yesterday at Asda, pleasant experience.

It is easier for us being in our seventies. I feel for the younger folk with jobs at risk, bored young children.

All the small businesses which may not recover.

[Bobbisox1]

We’re okay, it’s a case of getting on with it, I’ve seen amazing acts of kindness and some awful things done by Skip rats such as , there’s one fella going around removing ornamental trees and front door ornaments, then flogging them, not just here, my sister in law lives in Lincoln and she woke up to two very heavy tall ornaments gone from her front door at the top of a long drive

[johnny.5]

well I haven't been able to play the piano in the pub

[GenuineclAss]

Is it considered 'lockdown' if you Click and Collect at Asda? : )

[SparklyKid]

Yes Bobbs, it also brings out the worst in some.

[Bobbisox1]

Opportunist scum Sparklykid

[Zacs-Master]

I’m fine ATM. I’m giving myself 1 thing to do a day around the house / garden. Like everyone else, I’m missing friends and family.

[bednobs]

I am finding It very tricky. We have both gone back to work after bereavement leave and gone back to a very different working world. We are both trying to work from home in a smallish house and also teach our 8 year old. Place is a mess and we're exhausted. I miss being in the office and moaning about not wanting to be in the office

[AuntPollyGrey]

I just hope that what comes out of this lockdown is a bit more respect for those women ( and some men) that are 'stay at home' parents. I hope the working men and women will not look down on those that choose to look after the house and children and stop treating them as second class citizens who can't or won't get a 'proper job'.

[naomi24]

Not as well as I would like. I'm losing track of the days and feel like I'm just waiting every day for it all to end. It's surreal.

[aelmpvw]

as a retired couple about the only thing i miss is going to the pub ...

[Zacs-Master]

I firmly believe we’re on our way out of it now, Naomi. I thing there was only a very small usage of the Excel Nightingale hospital beds, and the one here in Yorkshire (Harrogate Conf Centre) hasn’t been used at all (no doubt we’ll now get the eejits claiming it was all a waste of money, but that’s another thread).
Having said that, I think they’ll only be a minor increase in our freedom (more exercise periods and maybe a relaxation of distances you can travel for exercise etc). Silly to risk all ‘our’ hard work for a few more weeks.

[pastafreak]

I'm going through a rough patch. Getting cabin fever and feeling generally frustrated. I'm spending way too much time online juggling shopping lists, trying to get things I need...or may want, and there's always that damn minimum spend versus free delivery...therefore I may end up with unnecessary "stuff".
I ventured out to the ATM 2 days ago...it was like a weird adventure.

[sherrardk]

Apart from the fact that someone seems to have added about 12 hours to each day we seem to be ticking by ok. Would like some definite dates about schools reopening (even though I don’t think mine will be going back until September) and am anxious about boy #1 resuming his ambulance placement too soon. I’m quite lucky as I get to leave the house to go to work.

[Apc2604]

// GenuineclAssIs it considered 'lockdown' if you Click and Collect at Asda? //

Yes, because you pay on line before you go to the store, park in the allocated click and collect spaces at the allocated time. Notify the store by text that you have arrived. You open your boot and they put your order in. No human contact! Your are locked down in your car :o)

[teacake44]

Can't really say its had any effect on me, apart from waiting to be told when to enter the supermarket, and that wait is an average of half hour, some times no wait at all, so no big deal, now allowed to drive to my normal exercise route. But has been said some are suffering in many ways. Has I've said before I think younger kids need to get back to school in some shape or form, the older ones could possibly hang on a little longer if need be.

[Maydup]

We're doing OK thanks to the fine weather, our garden and our Asda deliveries!

But every now and then I get an overwhelming desire to go somewhere different, and also wake up at night thinking that I should have made better use of all this time. I'd like to look back and have something to show for what I did during the 2020 lockdown.

I'll keep thinking, or maybe just try to give myself a break!

[jim360]

// no doubt we’ll now get the eejits claiming [The Nightingale hospital project] was all a waste of money, but that’s another thread. //

Almost inevitably, but it clearly wasn't.

[Apc2604]

We are coping well, but i dread to think how people without gardens and in flats in towns and cities are coping. I am missing our regular 10 mile trips to the coast and meals out in pubs. And missing doing my own food shopping and catching up with friends for coffee and chats. Being disabled I am used to not getting out much, but we are home bods anyway and live with countryside all around us. My pets keep me amused. I sound complacent because I am!

I know I will be less happy and more anxious when we are set free

[Apc2604]

Maydup. I believe you are Norfolk dweller too!?

[Theland]

I've lost motivation. Maydup @11:31 says it for me.