How are you all doing?

[Fagor]

Yea - if I still lived in Stockport, I might well have been caught sneaking to the hills.

But it's only a few minutes to the beach on foot and within my local area.🙂

 

[helli]

I am fed up but know it could be worse.

My job is based from home so I am used to not seeing colleagues face to face very often. But I am used to getting out to visit customers which means some fun (and some not so fun) travel. Last year, before the shot down, I visited Virginia, Florida, Stockholm, Helsinki and Newcastle and was looking forward to some more travel. Now I see them on Zoom (or the equivalent) where it is much harder to build up a rapport and chat over lunch.

We usually enjoy a few holidays each year combining sun, good food, walking and a bit of culture. This year we were lucky to have a week self catering in Wales in September where we walked every day and avoided towns, cities and cafes.

Socially, I am missing my friends. Over the summer we had a few walks to catch up but then they went into Tier 3 (we were in Tier 2) so we couldn't meet.

I have met up with my parents a few times on the top of a windy hillside for a walk but even that wasn't possible for Christmas so I still have a pile of presents for them. We do our best with weekly Zoom calls with the whole family so one positive is that I have spoken to my brother much more than usual

I enjoy cooking but I also love trying different food and having days off from the kitchen. We have tried to have one take away a month but it is not the same as visiting the more bohomenian ends of town and walking into the cafe that looks and smells interesting.

As the nights are dark and cold, I have not been getting out much but I have discovered Zwift to keep up some exercise. It is not the same as the three Spin classes I would go to each week. There's no banter or strange music or united hatred of the latest workout our instructor has planned.

But compared to key workers, homeless, elderly, parents, children, students, .. I know I am incredibly lucky and I feel guilty about being fed up.

Overall, I think someone else summed it up well by describing it as existing rather than living. Hopefully, there will be an end and we will look back, be grateful we have got through it but maybe carry on some of the habits we have picked up on the way like weekly family Zoom sessions and destroying the environment with near-weekly flights.

 

[nonethewiser]

I have to be honest I am now becoming weary with it all not seeing friends. This to me is an existence rather than life. Thankfully, I am not alone. Thank goodness for the vaccine. At least there is some light at the end of the tunnel.

Getting same way mate, hard not to effect mental health no matter how positive you try to be, sure we will all appreciate good times more when they return.

 

[Stitch147]

Tired.com
Want to get back to some normality.
I want a holiday.
I have 2 weeks off in march when we would normally go to lanzarote, I dont think that's gonna happen this year.
Work is stressful, so many people still off which means we're doing extra.
Sorry for the moan, I know a lot of people have it worse than me.

 

[Ditto]

I'm missing Blackpool! 😎

 

[Docb]

There you go @Ditto. Taken last week. You are not missing much.

 

[nonethewiser]

I'm missing Blackpool! 😎

There in summer, not been for 20+years since kids were little.

Got shock how place is run down, lots of boarded up b&b's hotels shops, nowt to do with covid as some looked like they'd been that way for years, won't be going back but shame as had some good times there.

 

[trophywench]

We went for the lights a few years ago - soooo disappointing all in all. Hardly a tableau in sight. A shadow of its former self. Pete spent all his childhood annual holidays in Blackpool - great gangs of extended family descending on the same guest house year after year that week and his Grandma was Treasurer and everyone paid her in weekly instalments - including the spending money so nobody went short or couldn't go somewhere whilst there - the kiddies also paid instalments out of their pocket money. All had a whale of a time.

My trips there have been sporadic though I had been inside my mum in the January before I arrived in the April - her mother who they lived with had just died and the family doctor told dad she needed a holiday, could he afford to take her somewhere? Where on earth would be open in January though? Blackpool was about the only choice and they both swore they'd never go back and didn't!

 

[Inamuddle]

Last March I was yeah I am going to tidy the whole house, decorate, sort out the garage, finish all the craft projects i have started, cook healthy meals everyday.
Now i live in a worse mess, shout at my other half, ate cheese and crackers and spent this afternoon watching football ffs!

 

[mikeydt1]

just busy here with various jobs. anyone like to do the vacuuming for me more than welcome. budgies never think of me when they are chucking stuff around.