What have you done differently since we first went into Lockdown?

3secondmemory

Not much has changed apart from no longer having carers and volunteer drivers.  

Probably the biggest and most significant difference for me is that I have no interest in keeping up with the news anymore. At the beginning of the pandemic I was watching it avidly and felt that I was able to keep up but now I’m unable to keep up with the restrictions. I can’t bear to think of how many people who have lost loved ones during all of this. I lost a very close friend last July but it still hasn’t hit me. Life isn’t going to be normal for many of us after this. 

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3secondmemory said:

I can’t bear to think of how many people who have lost loved ones during all of this. I lost a very close friend last July but it still hasn’t hit me. Life isn’t going to be normal for many of us after this. 

Sorry to hear of your loss - I hope you find a way to come to terms with it and don't suffer too much. It's heartbreaking to lose a loved one, especially if it's before their time to go. Which for so many last year was tragically the case. 

cattom

I lost my one of my neighbours to covid. I had no idea she was ill. saw an ambulance outside about 2 weeks ago. they took her in and she died that night. 
and then today I learn from another neighbour, the lady that died, refused the vacination, and insisted on going shopping 3 or 4 times a week. 
today her family are there, and they were washing and polishing a very nice black bmw, because apparently funeral is tomorrow. I see these things on the tv all the time, but now its on my door step, it kinda took the wind out my sails. very sad when its someone you know and see every day.

KxMx

I get all meat from a local butchers now and I've been walking more. 

My energy is limited due to health issues but I can still build stamina. So walk A might absolutely knacker me but by say the third time the same walk gives very few after effects.

Sometimes a slightly longer walk is better if that route is flat as opposed to a shorter but steeper way. 
I had to take a month long break from twice weekly Zumba and once weekly dog walk, my goodness when I restarted I knew it! 

In December my Nan & Uncle were admitted to Hospital with Covid two days apart. Nan didn't last the week (Mum & I were with her when she died) and Uncle died exactly 3 weeks later. We are a close family that's been totally shattered. Nan didn't know Uncle was admitted and Uncle never knew Nan died as he was ventilated most of the time.
Nan's admission was the same day as Uncle & family tested positive. 

It has been SO hard keeping apart from family especially my Aunt who lost her mum then husband. My worst moment was being unable to hug her at Nan's funeral. 

I was definitely emotional getting my jab today. 

PipneyJane

3secondmemory said:

Not much has changed apart from no longer having carers and volunteer drivers.  

Probably the biggest and most significant difference for me is that I have no interest in keeping up with the news anymore. At the beginning of the pandemic I was watching it avidly and felt that I was able to keep up but now I’m unable to keep up with the restrictions. I can’t bear to think of how many people who have lost loved ones during all of this. I lost a very close friend last July but it still hasn’t hit me. Life isn’t going to be normal for many of us after this. 

I am sorry for your loss, @3secondmemory .  Hugs.   My circle of friends has lost two people since the start of the pandemic - neither from COVID - and the hardest thing was not being able to say “goodbye”.  We have promised ourselves that, one day, we will go and lay flowers on their graves, then head to a pub for a proper wake.

ETA @KxMX I am so sorry to hear about your Nan and Uncle.  Your aunt must be devastated.  Not being able to reach out and hug someone when they need it, that’s the hardest part.  A big virtual hug to you - you need one too - and to your mum.

@cattom, “there’s nowt we can do about stubborn”, as my old next door neighbour used to say.  (He was from Yorkshire.). 

Hugs, 

- Pip

wondercollie

Still working everyday.   It sounds terrible but every nurse I work with finds it so much easier with the visitor restrictions in place.  We can get the job done and have a little bit of a chat with the patient without the wife or daughter (it's always women) telling us how to do our jobs.
Traffic is starting to pick up.  Peoples driving skills seem to have faded away with their driving less.
I spend less time on the internet and more time knitting

3secondmemory

@PipneyJane

Thank you

PipneyJane

wondercollie said:

Still working everyday.   It sounds terrible but every nurse I work with finds it so much easier with the visitor restrictions in place.  We can get the job done and have a little bit of a chat with the patient without the wife or daughter (it's always women) telling us how to do our jobs.
Traffic is starting to pick up.  Peoples driving skills seem to have faded away with their driving less.
I spend less time on the internet and more time knitting

You are bringing back memories, @wondercollie.  (I nursed for 6 years.)  For some reason, I just remembered one of the worst things I ever had to do, which was to tell a wife to shut up and listen to what her husband was trying to say.  He was dying of cancer and the morphine was beginning to addle his thought processes.  (Diamorphine wasn't licenced in Australia.)  All he was trying to do was to tell her that he loved her and he wanted her to reassure him that she'd always love him...

Still makes me want to cry.

- Pip

Shropshirelass

We have had a very sheltered Covid, a bit too sheltered!
I panicked a bit at first over the shopping, a few of the good habits we will continue are:
  Eating fruit after lunch every day, this was originally part of my healthy diet plan, when local shops were very short of fruit and veg we ordered a set box from a firm who normally supplied restaurants and cafes, so we had to plan into the menu all they supplied.
  Ordering monthly from our local butcher, who still kindly delivers 'on his way home', meat is first class.
  Weekly egg delivery by local farmer's, never had such fresh eggs before.
  Neighbours who greet us, we live on a corner, people who used to rush past, or drive past now stop regularly to chat (from the curb of course). As a result we have in the windows a big teddy, and a few dolls who change guard duty regularly to entertain the tots walking past.
Once I started listing them, the good habits mounted up!

3secondmemory

Shropshirelass said:

We have had a very sheltered Covid, a bit too sheltered!
I panicked a bit at first over the shopping, a few of the good habits we will continue are:
  Eating fruit after lunch every day, this was originally part of my healthy diet plan, when local shops were very short of fruit and veg we ordered a set box from a firm who normally supplied restaurants and cafes, so we had to plan into the menu all they supplied.
  Ordering monthly from our local butcher, who still kindly delivers 'on his way home', meat is first class.
  Weekly egg delivery by local farmer's, never had such fresh eggs before.
  Neighbours who greet us, we live on a corner, people who used to rush past, or drive past now stop regularly to chat (from the curb of course). As a result we have in the windows a big teddy, and a few dolls who change guard duty regularly to entertain the tots walking past.
Once I started listing them, the good habits mounted up!

I am overwhelmed with choice of where to shop and whether or not to have it delivered 😂😂 

I’m probably going to have Milk and More deliver a pint of milk three times a week. I’ve seen that they also do malted grain bread. These, and fresh fruit and veg are my staples which I run out of most. It’s such a shame that the greengrocer in the village has gone. First it was a sweet shop now it’s a boutique.