[News] Life in Lockdown: which bits do you quite like?

[Mellotron]

Slowing down. Not feeling guilty for being able to really take time over appreciating small things. Spending so much more time with my 2 year old son than I usually can.

The overwhelming sense of national and even global unity that may not have ever happened before, nor again.

The quiet.

 

[Weststander]

A lack of deadlines, appointments, travelling to exercise classes which take a large chunk out of the day, and ferrying the kids around. I get more work done as a result, more leisure time too.

I love having my kids at home.

No PL and CL, and the endless hype that comes with it. No anxiety from the Albion’s march to the Championship.

Near empty roads, it’s surreal.

 

[atfc village]

Not meeting miserable orrible so and so's

 

[Mellotron]

1) I am absolutely loving not commuting to to central London. I also had to go to Luton weekly.

2) I am enjoying not hearing traffic and i like the quietness (not that i have been out in it)

3) Love seeing, or hearing about the thriving wildlife.

4) I actually feel quite cosy at home. I am liking wfh and going in the other room to see my 3 year old.

I am a future hermit in the making so i am handling this quite well.

How is your 3 year old not bothering you all the time? I have a 2 year old who thinks “dads home therefore it’s play time” at all times.

 

[banjo]

Going to work as normal. Respect to those trapped at home.

 

[GT49er]

How is your 3 year old not bothering you all the time? I have a 2 year old who thinks “dads home therefore it’s play time” at all times.

Embrace it and enjoy it. One day you'll miss it.

 

[Wrong-Direction]

I'm definitely enjoying the lack of traffic in Newhaven which is usually gridlocked most days. I am actually enjoying driving again if I go out.
I usually get quite stressed by work and the pace of life, i feel very calm at the moment.

I am working sort of part time now only doing essential plumbing work, but everyone that has called me has been so nice and grateful that I have helped them. On a normal day I get people making me feel guilty because I can't drop everything to get to their home to fix a dripping tap.

I'm also enjoying doing odd jobs in my garden that I struggle to do because im tired from a long working week.

I agree with this apart from the garden bit

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[scooter1]

Every day feels like a Saturday. I’m furloughed from work, so legally I can’t actually do anything. I was WFH a week or so ago, but now we’ve closed email has dried up and there is nothing to do. It’s been nice working in the garden, which is something I don’t normally do but keeping my son entertained over the school holidays has been a challenge. At least during term time he has a school program to follow.... And I miss going to the pub

 

[vegster]

When I drive to the allotment or my weekly shop at the supermarket I find I tend to drive at about 20 mph now, happy to wait for pedestrians and cyclists and the world seems a lot less stressful place, it's like a Sunday in 1970 every day. . Apart from when you see the news.

Edit: I saw a Jay at my allotment today, I have never seen one there before in the 30 years I have been there, beautiful bird. Was it there because there are less people about and it can be less furtive or, for the first time in 30 odd years I had the time to actually look and spot it ?

 

[BN9 BHA]

I agree with this apart from the garden bit

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The people with a tap that drips once every half an hour,and have a meltdown because they are on a water meter, have suddenly disappeared.
Along with the people with 4 toilets in their house that think it's the end of the world because one isn't flushing.

I know there isn't much money coming in but I honestly don't cope with the stress some days, I think I needed some sort of rest.

 

[Eeyore]

I won't piss all over this thread although I have 110% sympathy with [MENTION=12935]GT49er[/MENTION] (have a virtual hug, mate), so....

I like the absolute quiet (here in Fav) with nobody about when I went on a bit of much required cycle exercising this afternoon.

I like the fact I am spending all day with the missus and nipper, and the surprise and delight that we are all getting on well, if not actually better than normal.

I like the fact I can spend time in the garden every day.

I like the fact this reminds me of the 1960s - nothing to do, time to gaze into the middle distance and dream . . . .

I like the idea that this is a game changer and that it may make us more socialist (in a non party political, but a naive and new idiological sense) when we tumble out of it in mid 2021.

But (and I have to say this) I can't enjoy any of it while there are people suffering, worrying about their existence, the health of loved ones, their livlihood and home. Sorry [MENTION=600]Bry Nylon[/MENTION].

I would counter that it would be less ideological and more organic. Maybe not Socialist, but socially aware.

 

[Trevor]

I'm WFH.
Enjoying the music while I work. And no commute.
Getting a pleasant short walk each day

 

[LamieRobertson]

Ummm....I’ll get back to you.

 

[Pavilionaire]

I'm lucky that I have a spacious house, a biggish garden and a 3.5m x 3.5 m garden cabin that I kitted out with gym equipment last summer. I'm also quite pleased with myself that I got a load of garden plants and potted them all up before the lockdown.

Consequently, I'm actually using my gym AND the Mrs and I have been regularly using the 'leave the house once a day for exercise' to do just that.

In addition, I'm sure the air is purer, the sky is brighter, everything smells every so slightly stronger, people are a bit more considerate and the empty roads are a joy to drive down.

Yes, lockdown is not all bad.

 

[Nitram]

As others have said the quiet , and the air seems a lot cleaner. Cooking and planning healthy meals. Having my youngest daughter back from uni. Listening to vinyl. Not being tied to time. Getting around to doing all the jobs in the garden and house that would have been chores but now are strangely therapeutic. Connecting with neighbours on a Thursday at 8pm.

 

[Arkwright]

I'm mid / late fifties in age and have realised that I will enjoy retirement when it comes, found I quite like both my and my wifes company and that's without attending football and cricket and playing golf and day trips out.
Now wishing my life away to retiring.

 

[Driver8]

More sleep.

 

[lawros left foot]

I've been keeping myself busy, decorating, and all the jobs that I haven't had time for over the years.
I'm rubbish at doing nothing, in normal times, if I watch telly I've usually got a book on the go at the same time,( or NSC open)
So far, laid a floor, and decorated two bedrooms, I'll start the 3rd one tomorrow, its good to be able to do a room over a number of days, and not have to rush it all, or come home from work, and do 4 hours decorating.
Having said that, really missing my kids and grandkids, and feeling awful for the poor devils who are being affected so badly by this thing.

 

[Mellotron]

Embrace it and enjoy it. One day you'll miss it.

You are of course right. I don’t mean “bothering me” as in annoying me, more than I’m genuinely struggling to get any work done.

But again, you’re right, every so often I’ll catch myself.

 

[NooBHA]

Psychologically.

If you can't be bothered going out, you don't worry that you might be missing out on something by staying in. That's quite calming and relaxing.