[Closed] Did anyone else actually enjoy the lockdown restrictions?

Yes, for some people life has not been wonderful but why begrudge others who have seen joy throughout this generally crap time?

I honestly don't begrudge you your happiness, I really don't, and in fact quite the opposite, I'm thankful that many people have managed to make the most of it, and reconnect with the people they love, or managed to "hide" away without feeling stigmatised. But for lots of folk it's been properly shit. Just take a moment in your happiness to think on the folk less fortunate than yourself..

As unfortunate as it is, it’s an every day occurrence Tom & Nick. Right now more men are dying of cancer per day than anybody of Coronavirus in England. People are dying everyday, should we all stop talking of good things?

You'll have to shout he can't hear you over the self flagellation...

Just take a moment in your happiness to think on the folk less fortunate than yourself..

You're assuming that people posting here aren't already doing that. These aren't mutually exclusive concepts.

Is a little bit of positivity such a bad thing when so much of everything else is so depressingly shit at the moment? No-one is going "yay coronavirus, bring on the next pandemic, this is awesome!" but rather simply trying to find some small reasons to be cheerful in the face of a global disaster.

As unfortunate as it is, it’s an every day occurrence Tom & Nick. Right now more men are dying of cancer per day than anybody of Coronavirus in England. People are dying everyday, should we all stop talking of good things?

That's a bit of false equivalence - no one that I'm aware of is crowing about how all these cancer deaths and cancer lockdown is really helping them focus on their gardening and they've never found it so easy to go for a ride because the cancer crisis is really culling the traffic.

I've certainly tried to enjoy lockdown as much as possible and done plenty of cool stuff. I just can't separate the great big massive catastrophe from the fun bits when I reflect back. That's my feeling on it - others do feel differently and that's great.

Loved it, made me realise how much stuff I do and spend money on that I don't actually enjoy that much. Only thing I really missed was playing football and I'm still missing squash. Weird how (in my experience) not being able to interact with each other normally created a sense of community I haven't experienced in my life time. Hope we learn from it, I doubt we will though.

I had a large planned operation to break and realign my tibia/fibia just before lockdown, a couple of days before they stopped all routine surgery.

So for me it was ideal, it allowed me to wfh the whole time and I didn't miss out on anything for the months that I was housebound.

Some friends have been hit hard by covid though, both physically and financially and I really feel for them, several are facing redundancy and one uncle ended up in an ICU for two weeks. Others have had the time of their lives, mountain biking every day on their local tracks while furloughed, and a couple of dodgier individuals I know have been working while furloughed for effectively double pay. I know that they've (rightly) been reported and I'll be intrigued to see if they get their comeuppance.

Mixed bag for us really, having to cram work into a morning and then do homeschooling and meals in the afternoon/ evening while Mrs ed worked wasn't great and it made the kids scratchy but going to the park and messing about was great as was the quiet residential. Although ironically I'm less fit because I wasn't riding in and out of work and the lack of spare time meant few bike rides. I'm not complaining thought, we're not Ill or skint.

You say “did” like the restrictions were over & done with, they’re not. Not here, anyway

very mixed. I was off work for 4 months (back now). I love work and what I do (since a career change at begining of year), and it definitely keeps me sane, an dI love being out and about which is what my job entails. I worked from home for 10 years, it literally made me ill.
But - I achieved loads in lockdown - cycled more than I had done for many years, complete refit of the bathroom (learning some plumbing along the way!), laid new flooring, built a shed, put up new garden fencing, built a bike, restored lots of things (including another bike), lost a stone in weight, finished a couple of games, several books, list goes on really. I'm pleased I didn't waste the unique opportunity.

But...havign been back to work I don't look back at it fondly at all, it was just a thing, I would definitely take what I am doing now over that. Maybe I am weird.

By far the worst thing was being stuck in the house with 3 young 'adults' marooned from universities - never do I want to go through that again.

Quiet roads was just a curiosity, nice, but I knew it was very temporary so didnt get excited about it. When things relaxed I went sailing on an absolultely deserted norfolk broads though ( usually rammed with tourists), and that was brilliant and probably a one off - it was stunningly beautfiul.

Did anyone else actually enjoy the lockdown restrictions?

I enjoyed it to some extend until I ran out fresh fruits, bread, butter and milk.
I ended up making Afghan bread (flour, salt and water mixed) everyday with curry sauce.