Newbornbairn Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 Out for a bike ride in the country, seeing the Police stop their car and jump out to examine the contents of a young couple's plastic bag. Can't remember for sure but I think the rules at the time were exercise was ok, picnics weren't. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molotov Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 12 hours ago, Ron Aldo said: There was an argument in the Covid thread which lasted a good couple of pages and was about whether a plate of soup constituted a "substantial meal". Not wishing to start an argument but a plate would likely overflow. Surely a bowl would be better? Or better still just drink direct from the soup pot with a big fcuk off straw. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 2 hours ago, itzdrk said: Kelly Brooks pants being on sale in Denholms Reveal hidden contents How much did you pay for them? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugster Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 2 hours ago, RiG said: Was always a laugh seeing the shitty Pixellot cameras following catastrophically bald linesman instead of the football. I'm sure I was watching one game and it started following a seagull 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 (edited) I was feeling incredibly burned out and exhausted before COVID. I felt really trapped in my life and felt like I had no time for myself. My mental health was rapidly going downhill and I was increasingly thinking about suicide. I was having to fight off urges to self harm again as well. So lockdown pretty much saved me. It was like a big exhale and like I could breathe again. Things certainly improved a lot being able to work from home. It wasn't all perfect as I picked up some bad habits that I'm still struggling with a bit and of course it wasn't a magic bullet to solve all the problems in my life. I do recall finding a local conershop that always had a plentiful supply of toilet roll when everywhere else was usually sold out. Don't worry, I didn't stock up and only got what I needed! Edited May 27 by DA Baracus 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiegoDiego Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 Covid was magic. Actually enjoyed going to Venice for once because there were no tourists around. Generally spent a lot of time reading and learning. Can now be sure that I'll not be one of those folk who complain about being bored when they retire. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 Had to work all the way through it, as did the missus, so neither of us got the benefit of furlough while also trying to home school a teenager. Some of the rules were mental, like golf courses being closed for 5-6 weeks then being limited to playing only in pairs when it reopened. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strichener Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 (edited) 51 minutes ago, peasy23 said: Had to work all the way through it, as did the missus, so neither of us got the benefit of furlough while also trying to home school a teenager. Some of the rules were mental, like golf courses being closed for 5-6 weeks then being limited to playing only in pairs when it reopened. The only mental thing about golf courses was letting them re-open at all. I worked all through the lockdowns. I was one of those that Nicola lectured "weren't doing it properly". Something that I don't regret Edited May 27 by strichener -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bert Raccoon Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 I'm glad I had to work during Covid or I probably would have turned into a full blown alky rather than the functioning one I am today 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itzdrk Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 1 hour ago, Swarley said: How much did you pay for them? I did not enter the £1 raffle 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
velo army Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 Built a veg garden and started working out. Also did a few online bits and bobs that are still yielding some results. The loneliness was utter shite though and it took me quite a while to stop feeling so anxious. The skin hunger (lack of touch, not cannibalism) was brutal. I'll not be adhering to a future lockdown so strictly as I could see myself going down a deep dark depressive hole. I had a few of those during COVID and I'd rather have actually caught COVID than the at times suicidal way I felt. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmic Joe Posted May 27 Author Share Posted May 27 I prank called the missus as she'd been flagrantly flouting the one walk a day rule. "This is PC Paatelainen from Bell Street...." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smithers Jones Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 Apart from the nonsense of shuffling round one or two shops every week and having to follow arrows or smother your hands in some unknown substance, lockdown for me was great. The weather in April and May that year was fantastic and I've never spent more time outdoors. I was genuinely gutted when it ended but I have been WFH since then which suits me much better. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philpy Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 Was only furloughed for a month at my last job. was asked to go back first, and stupidly agreed. 3 weeks running the yard/warehouse on my own, collections were by allocated time slots only, and took a lot of grief from customers who got frustrated at not being able to just turn up for stuff unless they had a time slot. Every c**t was going mad for fencing and decking materials. That aside, the month of furlough was mainly a lot of walking, and occasionally drinking. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEADOWXI Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 The start of lockdown was a nightmare, had just lost my job not long before it happened, remember being in the pub when it started and all the messages came out. Where I live I can see the junction of Union St and King St in Aberdeen, probably one of the busiest junctions in the city centre. Ig stand at my front door I can see 7 pubs (Wig, Blackfriars, Carlton, Portals, Archies, Brewdog & Fierce - was 8 at start of lockdown, the Castle never reopened). It went from noise and people all day, delivery lorries, taxis, buses, prison vans, it was always busy in the day with the courts and the nights with the pubs and casino. Then overnight it was zombie apocalypse. With not working and like living in a dead town, where pubs normally with all lights on were dark was hard. Although walks to the beach helped. Getting a job during lockdown was weird, Teams interview, then IT equipment delivered to flat, and WFH for 8months without ever meeting a colleague. Then went to hybrid. Changed job and this is hybrid too, that probably the best that so many job will never go back to in an office 5 days a week. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael W Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 On 26/05/2024 at 21:24, Inanimate Carbon Rod said: f**k off Sums it up for me perfectly. Very long working hours with leisure activities forcibly banned under penalty of fines. So plenty work, no distractions and despite being at home the whole time, I have never seen my family less. It was an appalling time quite frankly and I was utterly miserable. The treatment of people for things that were I suppose banned, but which were also fairly benign, was also disgusting. Most people could also see that the stuff they were coming out with was total bollocks. I suppose if you were furloughed on full pay it was great, but that to me was an entirely alien concept. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salt n Vinegar Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 About the only positive highlight for us was a trip to Rosslyn Chapel at a time when only about 12-15 folk at a time were allowed in. Ludicrously, I seem to recall that Sunak's eat out to help out got us a discount on a couple of coffees and a bun in the cafe. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 The only real thing to laugh about, looking back, was the absurdity, especially of rules. The governments tried various schemes that were generally useless (the tier system, for example). Some scientists gleefully announcing that social distancing and mask wearing was the "new normal". The professor who said there could be half a million dead - causing the panic and lockdown - sneaking into his (married) girlfriend's place to get his hole. I think it was @pozbaird (apologies if incorrect) who was at a swimming pool ogling the elderly, and noticed that when a group of old women were sitting down to a coffee they had masks off, but if one stood up and walked, alone, to the bog she needed to put a mask on. By the second lockdown I 100% broke the rules. I visited my parents every week when it wasn't allowed, with my kids. Don't regret a second of that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bobo Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 I enjoyed lockdown. I watched a lot of series on Netflix and walked a lot. Wife was working all through it so I did all the cooking, washing, cleaning etc. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiffRaff Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 I worked throughout all the various lockdowns from home, which saved me a fortune in commuting. The one thing that really scunnered me was not being able to visit my Mother in a Care Home. One Christmas morning we could only contact via 'phone from opposite sides of a window. This really upset my Mum and all the ridiculous contact rules probably contributed to her death as all she had to really look forward to were visits from me and her grandchildren. And then finding out that the law makers were habitual law breakers was a real kick in the bollocks. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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