What have you missed out on whilst in lockdown?

[Roses]

I have missed being able to see our youngest daughter and family in person, face time doesn't really do the business.

I also missed being able to do my supermarket shopping at my usual time of around 7am.

Apart from that life has been pretty much as it was before.

[Gordon]

The local Ladbrokes shop in Milngavie and meeting friends in pubs.

[Nearly Sane]

Pub

[Steve H]

Pubs. I went back to my local 'spoons today for lunch, for the first time since lockdown started.

[Nearly Sane]

Pubs. I went back to my local 'spoons today for lunch, for the first time since lockdown started.

A 'spoons is a pisshole called a pub.

[Steve H]

A 'spoons is a pisshole called a pub.

They're not bad.

[The Accountant, OBE, KC]

I missed going to the gym to do weights and not being able to go on our family holiday to Sri Lanka. But apart from that I liked not having to socialise with anyone except my immediate family and not going out to restaurants and not having to take my daughter to early morning swim practice. I wish it could be like this all the time.

[Nearly Sane]

They're not bad.

Not even close to being that good. You go and support Weatherspoon and his treatment of workers.

[Aruntraveller]

Missed meeting up with family.

And the Monday coffee morning meet up of older men of a certain persuasion.

Strangely not missed pubs nearly as much as I thought I would.

[Enki]

Missed dancing, also our weekly pub meetings and missing a talk I was giving at our humanist meeting(postponed). Also missed a talk by a lecturer at Hull university on 'Identity Politics'(postponed) which I was really looking forward to. Enjoyed linking to our family on video linking software and What's App although not a patch on meeting in person.  Enjoyed cycling, especially in the early days when very few motorists were about. Also managed to do lots of local birding, reading and general pottering about. To be honest, I'm lucky that I haven't really missed that much.

[Outrider]

I have absolutely loved lockdown.  No early morning Sunday visits to a swimming pool for the kids' lessons, no two-weekly trek to visit parents and in-laws, no pointless treks around parks to look at yet another bloody tree, working from home every day so I don't have a two hour commute...

The kids, the comfort of our own home... the only drawback has been the increase in time spent having to do the shopping as the delivery slots are reserved.

Thankfully my kids are either too old or too young to be in the school system, so they haven't lost out, Mrs. O. hasn't gone back to work after the last little'un yet so there's no work impact there and my work has continued unchecked.  I appreciate not everyone's in that same boat.

It's going to be a shock to the system to have to go back.

O.

[Roses]

I know I will probably be shot down in flames, but I think it very sad that people put going to the pub as the thing they appear to have missed most.

[Nearly Sane]

I know I will probably be shot down in flames, but I think it very sad that people put going to the pub as the thing they appear to have missed most.

Reply 164 is one I prepared earlier.

[Aruntraveller]

I know I will probably be shot down in flames, but I think it very sad that people put going to the pub as the thing they appear to have missed most.

I think getting up to go the supermarket at 7am is a pretty strange thing to miss, but there life goes proving my point.

We are all different.

[Roses]

I think getting up to go the supermarket at 7am is a pretty strange thing to miss, but there life goes proving my point.

We are all different.

I am always up by 6.30am these days, I usually have my daily walk before 7am, unless it is my supermarket day.

[Harrowby Hall]

Interacting with other human beings. To go for - say - two days with no-one to talk to except myself I found very depressing. I found that my trips to Tesco almost became the social highlights of my week. I did usually go for a daily walk - by the end of the first week I had walked over 30 miles. Since I was frequently the only person in sight without an accompanying dog I wondered whether someone was hiring them out.

When I visited my grandchildren I could only talk to them though an open window.

Of late, aspects of my social life have returned. I now go for walks with four or five others and we sometimes have a picnic at the end of the walk.

The pub can wait.

[Aruntraveller]

I am always up by 6.30am these days, I usually have my daily walk before 7am, unless it is my supermarket day.

Oh I am usually up. Just saying my first instinct is not to rush off to the supermarket. Frankly it sounds a stranger thing to miss than going to the pub to me.

Again reiterating my point. We are all different.

[Harrowby Hall]

I think getting up to go the supermarket at 7am is a pretty strange thing to miss, but there life goes proving my point.

It is a good time to go if you don't want to have many other people around - or have to wait in the open air in a queue, all spaced at two metres, waiting for your turn to grab a sanitised trolley. 7pm is not bad but 8pm is better - there is a real chance of getting some reduced price foodstuffs.

[Aruntraveller]

It is a good time to go if you don't want to have many other people around - or have to wait in the open air in a queue, all spaced at two metres, waiting for your turn to grab a sanitised trolley. 7pm is not bad but 8pm is better - there is a real chance of getting some reduced price foodstuffs.

I understand the above - but it is what LR claims to have missed out on during lockdown. Those early morning advantages occur because of lockdown.

[Roses]

Oh I am usually up. Just saying my first instinct is not to rush off to the supermarket. Frankly it sounds a stranger thing to miss than going to the pub to me.

Again reiterating my point. We are all different.

It is was easy to park at that time of the morning before lockdown, I need to get my shopping over and done with as I have other tasks that require my attention during the day.

[Steve H]

I know I will probably be shot down in flames, but I think it very sad that people put going to the pub as the thing they appear to have missed most.

I don't see what's sad about it - a good pub is a great place to meet friends and socialise, and preferable to solitary drinking at home. "There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn." - Dr Johnson

[Roses]

I don't see what's sad about it - a good pub is a great place to meet friends and socialise, and preferable to solitary drinking at home. "There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn." - Dr Johnson

That would be my idea of hell on earth.

[Steve H]

That would be my idea of hell on earth.

Fine - each to their own. It is, however, typical of you to make your personal likes and dislikes into moral absolutes.

[Roses]

Fine - each to their own. It is, however, typical of you to make your personal likes and dislikes into moral absolutes.

I would hate to be in the company of people who are inebriated, especially at this time of crisis.  Now the pubs have re-opened social distancing is likely to be hard to enforce, as those who are sloshed aren't likely to give a monkey's about it, as the Government has admitted.

Good job you don't live in Wales Steve, the pubs aren't opening until July 13th and will only serve customers outside. Your favourite booze hole is not opening at all until it can permit people to drink indoors.

[Aruntraveller]

I would hate to be in the company of people who are inebriated, especially at this time of crisis.  Now the pubs have re-opened social distancing is likely to be hard to enforce, as those who are sloshed aren't likely to give a monkey's about it, as the Government has admitted.

Yes but you asked people what they missed out on during lockdown, so your bringing social distancing into it isn't relevant with reference to your OP.

(I agree SDistancing is an issue when mixed with drinking but that's not what your thread is about)