Lockdown/Covid Check In
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@MajorRage said in Lockdown Check In:
@R-L said in Lockdown Check In:
@MajorRage aww bless. Ugg boots. Love it. You'll do.
I believe that was my wife exact quote when we talked about marriage. Who says romance is dead.
As a (very part-time) registered marriage celebrant, this is accurate for older couples especially.
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Fern Lockdown Meeting called. I'm not good today to be honest, really don't want to send my child to school tomorrow, really don't want to go to work, just want to stay at home and play in the remaining bits of snow and just be in a little bubble for a few more weeks. Hibernation sounds about right.
Quick someone make me laugh or say something inspirational. I know I'm incredibly blessed, I really do, we are healthy and have everything we need but I'm just glum today, it's shit. Just such a horrible sense of doom.Hope you are all ok anyway.
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@R-L Ach. Horrid to hear you're not doing well RL I think we all get the blues every now and then currently. I got away to see Ms Cato No2 (she is our designated support bubble) over New Year and to be honest it wasn't really any different to staying put. We were both in Tier 3 areas so we couldn't do much other than go for a walk in the countryside and stay at home and eat, drink, play cards (she introduced me to a game called Shithead, which is really good). Although it was all pretty much samsey just the change of being in a different four walls seemed to make a big difference, it brought home that saying about a change being as good as a rest. Also it made me realise that I'd been getting a bit down in the dumps post Christmas. I'd say try and resist the temptation to hibernate, get out and meet your loved ones as far as you're allowed. Get some exercise and some of that bracing fresh air. Just make sure that you're doing something.
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@Catogrande there may be an element of new year blues, I usually really dislike this time of year anyway.
Glad you spend some time with your loved ones. I can do that I just don't want to put anyone at risk, I want to play my part and keep myself and family safe.
Urgh, I'm just glum, deeply glum. Tomorrow I'll most likely be fine and getting on as usual. -
@R-L
Can empathise. I'm always down in Jan & Feb - worst months of the year for me. Loathe the dark mornings and wet days. One of the few upsides was a pint and lunch in a pub with an open fire. Fat chance this year.
I'm going to sit down and figure out some fun stuff to do to get me thru the next few weeks, try some cooking, learn how to take a decent photograph, find a list of films I can actually watch with Mrs Meldrew, post in the Grumpy Old Men thread..
Speaking of Mrs M, she seems to have a good approach.. "Chocolate, there's always chocolate...."
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@R-L yea I did struggle with the cold dark days this time of year in the UK, so that coupled with lockdown will no doubt exaggerate it.
Just need to try and enjoy the time with your family, eat some chocolate, have a glass of wine, watch Die Hard, but don't over do it (on the wine, you can watch all the Die Hards, or should that be the other way )
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@R-L said in Lockdown Check In:
Quick someone make me laugh or say something inspirational.
Not sure if you will laugh or that is inspirational, but:
Yes, that is Leo, and no it is not a pilot's hat.
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@R-L You've got this. Any doubts or worries about that, those are wrong. You are intelligent and capable, and you can and will do what needs to be done. Remember, this is not a matter requiring absolute perfection, so don't beat yourself up about mistakes here and there. Also, while it might be months or even a year or so, the vaccine is here, and the virus will be beaten.
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@Godder said in Lockdown Check In:
You are intelligent and capable
Now my absolute favourite ferner. 💕
Thanks guys, I know everyone's feeling the same, I think this is the worst I've felt throughout it all, and I'm sure it'll be short lived. I've worked throughout, sometimes from home but majority at the surgeries I support and I think going to work makes you feel like everything is a bit more normal but the Christmas break has slowed me down a bit and now I just think its scary out there.
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@R-L I think it's taken many of us a long time to recognise how crazy things have been and the very real impact on how we are all feeling. Has been odd seeing some parts of life continue semi-normal but others be totally out of whack. Wacky Wednesday for sure!!
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@Paekakboyz One of the things NZ hopefully took out of the Canterbury Earthquakes is that resiliency can only get someone so far (there is a lot of research on this), and that while one earthquake/pandemic event is probably within most people's coping ability, recurring issues aren't, and can easily result in PTSD and other mental health issues. Whether it's aftershocks for years plus rebuild nightmares, or recurring pandemic waves plus all the restrictions, health (physical and mental) and economic issues that arise from those, the human brain simply isn't wired for it.
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If your kid is well and you’re well school is fine.
They won’t be open long so let friends catch up.
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@Godder said in Lockdown Check In:
@Paekakboyz One of the things NZ hopefully took out of the Canterbury Earthquakes is that resiliency can only get someone so far (there is a lot of research on this), and that while one earthquake/pandemic event is probably within most people's coping ability, recurring issues aren't, and can easily result in PTSD and other mental health issues. Whether it's aftershocks for years plus rebuild nightmares, or recurring pandemic waves plus all the restrictions, health (physical and mental) and economic issues that arise from those, the human brain simply isn't wired for it.
what been really interesting, both my wife and I plus a work mate who was also in chch during/post earth quakes heve received lots of comments about how well we seemed to handle the lockdown here in Vic, we can only put it down to having gone through the earthquakes and built a bit more resilience...."well, we're not shitting in the garden yet so its not too bad" has said more than once over the last few months
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A fair bit of emotional support happening on the Bast Family front these days - family has been in various stages of lockdown in France since late March, ranging from gendarmes at the end of the farm road to Gendarmerie delivering essential supplies from and to the village due to an outbreak.
To top it all off, the last of the merchantable wine has now been shipped, and the girls have advised me that there is not one bottle left on the farm for domestic consumption - so that means 9 people across two households on the farm are now subject to meals without wine. In the case of my eldest, this is pretty much a catastrophe, as her job got shut down in March and is not looking like restating anytime soon as it requires frequent travel to Paris, Madrid and Belize, which means she has not seen her partner since then.
I think it was sometime in the late 80s when we were just starting wine production that the farm last had no domestic stock, and my personal cellar stock bit the dust early on as it was still being rebuilt from the scorched earth period soon after the eldest moved in and decided she liked Burgundy and Pinot Gris from breakfast to late night supper
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@SynicBast Fuck mate. No wine. That is heartbreaking. That is the worst post I’ve read.
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@Catogrande said in Lockdown Check In:
@SynicBast Fuck mate. No wine. That is heartbreaking. That is the worst post I’ve read.
The scorched earth campaign my eldest and her gf operated on my private cellar in 2016-2017 is the stuff of legends - just over 3K bottles of wine consumed in around 18 months - and her mother had the cheek to say I'm a bad influence.
In all seriousness, I'm starting to actively consider a trip back to France as of mid-March - the tax problems have been sorted and are behind us, but it's been too long since I've been hands on admin wise on the farm and business - and it's been almost 5 years since I last saw the girls and their mother
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@R-L Morning to you.
The situation sucks. It's shitty. Really shitty. There's not getting away from it. It's post xmas UK winter blues time & gotta combine this with a poorly dealt with pandemic. My kids are due back on Thursday too, and despite my local area having worse numbers than a lot of London boroughs, we received a letter from the school yesterday saying they were opening. I share your fears, I share your emotion and I share every piece of negative feeling that you have. What I take solace in
- We are in this together. You are not alone, there are 70 odd million of us in this country alone facing it
- The vaccine(s) is/are there. They will get the job done but it will take time
- Remember when we went into last full lockdown, early November? Not that long ago right? Thats how long it is until we should really see some light at the end of the tunnel. Count the days if need be.
- This will end. And as the pieces get picked up, the eternal hope of optimism and celebration will infect the country. You know it, I know it.
I'm not one for advice really, but here is how I deal with it.
- Shut out the media. No 10pm news, no news websites, turn off the radio on the hour when they have the news. It will not teach you anything, anything at all. If there are major changes, you will hear about it from others, I assure you.
- Under no circumstances whatsoever, go anywhere near anything with the word twitter on it.
- Chat to your local pals. Nothing wrong with your crazy internet friends, but your local pals understand much better.
- Form a bubble if you need it. We have one with my brother and sister in law who live 5 miles away. We have an agreement re contacting others etc. We are in Tier 4 so it's "not allowed" but I don't care. Common sense > Government guidelines.
Fingers crossed for you. This sucks really bad. But it will get better.
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@SynicBast Hi mate. I'd just do it. Family is much more important than anything else. Only thing I'd consider if I were you is your necessity to get back to NZ. It may take you months with the quarantine and availability of lodgings. So if you can accept that you may well be gone for a seriously long time, there is nothing stopping you.
Despite all the doom/gloom if you are on a farm, in a lot of ways you won't notice much difference. You'll be in the country so be able to be outside, go on walks and life will go on. Do it!
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@SynicBast If either of my two daughters cleared out my cellar I’d need to leave it longer than 5 years before seeing them!
Sounds like you’re really missing the whole French thing mate. I’d echo @MajorRage and just go. What’s the worst that could happen? Then weigh that up against what’s the best that could happen.