Covid-19

[royal white]

3 hours ago, Spider said:

5 years ago today everything changed forever.

Day one of lockdown and I had an egg yolk stain on my joggers before noon.

I’d love another lockdown. 

[kent_white]

3 hours ago, Spider said:

5 years ago today everything changed forever.

Day one of lockdown and I had an egg yolk stain on my joggers before noon.

You only get a bucket full.....! 

[L/H White]

3 hours ago, Spider said:

5 years ago today everything changed forever.

Day one of lockdown and I had an egg yolk stain on my joggers before noon.

5 years wow and what a weird time

no bog roll

online quizzes

beer deliveries daily 

not a drop of rain 

dogs and bikes sold out

we had a covid baby

i've still never had covid

[royal white]

38 minutes ago, kent_white said:

You only get a bucket full.....! 

His was gone one week into the first lockdown 

Edited March 17, 2025 by royal white

[Whitestar]

I was slim at the start of covid, but thinking back WTF???

They'd never get away with that one again eh?.

[Sweep]

55 minutes ago, royal white said:

I’d love another lockdown. 

Same here, it was absolutely ace. I'd love another one

[gonzo]

I just cracked on working. It was fucking ace bar losing shit loads of work.

Roads were empty. People were glad to see us the break their days up.

Had folk dangling cash out of windows with string 🤣

All seems like a mad dream.

[Ani]

Youth is celebrating by having Covid 

[Sweep]

2 minutes ago, gonzo said:

I just cracked on working. It was fucking ace bar losing shit loads of work.

Roads were empty. People were glad to see us the break their days up.

Had folk dangling cash out of windows with string 🤣

All seems like a mad dream.

Same, didn't affect my work at all, in fact we had a bumper year, with the added benefit of me not having to leave the house.

Nearly dying because I got it really badly wasn't that much fun for a couple of weeks though, and I still feel the affects a little bit, but all in all, I enjoyed it

[Big E]

4 hours ago, gonzo said:

I just cracked on working. It was fucking ace bar losing shit loads of work.

Roads were empty. People were glad to see us the break their days up.

Had folk dangling cash out of windows with string 🤣

All seems like a mad dream.

Yeah was ace driving in to work with no traffic. Only issue was the twice weekly blue lights being pulled over. How they blagged us as key workers will never know. Glad tho as contractors would have been fucked. Was funny how we could work but the permanent lot had to stay home 😂

[Dr Faustus]

Two stints in hospital was ok, feeling like I needed to remember to breathe wasn’t

fuck me, work went mental- given a work for a public sector union, every fucker decided to join up before they got furloughed. The lad missed a couple of trips abroad with football that he’ll never get back… and we’ll never know how sweet Keith’s onions could’ve been

[Tonge moor green jacket]

5 hours ago, gonzo said:

I just cracked on working. It was fucking ace bar losing shit loads of work.

Roads were empty. People were glad to see us the break their days up.

Had folk dangling cash out of windows with string 🤣

All seems like a mad dream.

Good way of putting it that.

Was saying to the other half, how it seems to have faded somewhat. 

Maybe the brain's way of shutting it all away. 

[gonzo]

Some of those silly restrictions they in between lock downs and stuff were just crackers.

Little perspex screens in between tables in pubs

[tomski]

Scotch egg was still the best

Edited March 17, 2025 by tomski

[Winchester White]

It was fucking horrible and ace at the same time.

Lost an old friend and a neighbour too through depression and alcohol thanks to lockdown. Obviously there were issue previous but it knocked them for 6. My eldest lad especially suffered but thankfully is fine now.

I worked through it all except when we all came down with it 3 fucking times in total, to be expected when the missus is a nurse I suppose. 1st time was definitely worse, never felt fatigue and a tight chest like that before.

That early summer was lovely though, spent as much time as possible in the back garden ☀️

[L/H White]

16 minutes ago, gonzo said:

Some of those silly restrictions they in between lock downs and stuff were just crackers.

Little perspex screens in between tables in pubs

some of the stuff that's come from it is decent though 

working from home 

ordering at tables 

most places cashless which speeds things up

 

[royal white]

It’s amusing seeing more conspiracy posts today. The “they closed the gyms but opened McDonald’s” posted by the local fat bastard that has never been to a Gym always makes me chuckle. 

[Traf]

Yeah, it was fucking great refunding all my clients and having no income for months on end.
Burned through all our savings.

[gonzo]

6 minutes ago, Winchester White said:

It was fucking horrible and ace at the same time.

 

Aye losing my Mum to it was a particular low point.

It was bizarre with her. She'd only just properly retired from being a cancer nurse but went back to help with covid jabs on the front line.

Didn't contract it once. Then right at the pissing end she caught it at the hairdressers. 

I'll still never be able to get my head around all the transmission side of it.

[Cheese]

What a mad time it was. I'd already started working from home a couple of days a week, but got instructed to work from home full-time until further notice. There was hardly anybody on site anyway, so I had fuck all to do really. Weather was spot on, so I basically spent a month in the garden doing shit I'd been putting off for ages. Looked 10 years younger by the time summer came around.

That's looking at it through rose-tinted glasses though. It was fucking shit in reality. Kids stuck in the house all day, getting peer-pressured into doing a workout with Joe fucking Wicks every morning... having to queue like a fucking gimp outside a supermarket, then getting home and sticking all the shopping bags in a corner and dusting them with anti-bacterial spray and quarantining them for a few hours like they were unexploded bombs... ambulances turning up every now and then to take away the old folk that live round the corner... everyone gathering around to listen to Boris splutter and fart every Thursday night. FUCK THAT. It was absolute dogshit.

[Winchester White]

18 minutes ago, gonzo said:

Aye losing my Mum to it was a particular low point.

It was bizarre with her. She'd only just properly retired from being a cancer nurse but went back to help with covid jabs on the front line.

Didn't contract it once. Then right at the pissing end she caught it at the hairdressers. 

I'll still never be able to get my head around all the transmission side of it.

Sorry about your mum. It was all a bit bonkers for a while towards the end. Simple thing is, once they allowed close contact again it was pot luck. But we had to open up again as we couldn't afford not to.

Remember those crackers tiers and thick cunts driving out of area for a pint? Some kids being in school, some not. Folk not knowing if they were coming or going half the time.

 

Edited March 17, 2025 by Winchester White

[mickbrown]

Looking back it was a proper shit time. 

[BobyBrno]

10 hours ago, Spider said:

5 years ago today everything changed forever.

Day one of lockdown and I had an egg yolk stain on my joggers before noon.

It was actually 23rd March which I believe is also St George’s Day. 😉

[Casino]

1 hour ago, Big E said:

How they blagged us as key workers will never know.

Key workers was a misnomer

All they said was if you could do it at home, do it at home

I worked all the way through, bar about the first 6 weeks, when i drove round supermarkets rounding up beers

[Big E]

12 minutes ago, Casino said:

Key workers was a misnomer

All they said was if you could do it at home, do it at home

I worked all the way through, bar about the first 6 weeks, when i drove round supermarkets rounding up beers

I had 3/4 days off when my mum died that was about it. Hard graft boozing and getting up the next day 😁