The one thing covid is really denying you most?

missing playing football with lads.....3 times a week I play and was also playing in competition in Mallorca next month......all cancelled. But in big scheme of things not important, my Mrs out every day working at hospital....eve on the bank holiday.....
 
Summerbuzz said:
I forgot to add that I'm in denial over the loss of my mum. I'm starting to fade away a bit, everything that needs to be done seems way too much to actually pick up. This is perhaps the one time when I would really benefit from a friend knocking on my door or pulling me out of bed, sitting with me to go through things, or just being able to spend time in the company of others. I'm doing the bare minimum. It's also super easy to ignore the phone and emails. Let's hope I have a little more life in me tomorrow morning than I did today, because... wow.
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It's hard mate, I lost my mum 3 years ago & still think of her daily, re the comfort thing I'm with you on that my wife's sister passed a couple of weeks ago, it was expected but not being able to touch people at the funeral or afterwards was awful.

To bring back on topic....I'm missing normality as everyone is, what is normal to one isn't the same as another so I suppose what we're all missing us choice.
 
Turns out that I'm even duller than even I thought possible. Just read the thread and concluded that my only real deprivations have been an inability to buy yeast and flour. Considering I still have stocks I guess not much of a deprivation.
As to what I miss most it would seem that I miss watching stuff on line as my wife is on the pc all day as she's home working and I don't like watching stuff on a small screen tablet.
I guess I feel quite lucky to be a bit of a hermit. (You can all use whatever "synonym" you feel appropriate for hermit)
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
Rowing and kayaking. No question about it. Two new sports that I have just discovered, and which I'm coming to love more and more. After I gave up squash and badminton at the age of fifty, I was sort of in mourning for any suitable sport that wouldn't fuck up my back and/or give me a heart attack out on the court. I've found them.
The clubs have been closed since the start of lockdown, of course. I look out over the sea and pine to be out there.
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Pining for the fjords? You're not a Norwegian Blue by any chance?
 
Saddleworth2 said:
Where is your favourite place in the Dales? I used to live in Richmond and just love the area around Hawes and then over into Swaledale. Just about my favourite place in the UK.
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Swaledale: One side of my wife's family come from Reith. Sadly, the last visit was for a cousin's funeral.
Hawes: love walking up the Pennine way from Hadraw and back down to the only pub in England with its own waterfall.
Favourite area is Upper Wharfdale, love walking there, esp Buckden Pike. Lower down, fond of Burnsal (Red Lion), Appletreewick with Trollers Gill and the Craven Arms, Grassington woods.
In the west, Dentdale is pretty with both hard and easy walks. Howgills, if fit!
Plus......too many to talk about.
EDIT PS. The days of climbing the three peaks are sadly behind me now. My son recently did the madness of all three in one go. I was more sensible and used to do them one at a time.
PPS @Saddleworth2 . Just remembered. Wifes cousin appeared in quirky film by Jake Thakray, with plenty of Swaledale featured.
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He's the guy with the tame fox and that is his house. In succeeding years he rebuilt it by hand and it looks quite different now. He managed to get electricity, but had to win a court case to do so.
It is spectacular now, with a diverted stream running thru the house!
He is buried in the garden. RIP, John Squires.
 
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