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[Andy @ Allerton!]

Now that I've started to venture out of the house and have started seeing some of my friends socially and at the match, I'm feeling so fortunate and so happy to be alive and to have such good friends.

I think before lockdown you kind of took all this stuff for granted, but now, after the delay, coming back makes me feel so happy and grateful for still being here and having some really great people as friends.

Does anyone else kind of feel the same - I'm sure that in 5 or 10 years then we'll take everything for granted again, but it's an amazing feeling. Makes you feel really humble.

[So… Howard Philips]

Now that I've started to venture out of the house and have started seeing some of my friends socially and at the match, I'm feeling so fortunate and so happy to be alive and to have such good friends.

I think before lockdown you kind of took all this stuff for granted, but now, after the delay, coming back makes me feel so happy and grateful for still being here and having some really great people as friends.

Does anyone else kind of feel the same - I'm sure that in 5 or 10 years weeks then we'll take everything for granted again, but it's an amazing feeling. Makes you feel really humble.

Human nature being what it is.

[rob1966]

Now that I've started to venture out of the house and have started seeing some of my friends socially and at the match, I'm feeling so fortunate and so happy to be alive and to have such good friends.

I think before lockdown you kind of took all this stuff for granted, but now, after the delay, coming back makes me feel so happy and grateful for still being here and having some really great people as friends.

Does anyone else kind of feel the same - I'm sure that in 5 or 10 years then we'll take everything for granted again, but it's an amazing feeling. Makes you feel really humble.

Nah, I'm still a miserable twat.

Human nature being what it is.

True. I got asked by my Ma's hairdresser after my heart op if it had changed my attitude to life not dying and I was no, not really.

[El Lobo]

Nah, I'm still a miserable twat.

You must be relieved that you can now go to a class 2 Little Chef and discuss the bunker adjustment factors you've started seeing on your curtain siders though, no?

[rob1966]

You must be relieved that you can now go to a class 2 Little Chef and discuss the bunker adjustment factors you've started seeing on your curtain siders though, no?

Little Chef? What is this, the 1990's

Oh its an absolute delight having the rancid general public leaving service stations an utter disgrace.

I have actually enjoyed getting out and about, being with friends we've not seen for ages, visiting pubs and restaurants, especially the local Chinese as they stayed closed. We're out tomorrow night with friends, going to see a Dolly Parton tribute act, apparently she's just like the real thing

[Andy @ Allerton!]

Little Chef? What is this, the 1990's

Oh its an absolute delight having the rancid general public leaving service stations an utter disgrace.

I have actually enjoyed getting out and about, being with friends we've not seen for ages, visiting pubs and restaurants, especially the local Chinese as they stayed closed. We're out tomorrow night with friends, going to see a Dolly Parton tribute act, apparently she's just like the real thing

Is she on from 9 to 5?

[rob1966]

Is she on from 9 to 5?

Yes, but we have to sit on little islands in the stream to watch her

[Son of Spion]

Now that I've started to venture out of the house and have started seeing some of my friends socially and at the match, I'm feeling so fortunate and so happy to be alive and to have such good friends.

I think before lockdown you kind of took all this stuff for granted, but now, after the delay, coming back makes me feel so happy and grateful for still being here and having some really great people as friends.

Does anyone else kind of feel the same - I'm sure that in 5 or 10 years then we'll take everything for granted again, but it's an amazing feeling. Makes you feel really humble.

Nice thread, Andy. 

I'm glad I'm still here, but more glad that my loved ones are too. I'm not at the stage where you are just yet though. I'm just getting over Covid, as is my partner and brother. I also know a number of people who have it at the moment too, so I just don't feel out of the woods as yet.

Mrs Spion and I went out for the first time since 23rd August this Tuesday. We went over to Hilbre Island to see the seals. Fairly tough going considering the lingering fatigue, but well worth it. We had a nice picnic while watching the seals playing in the water then walked back to West Kirby before driving up to Parkgate and having an ice cream at Nicholls then a drink at the Old Quay pub. Then it was back to West Kirby for a fish from Marigolds chippy. No real social contact with others, but it was lovely just feeling alive again.

We've lost too many people and pets in recent years to take anything in life for granted. We try to appreciate everyone and everything we value now. I'm just glad I'm still here to be able to do so.

[Sudden Death Draft Loser]

Been to two music festivals recently.

The best thing about them was seeing people out and about enjoying themselves

[Andy @ Allerton!]

Nice thread, Andy. 

I'm glad I'm still here, but more glad that my loved ones are too. I'm not at the stage where you are just yet though. I'm just getting over Covid, as is my partner and brother. I also know a number of people who have it at the moment too, so I just don't feel out of the woods as yet.

Mrs Spion and I went out for the first time since 23rd August this Tuesday. We went over to Hilbre Island to see the seals. Fairly tough going considering the lingering fatigue, but well worth it. We had a nice picnic while watching the seals playing in the water then walked back to West Kirby before driving up to Parkgate and having an ice cream at Nicholls then a drink at the Old Quay pub. Then it was back to West Kirby for a fish from Marigolds chippy. No real social contact with others, but it was lovely just feeling alive again.

We've lost too many people and pets in recent years to take anything in life for granted. We try to appreciate everyone and everything we value now. I'm just glad I'm still here to be able to do so.

Lovely post that mate and I hope you soon recover.

It's just an amazing feeling doing something kind of normal. I'm not normally a sensitive type, but seeing all these people I've  not seen for months or years certainly made me feel like blubbering a bit

[Andy @ Allerton!]

Been to two music festivals recently.

The best thing about them was seeing people out and about enjoying themselves

It really is wonderful isn't it?

As you say, seeing people laughing and happy is great and dare I say it, but at the moment, it feels like there is a lot of joy and happiness around.

[damomad]

It really is wonderful isn't it?

As you say, seeing people laughing and happy is great and dare I say it, but at the moment, it feels like there is a lot of joy and happiness around.

I thought about this today during one of my rare ventures into the office. I felt more generous with my laughter and more attentive to others, really getting to know my workmates. Had one tell me she's attending an anti-vax protest at the weekend. A pre-covid me would have written her off as a complete nut but this time I said to her "each to their own" and tried to focus on our similarities, see things from her perspective....but I failed, there are some fucking stupid c*nts out there in the wild, bring on the next lockdown 

[kesey]

Been to two music festivals recently.

The best thing about them was seeing people out and about enjoying themselves

It really is wonderful isn't it?

As you say, seeing people laughing and happy is great and dare I say it, but at the moment, it feels like there is a lot of joy and happiness around.

A local raggle taggle radio station put on a freebie last week in our park .  It was on the mushie picking field.
I agree it is dead good and dead boss and all that but this one was dead gooder and dead bosser because there was no bizzies , stewards , fences , gates etc  .

[So… Howard Philips]

I thought about this today during one of my rare ventures into the office. I felt more generous with my laughter and more attentive to others, really getting to know my workmates. Had one tell me she's attending an anti-vax protest at the weekend. A pre-covid me would have written her off as a complete nut but this time I said to her "each to their own" and tried to focus on our similarities, see things from her perspective....but I failed, there are some fucking stupid c*nts out there in the wild, bring on the next lockdown 

Attending an anti vax protest at the weekend.

Fuck me some people lead sad lives. And some of them are utter twats.

[Crimson_Tank]

Last week the Missus and I attended out first Live concert since autumn of 2019.

It was absolutely wonderful. Everybody having a good time, eating and drinking, great music and atmosphere. (Vaccinations or Negative Covid tests were required for entry)

[Nobby Reserve]

I'm already missing big elements of lockdown.

We went to a fair few places here and abroad (France & Spain) last year and they were universally far less packed than usual (especially here). One thing that stuck out was Scarefest at Alton Towers -it had about half the usual number (strictly controlled) with much smaller queues and people being generally polite. Went to a few beaches that were much quieter. Pubs/restaurants for a meal with only half (or fewer) people in. Roads were much quieter. Both Liverpool and Manchester city centres way less busy.

Absolute bliss.

The gradual drift back to the overcrowded and noisy shitshow has been heartbreaking. Gave a taste of what a non-overcrowded country would be like, then slowly took that away.

To top it all, I've gradually realised I don't actually like half my 'friends', most of whom I grew up with, because they're knobheads. We've had a handful of meetups since pubs started reopening, and I've spent chunks of the night thinking 'why am I even here?' I've lost interest in half the things we've always talked about, and they have no interest in the things I want to talk about. And I've also lost interest in getting pissed, whereas a couple of them seem to have got a renewed obsession with tales of how smashed they've got.