What were you meant to be doing this weekend?

We would probably have gone to a Garden Centre somewhere and I would have bought too many plants which would then have proved to be not quite enough, had a nice lunch there and meandered home. Or perhaps lunch at a vineyard near the Garden Centre.

Tomorrow we would have seen family either here or at their house and may have all gone out somewhere not too far away on Monday, or, in fact, stayed off the roads altogether.
Easter roads are normally extremely busy and best avoided anyway.

I'd have been up to my ears preparing salads, trifle and all the goodies that you'd prepare at Christmas, for visits from all the family and kids, but that can happen any time and I certainly won't lose any sleep over it at this juncture.

My overall concern is the health and welfare of one and all. Plenty of other times for get-togethers. Health comes first !

We hadn’t yet booked accommodation, thank goodness, but would have been on a Dorset beach with dd, SiL and Gdcs - same as last Easter, when the weather was so unexpectedly glorious I had to go and buy some more summery clothes.

We had booked a break in the Lake District with both daughters and families and my mum.

It was my birthday yesterday (Good Friday) and I would usually have gone out with my husband and the family, to a restaurant. As it was, son no. 1 lives here, so he made a cake! Son no. 2 came here later (safe distancing) and treated us to an Indian takeaway. My 2 GDs (live with their mother) contacted me via Skype. 2 friends left presents on my doorstep, another friend e-mailed me a gift card. All in all, it was a lovely day. I'm very lucky.

Celebrating DGS's birthday and having an ad hoc BBQ or three!

Pantglas I look forward to next Easter, we will definitely be there. There are two Peterborough Fairs, Easter and late September, but I doubt the September one will run either. We will be very lucky if everything is back to normal by then.

We have a house in France, we should have been there next week. Who knows when we will next get there.

After three years of not leaving my bungalow this weekend I
would have been going out in my electric wheelchair, which
I was going to buy , and on Sunday going to Church to
celebrate Easter.

I should imagine we can all imagine what we were meant to be doing or had at least hoped to do, but with all respect M0nica I don’t think it is helpful.
There are already posts from teary Grans who wish they could see their grandchildren, others with cancelled weddings or holidays, people who face no job to go back to when (assuming it is “when” and not “if”) this is all behind us, not to mention some who may be on this site who have lost family members to CV in the last three weeks and do not even have the comfort of a hug from their family or the opportunity to say goodbye at the funeral.
There are so many occasions in life when we find ourselves thinking “if only things had been different”, but we’ve just got to don our big girl knickers and get on with it.

Going down to Southampton for our cruise to the Canaries tomorrow ☹️

Oh Monica how sad to have a lovely Easter outing spoiled- will you do it next year?

We would have been in Spain now enjoying Semana Santa in our town and just been very sociable- they make a big deal of Easter there, all the religious ceremonies actually, and it’s lovely to watch all the efforts made for the floats and parades.

Played a lot of tennis. Gone out for a meal probably, hopefully would have had a visit from Manchester family....

Garden stuff, bike ride (first after my shoulder mended so probably short), a little grocery shopping for the coming week.

I expect I'll do them all, weather permitting with regard to the first two.

This is also a 'normal' weekend for MrBaggs and me. Easter's no different.

I hadn’t made any plans but would have hoped to see DD at some point.