Simple pleasures

I could have written that post MawB

I agree with all you said MawB

It's my sons birthday today and missing our usual get together

All of that and can I add volunteering?

I love being busy but at the moment I cant bothered at all.

My volunteering jobs are the very top of my list
My lunches and coffees with friends
A hug
Getting on the bus with my free bus pass
Seeing the roads busy I enjoy people watching (no one to watch now)
Cinema love a visit with a friend or alone to the cinema
A wander round the shops
Something to get up for

Especially something to get up for! Agree with all you say, Maw and BlueBelle. Small things, but so important.

Planning/going on our holidays/short breaks/days out. Browsing in the shops. Popping in the supermarket for a couple of treats.

All of the above........

I shall never take my freedom for granted again.....after 47 days of lockdown I really do miss the simple pleasures of day to day living ?

I would have to also add much better health and a future to look forward to as my number one.
Am finding it extremely difficult to think beyond lockdown in our circumstances I have to say.I will not go into lengths explaining my plight to spoil the upbeat tone of your post MawB.........those that not know me better will understand.

I am glad it was taken as upbeat Dreamkeeper - some might have found it self- pitying.
I could have added “company” to my list, lockdown is hard for those of us who have lost our life’s partners. That goes without saying. Zoom and FaceTime are better than nothing, but we all crave human contact dont we?
I also recognise that what I am missing are things many of us lack anyway. Looking back to my parents’ declining years, Mum was immobile and because you can’t get a wheelchair up 23 steps and a steep path, a prisoner in her home. Living 350 miles away from me and I know not how many thousands from my sister in Canada, they too missed us children and grandchildren.
So I was wary of sounding too self-pitying, but my excitement at the forthcoming wheelie bin collection is surely understandable as a measure of how low we have got!

I'm looking forward to:

seeing the GC

going out for lunch with all the family (a regular fortnightly thing we do on a Sunday)

Going out with them all for mine and my husband's birthdays, which were in April.

Going to Zumba again with my friend.

Seeing my other friend for coffee and cake at a cafe.

It's the very mundane ordinary stuff which we miss, isn't it? Just going to a shop, any shop, and being able to walk in without having to queue - queue to get in and again to get out.

Greeting a friend or neighbour normally without having to shout from two yards away.

Leaving the house because you feel like it instead of asking yourself if the journey is really necessary.

I look forward wholeheartedly to going back to a very ordinary normality.

I miss swimming

I took my freedom to do whatever I wanted for granted. I miss many of the things already mentioned and being able to drive to the coast for a walk along the prom.

I could just pick up my coat and car keys and head off somewhere. Only go about a mile or so from my door these days.