Interesting thread!
Home-wise, the impact was not huge because both our kids have left home. We live in a rural area and nearest neighbours are about 100m away so social distancing is pretty much the norm round here and you have always been able to go out for a walk for hours without seeing another soul anyway if you choose to. Socially, me & Mrs K used to have a coffee maybe 4-6 times a week in a very homely cafe where we knew all the staff really well and most of the regulars, but obviously it closed so instead we replicated that in our kitchen at 10.30 every morning to share a coffee and, in my case, a couple of Hot X buns!
Family - my mother and siblings all lived a long way from me. My mother & both sisters lived in the North East near Gateshead and my brother in Swansea so I used to see my brother for every home game but the others I'd only see a few times a year anyway so that wasn't much of a big deal. Initial problem was that my mother was already 96 and the way things were shaping up, we thought she had zero chance of surviving so as soon as the first lockdown and all the rules were announced, within a few hours I jumped in my car and drove the 329 miles to her house and stayed for a couple of days coming back a day or 2 before lockdown started.
Work - I've worked from home since 1990 so absolutely no problem there. However, as part of my work, we have to go to construction sites every so often to assemble stuff and while most sites were significantly scaled back, construction was allowed to continue to operate and we were still expected to turn up which was a bit scary. For a start, it meant 3 of us had to travel in separate vehicles which was incredibly expensive and trying to socially distance is very difficult when it takes 2 of you to lift something into position while the 3rd puts some fixings in. Thankfully, most of what we were scheduled to do was delayed but the downside of that was, once things were getting back close to a new normal, we had to shoehorn loads of work into a very short timescale which was a bit manic but the second lockdown in autumn/winter 2020 made things much more complicated than the first one.
Has anything changed in our lives? Well, in an unexpected twist, on the very day when all restrictions were lifted and absolutely everything was allowed to fully reopen in July 2021, the cafe we had frequented for well over a decade, decided to close forever despite doing takeaways for the previous 6 months. My mother survived all the worst of the lockdowns and general pandemic mayhem until she died of old age last December aged 98. Work has returned more or less to normal.
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