September 15 – Life in a Lockdown #24

So things are starting to get a little bit stricter again. No more meetings of people in groups of over 6 and more areas back on stricter rules. It is not surprising with the jump we have had. I guess all we can do is hope it gets things back under control again. 

I have to admit I’ve not paid much notice to what the rules are for those going under this localised lockdown. However, I’ve heard you can’t go to a friends but can go to the pub. Ahh, England you and your love for pubs. 

Of course, I have to start this by saying thank you to Bex at Futures for joining me each week and of course Jenni at Lyrical Host (affiliate link) for kickstarting the idea! 

If you would like to take part I promise it is simple:

We do ask that you give both Bex and I a link back in your post, with how you find the link-up! You will be able to copy all the questions from below to answer in your own world. 

Then all you need to do is pop back to mine or Bex’s post and pop your link in the inlinkz so we can come and read your post.

1) How are you feeling/coping?
2) What have you been up to over the past 7 days?
3) What are your priorities at the moment, have you changed what you will / won’t go out for?
4) Have you found anywhere doing a really good job of catering to social distancing?
5) What have you bought this week that others might like? Especially if from a small business.
6) How has your routine been this week?
7) What have you learnt over lockdown (this doesn’t have to be a skill, it could be about yourself, your family, or something else).
8) What have you been grateful for over the past 7 days?

So what did week 24 hold:

1) How are you feeling/coping?

Painful, I mean I am always in pain but this week I’ve had some really bad pain days. While I’ve also suffered from very little movement in my left-hand side which means I’ve had to rely on Ash more.

I always feel awful asking him to fetch and carry things – I just want my body to work! 

On the whole, I’m trying to stay away from the news. I find it affects me quite badly and so I have to pick and choose times when I can read it. For COVID news, I’m sticking to rundowns once a week from a reliable source. 

I had a bit of a run-in, in a local Facebook group this week. Which made me again face some of my “demons”. Someone made a post about the local canal possibly being tarmac’d. Someone posted why would they do that? Me, being me said about making it more accessible. However, I was not ready for what that would cause AT ALL. I was basically told I shouldn’t have an opinion as I wasn’t born in the area, while someone else likened falling over with mobility issues to falling while running. Oh Boy! 

I realised that for the first time since we moved to Staffordshire when I was a pre-teen, I had felt at home in this bungalow. 20+ years and all it took was one person in a Facebook group to remind me of those years where I was bullied for coming from somewhere else. Thankfully some lovely people stood up for me and I won’t let a minority take away the home I have found. However, it also showed issues I need to face and deal with, within myself. 

While the falling comment – well that just reminded me how much of this world is inaccessible and why. Because people don’t understand. If your healthy and fit and fall you bounce back. Someone like me falls and they can’t move for a however long. So many people think that is OK as well, that is OK areas can’t be enjoyed by everyone and that became very obvious to me during that post. 

I should probably add I’m don’t think the people were being ableist. I think they just didn’t want the area to be tarmac’d which I can understand, it doesn’t look good. However, as I never gave an opinion on if it should be or not, or spoke about how I felt around tarmac’d areas it was a little bit of a surprise. 

2) What have you been up to over the past 7 days?

Sleeping, blogging, eating, sleeping, eating, blogging and that’s about it. 

Sometimes I do too much blogging to distract myself and sometimes it’s all I do as I sleep so much. Sometimes it is hard to work out which side I am falling. I need to work that out. 

3) What are your priorities at the moment, have you changed what you will / won’t go out for?

It’s the same old here. 

We did go out to Fradley Canal to The Laughing Duck to meet my parents. With our hand sanitizer at the ready and a face mask, it was really nice to just be out the bungalow. 

If you are in the area do give them a visit, they sadly suffered a big fire in July which took out the whole cafe. So they have been running from a catering van, with outdoor seating, which is socially distanced. So it actually felt really comfortable to go to. We had a cuppa and a piece of cake and chat it was nice. 

The most normal thing we have done in a long time. 

4) Have you found anywhere doing a really good job of catering to social distancing?

Perhaps I should have mentioned The Laughing Duck here!

It was quiet when we went and actually when we left we were the only people there. So timing might have been a factor. However, I felt fine with it all.

5) What have you bought this week that others might like? Especially if from a small business.

I bought an anxiety mug from Sugar and Sloth (affiliate link).

It has been on my Etsy wishlist for ages and with how my anxiety is I thought right I’m getting it.

While my latest subscription box from Amazonite Griffin also arrived. 

Just as a bit of an aside I set up a new Instagram @iamsarahlouiseb. There’s a competition running, also I’ll probably share a lot of small company buys there long term. So if you do like this section of Life in a Lockdown make sure you give that Insta a follow. 

6) How has your routine been this week?

I don’t think I’ve had one this week, to be honest. Even my normally always at the same time bedtime seems to have been pushed back by half an hour.

I definitely need to change that.

7) What have you learnt over lockdown (this doesn’t have to be a skill, it could be about yourself, your family, or something else).

I miss the little things, like going to see family and friends. I took them for granted and I’m sad about that.

8) What have you been grateful for over the past 7 days?

Having things to keep my going, even if that’s just writing a blog post.

A huge thank you as always to everyone who linked up with us last week.

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