Which pastime or activity do you miss... - Positive Wellbein...
Positive Wellbeing During Self-Isolation
Which pastime or activity do you miss the most? This is a single choice poll.
PWBAmbassadorAmbassador506 VotersKaraoke and live bands at the pub
Well said, Carolyne. I was going out nearly every day. Most D J's had the backing tracks for the songs I had written on their computers. This is one. I hope you like it. If you do, please share. 
Beautiful job on that song, Yerac. I most certainly miss karaoke.
Really a few friends go out with our dogs and have a good chat 👍😀
Freedom
Looking after my grandson
Going to a hairdresser and beauty therapist
Playing badminton and squash 57 and to a cafe and to see friends
Not being able to travel to visit my family is by FAR the thing I miss most. Everything else is just an indulgence.
That is soooo true. The options just made me wonder what other’s priorities are. I can do without any of those things so long as I have family
Spending time with my grandchildren!
Shopping is my favourite should be on the list ! HAIR DRESSER !
Well i put art gallery but really just sitting down to supper with friends!
But more importantly, going to the movies...
Non of the above! What I missed the most (apart from family) is being able to go out and buy things I need. Food, wool, screws, wood, paint, all the things to either keep me occupied, or fed or able to fix things.
Spending time with family and friends and looking for bargain in charity shops and flea/vintage visiting markets.
Sounds good to me!
That sounds good, add craft fairs I attended most weekends
Shopping and visiting with my daughter, my grandchildren, and eating out with my sister.
Meeting friends for coffee, having lunch out and browsing charity shops.
I just hope that many of my local theatres are not going to close due to lack of funding. My real favourite venues, are Covent Garden Opera House, and the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford upon Avon. I also enjoy the Bolshoi Ballet when they visit the UK. I was brought up in a house full of classical music teachers, and opera buffs.
Just being able to socialise
My first choice is not on the list: Hugs from grandchildren.
My weekly gentle exercise class, run by Age Uk.
Another regular meeting for me too!
also miss the cinema and eating out, and seeing my friends of course.
Going to work and meeting people
Its not where you go, its who you go with! Had family been on here, it would have won hands down
I really miss meeting friends for coffee/chat but I desperately miss seeing my sons and families, specially grandchildren xx
Phyllis x
Friends include WI & Rainbow group monthly, then 2/3 times week to different Knit/natter & Craft groups!
I miss walking
Me too, am keeping active gardening, but really miss a good walk.i live in a beautiful area, but have not seem any of it since shielding commenced, my walking shoes are sitting in the spare room looking hopeful!
Take care Sopsx
Swimming
I miss most travelling 
I miss hunting for bargains for my grandchildren at car boot sales
I miss date night
Our local Knitting/crochet/sewing group meets every week in the local garden centre café, we have missed two 80th birthdays and cream teas and just chats. Also sorely missed our grandchildren and their parents!
I just want my life back
I am retired, and miss going down to the local cafe, large cup of Americano and talk to customers and staff, craic is good as I am well known here, writing a book on my laptop for a number of years, even a couple of tributes to staff in the acknowledgements, true crime not everybody's cup of tea? Cheers!
I chose: Going out to eat. Don’t go out regularly, but look forward to it for special & treat occasions. If there had been a “other” box, it is: I miss meeting up with likeminded Card making friends in U3A group. And visiting family
Going up to the Brecon Beacons mountain centre in Libanus and walking over to Twyn- yr-Gaer to admire the panorama, watch the swallows and the swifts leaving contrails from their wingtips as they hurtle round the clear blue sky.
Using the chair lifts in Austria to zoom and to walk along the ridges and drop down in another lift, all the astra but not too much ardua. Very pleasant sitting on the balcony of an alpine hut with a cold drink in my hand, watching an alpine chough with a bright yellow beak tumbling out of sky, landing on the table with well practiced ease and then helping himself to a chunk of someone's lunch before vanishing as quickly as he came.
Or just going for a seaside walk, with coffee and cake or Ice cream en-route.
Most immediately though it has to be the three dancing events we go to every week. The Cumpersita is being played as I type. Por una Cabeza is up next. All these dance routines have to be practiced. Executing an immaculate spin turn and emerging against the line of dance is a bit embarrassing.
Strangely enough the flashiest dance allows you to stand absolutely still before darting off again.
The thing I miss the most wasn't in the list. I sing (sang) in two choirs. I REALLY miss those. And I don't know if I will ever feel safe singing in a choir again. How can we sing with masks on standing six feet apart?
Hi, i also sing in 2 choirs and am worried about returning. We have over 100 members in each, and our rehearsal school is currently closed so cannot imagine where you could hold any form of practice.
I still have the music from our cancelled May concert and cannot return that either as the loan libraries are closed.
Am using it to sing in the garden!
Good luck with your choir,
Sopsx
Thanks for your sweet reply. We were practicing music in my college choir to sing in May, too. I still have the music. The other choir is a church choir, and we were practicing music for Easter, which of course, was completely shut down. Choir singing is one of the most dangerous activities. I was reading that "superspreader" events are those where people congregate close together and sing, talk loudly, or shout-- like a bar, sports event, or *choir.* Because you expel more of the potentially infected droplets when doing those things than in normal conversation.
Being a brownie leader in person. I miss my unit even though we met online every fornight
None of the above; for me it would be riding a horse again, or seeing well enough to drive a car.
Cheers, Midori
I miss going to shops and browsing too!
Full service Thai and Indian restaurants. Just not the same bringing it all home.
Swimming!
We have 5 horses in our family and I have so missed going to their fields.
Their passports had to be carried in the car but only one person was allowed to go to check that they were all healthy and that all gates had been closed, their water troughs were refilling and that they were happy..
They really couldn’t understand why their routine had changed.
No tacking up and then going out for a walk.
It was not allowed in the guidelines.🙁🙁🙁🙁🙁😛
Oh, that surprises me as there are the odd one or two riders still going past our gate.
My friends stables has just started up again with smaller groups socially distancing. The family at the stables looks after the horse day to day needs and grooming etc. Admittedly they are all experienced riders so it would be quite unfortunate if they had an accident and no more so than if they were in a car going to work.
Oh, your post made me VERY sad. How awful for the animals to have their routine contact with you completely disrupted. And how you must miss the horses! It's like the horses are suddenly in prison with just one visit by one person! Don't the horses HAVE to have exercise? This restriction doesn't make sense to me-- it's not like you can catch CV from the horses. It seems unnecessarily cruel. I don't know anything about owning horses and don't know where you are, but explain horse "passports"? Is that like dogs having to have licenses.
Very similar. It holds the certificate of registration,change of ownership, all destinguishing colours and marks, a record of vaccinations-Flu and Tetanus and the chip number for tracing if lost or stolen.
It was carried when Lockdown started to prove where you were driving to if stopped. At least the weather has been kind for if it rains a lot then mud,mud,mud!
I know that I feel as if I am in jail at times but they have got each other for company.
Keep busy and stay safe.
We are fortunate enough to keep our 3 horses on neighboring private property- a short walk from our house. 2 are new to my herd since this year- I brought home the latest gelding to be a lesson horse for beginners. Alas- everything changed- and he seems to be missing the young people and attention. I hope your guidelines will allow you to ride in the near future. I shall consider myself very lucky to be able to ride almost every day. Even if it is just a short one from the barn to the field- attempting to pony 2 horses.
Going to the gym
What about those of us who actually DO the things others observe - like rehearsing and performing music? Playing sports? Acting in a play .....
True, i really miss singing in a choir, miss my friends, we have been together for years, have now missed 2 cancelled performances, and practising for theChristmas rendition in the hope that one will be allowed!
Live entertainment is so important, carry on acting, making music of all sorts, it enriches life,
Take care Sopsx
None of the above, Where I live that stuff is very costly, my lot are big on freebies. I miss going to the library.
I miss the charity shops, with the interaction with staff and friends
Going to the massage therapist and feeling safe on nature trails here in the bay area.But top choice was eating out at restaurants with friends.
I really miss physical social contact with friends and acquaintances. I’m a hugger as are many of my friends. I sure miss that.
I totally agree with MrZee. That's just how I feel.
Going to art shows with my daughter and then late a snack and a glass of wine. Also the yearly overseas travel.
For me it's going out for Sunday lunch with friends
I think the most important thing ever was missing......visiting family.
We had tickets for Michael Buble which has been postponed, along with Rick Astley and also James Blunt. Never mind there will be plenty of time next year!
The ambience of a really good, atmospheric eaterie with even better company. Preferably somewhere in the Channel Isles! (I don’t live there, unfortunately, but know Guernsey and it’s restaurants very well and visiting it is now near the top of ‘to do’ list when I get released back into the wild).
Hermes123
I miss my friends two mornings a week, some have kept in touch by phone, put most of all I miss an old army pal who lives in a flat on his own, he was 97. years old on the day we were given notice to isolate. Hermes.
A lot of things seem to be missing from the list. I miss the hairdressers, cinema, car boot sales and craft groups. I still have to self isolate so I still can't meet up with friends and family. Just hope I will be able to before too long. My pain support group has decided to close down for good and that is a big disappointment.
Most of all, we miss our morning swim!
I love being treated to a meal out , No menu planning and no tidying up .
Meeting with friends and getting a haircut
This was a hard call... went with going out to eat, since enjoyed doing that especially with friends. Though really miss going to museums too... there was a Frida exhibit going on in my area... probably not going to see it now. Was looking forward to it.
Meeting with friends and getting much needed haircut
Sitting at an outside table, sipping coffee, watching the world go by.
Dinning out with my husband and sometime friends. Mostly a bottle wine and ourselves, our children and grand children without and question. My daughter is due to deliever any day and we can not travel the 1500 miles to be with her until the Lock Down is lifted, many states are different in the US> we will not fly!
What about going to get your hair done, that would help my well being mood.
I chose going out to a cafe as this is where I meet my friends.
None of those ...I miss my friends at my day centre and too just have a cuddle with them all...seems such a long time ago..ah well..keep safe eh
Popping round to see friends for a chat and a game of scrabble.
Shopping!
Missing the gym swim,shops.
I also miss going to the stables for my usual wednesday afternoon ride out with my instructor & riding my favourite horse tequilla. While this lockdown is on mum & dad are refusing point black to take me riding
I miss going to 80s concerts & recreating my teenage/twenties (years old) outfts
Oh & going to my usual thursday night quiz
Going out to eat with family. Was able to in the last week we entered into phase 2 of reopening and restaurants are opening at 50% capacity. It was nice to eat out again.
I thought this was meant to be a positive well being group? Am not sure how a poll to remind us if what we miss the most that we cant do now is enabling us to be positive?
How about what we are enjoying doing now in lockdown -hard as lockdown is there are some postives. such as lower pollution levels, quieter roads, more time with our chldren, learning new skills such as using technology, gardening, diy, new craft skill learnt from u tube etc..........
Hi
I voted for going out to eat, but have been able to do that in stay-at-home mode. Past weeks have been able eat in dinning room. I really like being able to attend church services now. Did attend on-line church services until last two weeks. We do social distancing in restaurants and church. Works better than this word processor edit. Blessings.
Not mentioned . Just mix and socialise with close group of friends . Often dinner or social at each other’s homes
What I really miss the most is face to face connection with family and friends. The cafe environment is where this could happen on a 'normal' day so was the closest answer to the truth for me.
I think travelling to visit family is also an important loss for many, including myself. It would have been a valuable answer to choose.
Not really any of the above, the thing I miss most is my independence and not being able to see my family, even picking my grandchildren up from school 🙄 my eldest is a nurse and a single mum and I hate not being able to help her with childcare especially with all of the additional pressure on her at work 😪
Apart from visiting friends & family, the social groups of crafters!
Missed the last 2 months of bowling league, monthly library book club as well as restaurants and staying at hotels in my favorite cities
I miss meeting up with workmates at a breakfast bar before starting so we can discuss the day before and guess what is happening that day sounds daft but it is pretty interesting, believe it or not I really miss work as I had been furloughed and this is my 5th week, goodness knows what my wages are going to be like next week
Going out for my morning and evening walks is what I miss most
Going back to help youngsters that I teach stay out of trouble
Just being able to spontaneously hug friends- see their smiles- and not be afraid of being close to people. My sister desperately misses her grandchildren.