Long January

[munmun]

Originally Posted by mickey house

I am finding January is speeding by, but then I have been very busy planning my upcoming birthday party. My wife is the only guest but I plan to make it a special event and I’m trying desperately to get a Colin the Caterpillar cake from Marks and sparks but I won’t go in shops and no delivery slots are available🥲.

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I'm sure Sandra will make you a Colin

[mickey house]

Originally Posted by munmun

I'm sure Sandra will make you a Colin

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But it’s what she would put in it that would concern me😀

[Bridget]

No - but I have been super busy with work I've not have time to think straight. I am amazed it's the 20th already!

[Fluffypenguin]

It has definitely been long. I also feel like we’ve had some crazy weather in my area. First we had snow and ice and now we’ve got floods like we have never seen before. We very rarely get snow here and floods are unheard of. Roll on spring and let’s hope for less rain.

[Trusty ian]

Got pay day early (on Friday ) so Jan for me ends then. Then a long Feb. All due to being paid before Xmas last year.

[Cloverlady]

Too looooong
And more of the same to look forward to until maybe Easter

[RachaelC]

Originally Posted by mickey house

I am finding January is speeding by, but then I have been very busy planning my upcoming birthday party. My wife is the only guest but I plan to make it a special event and I’m trying desperately to get a Colin the Caterpillar cake from Marks and sparks but I won’t go in shops and no delivery slots are available🥲.

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I have a similar problem, I forgot to add a Colin the Caterpillar cake to my online shopping order this week, so now will be without a birthday cake for my big day 😭

[Mqt]

Originally Posted by mickey house

I am finding January is speeding by, but then I have been very busy planning my upcoming birthday party. My wife is the only guest but I plan to make it a special event and I’m trying desperately to get a Colin the Caterpillar cake from Marks and sparks but I won’t go in shops and no delivery slots are available🥲.

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Perhaps you could get some profiteroles instead?

[JAF]

Originally Posted by Mary A

Yes! Feels as though Christmas was months ago

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What Christmas not all of us had Christmas. For our part of Essex we had Christmas banned 5 days before the event and expected to watch large parts of England still enjoy the day albeit on a smaller scale than had been initially mentioned.

We are both now getting thoroughly depressed especially as this time of the year we are normally found in the Caribbean instead of cold wet England. There seems no end in sight to this. First it was we will look at easing the lockdown middle of February, moved back to end of February, then March. Although they are making noises about Easter somehow I doubt they will allow Easter to happen.

[mitch84]

Originally Posted by JAF

What Christmas not all of us had Christmas. For our part of Essex we had Christmas banned 5 days before the event and expected to watch large parts of England still enjoy the day albeit on a smaller scale than had been initially mentioned.

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To be fair you still had Christmas. You just didn’t get to mix with other households.
Big swathes of the country were in the same boat. Lots of people’s family were too far away to travel there and back to on one day.
I didn’t get to see any of my family as we had planned it for Boxing Day, to allow my Dad to see the ‘other side’ on Christmas Day as they live walking distance apart. So it was just my husband, myself and the dog. We of course still celebrated Christmas. Just a quieter one than normal.

I’m not disputing that it is highly unfair and incredibly depressing though. Just that it wasn’t necessarily tier 4 specific