| Acceptance, just had to get on with it. | Physical contact, face to face social interaction. | Enjoying the good weather during lockdown. Started yoga, time for oneself, slow down. | Initial lockdown was easier, now not so easy. Now, would like it to continue this style of life. | Go on holiday. Family get together. | Positive experiences of slowing down. Am lucky as age my only factor. Time to reflect - decided to move (downsize). |
| Apprehensive. | Everything. | Cooking. Gardening. | Difficult. | Relax. | Frustration. Fed up with it all. |
| Worried | Travel | Working from home. Getting used to Microsoft Teams and new way of working. | Fairly easy. I can work from home comfortably so no economic impact. | Go to St Petersburg. I'd really like to get back to going out places, like WI meetings. | I have been lucky. I can see it has been much harder for others. |
| Resigned. | Exactly that. | Not a lot. | Boring. | Smile again. | Worse than 1935. |
| Apprehension! | Meeting people for socialising. | Reading a whole library! Crafting. | Difficult but don't want to accept this way of life permanently. | Heave a sigh of relief. | You really don't have any option but to obey for your own safety. |
| Sadness. | Going out and eating out. | Gardening. DIY. | Difficult in parts but generally okay. Would not like to have to get used to this. | Get away on holiday abroad. | Would not like to repeat it. |
| Scared. | Holidays and days out. | Much sewing, gardening, baking. | Rather boring, yes I could get used to it. | Get all the family together to be able to greet the new arrival. | We have met lots of people out on their daily exercise whilst we were in the front garden enjoying the sunshine. |
| Expected. | Socialising with friends | Not learnt anything new. | With difficulty. | Hug my friends. | No. |
| RELIEF - daughter in Czech Republic had already been lockdowned for weeks. | Wandering round the shops. Social events. | Gardening, baking, knitting, crochet, walking the dog. | Not diffcult most of the time. Just when miss family. | Have a family get together, 70th birthday party was cancelled. | Value of human interaction. |
| Amazed. | Socialising. | Making sourdough bread. | It's been better than expected. Yes. | Pop to the shops. | - |
| Resigned. | Social activities. | Plenty of gardening. | Has been easy. Yes. | Meet family based far away. | Losing our granddaughter was difficult. |
| Apprehensive. | Socialising. | Crafts and reading. | Relatively easy. | Book a holiday - when I can do so with confidence. | - |
| Compliant. | Outings - days out. | Gardening. | Relatively easy - may have to. | Smart socialising. | - |
| Resignation. | Leisure activities. | Surviving. | Easy - yes. | Go shopping, cinema. | Has taught toleration. |
| It was necessary - go with it. | Browsing in shops | No - loads of jigsaws. | Not too difficult, wouldn't want it permanently. | Go to the theatre. | - |
| A sense of unreality. | Seeing friends and volunteering for EACH. | Spending time with my husband, talking, enjoying time together. | Fairly easy except for missing family. | Have time away. | We've enjoyed our time together but missed specific things. |
| Wasn't surprised. | Socialising. | Gardening. | No. | Huigging everyone. | No. |
| Not surprised. I locked down early. | Normality. | Crosswords and reading. | Frustrating. If I had to. | Go to the theatre. | You realise what you miss. |
| I knew it was coming so not very surprised. | Normality, doing art groups, WI, swimming. | I moved house. | It has been frustrating, used to it now but would like to get back to normal. | Go to the theatre and on holiday. | It has made me appreciate the simple things in life. |
| Not before time. | Going out - social life. | Gardening/hedge cutting. | Difficult. | Travel to Aus. and adjust to new life. | Sad. |
| Shock. | Meeting at clubs and other activities. | Nothing really. | Difficult,. | Meet family and friends. | It is something we have to put up with. |
| OMG | Socialising. | Gardening, walking, reading, How resilient I am. | So/so. | Yoga Class. WI. | - |
| Concern. | Freedom to travel. | Gardening, decorating etc. | Easyish! I would not like this to become the norm. | Go on holiday. | Easier with good weather. Do not want a repeat in the winter. |
| Not before time! | A social life. | Lots of walks and sewing projects. | Easy for a short period of time! | Go to Australia and resume travelling. | How it has brought about the sense of community. |
