Happy Eid-Al-Fitr, friends. Hopefully, next year you have more freedom to celebrate

UK and Ireland folks, I believe Ireland opened up today to the next phase, Scotland and England next week. Was curious to know if you are planning adjustments your lifestyle in any way subsequent to the lifting of restrictions?

I am finding myself quite reserved on this front, maybe even stuck in muted social networks and cautious about public attitudes and behaviors. Just have a trim planned for next week, and then considering visiting some museums potentially.

2nd Edit: Sorry I forgot Wales, and would be good to hear even more broadly for any other person in a community going through similar process.

What does Ireland opening up have to do with UK folks lifestyles?

Meant to include Ireland, but did so in an ignorant way. Post edited, didn't mean offense.

No worries.

I'm not making any major changes. I made them at the first phase when I started seeing friends and family again, letting my kids go to their grandparents while I worked, etc Think I'll continue with cutting my own hair for another couple of months until things in the barbers settle down. I doubt I'll go for a pint or food this week, maybe in a couple of weeks again when things calm down. No wish to go shopping centres etc Most of the things I like to do are still pretty limited by the virus so no major changes here.

Don't see the need to change things up yet - cases are relatively low now but I want to see how they deal with the inevitable spikes before I feel fully confident about going to the gym, barber or restaurants.

The only thing I miss right now is playing football. They've opened up for matches kids up to 18 years and for the top three divisions, but the rest can't even play in practice.

They just opened sports leagues in my state, with a cap on 25 players. Not feeling that, but got plenty of buddies ready to play.

Have only done take out from restaurants, and stopped for a few beers at a brewery's patio who has good spacing/hygiene.

Still only seeing the parents outside and with 6 feet/masks.

I started getting takeaway again last week. Kind of felt like shit after it. Think my body wasn't ready for it after 4 months of nothing but homecooked meals.

They're opening the pubs tomorrow.

I don't really have any objections since the cases are relatively low aside from Leicester.

But opening on a Saturday is monumentally stupid for other reasons. There's going to be chaos with everyone boozing up.

Qwiss! wrote:

No worries.

I'm not making any major changes. I made them at the first phase when I started seeing friends and family again, letting my kids go to their grandparents while I worked, etc Think I'll continue with cutting my own hair for another couple of months until things in the barbers settle down. I doubt I'll go for a pint or food this week, maybe in a couple of weeks again when things calm down. No wish to go shopping centres etc Most of the things I like to do are still pretty limited by the virus so no major changes here.

Must be nice being with family, seeing extended relatives. My guess is a good amount of posters on here are parents? My exposure to family is close to zero.
Interesting to see several of you relatively conservative with the initial approach.

Mirth wrote:

But opening on a Saturday is monumentally stupid for other reasons. There's going to be chaos with everyone boozing up.

I was wondering what the benefit of this could be - maybe they expected Monday worker queuing and commuting to be unsustainable with the emerging broader public? Two day buffer leading up to Monday commute could possibly allow TFL, PHE to analyze the initial wave of movement.

Apparently they want to determine what the take up will be before the July stimulus. I just feel sorry for the emergency services.

On the flip side, I've seen the lengths some local restaurants and outlets have gone to try and keep things safe so I feel bad for them. I might swing buy, grab something to takeaway and stay away from the loonies.

Booked an app for a haircut today, but that's about it.

I might consider going to a restaurant/cinerma late in July though, the time me and the Mrs go they're normally dead anyway, pre-lockdown we went to watch one film where we were literally the only ones in the room.

KingslandBarge wrote:

Qwiss! wrote:

No worries.

I'm not making any major changes. I made them at the first phase when I started seeing friends and family again, letting my kids go to their grandparents while I worked, etc Think I'll continue with cutting my own hair for another couple of months until things in the barbers settle down. I doubt I'll go for a pint or food this week, maybe in a couple of weeks again when things calm down. No wish to go shopping centres etc Most of the things I like to do are still pretty limited by the virus so no major changes here.

Must be nice being with family, seeing extended relatives. My guess is a good amount of posters on here are parents? My exposure to family is close to zero.
Interesting to see several of you relatively conservative with the initial approach.

Yeah its great having family close by. Even at the worst of it we all took turns doing the shopping so we'd chat through the window. Back to normal with most of family calling in as usual, my parents and the in laws minding the kids on workdays, etc Its great, definitely what I'd missed most.

Pubs have been open here now for since Monday and it hasn't been great. Few places getting in trouble for not imposing the distancing, etc And I haven't even heard about last night yet. I was going to go to Dublin for a meal and a few pints next week but I think I'll wait till all the drama in the pubs calms down.