You always look so beautiful, dress so well, speak English so wonderfully, and are at the same time intelligent as well as entertaining. I love to watch your vlogs and feel humble and unworthy at the same time. You are a ray of light in the world. Thank you!
My dear Vanessa, how you're feeling is entirely natural. Lockdown has been going, on and off, for over a year, so it's entirely normal that you'd feel excited to get back to doing the things you enjoy and nervous about leaving a situation that you've live with 24/7 for 13 - 14 months. Just be your usual cheering, smiling, charming self and everyone will love you. And you weren't rambling, you were being honest. There are many people who feel the same and this video let's them know they're not alone. Thank you, lovely lady x
I've been one of the lucky ones I've been working as usual since day 1 of this pandemic so everything has seemed relatively normal to me if slightly more hectic than it had been pre March 2020.
The lack of energy is so true. It's something I hadn't realised was so bad until I had to go back to work this week and I felt utterly exhausted by the time I got home after that first day.
Nice to hear your thoughts and I think we're all looking forward to being able to do all the things you mentioned. Here in Wales, the timings are a bit different but we can see friends in real life, travel around Wales and eat out and go shopping and...well, everything really. Whether there'll be a 3rd wave as everyone goes freedom crazy for a while is yet to be seen. Stay safe, cariad (Welsh for 'darling' or 'sweetheart', pronounced Karry-add)!
We had the discussion today at work through teams of course as to what can be possible and what we would like to happen. Some staff have worked here for a year and never seen the office building. Got pretty scary, it isnt going to ever be the same. Also discounts for commuting on trains are for weekly/montlhy tickets it doesnt work for 2-3 times a week which a lot would like to do.
i got bad anxiaty and depression so not fully looking forward to end of lockdown. large crowds scare me. but will be glad to finally get to take the caravan out that we bought 2 months b4 lockdown last year lol yep it the little things we miss. xx
Ahhh, I loved listening to your rambling (you said it 😉 💋) To be honest you spoke for me too. I can't wait for things to ease. We have to work our way through this, it's not going away (but it scares the hell out of me too) Hugs - Agreed! We can open as many venues, pubs, restaurants etc as we like but the things I yearn for the most is being able to have human contact again....which sadly seems like it's on the latter part of the official 'to do' list. Masks - Super Agree! I'm going to be wearing my mask in every shop, on every bus and on the tube....maybe indefinitely 🙄 apart from the importance of not letting our guard down it suits me cos I don't have to faf about so much with my tash ☺🤪🤣Was that TMI? We've all just got to ride the waves and not get complacent. Be responsible and do our individual best xx
Absolutely brilliant Vanessa, your description of getting back on the tube, "a cylinder of COVID" 😂 will be sharing that one. Let's have more 5 minute rambles 😀 x
I fell back in love with reading. Loved learning about Bands from the other side of the World. Leant how to tune in to on line, behind closed doors concerts from Japan. Loved not having to answer the phone or the door knowing that people are usually there to try and con me out of money I haven't got. Liked having people thank me for crossing the road away from them keeping my distance. Liked sleeping in late, enjoyed knowing that everybody was in the same boat........We had the chance to improve the failing system but decided that normal will do. Dreading normal.
Vanessa this has been my favourite video of yours so far. We get to see a bit more of the real you , loved it. Your not the only one who’s apprehensive about easing lockdown, I think we all are to some extent. Thanks for sharing with us, oh and you briefly mentioned asmr, would love to see you do that but it might tip me over the edge. Ramble away 😀
Thanks for sharing Vanessa! (I’ve been out of lockdown, along with my work colleagues, since May AND all WE want to do this be furloughed)....we all work on site, hated to go back, due to the change in pace and the social adjustment of interaction etc. Took a couple of weeks to adjust! You’ll be fine🙏
Really enjoyed your thoughts about after lockdown and post-Covid. There's so much that could change across so many different domains, and change for the better. We will see which changes for the better we can all make and which wider society makes for us. Keep going with your random thoughts - they made perfect sense to me.
I've already booked seats for myself and my wife at a Philharmonia concert in June at the Royal Festival Hall. It's been great watching concerts on television but I can't wait to be there in person. We''ve even paid out much more than we normally would for a seat, just to savour the moment of our first concert for over a year.
Ramblogs (Rambleogs? Vlambling?) are good to organise thoughts and share them. You'll find many people relate. Bouncing back will take as long as it takes, so I know I'll need patience. :)
If I'm honest, as I work for myself, I have to the greater degree done what I have always done. Get up when I want, have breakfast, read the news and emails and then start work designing (architect/developer). I now do a weekly shop with my wife (which I enjoy) rather than on my own late evening when the supermarkets are quiet. I miss popping along to the pub late evening a couple of times a week. I miss being able to just visit other areas in the car-until now. I now know you don't really need to spend so much -period. I'm not sure everything should return to "normal". We should re-evaluate. That is what I have been busy doing - looking at where I want to be in the next few years and how I want to live a more stripped back "spiritual" life.
I enjoyed your videos through the lockdown and partners pregnancy of our first child usually with a protein shake or 2 and the junk food I got addicted to. I agreed to weigh in together every week throughout the pregnancy I had sympathetic pregnancy syndrome and embarrassingly gaining more weight and she was all 40 weeks of the pregnancy I gained more, when our son was born I had gained 110 lbs I'm enjoying our son and your videos without protein shakes but with a massively increased waistline ha ha
I don't even know how people have coped with Quarantine for so many months. I've been going to work every day, interacting with the public (safely) and doing most of my normal routine here in Australia. Although I've only had 2 hugs in 14 months which as a touchy feely person sucks, but then as a middle aged bachelor that isn't a huge drop off from everyday life when there's no pandemic. 😅 I hope you can all overcome the nerves at interacting with each other again and puzzling out the new "rules" for interacting face to face.
Lockdown has had very little impact for me, work has not changed (HGV driver) although the roads have been better with less traffic, don't drink so I would rarely venture into a pub.
This is the most relatable covid video i've watched, thanks. Glad I'm not the only one to feel a little bit apprehensive about some of the aspects of lockdown ending.
I'm dreading the commute. I've worked from home for over a year, so I'm going to be wondering why I have to put up with all these people while travelling to somewhere I don't need to be
I'm also terrified about the end of lockdown. I live in a city centre and have kind of enjoyed the streets being quieter and living in a bubble. I'm also a mature student and it's given me the chance to really concentrate on study without social distraction. ALTHOUGH, my studies finish on Monday then I am free for a few weeks and I must admit I'm looking forward to drinking a beer in the sunshine with friends. It's time to get back to nornal.
Blimey it sounds like your Alexa could do with a bit of fresh air. Definitely feeling a little anxious about the big escape but hey ho, nothing ventured and all that. Bring on some of that good old British sunshine! 🌞 🤞
I hope you realise that you've just made Alexa talk to people all over the World ...twice. My tablet was right next to my ear and I literally jumped off my sofa, cheers for that young lady. The pub ,getting to sit in a boozer with good company I'll never take that for granted again. Right, I'm now off to change my undergarments and have a large whiskey.
Thank you for being open and sharing your feelings about lock down and life after it. I think you hit the nail on the head when you mentioned time flying by even though every day feels the same. I'm looking forward to getting my hair cut next week....YAY (after 20 months boy has it grown long!) Everyone should go at their own pace and not feel pressured into doing what others are doing or what others expect of you.
Apart from missing meeting friends and such, I adapted to lockdown fairly easily, tbh , by getting into a routine and taking up new hobbies. Now Vanessa, if you ever need a hug, I'm happy to help out! Haha 👍🙏❤
I was house bound before lockdown after surgery following a bike accident. I'd just been given the all clear to go back to the office, then they shut the office for Covid. Been on my own for two years now. Think I've gone a bit mental. I did get a pizza oven though.
It is not fully lifted yet but I did go to the pub on Monday, all be it sitting outside: will be nice when we can be inside and then I’m going to get a nice Sunday roast, yum yum
I've been classified as a key worker so I've been going in to the office throughout the Pandemic, but I'm starting a new job in the next week or so and I can work from home for at least 2 days a week so I'm doing everything in reverse.
A nice realisation would be,... When the #Government - #Counsels or property #Developers build new homes, they take into consideration larger homes with more Space in each room, #AirCirculation, #Gardens and the need to #HardWire homes with #Internet sockets in every room,... these would be great homes going forward.
Not rambling but putting forward some good themes about slowing down. I retired from work 8 weeks before lockdown so for me the "new normal" of staying in was something I was looking forward to. Then it meant I couldn't go around certain shops so I ordered a record amount of "stuff" of the internet. Now, i hope everyone thinks about what has happened and realise we cannot just hop backwards as if the last rears events never happened at all. For so many life will never be the same.
Professionally i've been completely unaffected by the multiple lockdowns we have had here in Toronto. There are only 3 of us in a room big enough for 60. And as i live alone its good to have my work mates to shoot the shit with.(Mostly Hockey right now). Worst part is that I haven't hugged either of my girls since April last year. Stay safe.
VanessaTalks As a former born&raised Londoner who has lived in the US for 21 (tumultuous and fractious) yrs,may i ask you what brought u to the UK,?.If it was work,well that's an easy one,but it appears u have decided u like it&are still there?.. Now as for me,the last time I was there(London)was in 2011(at my mom's funeral)but I do have a large family over there,so I'm constantly receiving messages and Pics(on What's App of course).And stay well of course,in the year of our Covid19
I'm just hoping that the lesson of lockdown is how good for the environment it is to have more peace and quiet, and less unnecessary rushing to retail parks to buy more rubbish you don't need so you can waste more petrol going to the tip to throw away more stuff! Less is more, folks!
I've mixed feelings, a little like yourself. Even at supposed restrictions end, June, I can't see it being back to normal. And yeah, masks will probably be with us for a while. And after a year of this I think I'll still be a little gun shy of walking into a crowd. That said, I'm really looking forward to restaurants opening fully. Boy I've missed going for a really nice meal, even more so than pubs. Also foreign travel, though that still seems like a pipe dream at the mo. Regs changing, other countries going in and out of 2nd, and 3rh waves. Where you go, what you can do there, and what restrictions they could impose. All seems very hazy at present.
I will be taking my time so that I don't rush my transition back into a normal way of life. I can't wait to play chess on the weekends and go out to restaurants.
Anybody else spent the lockdown too wearing comfortable clothing like tracksuit trousers or jogging bottoms, etc, and when it comes time to wear office clothing again, you find the trousers have shrunk? (Or I’ve put weight on.... nah, impossible...)
I sympathise with your anxiety, but I have to say I don't understand it. What if you get Covid? You're young and seem to be fit (traditional meaning), so it would be unlikely to be fatal. I'm much older, in one of the 'vulnerable' groups, and I'm going to get out there as soon as I'm allowed. Woman up! Life's waiting for you to re-start!
Well done girlie,.be brave everyone, as Captain Tom said...tomorrow will be a better day....best wishes from the wirral ,what would I know I,m from Birkhenhead (I love writing that still )....off for a bracing walk....E
Love your intelligence. Your optimism. I am in absolute envy that you have given all my thoughts with much more eloquence. (and for FF I'm a writer) but one disagreement - I have to have one or else it was perfect - no prison analogies. The poorest were put in prisons we created well before lockdown. And govt. abandoned them again. My only change is our prisons are at worst house arrest. I now bow as a man admiring a woman and still trying to correct. APOLOGY
I desperately want to meet people and be around them again. I want to talk to strangers! I'm single and live alone. I finally got a support bubble recently but I've barely used it as my mind can't adjust to not doing the same thing every day. Honestly, I think I'm pretty screwed up. But I really really want to just go and sit in a pub beer garden with a beer and talk to some old friend whose number I don't have or somebody I don't even know! I can't now! The garden of my favourite pub is now some tented partitioned enclosure which I would have to book a table in weeks in advance to sit with the few people I've been in touch with already and nobody else and which defeats the point of being outside in the first place! I just want to have a drink with random people outside!!!! You know, a PUB! I've been pretty annoyed with all the stuff online about pubs reopening. That's not a pub!!!
You certainly don't have to apologise for "rambling"; your channel is called Vanessa Talks, for goodness sake!! BTW, at 2:17 that sounded like a plane to me, not a helicopter. I love your eyes, incidentally - random, I know.
Personally I cannot wait to get back to normal, not “new normal”. A lot of people have suffered in lockdown, haven’t earned a living, had mental health problems etc
Normal wasn’t working, not for millions on zero hrs contracts, millions more consuming instead of living or creating, not for the countless sea creatures poisoned or trapped by plastic pollution. A new normal could be much better.
I’ve really enjoyed lockdown and I’m sad to see it end. I live just outside St Ives in Cornwall and just to have some warm spring days without hordes of brain dead brummies pushing and barging their stupid way around our wee cobbled lanes shouting at the top of their voices to their mates, who are two feet away , has been just perfect. Sadly they are beginning to return. I definitely heard a yell of “ Am yow orroit” this morning as I went for my second Covid jab. Ho Hum, back to the monkey cage.
Covid and the lockdown has helped us relieve the pressure that had built up in our lives, taking things slower and in measured amounts is a good thing. It has also helped us value social interaction between each other in a way that we overlooked before. Good things always come out of bad.
As a Brit in Texas & the state has been open now for around a couple of months & the dropping of the mask mandate which was crazy, when Les than a 1/4 of the state had been vaccinated . Though I can safely say even though it’s a relief to get back to some sort of normality, most people are still keeping their distance & wearing masks & would like to think most Brits would act the same way. I know my mum is super anxious on going out again.
When the lockdowns are 'supposedly' ending is the longest day - so it will start to get darker from then - that is how long it has taken or will have done - someone owes me 18 months of my life
It's a very strange feeling isnt it. Optimistic but hesitant - looking forward to a pint at the pub, hesitant that it will be full of anti-mask anti-lockdown bigots - aka the spreaders. Like you I think I'm most looking forward to be able to see friends, and have a hug - I haven't hugged a friend for over 12 months. Also worried that we do the same as last year, and open up too early (in the NW we've only been out of either lockdown or the top tier for 26 days in last 370), I don't want to do that again! If you are looking for topics - what do people think are likely to be the long-term effects on our personal lives once we get through C19? The obvious one is more working from home, but I also think people will look for more open space, and I can see a lot of tents and camping gear being bought. Will people continue wearing masks on public transport etc, will the British move away from the "it's only a cold" and encourage unwell people to not go to work / school etc?
You always look so beautiful, dress so well, speak English so wonderfully, and are at the same time intelligent as well as entertaining. I love to watch your vlogs and feel humble and unworthy at the same time. You are a ray of light in the world. Thank you!
My dear Vanessa, how you're feeling is entirely natural. Lockdown has been going, on and off, for over a year, so it's entirely normal that you'd feel excited to get back to doing the things you enjoy and nervous about leaving a situation that you've live with 24/7 for 13 - 14 months. Just be your usual cheering, smiling, charming self and everyone will love you. And you weren't rambling, you were being honest. There are many people who feel the same and this video let's them know they're not alone. Thank you, lovely lady x
This kind of video isn't 'rambling' but it is 'personal' and, to some extent, 'validating' by creating a shared experience for your audience.
Its official, Vanessa is stir crazy!!
I've been one of the lucky ones I've been working as usual since day 1 of this pandemic so everything has seemed relatively normal to me if slightly more hectic than it had been pre March 2020.
The lack of energy is so true. It's something I hadn't realised was so bad until I had to go back to work this week and I felt utterly exhausted by the time I got home after that first day.
End of lock down won't change anything for me as I've been housebound for years due to my MS.
Nice to hear your thoughts and I think we're all looking forward to being able to do all the things you mentioned. Here in Wales, the timings are a bit different but we can see friends in real life, travel around Wales and eat out and go shopping and...well, everything really. Whether there'll be a 3rd wave as everyone goes freedom crazy for a while is yet to be seen. Stay safe, cariad (Welsh for 'darling' or 'sweetheart', pronounced Karry-add)!
We had the discussion today at work through teams of course as to what can be possible and what we would like to happen. Some staff have worked here for a year and never seen the office building. Got pretty scary, it isnt going to ever be the same. Also discounts for commuting on trains are for weekly/montlhy tickets it doesnt work for 2-3 times a week which a lot would like to do.
I want to try that Alexa command on my Google Home 😂😂
i got bad anxiaty and depression so not fully looking forward to end of lockdown. large crowds scare me. but will be glad to finally get to take the caravan out that we bought 2 months b4 lockdown last year lol yep it the little things we miss. xx
Sending lots of love your way Tracy! xx
Ahhh, I loved listening to your rambling (you said it 😉 💋)
To be honest you spoke for me too. I can't wait for things to ease. We have to work our way through this, it's not going away (but it scares the hell out of me too)
Hugs - Agreed! We can open as many venues, pubs, restaurants etc as we like but the things I yearn for the most is being able to have human contact again....which sadly seems like it's on the latter part of the official 'to do' list.
Masks - Super Agree! I'm going to be wearing my mask in every shop, on every bus and on the tube....maybe indefinitely 🙄 apart from the importance of not letting our guard down it suits me cos I don't have to faf about so much with my tash ☺🤪🤣Was that TMI?
We've all just got to ride the waves and not get complacent. Be responsible and do our individual best xx
Love your thougts...
Absolutely brilliant Vanessa, your description of getting back on the tube, "a cylinder of COVID" 😂 will be sharing that one. Let's have more 5 minute rambles 😀 x
I fell back in love with reading. Loved learning about Bands from the other side of the World. Leant how to tune in to on line, behind closed doors concerts from Japan. Loved not having to answer the phone or the door knowing that people are usually there to try and con me out of money I haven't got. Liked having people thank me for crossing the road away from them keeping my distance. Liked sleeping in late, enjoyed knowing that everybody was in the same boat........We had the chance to improve the failing system but decided that normal will do. Dreading normal.
Vanessa this has been my favourite video of yours so far. We get to see a bit more of the real you , loved it. Your not the only one who’s apprehensive about easing lockdown, I think we all are to some extent. Thanks for sharing with us, oh and you briefly mentioned asmr, would love to see you do that but it might tip me over the edge. Ramble away 😀
Thanks for sharing Vanessa! (I’ve been out of lockdown, along with my work colleagues, since May AND all WE want to do this be furloughed)....we all work on site, hated to go back, due to the change in pace and the social adjustment of interaction etc. Took a couple of weeks to adjust! You’ll be fine🙏
Tea makes everything better ! You are definitely one of us now Vanessa .
A pint*
Really enjoyed your thoughts about after lockdown and post-Covid. There's so much that could change across so many different domains, and change for the better. We will see which changes for the better we can all make and which wider society makes for us. Keep going with your random thoughts - they made perfect sense to me.
exactly how I feel!!
Hello from Austin, Texas Vanessa that is good news, and hope that everything gets normal soon god bless you and your family
I've already booked seats for myself and my wife at a Philharmonia concert in June at the Royal Festival Hall. It's been great watching concerts on television but I can't wait to be there in person. We''ve even paid out much more than we normally would for a seat, just to savour the moment of our first concert for over a year.
Ramblogs (Rambleogs? Vlambling?) are good to organise thoughts and share them. You'll find many people relate. Bouncing back will take as long as it takes, so I know I'll need patience. :)
If I'm honest, as I work for myself, I have to the greater degree done what I have always done. Get up when I want, have breakfast, read the news and emails and then start work
designing (architect/developer). I now do a weekly shop with my wife (which I enjoy) rather than on my own late evening when the supermarkets are quiet. I miss popping along
to the pub late evening a couple of times a week. I miss being able to just visit other areas in the car-until now. I now know you don't really need to spend so much -period.
I'm not sure everything should return to "normal". We should re-evaluate. That is what I have been busy doing - looking at where I want to be in the next few years and how I want
to live a more stripped back "spiritual" life.
I enjoyed your videos through the lockdown and partners pregnancy of our first child usually with a protein shake or 2 and the junk food I got addicted to. I agreed to weigh in together every week throughout the pregnancy I had sympathetic pregnancy syndrome and embarrassingly gaining more weight and she was all 40 weeks of the pregnancy I gained more, when our son was born I had gained 110 lbs I'm enjoying our son and your videos without protein shakes but with a massively increased waistline ha ha
I don't even know how people have coped with Quarantine for so many months. I've been going to work every day, interacting with the public (safely) and doing most of my normal routine here in Australia.
Although I've only had 2 hugs in 14 months which as a touchy feely person sucks, but then as a middle aged bachelor that isn't a huge drop off from everyday life when there's no pandemic. 😅
I hope you can all overcome the nerves at interacting with each other again and puzzling out the new "rules" for interacting face to face.
Lockdown has had very little impact for me, work has not changed (HGV driver) although the roads have been better with less traffic, don't drink so I would rarely venture into a pub.
Keep rambling don't stop ever.Regards
This is the most relatable covid video i've watched, thanks. Glad I'm not the only one to feel a little bit apprehensive about some of the aspects of lockdown ending.
You are hilarious! 😂 That made me smile. 🙂 Oh and you should definitely do more ASMR stuff 👍 byeeeeeee. 🖐️
Well said,, good luck at work x
Congratulations on the 10k!!
I'm dreading the commute. I've worked from home for over a year, so I'm going to be wondering why I have to put up with all these people while travelling to somewhere I don't need to be
I'm also terrified about the end of lockdown. I live in a city centre and have kind of enjoyed the streets being quieter and living in a bubble. I'm also a mature student and it's given me the chance to really concentrate on study without social distraction. ALTHOUGH, my studies finish on Monday then I am free for a few weeks and I must admit I'm looking forward to drinking a beer in the sunshine with friends. It's time to get back to nornal.
Blimey it sounds like your Alexa could do with a bit of fresh air. Definitely feeling a little anxious about the big escape but hey ho, nothing ventured and all that. Bring on some of that good old British sunshine! 🌞 🤞
I hope you realise that you've just made Alexa talk to people all over the World ...twice. My tablet was right next to my ear and I literally jumped off my sofa, cheers for that young lady.
The pub ,getting to sit in a boozer with good company I'll never take that for granted again.
Right, I'm now off to change my undergarments and have a large whiskey.
Thank you for being open and sharing your feelings about lock down and life after it. I think you hit the nail on the head when you mentioned time flying by even though every day feels the same. I'm looking forward to getting my hair cut next week....YAY (after 20 months boy has it grown long!) Everyone should go at their own pace and not feel pressured into doing what others are doing or what others expect of you.
Apart from missing meeting friends and such, I adapted to lockdown fairly easily, tbh , by getting into a routine and taking up new hobbies. Now Vanessa, if you ever need a hug, I'm happy to help out! Haha 👍🙏❤
Dam you beat me to it I going to ask her for a hug
Vanessa ,always a joy . Thanks .
Yeah lockdown is over it will be ok I think stay safe love ❤️ the video rambling is good I do it all the time ❤️ outside is good too ❤️
Bleah ! Camomile tea! You can’t dunk biscuits in that!
Theatre, museum and hugging be great to get these back
Sounds lovely to have friends to miss. I hope all of your expectations come true.
I was house bound before lockdown after surgery following a bike accident. I'd just been given the all clear to go back to the office, then they shut the office for Covid. Been on my own for two years now. Think I've gone a bit mental. I did get a pizza oven though.
I miss gigs
It is not fully lifted yet but I did go to the pub on Monday, all be it sitting outside: will be nice when we can be inside and then I’m going to get a nice Sunday roast, yum yum
Parts of the uk are back on covid restrictions. So that didn't take to long.🥺
I've been classified as a key worker so I've been going in to the office throughout the Pandemic, but I'm starting a new job in the next week or so and I can work from home for at least 2 days a week so I'm doing everything in reverse.
Hi. Just thought I'd let you know. Boots double discount is from 10th May - 16thMay.
Hi I’m one of your newer viewers. Just started watching. This was awesome. We need to start thinking like this again!
I love your videos..you have such an engaging personality
A nice realisation would be,... When the #Government - #Counsels or property #Developers build new homes, they take into consideration larger homes with more Space in each room, #AirCirculation, #Gardens and the need to #HardWire homes with #Internet sockets in every room,... these would be great homes going forward.
You can still get a "collective, immersive experience" in the supermarket LOL x 😉
Was n't a helicopter, was a twin prop (just saying!)
Not rambling but putting forward some good themes about slowing down. I retired from work 8 weeks before lockdown so for me the "new normal" of staying in was something I was looking forward to. Then it meant I couldn't go around certain shops so I ordered a record amount of "stuff" of the internet. Now, i hope everyone thinks about what has happened and realise we cannot just hop backwards as if the last rears events never happened at all. For so many life will never be the same.
Professionally i've been completely unaffected by the multiple lockdowns we have had here in Toronto. There are only 3 of us in a room big enough for 60. And as i live alone its good to have my work mates to shoot the shit with.(Mostly Hockey right now).
Worst part is that I haven't hugged either of my girls since April last year. Stay safe.
The joy of going for a pint in sunny Highgate.........
Get out of London at least once a week. Head North... and don't stop
Hi Vanessa....always good to see you, but I can't cope without subtitles, which is a great shame!
VanessaTalks As a former born&raised Londoner who has lived in the US for 21 (tumultuous and fractious) yrs,may i ask you what brought u to the UK,?.If it was work,well that's an easy one,but it appears u have decided u like it&are still there?..
Now as for me,the last time I was there(London)was in 2011(at my mom's funeral)but I do have a large family over there,so I'm constantly receiving messages and Pics(on What's App of course).And stay well of course,in the year of our Covid19
I'm just hoping that the lesson of lockdown is how good for the environment it is to have more peace and quiet, and less unnecessary rushing to retail parks to buy more rubbish you don't need so you can waste more petrol going to the tip to throw away more stuff! Less is more, folks!
My alexa has popped on as you said that🤭
Your s lovely girl Vanessa
Have you heard the Geordie accent yet lol?
I've mixed feelings, a little like yourself. Even at supposed restrictions end, June, I can't see it being back to normal. And yeah, masks will probably be with us for a while. And after a year of this I think I'll still be a little gun shy of walking into a crowd. That said, I'm really looking forward to restaurants opening fully. Boy I've missed going for a really nice meal, even more so than pubs. Also foreign travel, though that still seems like a pipe dream at the mo. Regs changing, other countries going in and out of 2nd, and 3rh waves. Where you go, what you can do there, and what restrictions they could impose. All seems very hazy at present.
I will be taking my time so that I don't rush my transition back into a normal way of life. I can't wait to play chess on the weekends and go out to restaurants.
Anybody else spent the lockdown too wearing comfortable clothing like tracksuit trousers or jogging bottoms, etc, and when it comes time to wear office clothing again, you find the trousers have shrunk? (Or I’ve put weight on.... nah, impossible...)
I have been shielding for over 12 months now so I am a "little" apprehensive about venturing out and about.
I hope you enjoy the freedom. Have a pint at the pub for me.
Nice video. :)
I sympathise with your anxiety, but I have to say I don't understand it. What if you get Covid? You're young and seem to be fit (traditional meaning), so it would be unlikely to be fatal. I'm much older, in one of the 'vulnerable' groups, and I'm going to get out there as soon as I'm allowed. Woman up! Life's waiting for you to re-start!
Well done girlie,.be brave everyone, as Captain Tom said...tomorrow will be a better day....best wishes from the wirral ,what would I know I,m from Birkhenhead (I love writing that still )....off for a bracing walk....E
thanks for the Alexa spam.....who completely misunderstood what you asked.
You set my Alexa off!
Love your intelligence. Your optimism. I am in absolute envy that you have given all my thoughts with much more eloquence. (and for FF I'm a writer) but one disagreement - I have to have one or else it was perfect - no prison analogies. The poorest were put in prisons we created well before lockdown. And govt. abandoned them again. My only change is our prisons are at worst house arrest. I now bow as a man admiring a woman and still trying to correct. APOLOGY
Look up "World Bank COVID-19 Strategic Preparedness and Response Program (P173789 )" .....Page 6 ..... "Expected Program End Date 31 March 2025"
I can relate to a lot of this. This pandemic has changed us in various ways and some of those may changes may well be hard or impossible to reverse.
Hi Vanessa could you please react to the Jolibee advert called Choice or the another is called MY Daddy is a Liar they are try not to cry challenges
I desperately want to meet people and be around them again. I want to talk to strangers! I'm single and live alone. I finally got a support bubble recently but I've barely used it as my mind can't adjust to not doing the same thing every day. Honestly, I think I'm pretty screwed up. But I really really want to just go and sit in a pub beer garden with a beer and talk to some old friend whose number I don't have or somebody I don't even know! I can't now! The garden of my favourite pub is now some tented partitioned enclosure which I would have to book a table in weeks in advance to sit with the few people I've been in touch with already and nobody else and which defeats the point of being outside in the first place! I just want to have a drink with random people outside!!!! You know, a PUB! I've been pretty annoyed with all the stuff online about pubs reopening. That's not a pub!!!
You certainly don't have to apologise for "rambling"; your channel is called Vanessa Talks, for goodness sake!! BTW, at 2:17 that sounded like a plane to me, not a helicopter. I love your eyes, incidentally - random, I know.
No hugging!
Personally I cannot wait to get back to normal, not “new normal”.
A lot of people have suffered in lockdown, haven’t earned a living, had mental health problems etc
Normal wasn’t working, not for millions on zero hrs contracts, millions more consuming instead of living or creating, not for the countless sea creatures poisoned or trapped by plastic pollution. A new normal could be much better.
I just want my family together in one place, so we can all get to meet our gorgeous, now 6 month old, granddaughter!
Its your fault you haven't seen them. You chose that.
I never hear the thing that any youtuber says is making a noise outside their house. What helicopter?
It's gonna be a really weird year getting back into things right?!
Never before will so many people take so much for granted. Seeing friends, a meal out, a night out......
I’ve really enjoyed lockdown and I’m sad to see it end. I live just outside St Ives in Cornwall and just to have some warm spring days without hordes of brain dead brummies pushing and barging their stupid way around our wee cobbled lanes shouting at the top of their voices to their mates, who are two feet away , has been just perfect. Sadly they are beginning to return. I definitely heard a yell of “ Am yow orroit” this morning as I went for my second Covid jab. Ho Hum, back to the monkey cage.
Covid and the lockdown has helped us relieve the pressure that had built up in our lives, taking things slower and in measured amounts is a good thing. It has also helped us value social interaction between each other in a way that we overlooked before. Good things always come out of bad.
What do you do for a day job must me a model as you have such poise and elegance
As a Brit in Texas & the state has been open now for around a couple of months & the dropping of the mask mandate which was crazy, when Les than a 1/4 of the state had been vaccinated . Though I can safely say even though it’s a relief to get back to some sort of normality, most people are still keeping their distance & wearing masks & would like to think most Brits would act the same way. I know my mum is super anxious on going out again.
When the lockdowns are 'supposedly' ending is the longest day - so it will start to get darker from then - that is how long it has taken or will have done - someone owes me 18 months of my life
It’s not going to end. Boris has more or less told us we will be going back into lockdown because that’s all that works.
It's a very strange feeling isnt it. Optimistic but hesitant - looking forward to a pint at the pub, hesitant that it will be full of anti-mask anti-lockdown bigots - aka the spreaders.
Like you I think I'm most looking forward to be able to see friends, and have a hug - I haven't hugged a friend for over 12 months.
Also worried that we do the same as last year, and open up too early (in the NW we've only been out of either lockdown or the top tier for 26 days in last 370), I don't want to do that again!
If you are looking for topics - what do people think are likely to be the long-term effects on our personal lives once we get through C19? The obvious one is more working from home, but I also think people will look for more open space, and I can see a lot of tents and camping gear being bought. Will people continue wearing masks on public transport etc, will the British move away from the "it's only a cold" and encourage unwell people to not go to work / school etc?
With the vaccine we should be a lot safer to get back out there
Hello... How is going?
Being so young, what have you got to worry about?? Very little risk from Covid.
Doesn't look like it's going to happen, check out Alex Belfield, the Voice of reason, you tube.
Going to the boozer
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