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Chewbacca Wed 25-Mar-20 09:11:17

grin Abnuyc123

I have a total of 23 fence panels, 2 gates and 2 sheds that need painting. I'm determined to do at least 1 a day so that the whole job is finished by the time were liberated. I've got a child's jumper 2/3rds finished, so that needs doing and a cross stitch I started 8 years ago. No excuses not to do them now is there.

Lucca Wed 25-Mar-20 09:06:54

Abnuyc.....very funny.
On my walk yesterday I was excited to see note on wine shop door that they will deliver free to the immediate area.

I’m making myself drink about a litre of water a day and not have my glass of wine until 6

I’m having a,lot of FaceTime with the family.
A lot of what’s apping with various groups including my adult students
Reading
Tidying in a rather desultory fashion and generally trying to keep bad thoughts at bay.

Abnuyc123 Wed 25-Mar-20 09:00:25

Heard a Dr. on TV say to get through the sheer boredom of self isolation we should try to finish things that we have started and thus try to have more calm in our lives. So I looked through the house to find some the things i've started but hadn't finished. So I finished off a bottle of Merlot, a bottle of Chardonnay, a bodle of Jock Danielas, a butle of wum, tha mainder of Valiumun srciptuns, an a box a chocletz. Yu haf no idr how fablus I feel rite now. Sned this to all who need inner peice An telum u luvum.......

Humbertbear Wed 25-Mar-20 08:59:37

Reading, knitting, sketching, walking, cooking, online meetings with friends and family, reorganising family photos in new album. Tidying drawers and cupboards, jigsaws. Sewing projects

Hetty58 Wed 25-Mar-20 08:56:32

There are far worse things than boredom - stay safe!

mcem Wed 25-Mar-20 08:26:45

Duolingo - for language practice.
Elevate - for fairly challenging brain training.
Obvious household stuff. Spring cleaning is not a significant part of my routine but tackling one room at a time to clean and declutter.
Daily walk.
TV - Spooks for me too from series 1 ep 1.
The books I haven't got round to reading.
Thanking my lucky stars that all I have to deal with is staying at home.

TerriBull Wed 25-Mar-20 08:23:41

Same - long walk, main focal point of the day and build other things around that. Sorting out cupboards with a view to getting rid of stuff. I do a meal plan for the day and cook and prepare the evening meal, ironing, some stretching exercises in the form of on line yoga, cursory look at the news on line, don't spend too long on it cos it's depressing, GN of course, reading, code word occasionally, about an hour doing French, my husband does Spanish he reckons at this rate we will be fluent grin I won't be, just better than I was when I was doing it at school! Catching up with tv series in the evening, have recently embraced more Netflix, BBC Iplayer. Avoiding food shops but cursory top ups, in and out as quickly as possible.

tanith Wed 25-Mar-20 07:31:13

Reading, gardening, phone someone each day, watching an episode of spooks, dip in and out of my crossword book, a couple of stretching and hand weight sessions, long walk each day. I have a bit of a routine of all these things each day it’s working well for me.

CathTheWise Wed 25-Mar-20 06:58:30

Self-isolation was a nice thing for me from the very beginning and I had lots of things to do around the house but now it seems like there is nothing to do for me as all the cleanings, re-organazings and other things are done.
What are you doing while isolating?