Have you noticed that even when you are home all day, no meetings, shopping expeditions etc etc, you still get no more done at home than you do when you have a class in the morning, Tai Chi after lunch and a committee meeting in the evening?
Today I intended to go for a walk first thing, then clean a bedroom, then deal with a heap of paperwork, some gardening etc etc.
Jn fact I woke late feeling as if I had not slept ( I had), slumped silently in front of the computer for several hours doing very little until I finally got dressed and went out for my walk at 10.30. I got back at 11.15 so there was no point in starting the cleaning before lunch so I got an earlyish lunch (12.15) then all of a sudden it was 2.30. Started on the cleaning, but DH was working all morning, including 2 skype meetings and suggested we took one of the cars out for a run. Circular tour, so no human interaction, which we did. By the time we got back I realised that if I was to do any gardening it had to be now, before it got cold and dark in that order. So I cut the grass at the front and picked up a few leaves, but by then it was getting cold so I came in and decided to do the cleaning.
Phone rang, it was DS, ready for a comfortable chat including talking about setting up skype/zoom meetings for all the family. By the time the call was over it was too late to do the cleaning before supper, so I started on the paperwork.
Then at 6.00pm DD rang. She is happily single with her own home. But last week she was given half an hours notice that the office was closing down and she was working from home, then she discovered all the local swimming pools had also closed down, now she swims 4/5 times a week, about a mile each time so the loss of this tipped her into a minor breakdown, which she resolved over the weekend. She is now on an even keel and tonight we had the final ending of her periods of chaos. She rang up and talked at me for an hour, without repetition, hesitation or deviation. My contributions consisted of soothing noises, yeses and vague sounds of commiseration, comprehension and sympathy. She finally rang off at 7.10. Then it was a late supper by which time it was after 8.00 and it is hardly worth starting anything else, given I go to bed earlyish.
So: one long uninterrupted day at home during which I cleaned under the bed in one room and mowed a small lawn. About as much as I would achieve on a busy day when I do lots of things out of the house.
Is the whole next three months going to be like this?