I bought a notebook on a whim but it poses the question of what to use it for...

My daughter bought me a lovely notebook at Christmas two years ago and I use it for gardening notes plant information records of what I've planted and where.

Hmm tricky one. A4 is less useful than A5 because of size. I keep a nice Moleskine notebook handy as my 'Busy Book' for jotting down lists of things that need doing, measurements, ideas generally (and I'm definitely an ideas gal)

I love notebooks Flying ! Always have, only nowadays I use it to record important purchases, holidays, medical test results etc. I also buy a pocket diary every year, when I was working I had a diary full of work related appointments, now it's just doctor, dentist, hairdresser!

Yes, Greenfinch. I've done a lockdown journal - mainly so that I could remember things like when I had phoned someone or changed the bed, etc. It helps stop the days from all being the same! I have also recorded some thoughts and facts about the pandemic as they happened so it will be interesting to look back on one day.

Start a bullet journal.

Keep it next to the bed and write down your dreams before they disappear. I sometimes have the weirdest dreams. Recently I dreamt I was at an American baseball match (never in my life) and was trying to make an apple crumble big enough to feed everyone! WTF! They can make amusing reading and perhaps you could analyse what they mean?

I have a kitchen notebook where I write shopping lists, price comparisons, quickly jotted down notes and recipes, reminders, check lists, cooking times for my own recipes - all sorts of stuff.

I wouldn't be without it.

Diary or journal describing day to day life during lockdown /coronavirus pandemic.

GD1 bought me a lovely notebook with my initial on the front for Christmas 2018, and I use it as a commonplace book. Into it go the occasional newspaper cutting, poems which have struck a chord, short pieces about what I have been doing or thinking about, the odd small picture - nothing planned and not nearly as demanding as a diary or journal. It’s about one third full now and I find it a real pleasure.

Nice notebooks are a joy and you can’t have too many!

HootyMcOwlface

Recipes?

Great idea! X

Recipes?

Bellanonna

Write some “stories”?

I'm not really one for writing stories. X

Write some “stories”?

Just realised I forgot to attach the photo. X