What helps you to stay positive?

Cleaning - I like it!
A daily walk with DH.
Netflix.
Planning ahead - holidays to come, family party when its all over, Christmas, possibly moving house.

Hello. Leading a much more relaxed life.Noticing every new bud appearing in the garden. Looking after DH who has some memory loss,phone calls. Still in dressing gown at 11am. No rush to get to my Scrabble Group today. Maw Broon loved your article. Enjoyed the YouTube video from the Carter family new words to One Day More .Try to watch it if you haven’t seen it .It will make you chuckle.

MawB that's such a funny post and mirrors me exactly!! haha I feel so much better when I see and feel the sunshine and hear my daughters voice when she phones me and the happy shouts of the children playing! I'm trying not to talk to the toaster though!!

Well done Maw B love that. I’ve always been a half full kind of person so I’m keeping positive by reading, cleaning. Walking round the garden and catching up with all my friends online etc etc and speaking to family

As a child I lived through WW2 - living on the outskirts of London was (in retrospect) quite hazardous! It taught me that you can get through anything. Think positive! My grandson is teaching in China, “confined to baracks” but teaching online. Taking it a day at a time. If we all “do as we are told” it will end - everything does! I hate not seeing family but thank goodness for modern technology - we text, phone, Face Time and Skype and exchange photos! Keep cheerful and as many Gransnetters do keep busy - gardening, reading, baking, TV, jigsaws, sewing, reading and so on. We will get through it! Brighter times ahead!

I have a routine and treat it as a staycam.Exercise my one walk with my dog texting my friends.A video call with my son eldest.Phone calls and text to my Candian and Australia family.Doing a online course having time to spend on my calligraphy
Making sure the house is deep cleaned once a week Been so proud of my husband who works for the NHS and is a Senior Medical Technician who specialises in Ventilators SCUB Special Care Baby Unit.He has given up his holiday to a later date to go into work

I agree that you can dwell too much on the negatives, trying to remain cheerful is key. I don't overdo the news, keep occupied and as active as possible.
I have rediscovered Bored Panda website. Take a look. Some very amusing and heartening pictures and stuff on there at the moment. Have a good day all.

Love that MawB, will pass that one on!
The lockdown has resulted in me being able to enjoy something I wouldn't otherwise have had the chance: (chicken keepers look away now) a vixen has set up her den under our shed and given birth to a litter of cubs. We have been watching as they've emerged, 1 on one day, 2 the following day until 4 yesterday. They are lovely to watch playing in the garden or being fed by Mum. I have been feeding her and yesterday she almost, but not quite, took the food from the dish while I was still holding it. She is clearly comfortable with humans, but the downside is that I'm trying to give them space and therefore not going out in the garden except for providing in-house catering services, so have had to resort to going for a walk round the streets, not a particularly uplifting outdoors activity! And according to my husband, after I had gone to bed last night, they were creating a racket and probably a mess in the garden for me to clean up. Worse than having kids over again!

Optimist, you're rightly named. Well done you to have undergone so much and still positive. My plusses are thoughts of the eventual reunions with those I used to fraternise, the unexpected daily calls, riverside walk and time in the garden. I also force myself to do one of the lesser desirable chores on my must/should do list. The latter actually gives me the greatest kick/sense of relief when achieved. Onwards......!

Rarely listen to the news on the radio and never on TV. Pottering in the garden - it is so neat and tidy, can I keep it up for the summer. Daily walk with DH. Much clearing out of cupboards, sorting old inherited and unidentifiable photos and finally binning them, not to mention some of my teenage holiday photos. Fortnightly trip over the moors for our Click & Collect shop - oh how easily pleased we have become.

I have rebooked our holiday in North Wales in October, to give us something to look forward to. Also trying to make a point of watching some of the old comedy shows on You Tube and keeping in touch with daughters, grandchildren, and friends on Facebook!! No time to be bored!

Very boring but extremely necessary, clearing out the garage. A long way to go but I can now get in the door.

Finding ZOOM so I can see my children and grandchildren. Also my Mum's care home told me to download IMO onto my tablet so I can now see and talk to my 92 year old Mum! When I get a bit wobbly I talk things over with my dogs. They don't answer but they do tip their heads from side to side in a most endearing way to let me know they are listening! Chins up ladies.

My life isn’t that much different to before the virus! I wake up and make tea. Back to bed and start the Times cryptic crossword online. Do a few clues and then start the Polygon , a word thing also in the Times online! My sister and I have several scrabble games going online. So I take my turn. I get up and get into my my exercise gear and do an hour to the Best of Adele belting out from my Sonos speakers! Then I feed the birds. Robins are nesting and are usually waiting for food. Time for a shower. I then do an hour online learning Spanish with Duolingo. Unload dishwasher and have coffee. During the course of the day there are several phone calls with friends and family. No set times. I do an hour in the garden and it is looking great now!
I am helping other people with food shopping although I am old, I am not frail! I get it online and redistribute it!
I am making cakes for the family, Yesterday I made Mary Berry’s all in one brownies which were amazing!
It is a great time to catch up on paperwork and have a sort out. Also sort out the wardrobe! I set a quiz every morning for my grandchildren and they have to get the answers to me by the end of the day. There is a monetary reward which is growing daily! They love an incentive! If I feel I need it I go for a walk in the afternoon. Not enough hours in the day !

Don't know if this will work but for me Terry Waite puts it all into perspective.

I'm retired and live with dh in Spain. Weve been in lockdown for 19 days now. We get on very well together and are well used to a mostly quiet life. However I, finding being totally confined difficult. We're not allowed out for exercise at all and only 1 person to get food or drugs. We usually go out for coffee or drinks with friends and go on holiday quite a lot. We're both a bit lacking in motivation at the moment . I knit and papercraft but cant seem to concentrate. Dh plans our holidays in great detail and hes missing being able to do that. We were looking forward to going to Cyprus this spring. In the great scheme of things its totally unimportant and I keep trying to look on the bright side. Also the weather hasn't been brilliant so I don't feel I'm missing much.

I am writing more - losing myself in worlds where there is no covid 19, but lots of happy endings!
Only fly in the ointment is the children's novel which I entered into a competition for unpublished and unrepresented authors has extended their deadline because of the situation, so there'll be more rival entries - particularly as everyone is home and bored!

Getting up in the morning and making some sort of plan for the day over my coffee. Today it's just doing the washing and popping to the local shop for a loaf of bread. This afternoon I'll be doing some knitting.

Not over-dosing on information from any media outlets. (We get the radio news, mostly.) Being lucky enough to have a lovely DH - we get on well together. Feeling very grateful for a comfy, "easy" home and a retirement income. Enjoying regular communication with friends and family - thank goodness for modern technology! Appreciating chats with neighbours (at a safe distance) over the garden fence. And looking forward to the future - seeing & hugging my family again....

Skyping all my family plus coconut cakes !

I find having a routine helps me. I make coffee/tea at 8am.i do Joe Wicks PE at 9 then have breakfast followed by a shower. Housework or cooking is next.
We have a good hours walk in the afternoon then listen to one of our vinyl records for a peaceful hour.Today it is The Manhattan Transfer. We have discovered records we didn’t know we had.
Wine o’clock accompanies the news which we watch once a day. Dinner is later than normal, about 7.30 and the some TV. Book and bed about 10
In amongst this is time at the allotment, online choir using Zoom, trying to re-learn Italian, afternoon tea on-line with my WI ladies again using zoom. I feel better this week as I was overwhelmed last week??‍♀️

I have always loved clothes and when abroad I always bring back a top or something. While the sun’s out I have been wearing an item that I bought on my travels and it reminds me of good holidays

Maw. Thank you for the laugh. I have not started talking to the white goods yet but my little dog is looking very puzzled as she can't get a decent sleep with my constant jabbering.

Living with my new partner of two and a half years. Teaching him Bridge. Playing Bridge online. A daily walk, reading, baking. Facetime with my boys and grandchildren. I see more of them now than ever. Feeling fortunate I am still breathing.

The bottom line is imagining how I might feel if it did all become too much - oh dear! My happy heart is, I hope, probably going to prevent that happening. Like most here I am reading, exercising, walking/dog walking for an hour, cleaning the house, cupboards etc. to what will be an impossible to maintain standard when this is all over, and remembering that it will be. I do have a wobble at awful news, and frightening statistics, but then get a grip and work out the percentages - not that high - and remember that hundreds of people are now better . We might have thousands who have been diagnosed, but they are not all ill now.