What helps you to stay positive?

Going out for our daily walk, been able to FaceTime my granddaughters, who I miss not seeing, but at the end of the day know there’s a lot more people in this situation and when it’s all over knowing hopefully that we will be able to see them fit and well. It’s all about keeping safe for us and our families

Music - I am researching women composers on Spotify and have uncovered some gems - Rebecca Dale is wonderful.

Listening to Classic FM, reading, taking time to make something nice for tea with what I have in.
Cuddling my cat.
Missing my friends, not so many of us now but meeting up was what I looked forward to. We do phone, but they are not home alone and I miss my late husband terribly. It’s all really heightened how on my own I really am. But enough! I count my blessings. A roof over my head, enough to eat, heating and lighting.
My Faith is important to me. I take my prayer time more than ever.
My GC are having a glorious time with loving parents. I feel so gladly warm inside about that.

My half an hour walk. Baking, cooking, reading, playing word blitz and quiz planet on my iPad, and drinking a nice glass of gin and tonic.

I was so fed up of the constant whingeing and criticism by news reporters of what is being achieved in this country to fight the virus, that I switched them off and just watch the official 'Boris broadcast'. I now feel so much more positive! Getting out in my garden and the fresh(er) air really helps a lot. I also set myself one task a day that I've been putting off so I really feel I've achieved something at the end of the day. Only one task because I'm trying to make the most of the spare time too and have 11 weeks to go yet! I count my blessings because I'm surrounded by them. And I'd forgotten jigsaws! Thank you.

Knowing that in the evening I will have FaceTime with my daughter, son-in-law, and grandson.

Missed my Guardian April Fool this year and felt that there was no reason for the agreement that it would be in bad taste to cheer the readers up - had the Llandudno goats not been the headline in every paper, I would have thought that would have been this year's AF, but at least I had a good chortle at the photos!

I love to paint with watercolours but I have to say this last week I’ve done none as I’ve been gripped by a book called The Belle Fields and it’s sequel by Lora Adams. An easy read but once I got into it I found I couldn’t put it down. My kindle was red hot hahaha. Got it on Amazon for a snip. Hope she does some more but for now back to painting - bliss.

Enjoy the beautiful Spring day. Really look, smell, listen.

Avoid the news etc. Just have a day away from it.

I've been trying online exercise (I'm VERY unfit). It exhausts me but makes me feel happier after. This is good www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4ploouAfWI&fbclid=IwAR3OYvUzz75ztZJuX6HuVmV2HfQbqlDrHbyibU0CDuSgg_EC2MSkWLjiZiA&app=desktop

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Regular contact with family - video calls, WhatsApp, photos,
Physical activity- Joe Wicks, gardening, walking, hula hoop ! ( Found it hiding in the cupboard under the stairs when I was 'tidying'),
Faith - daily prayers and online Mass,
Keeping busy- reading, Gransnet, knitting, cooking/ eating!!,
Funnies- having a good laugh at some of the things that arrive via WhatsApp from family and friends.
Trying to take one day at a time, accepting the things I cannot change.
Seeing rainbows and support NHS posters in people's windows on my daily walk.. here's mine, for my son who is frontline NHS, and all NHS workers and carers.

Watching minimal news. Meditating. Doing tai chi and gentle exercise at home. Watching funny you tube clips from old comedies. Reading. Talking to friends and family. All of this just diverts me from depressing thoughts, minute by minute, and I think that’s all we can do at the moment.

Receiving little video shots of my GD who lives 5000 miles away. She sings, dances and performs for me and she's only 2!

During my daily walks it's been so heartening to see parents engaging with their children. Crouching down and looking for signs of spring. Pointing out the birds in the trees and encouraging them to listen to the birdsong. Picking daisies on the grass. Searching for mini-bugs. Cycling or jogging as a family. Walking the dog. I think perhaps despite the downside of the current situation, I feel some children will remember this as a happy time of their lives.

Having a creative hobby with one or two projects on the go.
Entertaining myself with reading, watching telly, etc.
Simple pleasures such as seeing the spring flowers come up.

Houndi
How can you dog text your friends? Surely his paws are too big?

Maw absolutely brilliant. ? I salute you! Inanimate objects, what are they like? I've been saying for years that they never do what they are told!
Apart from a bit of humour every day I too am enjoying the blossoming of nature, watching the birds having the luxury of going about their daily lives and being thankful that they are.

Keeping in touch with my workmates through WhatsApp.
Trying to stay positive, then the news comes on! ?

I do so agree with you NannyC2. My faith in God is what is carrying me through these dark days. All is in his plan for mankind

The prospect of hugging my Grandkids when this is all over!

As I am retired, gardening especially weeding, reading, quiz books, daily walks, old B & W films, comedies, old sit coms, my faith, church buddies, family and friends emails, WhatsApp, texts etc. "Lorraine" or "Victoria Derbyshire", clearing out cupboards, cleaning windows, sitting in the sunshine and seeing which flowers are out, online exercise videos, Duolingo which is free and you can learn any language. I did a collage course so the plan is to do more of that, jigsaw puzzles, keeping busy helps me stay positive but also slowing down, not doing too much every day.
Don't watch too much news as so much of it is about not enough PEE, ventilators, testing, how we are behind Germany, too depressing and nothing I can do about it.

Growing0ldDisgracefully
Community groups are trying to work with supermarkets where they can to solve the issues of limits on certain items. This is also an issue for large families.
Having a bit more success talking to pharmacies about picking up prescriptions in bulk.

@MawB - priceless, just priceless!
TYVM

Waking up every morning thinking were a day closer to all this being a bad memory.

It's wonderful for me that that my active/able friends have so much more time for chats and WhatsApping ;-) We seem to do a good job of keeping each others' spirits up.
I've had lots of experience, being poorly/immuno-compromised, of staying in, avoiding germy humans, and finding lots of things to do/amuse myself with. So SI is just more of the same. What's scary is how quickly the world went skewiff! Hopefully things are calming down a bit out there now.

I never watch live TV and absolutely no news programmes.
I have not seen anyone but my husband for more than a month.
Only wobble was when I wrote the birthday greeting for DD who lives in Belgium, not knowing when I would see her again.