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Is lock down making you lazy.....

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travelsafar Sat 14-Nov-20 09:45:35

Being as the dark nights and colder weather now rolling in i find myself starting to get lazy. In the last LD i worked every day in the garden and also walked. Now i walk for an hour a day and after completing necessary chores, time is on my hands. I have things i could do but i can't be bothered. Before there was a sense of urgency to complete tasks as i had social activities to go to, family and friends to visit and meet up with. In the summer there was the nuturing of plants in the greenhouse and garden and even after evening meal the watering of both to be done. I find myself spending more time trawling on the internet or sitting watching tv and knitting. I dont like it, is this the slippery slope to complete inactivity!!!! I also find that y diet is also up the creek because i get up later i have breakfast later, dont want lunch and make do with a cuppa and some bics around 3ish. Rarely do i want an evening meal but have to cook for DH so make myself eat something. I feel the whole stucture of my daily life has disappeared.

Hetty58 Mon 16-Nov-20 11:01:00

GrannyLaine, I think the uneasy 'lazy' feeling is to do with my mother's 'Make yourself useful!' or 'Bored, are you? Right, let's find you something to do!' (followed by compulsory weeding, shoe or cutlery polishing - we soon stopped using the word 'bored').

Now, though, I prefer to think that I'm recharging my batteries. We're at the 'semi hibernating' time of year too, so I'm lowering my expectations of what I might do in a day!

Callistemon Mon 16-Nov-20 11:09:44

This thread takes me back 65 years:

"Get your nose out of that book and go and play outside in the sunshine. Or you could polish all the silver"!

Whitewavemark2 Mon 16-Nov-20 11:25:01

I always gloss over the unpleasant posts and just carry happily on with everyone else.

Never give those unpleasant post the oxygen of attention and they will eventually go away.

Whitewavemark2 Mon 16-Nov-20 11:28:16

I’m sat down now, although I was out at 6.15am -still dark - with dog and been doing housework since.

Must sort out some Christmas biscuit recipes for children (they are in their late 40s?) to go with their advent gifts.

Puzzler61 Mon 16-Nov-20 11:49:01

MawB ‘s a poet,
Did she know it?
It is a beautifully rhyming piece of prose from the talented lady we know MawB2 to be. ?

Puzzler61 Mon 16-Nov-20 11:50:23

By the way I’ve enjoyed the Christmas adverts shown over this weekend. Has anyone else?
My favourite so far is DFS ‘s Wallace & Gromit one, although the John Lewis partnership snowman one is lovely too.

Puzzler61 Mon 16-Nov-20 11:50:50

Sorry, this thread just took another turn!

Galaxy Mon 16-Nov-20 13:02:30

The biscuits made me smile whitewave.
My favourite is the mcdonalds one puzzler, it makes me cry.

Puzzler61 Mon 16-Nov-20 13:24:17

That’s my sister’s favourite too Galaxy.

Callistemon Mon 16-Nov-20 14:08:32

Here's a little present for all who are feeling lazy in lockdown:

Puzzler61 Mon 16-Nov-20 17:11:15

That’s great Callistemon.

Galen Mon 16-Nov-20 18:01:06

If you’re going to follow Maw’s advice and camp out in Portishead I can let you my drive at very reasonable rates. Room for two vans I reckon!?

Callistemon Mon 16-Nov-20 18:03:39

Well done, Galen, hope you turn a fast profit grin

phoenix Mon 16-Nov-20 18:11:12

Nice, Galen !

But if I come by bicycle............

Galen Mon 16-Nov-20 18:18:09

Bicycles can be stored in the garage. Space for sleeping bags in the lounge.
Not sure how you’d get on on the motorway to Amazon from here on a bike though?

Charleygirl5 Mon 16-Nov-20 18:18:16

phoenix it is too cold to be sleeping outdoors, tent or not.

lindiann Mon 16-Nov-20 18:25:42

twitter.com/i/status/1327701477008285696 smile

Galen Mon 16-Nov-20 18:39:14

Yes I think that’s marvellous!

phoenix Mon 16-Nov-20 18:44:32

Oh, ok then Charleygirl5 I'll stick with the job I've got.

Galen , good point, I think some may have not considered that, but thank you for your most hospitable offer!

Callistemon Mon 16-Nov-20 18:51:52

I'll remember that quote, lindiann, thank you
?

Charleygirl5 Mon 16-Nov-20 18:53:14

phoenix as far as I am aware, there is nothing wrong with your present job, Mr. P is gainfully employed, the cats need you and may I suggest you stay at home, paying the mortgage and forgetting about ridiculous jobs and ignoring the ridiculous because it is not even a joke.

phoenix Mon 16-Nov-20 18:55:28

Thank you Charleygirl5, wise words indeed!

MayBee70 Thu 19-Nov-20 16:59:25

I’ve realised there is one thing I’ve started doing since lockdown. Because I’d stopped wearing make up I hadn’t been putting sun protection on my face and my skin had become quite leathery. Then, having seen a thread of gransnet about B&B cream, not knowing what it was but then realising that I had actually bought some, I’ve started putting it on my face each day. Along with a bit of touché éclat under my eyes. It makes me feel healthier when I look in the mirror.

MawBe Thu 19-Nov-20 18:44:23

Moi? Layzeee?

OldBiddyVera Tue 15-Dec-20 10:39:58

This lockdown is life draining, although the only posotive it that i have an xbox, i dont like to play minecraft though as it gives me headaches. Fortnite does the job, sat on my sofa in my pj's all day i dont know what my life has come to. Love to go out for a walk but cannot be bothered anymore. ? For some reason during the second lockdown i have found horror movies do the trick. In this lockdown they show you things that make you feel grateful your not in that position and youre just in a lockdown. Im sure it will end soon when the vaccine is out im running to my destiny, not to worry ive always got the gin! ?