Curious as to what people do during isolation. What do you do for fun etc. I'm not interested in cleaning, precautions and all that jazz, but what you do for entertainment. Can't spend all day on the net. We all have our own routines, so do share if you will.
Some of the things I have started doing that I wasn't before, but used to before the world of social media took over.
Jigsaw puzzles
Board games... remember those?...scrabble, monopoly, etc.
Some xbox games
Researching stuff to cook that I haven't experimented with before (Obviously with myself it's low carb stuff). Trying a Vanilla cloud cake with coffee butter cream today... hopefully it comes out edible and no fire extinguishers are required.
Will post the recipe if it is a success.
So, feel free to share what you do. Ideas are a good thing.
I know I’m arriving a bit late to the party but during lockdown
We have done loads of gardening - bit of a late start because lockdown came in before we had got the seeds etc that we needed.
We’ve been taking very long walks every day - fortunately we’ve got lots of isolated walks nearby.
Cooking - after a while the excitement wore off - mainly when we had a glut of the crops we planted - and cooking became a bit of a drag.
Decided to revamp the bedroom, started off with a new carpet then it all just grew to nightmare proportions and were still waiting for the carpet to arrive. That has involved lots of de-junking - I LOVE de-junking. Lots of trips to the charity shops once they opened up again.
More gardening. We’ve reached the stage where we are practically dusting the leaves on the plants because everything else has been done.
Reading - have read so many books my eyes feel crossed.
We’ve done jigsaws and we’ve got a kit to build a model - that’s not happening quickly though.
A bit of computing, a bit of photography, a bit of painting.
Speaking to my sons on the phone.
I’ve done Zoom Pilates twice a week fr9m the start of lockdown, so loads of exercise.
When lockdown lifted a bit we met some friends at a large garden halfway between Somerset and Cambridge for a socially distanced chat plus coffee and cake.
We’ve also bought and planted a couple of trees.
We have both worked on LCHF and lost over a stone each.
Our latest challenge though is getting rid of what I suspect must be a family of rats who have moved in to a garden next door in the last couple of weeks. I thought I saw one shoot past but by the time I got the door open to have a look it was gone and husband said it must have been a bird! Then he saw it - he was facing the other way so he saw where it went. They don’t stop in our garden because there is nothing around that they could eat but having read how fast two rats could multiply in a year - they’ve definitely got to go.
So, lockdown has been ok for us - apart from the rats which we could definitely have done without. I’m finding I’m getting a bit weary with it now though, not sure why really.