Boredom in Lockdown. Am I alone?

[guest189040]

We have a dog so an hour each day is me taking her a walk (my Wife take her fr the afternoon walk.

Currently doing external repairs to our house so that is a couple of hours, weather permitting.

Garden is slowly getting tidied up for Winter.

indoor activities
Family research, DNA linking to matches.
Consolidating Family Tree
Checking Family Tree for errors and duplicates
Shortly going to start to write about each direct ancestor in preparation for creating a Family Book
Playing my musical keyboard
Playing guitar and ukulele
Forum browsing (to much)
Baking (putting on to much weight)
Zoom meetings of the U3A Groups we belong to including a Wed night quiz.
Creating Powerpoint Presentations for our U3A Groups
Reading
Drawing, following a book entitled By The Time You Finish This Book You Will Be Able To Draw.
Photography & Editing
Video Editing

My advice would be to think outside the box and try something new.

Or look online at the free instructional courses that there are.

Do also keep a watchful eye on The Shows Must Go On website, in recent weeks we have see Jeff Waynes War of the Worlds, Phantom of the Opera, Alfie Boe in Concert, Being Shakespere starring Simon Callow.

[Familysearch]

I have so much on my to do list, that I do not have time to be bored!

I mentioned to a friend some weeks ago that I had tidied out a drawer, thus starting the spring cleaning. Have to confess, that is the spring cleaning for 2020.Having been in semi lockdown since March, I have kept myself occupied most of the summer in the garden - so during these colder, short days, then the house sort out that I have been promising will happen may just do that!!....

I have 8 new books on the bookcase to read as well. There is also the upgrade to the family tree.

FS

[Liam59]

Maybe try a new hobby, something you've not tried before?  Hobbycraft does deliveries!

https://www.hobbycraft.co.uk/

[Mike in Cumbria]

Bored? Chance would be a fine thing.

[bearkat]

You could see if your local Age Concern has telephone befriending service.  You don't have to leave the house but are given the contact details to chat with somebody who can't get out during lockdown.

[Ruskie]

Sign up to one of the services like Stan or Netflix - there is likely to be something of interest which you can choose to watch when it suits you. 

This is more long term, but if you haven’t already done so, consider buying yourself a DNA test. It can be time consuming and challenging to find out how your matches connect to you. If you already have one and if funds permit, buy tests for others and manage their kits.

[gaffy]

I'm very lucky in that I have a high boredom threshold, a long walk everyday fills my lungs and clears my head, a bit of 'Frasier' or an old black & white film on television, a few jobs inside the house or in the garden, some surfing the web, 40 winks every now and then and a bit of 'busy doing nothing' in between, as Mr. Crosby sang. Yep, there's not enough hours in the day...

[Kay99]

One day pre this lockdown my OH returned from finally clearing his mothers house before sale with a car full of stuff.   This weekend will be spend trying to find a home for things.  Then hopefully he will return to clearing out a 50 years of neatly stored papers and stuff that occupy parts of our house including the enormous loft 

It's very much a spectator sport as in the past he has kept everything and he is now constantly amazed to find and read memories from the past!   As a result this is a slow process and I can see it occupying him until after Christmas   This all started as it looked like we might move and although it now looks increasingly unlikely he has realised the scale of the task and continuing thank goodness

Meanwhile I have started reading all the seed catelogues and planning the garden for next year and am even considering a new greenhouse.   I have organised and rationalised much of my craft and art stuff and a new mosaic beckons I hope

Kay

TY - Can you think of a new project - I enjoy the research and planning sometimes as much as the project

[Caw1]

The first week of lockdown in March we spent that week sorting out all the paintings & pictures we’d got lying around and finding new places to hang them... it felt like decorating a new house...
The summer was spent outside in the garden, digging, planting, trimming, pressure washing, cleaning paintwork, gutters and many hours of sitting enjoying our outside space....
We walked most days some short some long depending on the heat ....
I started sewing for local group supplying NHS, care homes stock with scrubs... on hot days or tge odd wet day I sewed...
I’m still sewing now face coverings for all sorts of organisations, still making tunic tops for local hospitals... it has been my salvation..... it was my career and I still get joy from producing items that are going to help others...
Bored? Never.... fed up... yes sometimes....
it’s only for four weeks, now three so I think I’ll manage ok....
It’s seeing family I miss, not being able to go out on the spur of the moment....
Just chill out and find a hobby to keep you occupied and time will fly by...

Caroline