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Re: Boredom in Lockdown. Am I alone?
« Reply #45 on: Sunday 08 November 20 16:00 GMT (UK) »
The lady next door but one told me that when she was at school, during the “big holiday” she made the mistake of telling her mother she was bored.She had to clean the whole house from top to bottom! Never said it again! Lol

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Re: Boredom in Lockdown. Am I alone?
« Reply #46 on: Sunday 08 November 20 16:12 GMT (UK) »
.... But I've already cleaned the whole house, from top to bottom, several times, and I'm still.......
TY
(Okay, so that was not my last word on it - I couldn't get it to lock! At all.)
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Re: Boredom in Lockdown. Am I alone?
« Reply #47 on: Sunday 08 November 20 16:28 GMT (UK) »
.... But I've already cleaned the whole house, from top to bottom, several times, and I'm still.......
TY
(Okay, so that was not my last word on it - I couldn't get it to lock! At all.)

You can do mine if you like I am going round incircles cleaning the same wee bit.
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Re: Boredom in Lockdown. Am I alone?
« Reply #48 on: Sunday 08 November 20 17:16 GMT (UK) »
Sorry! Doing my own is about as much as I can stand - and you'd never find where you'd put anything, PharmaT, if I tidied things away! OH is still hunting for a screwdriver he says I must have tidied up!
TY
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Re: Boredom in Lockdown. Am I alone?
« Reply #49 on: Sunday 08 November 20 17:47 GMT (UK) »
Dost tha naw folks, th’last time I looked int Statute Bewks  there were nowt  in ‘ em bout bein  fed oop!
It’s not agin th’law .
It would be odd if we were not getting cheesed off,! browned off! fed up and
mizzled .( I am not sure what that means but it sounds downhearted)

The last thing we need is to feel down hearted about being downhearted !
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Re: Boredom in Lockdown. Am I alone?
« Reply #50 on: Sunday 08 November 20 17:54 GMT (UK) »
That's uplifting, Viktoria!
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Re: Boredom in Lockdown. Am I alone?
« Reply #51 on: Sunday 08 November 20 19:25 GMT (UK) »
I do get bored, lost my job in July so don’t even have that to do.

I’m on about the seventh sweater I’ve knitted since March lockdown started.

Read or reread lots of books.

I’ve washed curtains, cleaned my oven a couple of times, decorated some rooms for my mum.

And then of course there is always genealogy...
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Bristol/Somerset: Saunders/Wilmot
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Re: Boredom in Lockdown. Am I alone?
« Reply #52 on: Sunday 08 November 20 19:37 GMT (UK) »
  I am getting a bit concerned about my book stock, I think I have read through nearly all of it. May have to raid my daughter's next!
   Viktoria - I suppose I am quite old, but I have always had keys to my nearest neighbours houses and vice versa. It probably won't apply with the young couple who have now moved in to one of the houses. Feeding pets has been the most usual reason for using these keys.
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Re: Boredom in Lockdown. Am I alone?
« Reply #53 on: Sunday 08 November 20 19:52 GMT (UK) »
Lisajb, Well losing your job is absolutely another matter which sadly for you has come at the same time as all this.
One is enough to cope with but you have two things , so it would be strange if you were not thoroughly fed up.
That does not help does it , but don’t beat yourself up , at least you have not sunk into inactivity , have kept busy and achieved a lot .
I set too high tagets then feel inadequate then think##£&£# it, always tomorrow.Manana !
My problems will come when I have to let people at the door come in!!!
Little by little , set the achievable ,and feel shockingly smug!
Do keep in touch with the diaries, they are helpful,like a friend on the phone .
Cheerio. .
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Top of the hill, I have next door’s key, lady is even older than me and occasionally not well,I check her blinds  and  curtains every morning ,phone if
I don’t hear her T. V, if no  answer  I can get in .
But I think that is the exception when it used to be quite common.
I bet you are a good neighbour.
Viktoria.