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Apart from knitting toilet roll out of grass clippings......

B3B3 Posts: 27,505
in The potting shed
What are you going to do?

  • I have 30 years of bank statements to shred.
  • I've tidied under the stairs, but not the bit you need to pothole to access
  • Ditto garage
  • Inventory of spice cupboard. Ditch anything over ten years old with no smell
  • Tackle out of contract utilities
  • Brave the  storage coffin in the garden - maybe there isn't a mouse in it this year.
  • Watch films and read books that I ought to 
  • Play chess with my OH. I haven't played him since I beat him by chance in the last century
  • Paint badly
  • Crochet worse

How on earth will I find the time??

What about you?
In London. Keen but lazy.

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  • CheyngelCheyngel Posts: 4,193
    - Video Games

    - Boxsets

    - Baking

    - Indoor Gardening

    Maybe a bit of translating on the side too?
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    I've got about 4 boxes of bits of fabric and old clothes that I put aside to make something. No idea what though. So quite a lot of time will be spent staring into space wondering what to make
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    I have a couple of things I was making for myself, one knitted and one crochet. Somehow I always manage to finish stuff for other people but never the stuff for me!  My time may well have come - although if it stays dry I have a ragged piece of garden to prepare for new raised beds so maybe not.........
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I’m knitting nursery rhyme and fairy tale characters for my daughters childminder group,  that’s if she ever gets her business back, had to close down. 😢

    Nice to knit toilet rolls from grass, I have adverts now for turf. They pick up quickly. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Painting Possum's bedroom including installing skirting boards and a headboard for the bed

    Gardening - beds to weed, seeds to sow, cuttings to take, pruning, new beds to make, planting out

    Sewing - clothes to make and mend, patchwork tutorial to do, photograph and write up for patchwork club plus regular emails during this period of confinement to barracks and I have a large piece of Sashiko embroidery to keep me busy in the evenings

    Cooking - one advantage of isolation is I can use as much garlic as I like!

    Mosaic, furniture painting, bits of DIY and fixing.

    Reading

    Cannot go out except to shop for essentials.  OH has to do walkies on his own.  No friends round for meals or anything else.  Shutdown likely to be extended 2 weeks so it could be a very productive period.




    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066
    Gardening.  Growing lots from seed and redesigning a section of the garden.
    Cross Stitch
    Have two jumpers to finish for grandsons
    Glossing hall, stairs and landing
    Decorating Living Room.
    Washing all the crockery on my dresser (the stuff that I rarely use)
    Think the above should keep me busy for a while.


    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    raisingirl said:
    I've got about 4 boxes of bits of fabric and old clothes that I put aside to make something. No idea what though. So quite a lot of time will be spent staring into space wondering what to make
    You could make snuffy cuffs and mug rugs while waiting for inspiration to strike.
  • PurpleRosePurpleRose Posts: 538
    I will be out probably most of the time as I am a key worker. If i need to do some Self Isolating i will not know what to do with myself as I am always on the go.

    I know i will do lots of gardening 
    Reading
    Baking
    Housework 


  • Joyce GoldenlilyJoyce Goldenlily Posts: 2,933
    Cooking.
    Spring clean house from top to bottom.
    Turn out black hole cupboards.
    Clean car inside and out.
    Sow seeds. 
    Weeding 
    Digging.
    Dead head bulbs.
    Planting out pot bound plants
    Knitting.
    Patchwork.
    Sort out, clear out and clean large shed.
    Walk dog.
    Finish painting bedroom. 
    Make paths in garden.
    Finish repairing fruit cage.
    Etc. Etc. Etc.

    That should keep me busy for a day or two!

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