Things You Have Done During Lockdown That Show How Bored You Are

atypical_boro said:
Give Home Alone 4 a go! 😂 thank me later.
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Are you serious? (That it's worth watching I mean)!!! I know it exists... five exists too (Home Alone - The Holiday Heist), and Home Alone 6 is on the cards too.

AMAZING, since it wasn't really good enough to have no.2 !
 
I have had to isolate twice now, once on my return from holiday and the second time after a student I support tested positive for Covid.

The first time I dug up the path going round two sides of the house, laid new drains and a new path. This time I finished the decking in the garden and spent hours turning silly Christmas figures in my workshop.
 
I feel like I have some how missed out on the, let’s say, ‘novelty’ of lock down. Once in several lifetimes thing to happen. I must be grateful for it though, as I have worked through it, even from home, solidly (apart from 3 weeks off in two stints - 1 week in Easter and 2 weeks in the 6 Weeks hols). Counting down to Christmas for another 2 weeks off too. Its been a strange year, that’s fo’ sho’.
 
I recreated history by expressing my domestic science flair by recreating some of the dishes from my school days and proving cookery was not in fact a science, but a pastime. After a few drinks I described it as painting by numbers, likened it to a meccano set, but aimed mainly at girls in schools and wisely pointed out that most of the worlds iconic chefs were indeed men anyway.

Now I should point out I chose domestic science rather than woodwork or metalwork for 2 reasons. Firstly, my mate and I thought at 14, mixing in a class full of girls would guarantee we pulled. Secondly, we believed it was a soft, guaranteed O Level. I may have been wrong on both counts mind, but I will park that there, it was the thought that counts.

I was keen to make amends so set about proving I could be the next Paul Hollywood (I maybe should have chosen a different celebrity. Once a week, I wanted to recreate my former ‘specialties’ like Chocolate Brownies, Victoria Sponge, Jam tarts and Madeira cake. I experimented with Battenburg, Angel cake and Bakewell tart. I attempted to make a show stopper of creating a Black Forest Gateau of a fashion in what was supposed to be the shape of my old school. My results were apparently largely mixed (unlike some of my ingredients. Naturally, I pointed out, the self appointed judges were mere amateurs and as such their views counted for little, I was clearly the most qualified expert present and had a certificate with Domestic Science grade D to prove it 🤩
 
Piccadilly Day Tripper said:
Put all the spanners and torque wrench sockets back in their box in exactly the right place. Amazingly, none were missing. I can't fathom how people lived and worked with imperial measurements before we went metric.

I've also become a bit obsessive of listening to artists in only the order they released music, rather than just one tune here or there. That provides mixed results.
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We still have to buy both in the USA. Most sets come with Imperial and. Metric.
 
Jostler said:
Watched WAY TO MANY American Sitcoms. Full series of Friends, How I Met Your Mother, Modern Family, Brooklyn 99, Big Bang Theory, New Girl
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New Girl is vastly underrated.

I've been working through my to watch list on Netflix and Prime. Watched the newest Shaft last night which was brilliant. 21 Bridges, superb.
 
Norman_Conquest said:
I regularly use imperial measurements when working round the house.

I also watch a lot of American woodturners on youtube and they work in imperial.
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Wasn't there a serious problem with the space program, an Apollo mission or something, which was caused because the people concerned thought the numbers used were imperial when in fact they were in metric?

Back to the thread, today I had so much time on my hands I actually folded my pants before putting them in the drawer rather than just chucking them in
 
I watched the old Friday Night Lights series early lockdown (which was actually great tbf). I have also done some decorating, which I've never done in my life. That'd be taking work from decorators, but boredom won.

And walking. Literally spent zero on petrol between March and May! I l've lived in my burb of York for 25 years and found loads of bits I didn't even know existed on our daily jaunts. They were the nice bits of the original lockdown
 
I plucked all of my body hair, now spinning it into yarn before dyeing it.
I will try to recreate the Bayeux Tapestry before Christmas. :)
 
Ebor said:
I watched the old Friday Night Lights series early lockdown (which was actually great tbf). I have also done some decorating, which I've never done in my life. That'd be taking work from decorators, but boredom won.

And walking. Literally spent zero on petrol between March and May! I l've lived in my burb of York for 25 years and found loads of bits I didn't even know existed on our daily jaunts. They were the nice bits of the original lockdown
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Great show FNL and which part of York do you live in?
 
Back in April/May I got in from my lab "evening shift" on a Friday night and proceeded to clean both the oven and fridge in my flat very thoroughly.
 
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