to ask how are you spending your “free time”?

[Woman31]

I have 3dc so between “home schooling” and general mum stuff I’v downloaded Sims 4 for the laptop and oh my god, I wish I hadn’t. I’m addicted 😂🙈 Iv spent many hours making a family, designing a house etc. My Sim had twins and it was so bloody hard looking after them I ended up making a new sim 😂🙈

So what are you doing?

Dh is learning the guitar through youtube.

Thinking of you, Teal

Good wishes Teal, it would be great if there were more initiatives where we could ‘help’ Key workers - I know locally some of the takeaway restaurants are giving free meals to key workers, offering to do shopping, walk dogs etc.

I only got furloughed on Tuesday

Plan to do dog walk, yoga, sort the house out and some online training every day.

In reality I'll probably just spend my whole time on here and Netflix 😂

I cleared off a load of stuff off my laptop had an IT clear out, backed up photos etc. painted a picture and wrote a letter to the residents of a local nursing home (they had requested them through the local paper). Managed to get my DS to saw down an old tree. I could oil the garden furniture or clean the oven but may stay on the sofa with another cup of tea.

I downloaded Sims 4 too OP - I have 2 DC so don't have much time to play though! I love it though and keep trying to pair up my sims so they can have babies and what not 😂

I'm also, when I can, reading more. Re-reading the Austen novels, on Sense and Sensibility and thoroughly enjoying it

I’m doing the “moving up challenge” on the sims, really recommend it! I downloaded the city living for it 😂 I started in a gross apartment with rats and making my way to the penthouse lol

Thank you and love to everyone still working and/or struggling with little DC.

I am making lists of Things I Could Do which include sorting the garden, tidying the kitchen cupboards, learning to knit, sorting my photos into albums. I draw little tick boxes and have subdivisions and everything.

Then I put my pen down and go back to bed and Mumsnet and play with the cat.

Tomorrow I might make a list of Things I Could Cook.

Going back to bed to play with the cat isn't an euphemism, by the way It's a real live cat.

My house is the cleanest it’s been in years...

I cleaned the oven, and not even Christmas.

I'm at work so nothing has changed for me.

Which expansion pack has rats OP?

I'm lying in bed on mumsnet like I normally am.

I've managed to get a lot of cleaning done.
Re-decorated the living room.
Watched a LOT of TV.
Started to teach myself Spanish on DuoLingo.
Done some online training for my currently-closed business.
Had naps with the dog.
Ate far too many biscuits.

Making real progress editing my novel.

Otherwise working very slowly through household and life admin to do lists. No need to rush things, we're in this for the long term.

Also did my tax return.

Reading and yoga generally

I'm in the odd position of not really doing much different than if I weren't locked down. I'm on maternity leave with a 12 week old.
Right now I'm focusing on trying to get him to reach for stuff. And to stop chewing his fingers until they go red.

Working our way through 5 series of Last Tango in Halifax.

City living! Xx

i have no free time. i work full time and home school. i‘m lucky if i get something to ear most days

One run a day. Reading, tv and napping. In fact I just woke up

Still working, still at uni (open university) but have the added pleasure of ds13 and ds6 to also entertain and homeschool. The reality is I haven’t picked up a uni book in over a week, have a deadline of next week for two essays I haven’t started and we are all spending to much time on screens. Plan for the weekend is to set a proper schedule for myself and stick to it to get everything done that I need to each day as if I didn’t leave things till last minute I am sure I would have time for everything

Couch to 5k
Baking
Tarot card reading
Decluttering the garage
Gardening

No actual free time here, despite having lost my job. Feral child needing constant entertainment and a level of schooling, plus a DH key worker who is basically at work all the time.