To ask you to tell me things you've achieved in lockdown?

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Hopefully a bit of an uplifting thread where we can focus on the positives among the many negatives.

I've managed to learn how to do a handstand! I've never in my life been able to do one, even as a child but I can now after many many fails.

Anyone else managed to achieve anything? Small or big

I have perfected my sourdough and made pizza from it. I have made croissants 🥐, learned how to do a great manicure 💅🏻 and my garden has never looked better

Feeling very inadequate.
I am working full-time from home, but not achieved anything else.
Must have gained at least 10 pounds.
My mother now looks back at me from the mirror, as I seem to have aged 15 years or more.
People doing remodelling of the house, or having massive clear-outs, where are you putting all the rubbish? Our local tip is closed, which has added to my reluctance about starting a much-needed clearout.

My kids are still alive and I'm still sane! I'm a single mum and some days that's a huge achievement.
I've lost 9lbs ( tip of the iceberg but it's a start). Clesred a stoney patch of my garden and find a gold ring in the process.

Taken up baking and husband thinks results aren’t bad...

I taught myself how to crochet using youtube. I am making a baby nlanket in waffle stitch. I am just over 1/2way through, it is dove grey and I am hoing to bind the edges with rainbow ribbon.

I can braid my pubes.

@pinksunday Well done and HOW? I'm so unfit and probably can't run more than a minute. I'm scared I'm too fat and will hurt myself and look like a twat

Im going to start this by explaining a hoarder who has since developed MS and struggle to spend more than a couple of hours a day doing physical stuff.

I spent over a month decluttering the bedroom, so its now a proper bedroom rather than a clothes pile on my dressing table nearly to the ceiling. I have made about 10 bags of clothes DH is going to take to a charity shop when they open. My wardrobe is still full but its full with clothes I wear and we can now shut the door. I have a dressing table again. I found toiletries with expiry dates dating as far back as 2005.

And now I am week into decluttering the living room. It will take another couple of weeks but I hope to have a normal looking room by the of it.

TMI WARNING I found the remains of a nest and lots of droppings that looks like it was a mouse / mice that our cat keeps bringing in alive and only sorting out a couple of days / week later. Those have been removed.

I still have too much stuff, but am working on this slowly. I have a pile of items to ebay when the Post Office is easier for me or DH to get parcels too.

And if / when this room is tidy, its the spare room of doom as my next port of call. I cleared loads of books out of the bedroom as I already have them on my kindle app so dont need them as physical copies and hope to clear lots off my shelves. However there are books in there that arent on kindle or electronic form (I collect archaeological books).

But I want to have a normal house and not the cluttered place we had. But I also need to think ahead, I had the paramedics a few years ago and was so ashamed of things. I would like to point out its never been as bad as those places on the hoarding shows, but also am terrified that it wouldnt take much to get worse so dealing with it now.

Congratulations @pericombobulations that sounds like a mammoth task and how nice to be able to see such a great result when you’re finished!

I've been ill with coronavirus for the whole of lockdown. Do black circles under eyes, grey skin and matted hair count as achievements?

Wow @pericombobulations - that's a massive thing to have done.

@turin 30 mins on my exercise bike, 30 mins strength training, 30 minutes of weights and 30 mins yoga. I've also put myself on a 1000 calorie a day diet. I have used phone apps to follow the above at an annual cost of £12.99!!

I have mastered the complete inability to sleep through the night. Go me.

So far I’ve kept working full time, studying part time, taken care of my son full time, spent a lot on clothes and skin care and got a car... so basically gotten poor.

Since lockdown we’ve moved house, redecorated every room, re done all the lights, taken a hedge down, found the garden and made it tidy ish, started painting the outside of the house, currently ripping up the old carpet tiles in the kitchen, still loads to do in the house and garden.

Away from the house done multiple uni assignments, trying to save two businesses, walked, deliveries for one of the businesses.

Both DDs cooked and baked loads, done jigsaws, trying to find jobs

At a time of the year when we’d both be working 6 days a week and not seeing each other. It’s been ace. But who knows if we’ll have jobs / businesses to go back to as heavily reliant on tourism.

Pericombobulations

Way to go ! That’s really something

I’ve started running - couch to 5k. I’m on week 4 but am now in self isolation (thanks dh!) so cant go running for 14 days.

We’ve taken down a shed, moved paving stones, moved turf to give an idea re remodelled garden.

In the last week since dh has been unwell I’ve taken care of him, and both dc (two under three). Effectively I’ve been sole parent. It’s tough. But I’ve done it!!

This is a lovely thread but has thoroughly depressed me.

I’ve basically led the same life I always lead just with more children at home every day and nowhere to take the baby.

I do the same cleaning I always do
I do the same laundry I always do
I do the same childcare I always do
I do the same walk I always do
I cook the same shit I always cook
My relationship with my kids is the same as it always has been
I do the same yoga I always do.

Haven’t got any better at yoga despite doing it daily for over 70 days now and having done a weekly class since October.

I’m busy all day but basically do fuck all.

Ive become a much better, less lazy, more experimental cook. Cook far more from scratch rather buying half prepared veg/ dishes. Standard in quality and quantity of our and kids meals definitely gone up. As you can’t just get in car and hop down to corner shop (not without queuing/ then faced with them not having what I want) so I plan ahead, look up recipes to buy in our one weekly shop, make that all work.

Fractured my ankle at the start of lockdown so no couch to 5k but I’ve been able to get back to yoga and was pleased to be able to do a downward facing dog again.

Have worked full time which has been busier than ever due to the situation/ kept the house going/ been cooking like a demon!

Painted some decking. Sorted through garden out. Started to declutter though waning now.
Baked a couple of loaves of bread. Have kept up physio post fractured ankle.

Sod all. WFH with 5yo and 1yo.

Continued my WFH job, painted the downstairs, rediscovered painting for fun, fixed various diy bits, gardening, made first ever cheesecake. Next is to get fit myself and teach DC to ride bikes! Oh and read more!!

Tootsey, you poor thing! That sounds grim. How about ‘still able to write posts’ as an achievement?

Walked 6+ miles a day
PE with Joe Monday to Friday
Cut loads of sugar from my diet
Read entire works of my new favourite author
Given myself a MN haircut and dyed it a new colour (which DH keeps complimenting me on)
I haven't weighed myself but probably lost half a stone as a result of diet/exercise (I am chunky, so need to lose it)
Done some Ignatian spiritual exercises, bringing me a sense of peace that I can hardly believe. Despite the crisis and hating WFH, I'm happier than I have been in years.

On the other hand, my house is scruffy and my cupboards and drawers remain untidied

Thanks everybody, the bedroom does make me smile again and hope I can get the other rooms to do so. It does help I've been furloughed and lost two holidays this year to Cornwall so like to keep my mind off worrying as I also get panic attacks and ocd which also contributed to make things harder as my ocd would tell me things were dirty and then I couldn't touch them.