Aibu lockdown weekends

[grubbygangsta]

Aibu to wonder how you are all spending your weekends in lockdown currently?

I been hanging out with a swan that seems to like me lol. He comes walking up from his pond at meal times. He’s lovely and tame, tries coming in the house. Sits on the door step waiting if I’m out. He’s so adorable. He’s also costing a fortune in lettuce the greedy daft swan

Not dissimilar to pre covid weekends. I will not feel guilty for letting DS2 game, I read in bed, without the oppressive feeling that I should be doing something more useful!

The same as when it wasn't lockdown tbh. Watch TV, read, knit, cook, supermarket, take & edit photos, sleep, clean up, laundry etc etc etc

among other things
height of excitement! ordering my 2 weekly online supermarket order
buying some new underwear online for delivery
god it takes longer doing this than if I on a massive shopping trip at Christmas in a crowd & a lot less interesting!
talked on phone to one of my adult dc
(& being on mn of course)

Saturdays are spent cleanings the house from top to bottom , doing washings and then a food shop, Sunday’s are for relaxing and going walks. Then it’s over and done with so quick and it’s back to work on Mondays

Cooked posh breakfast/brunch

Lunch from a shop or nicer than usual home made lunch

Longer than usual walk

House jobs

Fakeaway Saturday night and a big Sunday lunch

go out to work. just the same as usual for me

Saturdays are 'days out' to a new park with DH and toddler DD - we spend 5-6 hours there, until she drops off for her nap. We choose a different park to visit every week to make it interesting. Then the afternoons are just indoor play, dinner, movie night (DH and I take turns to choose). I quite enjoy it really, it's a variation on our usual weekend (but we'd normally mix it up with some indoor activities some weeks).

Sundays we do a more local park just in the morning, then we catch up with family on video chat. Boring housework/decluttering and life admin.

same as i did before lockdown! minus going clothes shopping on Saturday!

Avoiding obvious personal care (showering etc):

Up about 7.30 am same as every other day (body clock)

SHowereed/dressed;

Start weekend loaf.

walk dog when weather permits/continue/finish loaf...

read whatever needs reading/annotating (I support ASD people and familes, so there are reports to read/edit/annotate).

lunch 12-1pm. Or when we're hungry.

Today, husband and moi had a project to work on. We managed to finish part one. Normally, he'd take our ASD teen out, and I'd read law/read for pleasure/do whatever needs doing. Sometimes I make things, sometimes I just read.. law, fiction. Usually, applying one document to another (No, I don't get paid for that. I do it because I can, and because people nee the help.). At some point, I'll be out int he garden, working on that.

Dinner is 7-8pm.

I can understand that some people might be bored, if they don't read for any reason (pleasure/education). . I don't understand why those people don't learn a new skills/read/find ways to enjoy their time.. We're living through a historic time. It's up to people to find ways to deal with the time they have. There are lots of people who need company/help. Find one of them. Help them.

"I'm bored". So find a way to do somethinginteretsing/ help someone else. Read to your kids. Ask your local community how you can help someone. There is no excuse for "I'm bored". Read and learn the things you always claimed you had no time to do. The OU offers free courses (Open Learn: lots of free courses... if your personal circumstances mean you can't help someone else, go and enjoy the Open Learn courses... share them with your loved ones/ kids..

www.open.edu/openlearn/

@Saladd0dger

I been hanging out with a swan that seems to like me lol. He comes walking up from his pond at meal times. He’s lovely and tame, tries coming in the house. Sits on the door step waiting if I’m out. He’s so adorable. He’s also costing a fortune in lettuce the greedy daft swan

I love this. I used to feed the swans at our local ponds, So did lots fo other people.

Try packet (raw/dried) rice and uncooked porrige oats (Bascis will do). Open the packs and drop the contents in a line. It'll look like they're doing a line of something, but it's oats/rice. Ducks will love it, Swans do, too....

Ducks and swans will each decide what they like best, so you could end up buying several packs of rice/oats for them... drop the contents of those packs in a line at your local pond. The birds will love it...

they'll probably swarm you for this. \Don't worry about that. It#s cupboard love. They're chasing the food. They knoe you hsve it. Have fun.

Up with kids at 6
Breakfast
Play with kids
Get kids dressed
Shower
Park
Maybe bike ride with eldest
DH makes lunch
Play with kids
Gardening/cleaning
DH does dinner
Bath kids
Zoom quiz on Sat with family
Bed

Someone up thread mentioned Geocashing - THANK YOU SOMETHING ELSE TO DO!!!!!!

[quote MmeLaraque]Avoiding obvious personal care (showering etc):

Up about 7.30 am same as every other day (body clock)

SHowereed/dressed;

Start weekend loaf.

walk dog when weather permits/continue/finish loaf...

read whatever needs reading/annotating (I support ASD people and familes, so there are reports to read/edit/annotate).

lunch 12-1pm. Or when we're hungry.

Today, husband and moi had a project to work on. We managed to finish part one. Normally, he'd take our ASD teen out, and I'd read law/read for pleasure/do whatever needs doing. Sometimes I make things, sometimes I just read.. law, fiction. Usually, applying one document to another (No, I don't get paid for that. I do it because I can, and because people nee the help.). At some point, I'll be out int he garden, working on that.

Dinner is 7-8pm.

I can understand that some people might be bored, if they don't read for any reason (pleasure/education). . I don't understand why those people don't learn a new skills/read/find ways to enjoy their time.. We're living through a historic time. It's up to people to find ways to deal with the time they have. There are lots of people who need company/help. Find one of them. Help them.

"I'm bored". So find a way to do somethinginteretsing/ help someone else. Read to your kids. Ask your local community how you can help someone. There is no excuse for "I'm bored". Read and learn the things you always claimed you had no time to do. The OU offers free courses (Open Learn: lots of free courses... if your personal circumstances mean you can't help someone else, go and enjoy the Open Learn courses... share them with your loved ones/ kids..

www.open.edu/openlearn/[/quote]
Actually I disagree. People don't need an "excuse" for being bored, bored is a feeling like any other and people are entitled to their feelings without you preaching to them.

Lockdown weekends remind me of my seventies childhood.
Housework on Saturday which we can all share because we’re all here. Wash the car on a dry day. Walk into town to get chips for lunch (don’t know why but that always seems like a treat and we can eat the while walking.
There’s time to do nothing or time to play games, read, garden, watch tv etc. It’s actually relaxing and good family time which previously we didn’t always have because everyone had stuff organised.
We quite like it and intend to keep at least one day regularly at home with nothing planned.

I do read and I am still fed up.

I crave company, seeing friends and catching up with people, laughing in a big group, maybe dancing with old friends. Ideally also seeing bands, going to the theatre or comedy club, trying new restaurants too. But seeing people ideally. No amount of reading will stop that desire.

I read. I read to my children. I play with my children. I craft with my children. I take my children for walks. I don’t have any time without my children so the opportunities for learning languages and open university courses are somewhat limited.
I am still fucking bored. I miss my friends. I miss teaching my community dance class on a Saturday morning. I miss weekends away, visiting museums etc with the children. I miss going swimming. I miss seeing my family.

@Okbutnotgreat

Yes I’ve likened it to “parenting in the 80s” except we did have the option of doing something else than the park or cleaning. We could go see friends or ride your bike in the street with friends or go swimming at the local pool or play a team sport. But I like the analogy!

Still bored 😐

Workout, long walk with dog, cook something nice, play games online with pals, watch TV, have a bath, sometimes play a board game. Not that different from before tbh except would see friends in person.

I was a child in the 80’s. I did ballet classes on a Saturday morning, we usually went to a local country park for a run around in the afternoon and had cake or a milkshake at the cafe. Sundays we saw grandparents, usually had a big family Sunday roast. Parents often had friends over. So weekends now are nothing like my weekends in the 80’s.

Nothing like my experience of weekends in the 70s/80s either.

As I child I was out with friends all day.
My parents did chores then socialised with friends.

The only one of those things remaining is the boring one - chores!

Mind numb some days. I usually walk dog, tidy, put bins out for Tuesday. Few kids apts this week. Im spending on wine and coffees keeps me sane. Was temping but on a break now.

Improving the garden, bit of DIY. Full breakfast, workout. Walks at nearish beauty sites. RHS gardens are open with pre-booking.

Housework
Phonecalls to friends and family
Go for walks
Reading
Knitting
Sewing
Watching Netflix
Drinking

Going for a run
My weekly trip into town to go to the butcher’s
Cooking a Sunday roast
Laundry etc
Some weekends we meet up with friends for a zoom call
Reading and MN

It is a bit boring, but I don’t mind too much.

Today I joined an anti-lockdown protest. 100 people turned up and we did the hokey-cokey as police stood around, just watching.