Is anyone documenting lockdown?

[iMoan7]

Just out of interest really.

I’m documenting lockdown with one photo a day of stuff the kids get up to. They are only small. They won’t remember much. I think it’s probably going to be a fairly significant event in history and I thought it would be quite cool to be able to show them the sort of stuff we did.

Or maybe I’m just a massive geek 🤷🏻‍♀️

Is anyone else documenting? I’m always interested to hear different ideas

I'm probably really annoying but have being doing a weekly Facebook one, and have the intention of creating a photobook journal including personal photos, news articles, thoughts, quote from kids etc. (I don't put all of the personal photos onto Facebook.)

I think a lot of people are doing the same.

I'm keeping photos and will write some letters to go with them.

My friend's little sister is making a time capsule which I thought was quite cool. Includes a receipt with stuff written on it such as "look, we couldn't buy any tinned tomatoes!".

I've just started keeping a diary for the Mass Observation project

www.massobs.org.uk/write-for-us/covid-19

Yes, I'm keeping a journal. Not updating every day but every couple of days, talking about the latest statistics, what's in the news, what life's like, how our family is coping. Also taking the occasional photo. Just something for the family to look back on one day.

Yes, I'm trying to write every few days and am noting things in my bullet journal and the homeschool diary (we homeschool 2 DC anyway). I've joined the Mass Observation project too.

It's all a bit piecemeal, but writing great chunks of stuff makes it feel a bit too real, somehow. As a historian I feel this is going to be a very important period of time for future study; and I have a letter my grandfather wrote to me about his experiences during the 1926 General Strike in the UK, (after the event, obviously) from the POV of a 12 year old about to leave school to go into the quarry, prior to going down the mines at 16. It's a window to a totally different world that is hugely valuable, in my view, and I hope what I write will be too, if only for my own family.

I have the 1 Second A Day app that I kept for the whole of 2019 and started a new one for 2020.
I also downloaded the Daily Note app and have been writing in it and adding one photo for each day.
My dc are doing their own diaries - one has been set this task from school.
I still have diaries my grandparents kept during the war, so I really want to have something to pass on to my grandchildren too.

ViciousJackdaw

I've been documenting on instagram I quite like it as a tool for a diary.

Once I started WFH (a week before the lockdown), I realised I would be spending a lot of time in one room, so I take a photo every day of my view from that room. It's not an exciting view, but it is mainly 3 mature trees which were bare at the stsrt, but now have blossom. It will be interesting to see the passage of time when I look back.
I'm posting them on Instagram, which I never used before, so that they're all in the same place and not just sitting in my camera roll.
I sometimes add a second photo - also with the theme of my 'view'. So it could be something nice from my run, or something which reflects what I've seen that day. Along with the commentary, it will act as a record of this very strange time.

I'm doing a wordpress blog to keep a record and share with friends and family adding photos but with DDs face covered up, MIL reads it daily to keep up to date as she, FIL and gran (94) are shielding and bored 😀

I am for the children, I have to write daily logs for them as they are both fostered but I am adding stuff about the lockdown too as it will all go to forming a picture of their childhoods.