What, if anything. is keeping you relatively sane during this time?

[Titsywoo]

The only thing keeping me from getting emotionally low is having routine. Much more so than I used to. Maybe it's a control thing I don't know. Every Friday we have an online games night and every Saturday I have drinks on a zoom call with my friends. We never used to have a Sunday roast much but now we do at the same time every Sunday.

What things are you doing to keep sane/happy/in control?

Still going to work (key worker). It's a horrible time, but at least it helps keep track of the days and gives me a routine.

The woods - deer, squirrels, ducklings, bluebells, birds & trees for the kids to climb

My garden, my dogs, my decorating the house project (paint bought the day before lockdown, phew), going in to work a couple of afternoons a week. Wine.

For us at hone it's some sort of routine

I get primary age dd school activities ready the night before and clothes out and we get up around 8 ish so not as early as normal but still early enough we don't waste a day.
Senior age dd is up showered and getting school stuff set up around the same time so we kind of have a learning morning doing stuff set by school then a break then a bit more learning and lunch.
In the good weather we've been doing dog walks after lunch and then outdoor garden stuff till tea time.

The great weather we've had meant we've all eaten outside numerous times which has kept us sane.

We've also managed to get allot done to our massive gardens and fencing so been productive.

We also keep to a weekend routine so no alarm on sat or sun and we have a movie afternoon on one of those days and started having a roast on sundays which we didn't do much before but it seperated the week up.

French lager with lime keeps me sane ,just one here and there but something to enjoy

My dp, despite being far worse impacted than me, (he’s self employed and has no work and no prospect of work, I wfh in a secure job), he is being so appreciative, optimistic and supportive and manages to make me laugh daily.

The lovely dog I have currently in my life. She is an angel and I'm loving our walks and cuddles, without them I'd be very miserable!

Yes, routine for me and having a different one at weekends to in the week. It's relaxed in that I'd have to get moving much more efficiently normally but it does fill the days with some structure.

Wake normalish time

Cuppa and phone in bed.
Shower and breakfast
Open lap top and do some work
Make a proper lunch
More work
Exercise
Housework
Dinner
TV, maybe some reading or sewing

Not very exciting but at least I'm occupied.

At weekends, DIY or gardening instead of work, longer exercise and no housework.

I am flat out at work - not sure whether it’s keeping me sane (or driving me insane).

However, daily exercise and lovely long cycle rides in places of London I wouldn’t normally venture to has been a revelation .

It’s sort of ironic that now we can only exercise once a day, I am actually exercising once a day - something I’ve never, done before

Work. I have cut days down so only doing a few days a week but it gives me a bit of normality

Dp - plus I'm working pt still

Routine - everyone else’s as much as my own
Daily walk
Zoom call with 2 close friends (but I refuse to do it with anyone else)
Feeding and watching the birds outside my kitchen window
Gardening, particularly growing seeds
Craft projects to keep busy

Work and online courses from FutureLearn. I 'spent' the Easter weekend in Rome!

Conversations with DH at the kitchen table in the evenings.
Reading
Phone calls, esp to ds
Sauvignon Blanc.
Growing seedlings.
My cat

Lie in bed until 10ish, get upset that I've woken up at all. Cry for two hours. Eat biscuits all day

We have a bird feeder attached to our kitchen window. For the past few days we've had loads of blue tits and great tits feeding from it. It's really cheering me up!

puppy sounds as if you're struggling. is there anything you could try that might help?

For me:
Running (very important. I was marathon training before this and keeping up some running has really helped)
Dog walks
Gardening
Planning some fun things with dc (circus night, casino night, harry potter day etc)
Good books and my bookfulness subscription
finding a good series to watch on TV (escapism)
Avoiding the news too much, same for social media
Proper sleep and keeping routine (easier for me admittedly cause I'm NHS and still working)

DS has online school everyday day. 8am - 3pm
Exercise outside
Exercise inside
Calling family and friends
Weekends are the worst when dh is home, wants to stay home ( he's been going to work) and loaf around. DS and I are fed up being in all the time and desperate to go out.

( We live abroad and have not been locked down but have been very low key since beginning February)

My dogs, every morning they get me up at 6.30, out for a walk at 6.45 for an hour, then come back have breakfast, then out to ride and look after my horse, I love lockdown, I could live like this if it wasn’t for running out of money. I feel for my teenage daughter though, she should be out with friends.

Routine for me too
I get up at 8-8.30am
Coffee small breakfast
9-9.30 am for for a run or online workout
Shower
Have something to eat
Tidy up / washing / ironing etc
Give dc lunch
Go for walk with dc
Afterwards dc watch dvd / play in garden I'll maybe do gardening/ painting / sorting etc
Bit of reading
Make dinner
Occasionally online workout
Dc in the shower
Watch tv
Bed
The first couple of weeks I was drinking every day and if weather nice having a drink in the afternoon, now I'm trying not to drink in the week and if I do it's after 9pm and only 1.

Work
Daily one hour walk
Nice weather

I give myself Monday's off. It's my worst day. My kid watches tv more then I care to admit. But come Tuesday I bounce back and mum guilt propels me to do activities ext.

Started couch to 5k the time on my own outdoors in the morning is my favourite part of the day.

Disney plus would never bother if we wasn't in lock down

Marie kondo recently started moving stuff around tidying up ext

BorrowBox free library audiobook app. I can easily listen to 2/3 audiobooks a week but now I'm listening to loads. Couldn't afford to with audible.

Work! I work as a carer and I'm now working just weekends. It's so lovey to have a change of scenery and company. My service users and their family don't have it easy. Very poorly at best of times and spent the past few weeks completely shielding.

My DH and DC
Reading
Running
Work

The fact I moved from a two bedroomed flat with no balcony with three children, to a spacious three bed house, with a large garden. We moved here at the very beginning of January after a decade in the flat. That’s getting me through.

Daily walk
Cross Stitch

Jigsaw Puzzles
TV in evening

Bar walking( albeit not daily) I normally don’t do any of the last 3. 1 at are mindful which helps, tv in evening splits the day up.

Reading loads but do that anyway. Can’t focus on it as much atm.

decade in the flat.

^^ my last home was a small terrace house with a yard. Soo thankful for a garden. When the guidance came out about driving for exercise I was so glad for people. Hopefully people can be abit kinder to each other now. Not everyone has a garden to enjoy.