In our family we have my wife, my son, the dog and me in the house. It is harder on my son as he would be at Uni normally and is a party animal. He understands this is something that has to be done but it is hard. We have agreed to play a board game a day and we will try to watch a film together too. What are you doing that is helping you?
My tip for people who like games and are creative
To keep me from getting bored, I researched the oldest game recorded. This game is called Senet and is over3,000 years old. A set was found in Tutankhamun's tomb. It is thought to be where backgammon originated. I decided to make the game. There are different ways to do it. I designed a board using illustrator and had some tokens. But I could have used coins. You need 14 coins or tokens. 4 of them are used for the ancient version of a dice. They used to use sticks, but basically you need two distinct sides. You thorow these and that determines your moves. Then you need two sets of markers/counters for each player (2ps and 10ps would work or you could make some).
It is quite a good game to play and I like the thought that it was played thousands of years ago. I played my son yesterday and he beat me, but you could see the tactics that are within it that need to be learned. It is a very simple game to learn the basics though. Anyway if anybody wants to give it a go, here is the board I designed which I printed and set on cardboard.
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Watching Netflix
Clearing out the loft for the plumber to fit a new boiler.
Reading CL
My son is still at Uni. Him and house mates are watching all the Harry Potter movies, one a night.
YouTube tutorials for guitar.
YouTube Global cycling network for bike porn.
learning the keyboard
learning practising Ukulele
Practising Guitar
Reading Ken Follett WW1 trilogy
Gardening
Cooking (making pies to freeze)
veg out watching random YouTube
Think I'll be getting back into tabletop photography as the opportunities for my usual wildlife stuff are going to be restricted. If there's enough interest here we could have a weekly indoor photography competition; different theme and a virtual prize each week. What do you reckon?
Right now I'm enjoying watching Mrs Stig give our eldest a haircut and turning him into David Sowerbutts.
They're very timid so it's the ideal time to build their confidence and hopefully make them people-friendly. I wasn't told they crap 100+ times a day though.
Watching tv. Sky golf channel yesterday had the whole final round on the 2018 Open from Carnoustie. Even though I knew who won it (Molinari) I was watching it as it was live. About 6 hours worth & even paused it during tea.
18 litres of 8% Abbey should keep me occupied