What are your potential self isolation projects?

[Ladystardust]

I’m planning a veg garden (win win).
May dig the guitar out and finally learn how to play it

 

[SpookyFrank]

It's a good time of year for planting some veg. Also I've got a novel to write. I already finished the one about a pandemic, but I'm not feeling inclined to seek input on that one right now.

 

[LDC]

Was literally just about to start the same post!

Learn French, although might now never go there again! Really would like to do Russian or Arabic but I'm too lazy and my brain is too small.
Have a banjo that's been gathering dust for a decade and I cannot play at all, that might be something to do. Can maybe even find online lessons or teacher.
Re-paint the bathroom and stick some more bookshelves up in the lounge maybe.
Started a Capital reading group a month or so ago, really want to keep that going so will look into online options.
Definitely will do some home based exercise program, although will keep running as long as seems sensible.

Also have a few boxes of old notebooks and letters that need sorting out. I finished sorting out about 50 family photo albums a month or so ago, that would have been a good one.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Oh bugger I forgot I was supposed to be learning Russian. If lockdown arrives I'll really have no excuse.

 

[Poot]

It's a good time of year for planting some veg. Also I've got a novel to write. I already finished the one about a pandemic, but I'm not feeling inclined to seek input on that one right now.

I've been trying to get a novel published for a little while. I've a horrible feeling that in six months every bastard will have written one.

 

[mx wcfc]

Mrs mx is threatening to get a load of paint in so we can redecorate.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I've been trying to get a novel published for a little while. I've a horrible feeling that in six months every bastard will have written one.

What about books about pandemics though, there's a soon-to-be-saturated market if ever there was one.

 

[Poot]

What about books about pandemics though, there's a soon-to-be-saturated market if ever there was one.

I should self-publish right now, today, and advertise all over Facebook (which people are reading obsessively) and become rich. QUICK!!

 

[fishfinger]

I should self-publish right now, today, and advertise all over Facebook (which people are reading obsessively) and become rich. QUICK!!

Panic writing!

 

[LDC]

What about books about pandemics though, there's a soon-to-be-saturated market if ever there was one.

Please no deluge of poetry though, the next year is going to be grim enough as it is.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I've got decorating to be done, a crosstitch thing to finish that I started 3 years ago (ha!) and a mad painting by numbers dinosaur picture that I bought on a whim.

I currently have no food stocks or bog roll though.

 

[wayward bob]

pelvic floor exercises

 

[SpookyFrank]

Please no deluge of poetry though, the next year is going to be grim enough as it is.

I do not now and will never get poetry. You can do rhythm and metre with prose, without dodging the requirement to convey some sort of information, or get to some sort of point.

 

[Plumdaff]

Get back to learning Welsh.
Paint the front room.
Finally sort all the shit in the spare room.
Sort the garden.
Finally finish Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman. Seems weirdly apt for these times.
Bake.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Get back to learning Welsh.
Paint the front room.
Finally sort all the shit in the spare room.
Sort the garden.
Finally finish Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman. Seems weirdly apt for these times.
Bake.

For example, is this poetry or just a list of things? It seems to depend entirely on whether or not the author wrote it in a Parisian garret shortly before dying of TB.

 

[Planet9]

Oh bugger I forgot I was supposed to be learning Russian. If lockdown arrives I'll really have no excuse.

I've been meaning to learn Russian for a while. I took classes some years ago, so I know some basics. I've been trying out this idea:

"Learn Russian in your sleep".



I don't know if anyone has had any success with this.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I've been meaning to learn Russian for a while. I took classes some years ago, so I know some basics. I've been trying out this idea:

"Learn Russian in your sleep".



I don't know if anyone has had any success with this.

Almost certainly a KGB subliminal programming initiative. As soon as you hear the word 'ноябрь' you'll be up and about assassinating ambassadors and shit before you know what's happened.

 

[Yossarian]

I should self-publish right now, today, and advertise all over Facebook (which people are reading obsessively) and become rich. QUICK!!

Add a prologue establishing that the narrator is recounting events while in quarantine, call it "Love in the time of coronavirus" or "C is for coronavirus" or whatever fits, then watch the infected money roll in.

 

[Poot]

Add a prologue establishing that the narrator is recounting events while in quarantine, call it "Love in the time of coronavirus" or "C is for coronavirus" or whatever fits, then watch the infected money roll in.

Then you can run courses on how you did it. There might be another book in it, too. This is definitely for a thread about monetising the Coronavirus. 'Make the Coronavirus work for you!' or something.

 

[Thora]

Think I’m going to have to home school my children so probably reading up on what a fronted adverbial is....

 

[SpookyFrank]

Add a prologue establishing that the narrator is recounting events while in quarantine, call it "Love in the time of coronavirus" or "C is for coronavirus" or whatever fits, then watch the infected money roll in.

Actually my book is about a half-baked attempt at reprogramming humans to be immune to viral infections which itself ends up killing off most of humanity. But it's actually pretty life-affirming and shit.

An ebook, parts of which have been even been proofread, is available for donations of Big Soup and baby wipes.

 

[Yossarian]

Actually my book is about a half-baked attempt at reprogramming humans to be immune to viral infections which itself ends up killing off most of humanity. But it's actually pretty life-affirming and shit.

An ebook, parts of which have been even been proofread, is available for donations of Big Soup and baby wipes.

New York Times Review of Books: "This prescient look at a global pandemic is a life-affirming triumph that belongs on every self-isolation must-read list."

Daily Mail: "Did spooky British author PREDICT coronavirus crisis?"

 

[Ladystardust]

Wondering how many months in it will be before I finally crack and clean the oven

 

[Spandex]

Think I’m going to have to home school my children so probably reading up on what a fronted adverbial is....

Yep. Stopping the kids going stir crazy will be my project.

I'm gonna have to keep some structure to their day, make sure they do the projects the school send us, find some of our own and find a way of burning their energy in our flat. At least being year 1 & 2 I can keep up with any maths they get set.

They are NOT playing video games all day every day.

 

[Artaxerxes]

I avoid people anyway.

 

[Marty1]

Probably just concentrate on trying to find something decent to watch on Netflix.

 

[existentialist]

Properly learning how to programme Vue.Js, and writing an online client management system.

 

[bemused]

Making COVID-20

 

[yield]

Get back to learning Welsh.
Paint the front room.
Finally sort all the shit in the spare room.
Sort the garden.
Finally finish Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman. Seems weirdly apt for these times.
Bake.

Very similar. Back to learning Italian.
Paint the lounge.
Tidy the garden.
Make a dent in the to read pile

 

[existentialist]

Ooh, we could have an Urban College! Threads where someone teaches some new skill...