What are your potential self isolation projects?

[kalidarkone]

I am off now for 19 days...in no particular order..

• Many zoom/pub hub meeting with different groups for different reasons including choir rehearsal.
• Gonna give the bathroom a white wash of paint.
• I have a ton of wonderful fabric, threads, padding, strapping for sewing projects as the fancy takes me.
• COOK, COOK, COOK!
• I am setting myself up tech wise to livestream, nearly sorted and will be djing for a mate's online 50th Birthday party this week.
• Gardening as much as possible.
• Continue to shop and deliver to people self isolating in my Road.
• Chilling the fuck out and resting.

And chill the fuck out and rest ?
My spirit animal is a sloth!

 

[Treacle Toes]

And chill the fuck out and rest ?
My spirit animal is a sloth!

 

[kalidarkone]

Tbf I didn't see that you had 19 days off.....for some reason I thought this was your plan for 7 days.

 

[Mogden]

Add to the list. Mad idea to use YouTube videos to create a freebie VR headset thing so I can explore anywhere in the world I fancy.

 

[Treacle Toes]

Tbf I didn't see that you had 19 days off.....for some reason I thought this was your plan for 7 days.

That was a typo...it was 9 days, only 7 left now...haven't done much more than sort the live stream tech out so far...

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Behold, the Easter Garden...




It’s some modern, interpretive effort...

 

[A380]

My feet. Still a work in progress but silky smooth, although my living room is now covered in fine dust.

 

[Orang Utan]

I am going to see if I can watch all of the available films, shorts included, that Alfred Hitchcock directed, in chronological order.

Total of films watched so far: 0

 

[spanglechick]

Total of films watched so far: 0

The Lady Vanishes is on iPlayer at the moment.

 

[May Kasahara]

I'm supposed to be writing/finishing songs so Mr K and I can finally put out that album we said we'd do twenty years ago...he's written all this great music, but I'm struggling to come up with anything

 

[existentialist]

I have rashly volunteered to do a mixdown.

The plan is, our maestro records a piano accompaniment (done) for Let The River Run, emails it out to the choir (done), who listen to it on headphones while singing their line into a Recording Device. They then send me the recording, which I tidy up, and assemble (using Audacity) into a multitrack recording, which I then mix to a stereo track.

So far, the ex-formerly-known-as-Mrs-E has contributed a soprano line, her daughter has provided an alto one, I've recorded my customary tenor, and - because the basses are always late for everything - a provisional bass line.

So far, so good. But we have one alto who's decided she can't sing AND listen to the backing track (how does she manage in choir???), so is going to freestyle it, good luck with that, darling Mind you, she's usually half a beat behind anyway, so perhaps it'll be an improvement?

Some of the choir want a video, but TBH I think I'd rather get them to mime to the finished recording than record video and audio together. We could all get together on Zoom, I'll play the audio and just film them all like Celebrity Squares

 

[Orang Utan]

I am going to see if I can watch all of the available films, shorts included, that Alfred Hitchcock directed, in chronological order.

Project now downgraded to seeing if I can grow my ear hair long enough to plait it

 

[lizzieloo]

I taught myself torrents, I've always given up before. It was what I'd call a project

Am very pleased with myself.

 

[lefteri]

I am going to see if I can watch all of the available films, shorts included, that Alfred Hitchcock directed, in chronological order.

my brother’s doing exactly that

 

[lefteri]

Project now downgraded to seeing if I can grow my ear hair long enough to plait it

i might suggest this as an alternative

 

[gentlegreen]

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My feet. Still a work in progress but silky smooth, although my living room is now covered in fine dust.

If I didn't think that was fake, I might use that as an excuse to buy a sander

 

[jeff_leigh]

I taught myself torrents, I've always given up before. It was what I'd call a project

Am very pleased with myself.

Do you mean ,You've taught yourself how to write the code to create a Torrent or you've figured out how to download Torrents ?

 

[Tropi]

Look for work.
Look for work.
Look for work.

 

[existentialist]

Some friends of mine have been churning out lockdown videos of them performing:

 

[existentialist]

And here's my own choir's effort (same pianist):



From the Soundcloud blurb:

This is Tempus, doing a "lockdown recording" - we got the backing track emailed to us, we all recorded our parts on our phones while listening to the backing on headphones, and someone then converted, mixed, and edited them all together to produce...THIS!

 

[WouldBe]

Finishing off installing an electric boiler so I don't have to have the wood burner going over summer to get hot water.

Want to get the hall floor insulated.

Got some bits need plastering.

 

[felixthecat]

I've learned to crochet!! I'm so proud of myself

I've been able to knit since I was a kid and I can sew and stuff but crochet has always evaded me

I'm now making my lockdown blanket out of granny squares

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Welcome to The Rising Sun, what’ll it be?

 

[William of Walworth]

The ongoing house-cleaning project has been going pretty well, and I have continuing plans -- I am not working (albeit paid -- I'm very lucky ) whereas festivaldeb is WFH five days a week, so she's the task-mistress

All our very many books will be free of (several years-worth ) of dust over coming days ....... we've guessed that in total there's not far off a thousand in the house
I'm too busy cleaning the house and being on here to read many of them though

Another imminent plan is cleaning the curtains and furniture throws, as well as just the usual duvet covers and related bedding.
But I've done absolutely loads of stuff already, a great one from a fortnight ago was getting the bikes sorted out for our exercise routine

 

[DaveCinzano]

Some cut-out-and-dress comic book characters:



From 2000AD

 

[Graymalkin]

My layoff was cut shorter than anticipated so I've had to work through my weekend's to get this finished in time for planting. A 3 ' deep hugelkultur garden bed with woven and stacked branch walls built into last years garden bed. Hopefully I can get it filled this weekend or next.

 

[rubbershoes]

The house needed repainting and it's about half done. Most bedrooms and all bathrooms still to do.

I haven't touched a brush and Mrs Shoes has done it all. But I still enjoy the satisfaction of seeing a job well done

 

[DaveCinzano]

My layoff was cut shorter than anticipated so I've had to work through my weekend's to get this finished in time for planting. A 3 ' deep hugelkultur garden bed with woven and stacked branch walls built into last years garden bed. Hopefully I can get it filled this weekend or next.View attachment 211224

Looks like you're at the last hurdle LOL

 

[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.

Summary of my (limited) achievements from the above:

Not learnt any French.
Not played any banjo.
Not painted the bathroom or put up any shelves.
I am doing the Capital reading group.
I am running still, have yet to change to any other exercise as doing a 10 week running program.
I did sort out the boxes of notebooks and letters, only took half a day though. Most went in the bin.

Not a high achiever (as my school report used to say).

 

[LDC]

The house needed repainting and it's about half done. Most bedrooms and all bathrooms still to do.

I haven't touched a brush and Mrs Shoes has done it all. But I still enjoy the satisfaction of seeing a job well done

Did you 'supervise' though?