Lockdown is here

[Tin basher]

So Boris says to slow down the virus no going out unless its essential so shopping , exercise etc.
What are we going to do to fill the time then folks?
What unexpected benefit have you noticed during the current situation?
One thing I have noticed of late is that I'm spending way less money and the TB bank balance is better than normal at this time of the month.

 

[Goatherdingsplitter]

Benefit is i have more time to tinker uninterrupted in my man cave; until my Missus realised i’d have the time to do those jobs “i was getting round to doing”. Fortunately, most of those involve going out to builders merchants, which are now sadly shut! Stay safe mate!

 

[busby1971]

Benefit is i have more time to tinker uninterrupted in my man cave; until my Missus realised i’d have the time to do those jobs “i was getting round to doing”. Fortunately, most of those involve going out to builders merchants, which are now sadly shut! Stay safe mate!

Screw fox is open, delivery or click and collect at the moment, B&Q will be open in a couple of days.

 

[Rocket_Ronster]

Good news everyone, our local Ford/Skoda dealership is still open.

For when you really need that essential/emergency Mondeo.

 

[Tin basher]

I now have a very very tidy shed

 

[fourteen2two]

Very clean windows frames and facias! Garden a lot tidier!

 

[vim_fuego]

I’ve cut down two trees so far...I only meant to cut one down but you know...once you pull that starter cord...

 

[Tin basher]

I now have a very very tidy shed

And today's task was a hoover out and internally clean two cars, total find in coins £08.25p result. Just need the pubs open now to splurge the lot on beverages.

 

[ninjarabbi]

garden weeded, car hoovered, light switch replaced and mandatory government exercise period concluded.

 

[Wobbly_Jon]

Very clean windows frames and facias! Garden a lot tidier!

Yeah me too, tidy garden, window frames, guttering and facias all sparkly and clean. The only trouble is that as soon as I knock one job off the list my 'dearest' keeps adding another and, she has even got another list for wet days too!

 

[Barch]

Yeah me too, tidy garden, window frames, guttering and facias all sparkly and clean. The only trouble is that as soon as I knock one job off the list my 'dearest' keeps adding another and, she has even got another list for wet days too!

Just think of all the time off you will get for good behaviour when all this crap is over.

 

[ninjarabbi]

Just think of all the time off you will get for good behaviour when all this crap is over.

Like she'll remember!

 

[Barch]

They remember everything !

 

[justintime129]

Gave downstairs a good clean out. Tomorrow will get the jet spray out and clean the slabs, the decking and the artificial grass.

 

[Oldstacker]

Too busy working to do any jobs around the house......

 

[vim_fuego]

I have always worked from home on occasion but not permanently...I have always set aside a day or two a week to get on site or to my my office in Bristol or Plymouth...sort of a sanity and stationary raiding mission. Luckily I have a proper office in my house (called the purple room) so I have a good environment away from the rest of the household but...I can see it becoming more and more difficult to keep this up as weeks turn into months. Even with MS Teams to chat on and WhatsApp group for my team its still starting to get a little surreal. I have a sofa in the office and I find myself taking naps on it in the day just because I can! I also look out a set of doors onto a patio and if I see a weed in between the slabs I get distracted by having to sort it...then I see something else and before I know it I've cut the grass and pruned a hydrangea!

 

[Tin basher]

Another job to add to your lock down "to do" list, the clocks go forward this weekend.

 

[justintime129]

One less hour in lockdown then

 

[vim_fuego]

Another job to add to your lock down "to do" list, the clocks go forward this weekend.

I'm going to put mine forward at least 4 months to see how this all pans out.

 

[GD on Wheels]

So who is better off sanity wise? You chaps working from home. Or the likes of me who are still going into work because it's important that as a Key Worker I have to. For now that is.