Lockdown skills

[slowmotion]

Well, what are you attempting to master???
I've bought a dental inspection mirror and some hair cutting stuff. Anything else?

 

[EltonFrog]

Just getting through the day without wanting to punch someone.

 

[alicat]

Getting through the day without terminal boredom.

 

[slowmotion]

Getting through the day without terminal boredom.

I can highly recommend a dental inspection mirror. There's a whole new internal world to discover.

 

[EltonFrog]

I can highly recommend a dental inspection mirror. There's a whole new internal world to discover.

My first girlfriend bought me a audio cassette cleaning kit over 40 years ago, it had a mirror on a stick similar to a dental inspection mirror. I still have it and use it occasionally.

 

[anothersam]

Getting through the day without terminal boredom.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBk-21ra-24

(It has its moments, but I probably won’t be adding this to my playlist)

 

[delb0y]

Not a new skill, but it's the first time in 40 years I've been able to work really hard at my guitar playing. But it's back to work (from home) tomorrow, so some semblance of normality.

 

[alicat]

Thank you for the youtube song, @anothersam. That expresses my sentiments exactly. It doesn't help that my mother's favourite saying was 'only boring people get bored' whenever I said that I was bored.

Loving the pics of your rabbit, btw. They do stave off the boredom momentarily. 💫

 

[mudsticks]

I'm learning how best to teach online - getting myself in the right place so people can see what I'm doing.

I'm also putting aside a bit of time to work on my presently very basic Spanish..

In the hope that one day I'll be able to go and inflict it on the natives again.

 

[mudsticks]

I can highly recommend a dental inspection mirror. There's a whole new internal world to discover.

I almost don't want to ask..
.. But what do you need to inspect??

No, it's fine, please feel under no obligation whatsoever to answer that..

 

[buzzy-beans]

I have bought myself a decent mitre saw, some glass, some frame mouldings and mounts and I have finally got around to making frames for several paintings and photographs I have been meaning to frame for many a long year............ I have also finally got down to reading one of the best books of its type I have ever read, namely Vulcan 607 written by Rowland White.

 

[Tenkaykev]

We were planning a bicycle adventure to Pegasus Bridge, St Maire Eglise and Caen on our Bromptons. That's off due to the circumstances.
I decided to try and brush up my schoolboy French of over 50 years ago 😯
A little a day, it is surprising how much of what I learned pops back into my head.

@alicat,
Bored? Bored? Don't talk to me about bored! As a (much) younger man I did a few track races. 24 hours non stop running round a 400 metre running track could get a bit monotonous 😂

 

[anothersam]

Loving the pics of your rabbit, btw. They do stave off the boredom momentarily. 💫

My work here is done – for the moment

 

[Venod]

I have started tinkering with old watches anything mechanical interests me, but in miniature its an all new world, learning how to operate tweezers with minimum pressure, otherwise the bit your holding flies off into oblivion, I have spent an inordinate amount of time on the floor searching for lost parts.

 

[raleighnut]

I've had over 6 years of practice of not doing a lot* since I broke my leg so it hasn't been much different, I pretty much stopped going to pubs since the smoking ban as well. I do miss mates coming round but the new BT package we're on gives us unlimited phone calls at any time even to mobiles so staying in touch isn't a problem.

* I can still do things but only for an hour or so before the pain gets too bad and I have to stop and rest.