Well shit, we’ve been in official lockdown for 100 days! Who could’ve imagined, eh? We’ve been fighting the boredom for a long time but there’s still a while to go so here’s 100 suggestions for things you could do with yourself…
- Read Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
- Take a walk somewhere new and try to take photos of some pretty things from at least 5 different angles (you might surprise yourself)
- Try to make yourself a chinese takeaway at home – my latest triumph was this hoisin plum braised pork
- Watch Liza Minnelli’s 1972 concert Liza With A Z on Amazon Prime
- Get up and have a big stretch
- Have a cocktail night (my personal fave was margarita night)
- Take a free course from The Open University
- Listen to Dissect podcast (Season 6 deconstructs Beyoncé’s Lemonade)
- Go for a litter pick up walk
- Have a Games Night (either use the board games you’ve got or get an app that lets you play online with your friends, we use the Cluedo and Ticket to Ride apps)
- Watch the Disclosure documentary on Netflix
- Teach yourself how to crochet or cross stitch
- Spend some time hanging out with the people you live with (sans distractions)
- Plan for things you want to do in the future
- Find a good spot to watch the sunset
- The Classic: get going on Duolingo (and don’t give up!)
- Research that thing that fascinates you
- Play with your pet or dream about your options on the RSPCA website
- Watch Black and Scottish on BBC iPlayer
- Bake an apple pie, or cookies, or scones, or all of the above
- Binge Schitts Creek
- Clean your goddamn mirror
- Sing a song at the top of your lungs
- Go on a bike ride
- Get some fresh bed sheets on
- Try writing something – a poem, short story, blog post, letter, anything!
- Watch The Eurovision Movie on Netflix
- Write a letter telling your bestie how much they mean to you
- Take a book and read somewhere nice and different
- Spend a day without your phone
- Attempt a drag makeover on yourself, or someone you’re living with
- Write a list of the 5 places you want to travel to next
- Make up a dance routine to your favourite song
- Homemade hair salon (at your own risk) cut, dye, cry…
- Watch 13th on Netflix
- Read about the icon that is Josephine Baker
- Learn something new on Skillshare
- Go through your wardrobe and pick out things to do a fashion show over video call with friends
- Try to do a headstand
- Take all the personality tests – my faves are here
- Paint a picture
- Do a work out with makeshift dumbbells (I have 2L bottles of Baileys and a backpack full of heavy books on the go)
- Have a Champagne vineyard tour – learn about the production of champagne here and check out the vineyard here
- Read The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
- Make a Tik Tok account and make some videos
- Binge watch Smash
- Give yourself a pamper day at your home spa – facemasks, bubble bath, do your nails, the works!
- Tune in to a theatre live stream – I have plenty recommendations here
- Go outside and take 10 deep breaths
- Make a scrapbook to reminisce on the good times
- Update your CV
- Watch Hamilton on Disney+
- Everyone is at it, give your garden a lil spruce up
- And whilst you’re doing your chores, clear out your cupboards
- Check out the many creative tasks set in Where Are You Dundee?
- Treat yourself to an afternoon of Queer Eye and gentle crying at the cuteness
- Make a rank list of your favourite topic (I had fun making a musicals one)
- Set up your own music festival thanks to the Glastonbury sets on BBC iPlayer
- Get all dressed up just for the sake of it
- Start a lil herb garden in your kitchen
- Teach yourself the dance to Daði Freyr’s Think About Things (which would have won this year’s Eurovision Song Contest
- Transform your living room into a cinema (make your own concession stand, build a fort, whatever suits your fancy) and have a movie marathon
- Listen to the Beautiful Anonymous podcast
- Follow the no bullsh*t home workout guide from nobs (my thoughts on the programme are here)
- Another classic, make a loaf of bread
- You can take a virtual tour of Rome
- Or take a digital stroll throught the MoMA, Musée D’Orsay, Tate Modern or the British Museum
- Sign up for a remote cocktail making class with Boozy Events
- Clear out your email inbox – and unsub from all of those promotional emails you don’t want!
- Get yourself to the beach and breathe in the sea air (and if you can’t, here’s a beach live stream so you can replicate the experience anywhere)
- Do a Scavenger Hunt in your own house – The Big Smoke Events have already organised it for you!
- Have a picnic, or a BBQ, or both!
- Learn Sign Language
- Clean your make up brushes
- Call someone you miss and have a chat
- Get a colouring book and give your mind a break (I particularly like those sweary ones)
- Recreate your favourite place in the Sims, my favourite example of this was His Majesty’s Theatre in Aberdeen recreated by Matthew Rose
- Get some hand cream on those frequently washed hands
- Learn how to make face masks
- Set up a Come Dine With Me style competition with the people you live with
- Have your own sports day! When the weather is nice you can meet with pals for socially distant eggs and spoon and sack races
- Rearrange your furniture
- Listen to The Happiness Lab podcast (serving scientific facts about how to be happier)
- Have a vaccuming dance party with your headphones on blast
- Learn how to make pasta from scratch from an Italian granny
- Start running (not my personal jam, but I’ve heard that Couch to 5k is a good start)
- Get up early (or just stay up really late) to watch the sun rise
- Make a new playlist to suit your mood(s)
- Have a karaoke night over video call with your pals
- THE FLOOR IS LAVA
- Read The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Watch Pose (on Netflix and BBC iPlayer)
- Upcycle an item of clothing (replace the buttons, tie dye, anything you want)
- Make homemade pizza with all your favourite toppings
- Have a Netflix Party or Disney+ Party
- Make yourself a banging hot chocolate with all the fixings
- Watch an old Hollywood musical
- Have a tidy out of your camera roll
- Hug someone you love (and if you’re living alone, don’t worry, give yourself a big squeeze)
- Don’t pressure yourself, just do whatever the fk you want cause now you have the time.