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…

1. Read Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
2. Take a walk somewhere new and try to take photos of some pretty things from at least 5 different angles (you might surprise yourself)
3. Try to make yourself a chinese takeaway at home – my latest triumph was this hoisin plum braised pork
4. Watch Liza Minnelli’s 1972 concert Liza With A Z on Amazon Prime
5. Get up and have a big stretch
6. Have a cocktail night (my personal fave was margarita night)
7. Take a free course from The Open University
8. Listen to Dissect podcast (Season 6 deconstructs Beyoncé’s Lemonade)
9. Go for a litter pick up walk
10. 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)
11. Watch the Disclosure documentary on Netflix
12. Teach yourself how to crochet or cross stitch
13. Spend some time hanging out with the people you live with (sans distractions)
14. Plan for things you want to do in the future
15. Find a good spot to watch the sunset
16. The Classic: get going on Duolingo (and don’t give up!)
17. Research that thing that fascinates you
18. Play with your pet or dream about your options on the RSPCA website
19. Watch Black and Scottish on BBC iPlayer
20. Bake an apple pie, or cookies, or scones, or all of the above
21. Binge Schitts Creek
22. Clean your goddamn mirror
23. Sing a song at the top of your lungs
24. Go on a bike ride
25. Get some fresh bed sheets on
26. Try writing something – a poem, short story, blog post, letter, anything!
27. Watch The Eurovision Movie on Netflix
28. Write a letter telling your bestie how much they mean to you
29. Take a book and read somewhere nice and different
30. Spend a day without your phone
31. Attempt a drag makeover on yourself, or someone you’re living with
32. Write a list of the 5 places you want to travel to next
33. Make up a dance routine to your favourite song
34. Homemade hair salon (at your own risk) cut, dye, cry…
35. Watch 13th on Netflix
36. Read about the icon that is Josephine Baker
37. Learn something new on Skillshare
38. Go through your wardrobe and pick out things to do a fashion show over video call with friends
39. Try to do a headstand
40. Take all the personality tests – my faves are here
41. Paint a picture
42. Do a work out with makeshift dumbbells (I have 2L bottles of Baileys and a backpack full of heavy books on the go)
43. Have a Champagne vineyard tour – learn about the production of champagne here and check out the vineyard here
44. Read The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
45. Make a Tik Tok account and make some videos
46. Binge watch Smash
47. Give yourself a pamper day at your home spa – facemasks, bubble bath, do your nails, the works!
48. Tune in to a theatre live stream – I have plenty recommendations here
49. Go outside and take 10 deep breaths
50. Make a scrapbook to reminisce on the good times
51. Update your CV
52. Watch Hamilton on Disney+
53. Everyone is at it, give your garden a lil spruce up
54. And whilst you’re doing your chores, clear out your cupboards
55. Check out the many creative tasks set in Where Are You Dundee?
56. Treat yourself to an afternoon of Queer Eye and gentle crying at the cuteness
57. Make a rank list of your favourite topic (I had fun making a musicals one)
58. Set up your own music festival thanks to the Glastonbury sets on BBC iPlayer
59. Get all dressed up just for the sake of it
60. Start a lil herb garden in your kitchen
61. Teach yourself the dance to Daði Freyr’s Think About Things (which would have won this year’s Eurovision Song Contest
62. Transform your living room into a cinema (make your own concession stand, build a fort, whatever suits your fancy) and have a movie marathon
63. Listen to the Beautiful Anonymous podcast
64. Follow the no bullsh*t home workout guide from nobs (my thoughts on the programme are here)
65. Another classic, make a loaf of bread
66. You can take a virtual tour of Rome
67. Or take a digital stroll throught the MoMA, Musée D’Orsay, Tate Modern or the British Museum
68. Sign up for a remote cocktail making class with Boozy Events
69. Clear out your email inbox – and unsub from all of those promotional emails you don’t want!
70. 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)
71. Do a Scavenger Hunt in your own house – The Big Smoke Events have already organised it for you!
72. Have a picnic, or a BBQ, or both!
73. Learn Sign Language
74. Clean your make up brushes
75. Call someone you miss and have a chat
76. Get a colouring book and give your mind a break (I particularly like those sweary ones)
77. Recreate your favourite place in the Sims, my favourite example of this was His Majesty’s Theatre in Aberdeen recreated by Matthew Rose
78. Get some hand cream on those frequently washed hands
79. Learn how to make face masks
80. Set up a Come Dine With Me style competition with the people you live with
81. Have your own sports day! When the weather is nice you can meet with pals for socially distant eggs and spoon and sack races
82. Rearrange your furniture
83. Listen to The Happiness Lab podcast (serving scientific facts about how to be happier)
84. Have a vaccuming dance party with your headphones on blast
85. Learn how to make pasta from scratch from an Italian granny
86. Start running (not my personal jam, but I’ve heard that Couch to 5k is a good start)
87. Get up early (or just stay up really late) to watch the sun rise
88. Make a new playlist to suit your mood(s)
89. Have a karaoke night over video call with your pals
90. THE FLOOR IS LAVA
91. Read The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
92. Watch Pose (on Netflix and BBC iPlayer)
93. Upcycle an item of clothing (replace the buttons, tie dye, anything you want)
94. Make homemade pizza with all your favourite toppings
95. Have a Netflix Party or Disney+ Party
96. Make yourself a banging hot chocolate with all the fixings
97. Watch an old Hollywood musical
98. Have a tidy out of your camera roll
99. Hug someone you love (and if you’re living alone, don’t worry, give yourself a big squeeze)
100. Don’t pressure yourself, just do whatever the fk you want cause now you have the time.