When social distancing and lockdown measures began in the UK, packets of eggs, yeast and flour disappeared from supermarket shelves as people turned to home baking to pass the time.
No
I’m not getting to babysit my wee grandson, so I went back to my patchwork quilting, and somehow got side tracked into making cotton masks for folk...
Nah....
I have taken up gardening during the lockdown. Never thought I'd enjoyed it so much, now l have flowers and plants in my garden for the first, it's a feel good factor. I am bless 🌹🌻💙🌷💙 gardening LOCKDOWN2020
Not had a chance. More work than I can shake a stick at.. Longer hours even..
Trying to study physics
No
I discovered my new career as a cam boy
You know what? 'Learn' how to meditate and relax... avoid thinking that you have to learn 1000 things during lockdown just because The Guardian says so...
I did start. Duo is an awesome little free app. I lost the motivation
Bought some flour so I can make some pancakes. That is what I have felt like eating for some days now.
No. I was too busy with working from home and being tired in the evening. And my weekends haven't changed much.
I've learned something that I've always wanted to, ever since I heard Will You by Hazel O'Connor, the saxophone. I'm so proud of myself. I've also started making the best sourdough bread you ever tasted. But my best and biggest new skill is in the art off lying, 😁😁
I managed to get on a course the Goverment were offering for free. Great way to keep the brian active. Thanks Morrison
Tried sourdough but wastes too much flour, which is hard to source. Taken up growing veg from seed. My biggest new hobby is handwashing. Keeps me busy for hours.
I have learned creative statistics , free online course from Mat Hancock School of Bullshit.
Currently binging an intro to BSL course and practicing on my cats 👍 Actually, I'm really enjoying it. Can't wait to join classes in person!
I've discovered how easy it is to sleep fourteen hours a day
I‘ve annihilated my masturbation record
I've stopped learning a language, cos where am I gonna go?!
No, in fact, I stopped learning Norwegian when I realized no one is going anywhere for at least 2 years because my fellow Americans are idiots who will keep the virus going every time there's any chance of getting it under control. And the US isn't even issuing passports anymore.
No
Nah
No, I've been working like a monster.
I rediscovered xHamster, if that's what you mean.
Learning Hebrew!
Yes. Started HTML, CSS and Python
No
Still working, more than ever. How nice that some people can enjoy a relaxing and fulfilling virus period. Millions of workers not in NHS or care sectors get on with it every day, not getting or wanting a round of applause, but also not wanting their noses rubbed in it.
Nope! More important things to do in these challenging times....
Yes, although home educating my 7 and 10 to, we have been reading loads of Laura Ingalls Wilder books together and learning pioneer skills. Best has been a braided rag rug from old clothes! Onto our 2nd now. It was a fun project to do together and step learning curve!
Breaking bad
No. I stick by my love for english 🥰
Leaving my sourdough starter home alone for 24 hours will feel weird ... while going outside again will be positive, returning to 'normal' does raise conflicts and challenges. In this Ted talk I will
No. I'm working from home and home schooling my son.
Nope
Haven't had time.
no
My girlfriend discovered she's got a knack for house plants, nowI need a machete to get to the bathroom.
No
For me it’s involved listening to more music
I have continued to work on my Spanish with Duolingo. I also plan to resume my Polish language lessons. I am drawing again as well.
Yes, a political awakening
Yes, eating more chocolate than I thought was physically possible.
I can say that I learned how to play You Ain't Going Nowhere by Bob Dylan on the guitar.
Yes, I'm learning Greek & building a blog site as well as working from home......not commuting has given me extra hours to do stuff I enjoy.
No.
Bakery stores will now surge down cos im making my own breads from now on lol
Hablo español
Eating cake
Yeah! Netflix
Dancing with my mop
De clawing cats, plucking budgies
More suggestive of relationship therapy
Yes. A skill to lay down on my bed for 14 hours without foods and drinks
I'm learning the guitar and keyboards, plus trying to make bread - there's no time for work I'm so busy...
ONG yes!! it’s hectic wfh and looking after 2 primary aged kids. I’ve found space and me time by having a go at lego!! Almost completed hogwarts great hall! Loving it.
Healthy coping strategies
Mokapot coffee-making. Fresh grinds, filtered water, trial and error to get grind right, digital scale. Paying attention!
Twitter.
Does shoehorning kids’ school work between full time job, dinner, and bath time count as a hobby?
😂 David Icke sounds considerably more sane that this lot - really an unprecedented global shutdown on the flimsiest of evidence and this is the guardians take. Yes guardian I’m learning the piano and wine connoisseur-big
Yes, survival
An attempt at drawing a tree.
I’ve learned how to use Zoom and how to pour a pint from a can properly, both are proving to be very useful
Making visors by the bucket load.
I'm getting good at alcohol
Is masturbation still considered a hobby in the UK? I'm French and wondering.
Both solos from Comfortably Numb
Yes it's called getting pissed, knackers
I've found a great skill, sleeping 😵🤔👎
Cocktail making 😊
Yes. Rereading about the horror of Europe in the 20th Century. Also WW2 in Asia, Japan in Manchuria, Vietnam, the Killing Fields, The Indian and Irish famines. Puts a few months watching Netflix and homeschooling and a some financial struggles in perspective. Let's grow up, eh?
Yep, fucking with the liberal media...and pancakes. I'm really good at pancakes
Yes
Yup.
Yeah homeschooling, it's not a hobby but bloody hello you need a high skill of patience to do it every day.
No
Why is everyone baking?
I’m building a hard tail bobber motorcycle powered by a pre-70 Triumph unit engine. Next step? Lacing up a front wheel to an Akront rim. Then building the engine from spare parts. Sourdough? Please...
Does eating my body weight in cheese on a daily basis count as a skill?
Teaching my 5-year old daughter whilst taking long deep breaths and resisting the overwhelming urge to swear😁
Nope Dear
....my new hobby / skill...I am learning a forth language... Meow
No, I go to work. We pick up the casualties of the lockdown.
Home schooling 😂
...no... fml
No, I've note. SomeOnE help me. fEeL so ina-dequat. Can't kook Bread or Sew my own clothes or cutmy heir or sPeak Spaniard. Lovinglockdown.
House cleaning 😫
Yes, I learnt Mandarin. Not really, I've been too busy trying to save our failing businesses with ZERO help from the govt and generally pulling my hair out with two kids (who've been my saviour actually) at home. forgottenLTD notinthistogether
Tutti fornai nel mondo 😂💕
I learned how to open oyster
Not reading the guardian is a favourite hobby of mine
Yes that I can do 98% of my home work without my maid.
I found sleeping is important skill at theses days
Nope. Still the same basic bitch I was 2 months ago.
Nope.
Hey there, I've learnt French during lockdown. Easy peasy 😉
My hobby is searching for a hobby.
Sun bathing 😛
Nope. But I have found lots of things I am no good at Including making cakes and bread, avoiding the biscuit tin and not needing a drink
Making babies? Or pretend making babies?
Yes, my new hobby is accepting that we are absolutely alone in this vast expanding universe, staring into nothingness and making peace with my death. Also some baking and crocheting.
Crushing anxiety and depression.
Getting fit with the assistance of my Fitbit. Running on the spot and exercising with my recently purchased dumbbells.
No, I have been working full time.
Crying
No
Something I never thought I would ever do bake a cake . It was actually quite nice I was shocked to say the least
Recalling the way things used to be when I was a child
No
I like to count down the hours till is time to go to bed again, so I can sleep a few more hours of this tediousness away.
Sleep on the sofa. I'm gettin better each day
I learned how to make Irish soda bread
Yeap, did lead a healthy lifestyle, but now Binge drinking, & eating. Looking at the arseholes breaking social distancing, wondering if Ill see my family again before I die of cancer.
Repair broken things myself rather than pay handyman for repair
Sewing masks on my grandmother's 100 year old Singer. Last thing I made was a Glinda the Good Witch costume. How far we've come/descended.
Unless you count cleaning your bloody doorsteps...... 🙄
No
new skills on tossing my PC: re-coating heat-conducting grease on CPU, and replacing power。
yes found a new hobby of overthinking
I wonder on my ability to write books. I guess I can make my life this way after this pandemic
Yup, drinking alcohol.
Found a new hobby. Playing the Piano . I’m loving it . There are great apps in the Apple store .
I am to much lazy , my new hobby are watching movie and sleeping and this is my new skill in quarantine time which is i have achieved 😴
Yes, I've learned to read crap from the newspapers !
1) Able to resist watching Porn 2) not shaving for 4 days 3) planting peppers in pots 4) Binging in Netflix TV Series: Black List, Money Heist, Person of Interest, Outlanders, Breaking Bad & Better call Saul, 5) cooking home-made meat Raviolis
forget your hubbi if you need bread for in long terms & you dont produce flour & you import
Eating. Oh, no, that’s normal.
I’m finally going to finish the sweater I’ve been knitting for two years. Just in time for summer!
Yes, dill infused bread although I find you have to give the dill dough a good pounding to get the best results 🤔
England are misleading the people
I've expanded my quilling repertoire to include refrigerator magnets.
Yes. Staring out of windows.
Yes
aliwanas_ mostafawanass 👨🍳
Yeah, but there's like one vertebrae keeping me from achieving it.
No, but I have been frightened and fascinated and dislocated and ‘encouraged’ by the rest of the world getting a crash course (albeit terrifying) in viral illness and longterm social isolation. pwME
I collect empty wine bottles, make pasta and workout.
Ordering beer and curry online.
Yeah, drinking
mass debating online.
I'm re-learning my Dutch on Duolingo (een mooi taal!)
A new hobby.. drinking wine, a new skill.. target shooting
I’ve reconnect with the guitar and and playing loads of poker with friends. It’s been good in that respect.
Cataloguing my personal library using the Library Thing app and website 📚
Masturbation wearing different kinds of gloves...
Waiting for mypainting by numbers to arrive
No. Still working but from home.
catching fish on animal crossing
I'm learning russian
Nope just playing lots more guitar and learning lots of songs and solos I'd been meaning to learn but never got around to.
We thought our 5 year old to cycle a bike 😬
Bugger off.
Yes. Wiping my arsepiece with copies of the guardian
Fridge Defender...🤺 (I have 3 teenagers).
Yes, And it isn't reading the Guardian.
No
Not new😊
No.
Yeap. Binge drinking.
No
More patience
SUCCESS belongs only ☺to those who are willing to work harder than anyone else. realDonaldTrump
Socialism
Yes, my new hobby is sitting in the corner facing the wall wondering at what point I drifted into a parallel universe.
Drinking wine
Identifying trolls in one tweet
yes, photography.
No, I've been working.
Yes. Uncovering the elites work.
😀😀😀😀😀
No
The highest epidemic in the world is spread in America, so remove the tradition of joining hands and the tradition of Yes Namaste