Positive Ideas of How to keep entertained at home

[radstockjeff]

Virtual Desert Island Discs.

I've just sent out to about 16 of my friends/acquaintances a suggestion for a Virtual Desert Island Discs.
They are asked to list their 8 favourite pieces of music and if appropriate any stories behind their choices.
The outcome will be to collate the responses into a Virtual DID with stories and music to circulate among the responders in an appropriate manner.
Initial response encouraging.
Will be interesting to see the choices of music.

[River Tyne Lass]

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=808226.msg6843771#msg6843771

Read and review a book on this thread.

[Greensleeves]

My screen only goes down as far as USA and there doesn't seem to be a slider to move further down. 

Ctrl and minus will zoom your screen out, and Ctrl and plus will zoom in.  I had a similar problem on one of my laptops.

I have this morning thought of a way one could play the map game with others.  Agree amongst you which country you are visiting.  Then each go to the home page, click on that country, and then select Stealth at the bottom.  Then everyone playing tries to navigate to the capital city of that country for a virtual party.  I was just trying it out - I selected Iceland, and I find I'm on a car ferry surrounded by icebergs!  Great way to see the world whilst we're stuck at home.

[JenB]

My screen only goes down as far as USA and there doesn't seem to be a slider to move further down. 

Ctrl and minus will zoom your screen out, and Ctrl and plus will zoom in.  I had a similar problem on one of my laptops.

I have this morning thought of a way one could play the map game with others.  Agree amongst you which country you are visiting.  Then each go to the home page, click on that country, and then select Stealth at the bottom.  Then everyone playing tries to navigate to the capital city of that country for a virtual party.  I was just trying it out - I selected Iceland, and I find I'm on a car ferry surrounded by icebergs!  Great way to see the world whilst we're stuck at home.

Is there any way of ‘saving’ the point you’ve reached so that you can continue your journey another day?

[Greensleeves]

A few more ideas: 

The Ramblers Association are mounting a campaign to re-open old footpaths and are asking volunteers to compare old and modern maps and indicate where the old rights of way were so they can see if it's feasible to reinstate them.    For people who like maps (I'm a retired digital cartographer) this is interesting and useful:

https://www.ramblers.org.uk/get-involved/campaign-with-us/dont-lose-your-way-2026.aspx

There are always loads of projects available on Zooniverse, the people-powered research site, where volunteers are known as citizen scientists,  and you get great satisfaction from ensuring that valuable data is digitised.

.  https://www.zooniverse.org/projects

Beats playing Spider Solitaire mindlessly, I promise you.  I know these things.....   

PS:  Hi JenB - if there is, I haven't worked it out yet.  The other day I was in the midst of a terrifying journey in the mountains of Northern Greece on the border with Albania.  I had ALMOST got to the main road to Athens when I had to go out.  Now I shall never know what's at the end of that crumbling mountain road.   

[JenB]

PS:  Hi JenB - if there is, I haven't worked it out yet.  The other day I was in the midst of a terrifying journey in the mountains of Northern Greece on the border with Albania.  I had ALMOST got to the main road to Athens when I had to go out.  Now I shall never know what's at the end of that crumbling mountain road.   

Bother! If you do find out please let me know. I was just turning left at a roundabout towards Lake Balaton in Hungary the other day when we had a momentary power cut.....

[jillruss]

I've just ordered yet more books ( I need more shelf space!) from that well known South American river so that, and FH will keep me going.

I also want to re-learn how to play backgammon. I used to be pretty good at it years ago but have forgotten all I knew. I'm sure there must be something online where you can play the computer!!

Gardening on the fine days and reading on the not so fine days. Lots of stuff on Netflix and Amazon Prime (I really recommend The Man In The High Castle).

[Roobarb]

My screen only goes down as far as USA and there doesn't seem to be a slider to move further down. 

Ctrl and minus will zoom your screen out, and Ctrl and plus will zoom in.  I had a similar problem on one of my laptops.

I have this morning thought of a way one could play the map game with others.  Agree amongst you which country you are visiting.  Then each go to the home page, click on that country, and then select Stealth at the bottom.  Then everyone playing tries to navigate to the capital city of that country for a virtual party.  I was just trying it out - I selected Iceland, and I find I'm on a car ferry surrounded by icebergs!  Great way to see the world whilst we're stuck at home.

Aah thank you Greensleeves  I knew I'd encountered this problem before but couldn't remember the solution to it. Much appreciated.

[scotmum]

As maps have been mentioned a few times already, here is a mapping project I have suggested as a possible 'Friday night challenge' for our local Scout Group - perhaps it might be of interest to some here or an idea you can pass on to your local youth groups such as Scouts, Guides, BB, etc:

https://www.missingmaps.org/

and some info from their site, as to what it is all about:

.   Each year, disasters around the world kill nearly 100,000 and affect or displace 200 million people. Many of the places where these disasters occur are literally 'missing' from any map and first responders lack the information to make valuable decisions regarding relief efforts. Missing Maps is an open, collaborative project in which you can help to map areas where humanitarian organisations are trying to meet the needs of vulnerable people       

So, "Entertainment" of sorts, but with a very worthwhile purpose.