Item
A Puzzling Distraction
Title (Dublin Core)
A Puzzling Distraction
Disclaimer (Dublin Core)
DISCLAIMER: This item may have been submitted in response to a school assignment. See Linked Data.
Description (Dublin Core)
HIST30060. Millions of people picked up hobbies during their respective lockdowns, mine happened to be puzzles. A few in this photo I had before lockdown, but most was bought in the lead up to, as well as during. I bought my first colour puzzle about a month before lockdown started, when I first discovered the board games store Mind Games in Melbourne's CBD, though I did not touch it until study at home began. These puzzles gave me something I could be good at, with only one still incomplete months after I first got it (in my defence, it changes colour). They allowed me to multitask, I would watch movies for university while I had a puzzle in front of me, I discovered so much music through my Spotify recommended playlists that have become solid favourites, I've caught up on podcasts that were usually relegated to my daily commute to university. They gave me something I could control, in a time of change and confusion, a welcome distraction from everything happening outside of my house.
Date (Dublin Core)
November 4, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
Meg Bate
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Meg Bate
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
HIST30060
Partner (Dublin Core)
University of Melbourne
Type (Dublin Core)
Photograph of Puzzles from Lockdown, in Melbourne, Australia.
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Art & Design
English
Entertainment: Movies, Theater, etc.
English
Health & Wellness
English
Home & Family Life
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
jigsaw
activity
podcast
Spotify
music
movies
TV
multitasking
colour
Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)
puzzles
lockdown
isolation
distraction
Victoria
Australia
comfort
control
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
2020/11/03
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
2020/11/04
02/17/2021
Date Created (Dublin Core)
2020/11/04
This item was submitted on November 3, 2020 by Meg Bate using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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