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A Puzzling Distraction

Title (Dublin Core)

A Puzzling Distraction

Disclaimer (Dublin Core)

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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

Item sets

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”: http://mail.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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