A Puzzling Distraction

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Title (Dublin Core)

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

multitasking

colour

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

puzzles

lockdown

isolation

distraction

Victoria

Australia

comfort

control

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

HIST 30060 University of Melbourne Syllabus

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

2020/11/03

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

2020/11/04

02/17/2021

Date Created (Dublin Core)

2020/11/04

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Covid 19

Australian Collection

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://www.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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