I’m hooked… love it… 
Life has given me lemons
So I have made ultra-delicious (if I say so myself) lemon curd, with a super easy and uncockupable recipe which I will give to whoever wants it.
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Yes please Vero 
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You need: a biggish pyrex bowl, a saucepan with a bit of water in it, an electric whisk, a balloon whisk.
3 whole eggs plus 2 yolks, 120g of sugar, the juice of 3 lemons plus the zest of one, 100g of room temperature unsalted butter
In the pyrex bowl: With the electric whisk, whisk up the eggs plus yolks plus sugar until thick and pale. Now stop whisking, add the lemon juice and zest, then the butter chopped into dice.
Now sit the bowl on the saucepan on a medium heat, stirring with the balloon whisk. The butter will melt and the mixture will look and feel more liquid.
After about 5 or 10 minutes of stirring it will be thick, take it off the heat and stir it about until it is a bit cooler. It will thicken more as it cools down. If you don’t want it to have a skin on top put a bit of clingfilm on it.
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I used my 2 spare egg whites to make a little greek yoghurt mousse I put on top, to make a sort of deconstructed lemon meringue pie…
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Thanks Peter,
Despite already staggering under the weight of friends’ quarantine reading recommendations, I’ve followed your slightly cryptic recommendation and just ordered a vgc s/h hardback copy of Sandra Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others
I can confirm that small balls of chilled homemade lemon curd… coated with really dark chocolate… then left in the fridge to harden before eating … mmmmm… they are absolutely delicious…
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@Stella urges the Corvid housebound: “mmmmm…small balls of chilled lemon curd coated in dark chocolate… they are absolutely delicious…”
I merely ask, how many of these lethal Satan’s Gonads©®™ comprise a recommended daily dose? 
If ever you market them under that label (above) to rival Maltesers or Ferrero Rocher I shall want a slice of the profits
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Ha ha… I only made a couple of dozen or so (it’s quite fiddly) … I handed them round to neighbours… most had one each, although some really brave ones did take a second one “for later”… 
Hopefully using a 2m selfie stick to give them to people?
Jane… this was last year…
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WORLD WAR III - PREVENTING BRAIN DAMAGE
Pretend you’re on holiday - just wear bikinis or try naturism - who’se watching except the dog?
Pamper, stay in the shower for half an hour and put hard spray on all the achy bits. Then have a bath and get him to help scrub the back (like he did when you were 21) then help with instant tan and body lotion; yay!
Make a list of all things you have been to do for yonks and never have time
Spring clean
Empty kitchen cupboards and discard out of date or not touched for a year, Think of everything you could bleach - dustbin, cat litter tray, behind the loo.
Empty your wardrobe and discard too small, too big, not worn for a year (Red Cross)
Get all your trinkets on the dining room table and chose which you don’t both like and discard what you agree on (Red Cross)!
There will be loads of babies in November ditto grandchildren. …
Otherwise, you can: read;,knit, crochet; play cards; Scrabble; chess. Try drawing or painting
Empty all drawers and re-classify
Not sure what men could do - wash then dismantle the car or mower, maybe ?
Other things I found to do - after reducing wardrobe, wash and IRON everthing, do same with shoes wash or polish ditto belts. Discarded all non matching (or not both crazy about) mugs, glasses, cutlery, kitchen eqiopment. Re-arrange kitchen cupboards and clean befor putting back in different places (do this together). Clean inside toaster, dish washer, oven
I could go on for ever. Browse on line catalogues such as Wish,ebay, Drive stores, Lidl, Aldi etc. Sort out towels and bedding, clean under ALL the beds and side tables. YUK!
Put all house plants inthe bath and water generously. Sort out medicine cupboard. Wash the dog, cat, rabbit. If you have a garden nuff said - there’s an idea for men i.e. gets them out of your hair or plants on balcony, maybe repot if you have the wherewithal.
Sit with your feet higher than your heart - back to the babies bit! ![|16x16]
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Touché!
Maybe I’ve led a sheltered life and moved in narrow circles, but I’ve yet to meet a woman who could clean and look after shoes better than a man; many of the latter are actually very good at cleaning all sorts of things (properly).
I’ve got two pairs of American Red Wing boots, some Sebago loafers, as well as English New & Lingwood shoes that are between twenty-five years and thirty years old: they’re all worn weekly and are still looking good. OTH, without male intervention ie. reminders about shoe trees and cleaning (latter invariably by husband) my OH can trash any pair of shoes in under six months.
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That homily on the husbandry of footwear is a pearl without price, a form of flawless gorm.
I am not remotely interested in housework or cleaning, tedious chores that need doing but by anybody, I don’t see them as my problem, specifically.
I don’t know how to iron and don’t intend to learn.
I’d prefer to do that, frankly.
I DO know about shoe polishing, we had about 2 hours to do all shoes and tack every Friday when I was at prep school so I know about polishing leather (inc my boots with a hot spoon when I was 2Lt/Glosters 
).
But I also have my job to keep me busy and working remotely demands a certain amount of ingenuity!
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Got plenty to do - learn French, though there’s much uncertainty now about becoming settled in France before the end of the transition period. Any sensible government would delay it or infinitely better cancel.
Lot’s of unfinished projects with electronics and hifi stuff - recording lps onto reel to reel and DTS tape. Photography is a little limited now Boris the sloth has finally done the right thing.
You can’t hate housework more than I do: only child, boarding school, hostel whilst studing then jobs in hotels, Club Med. All fed/ watered / housed and cleaned/polished/sewn for etc etc. Then finally - work. Managed to get jobs with boarding as above till 1982 when we moved to Africa and dit 8 tours till 2007. Horror of horrors BUT the magic cleaning lady tipped up and in twice 4 hours did all the cleaning, laundry and even cut flowers for the dining table. Retirement is a jy for some but a nightmare for others. Never having lifted a finger in my life, I have discovered that my gentle giant is capable of culinary treats every day whilst I am good at laying and clearing table and responsible for the dishwasher and the washer/dryer. Just tried ironing for the fist time ever, quite relaxing I find. This curfew here in France is much more sensible than in UK. Only allowed with authirisation paper to show the police if stopped and only for visits to doctors and pharmaacies. They have closed anyway and outpatients appointments are being deferred. OK unless you’re expecting! They only closed down hairdressers on Wednesday - come on Boris!
I probably do my share of work in the house one way or another - I am a single parent so I have to! I don’t like it though or see the necessity for a lot of it, really. If I am not at work or doing work at home or chainsawing logs etc I’d rather read or chat with my children or play scrabble.
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Vero, is there you haven’t done?