My first suggestion is with my family history hat on. Remember how annoying it was when you found a picture of unknown ancestors in a box of photographs and didn't know who was who, because no one had labelled the photograph? Yeah, well that's about to happen on a massive scale, because hardly any of us identify the digital photographs we take. Take the time to sort photographs and identify the people appearing in them.
The second is with a view to the fact that we may be in this situation for months. Why not start gardening? Even if you only have a flat or balcony, you could be growing lettuce, herbs, maybe some tomatoes? Bearing in mind that shops are being stripped of fruit and vegetables, if you have a larger space the most useful thing you could do is to plant some vegetables and make your garden productive.
The third is to adopt a local elderly person you can phone and keep their spirits up.
Ok, this list is growing, am reorganizing into subject headings
Archaeology
Course now free on archaeology.
Online course on forensic archaeology.
Creative
Affinity creative apps have given everyone a three month free trial - and they're half price if you want to buy them. This is a great time to learn new software.
Lectures
Fancy a lecture? Gresham College has 2500 lectures on a wide variety of subjects to educate you, on history, art, gardening, astronomy, pandemics... maybe give that last one a miss....
Plays
You can watch all the Globe productions on the Globe Player here.
Singing
You can join an online choir here with Gareth Malone - 15,000 people have already signed up.
Virtual tours
This page on travel and leisure.com has virtual tours of museums and parks.
This article in the Independent has links to tours of Rome.
I will add to this page as I find links and ideas.
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