With golf clubs shut, golf can still be part of your life in lockdown.

The Golfshake Self-Isolation Guide for Golfers provides some ideas to keep you engaged, starting with Get Golf Fit:

If you aren’t playing golf, then you are losing an invaluable opportunity for exercise, something made more difficult by the closure of public gyms. However, to help you stay active and work on your game, Golfshake has just partnered with Jon Ship of Golf Fit to provide a new, weekly tuition series to improve your fitness and become #FitterStrongerFaster.

 

From 7-second riddles:

These easy math puzzles with answers turn out to be a big challenge for those whose mind is not used to work. These riddles and brain teasers will test your logic and will improve your IQ level:

Chalk and Talk is an online community experiment. It’s a creative conversational space for people, at a time when physical distancing is being encouraged. Chalk and Talk is facilitated by me, Doug Shaw. I’m a freelance artist and consultant, and since 2009 I’ve been working where art, business, and the wider community meets. In these current uncertain times, it feels important and useful to make time to meet, play, talk, and share.

Chalk and Talk takes place on Mondays and Wednesdays at 1pm.

There is a small charge of £4 per session. Buy your tickets here

Find out more about Doug Shaw at The Consulting Artist

Starlink is a satellite constellation being constructed by SpaceX to provide satellite Internet access. The constellation will consist of thousands of mass-produced small satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO), working in combination with ground transceivers.

I’ve been watching the trail of satellites over the sky in Kent, England the last few nights. Find out where you can catch sight of them at findstarlink.com

The Modern House’s resident gardener Claire Ratinon shares her tips on how to grow herbs on your windowsill or balcony.

Claire Ratinon: You don’t need masses of space to grow your own edible plants. It certainly helps to have an expansive garden if you want to grow cauliflowers, asparagus or squashes, but if you’re only blessed with a bright balcony or sunny windowsill, you’ve got enough space to grow herbs.

Read the full article on The Modern House website

Many people have been asking me how to start their own YouTube channel and usually when the question is asked, I direct them to a couple of YouTubers who I watch and value the content they share.  Justin from Primal Video is one who shares great videos about getting started with video and setting up a YouTube channel.  Check out his other videos on cameras and apps that you can use too.

Wolfram Alpha is a knowledgebase website that answers all your calculations and provides expert level answers.  With wide ranging topics everything from mathematics, chemistry, history and even hobbies, you can spend hours on this site just learning all sorts of new things.