What do you do that is just for you?

Yoga class, ( I have practised Yoga since I was in my 20s) & a dance class. I feel so much better after these classes plus the others who go are great fun & we usually have a coffee afterwards. I did an Art class for 2 years as well- I hope to get back to that later this year. I still enjoy painting at home.
However my passion is reading & the best treat I can have is lying on a sunbed- either in my garden or on a Greek Beach -with a Kindle full of books I have been wanting to read. I read every night before I sleep too & if I wake in night I read then.
I am just waiting for new the Hilary Mantel to come out next week- I suspect the housework will have to take a back seat!
I cannot imagine life without books. Luckily DH is the same.

Very kind of you DoraMarr and you’ve done such a good job! I’ll try to be home earlier next week. It would be nice to meet you.
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Most things I do are exactly what I want to do. I walk with my 2 dogs 3 times a day. I like to cook and bake, I knit as a hobby. I'm available if friends or family need me and I used to volunteer for WVS after I retired from work aged 68. Life is good.

Urmstogran finished, and thanks for the chocolate biscuits. Same time next week?

I craft and I read

I've got into Postcrossing. It's a worldwide project where you sign up for free and send postcards all over the world. In return you get postcards back from all over the world. The postcards are not connected so each one is a surprise. I love receiving postcards through my door and also choosing and sending them to others. I even choose nice postage stamps from an old collection I was given.

I have always read a lot so that has been my escape all my life.

... and MUCH cheaper than an undergraduate degree.

I did an MA entirely for me. I did it part time to drag it out as long as possible.
Heaven.
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Go to the hairdressers (if I had the money, I'd be there every week/ fortnight as my mum and her friends used to to) or have a manicure.
Sit in a comfy chair and read
Watch whatever programme I want to watch without comments from across the room!

I lie on my bed and listen to audio books.

Yennifer, I went to college and did An Art foundation course, one day a week for two years it was so interesting as I had never done anything like that in my working career. I felt alive mixing with both young and older students and met new friends of my own age. These days are completely different I do lots of childminding which takes up a lot of time. When I have time to myself I love to disappear in a quiet room with a good Lego set it is very theraputic.

Getting stuck into a good book. I always have at least one on the go.

Playing the piano (not very well!) though somewhat neglected lately because of Stuff and lengthy periods of unavoidable house guests - can’t practise with anyone except dh within earshot.

A blissful afternoon zizz on the sofa! Though can’t do that either with house guests around.

Read for as long as I want listening to my favourite music. Buying flowers for myself. Talking to my friend on the phone with a cup of coffee in my hand. A glass of wine and the TV in the afternoon ( more decadent than the evening!) I can do them all whenever because I live on my own and love that most of all

Urmstongran

Monica my idea of a good marriage.

I love flowers too.

DoraMarr I’ll leave a door key under the doormat tomorrow when I go out. Thanks. ?

Well, I live on my own, and I am retired, so really everything I do is just for me. One thing I really enjoy, surprisingly, is cleaning. I love to tidy my living room and bedroom, dust and vacuum, clean the windows, water the plants, and then perhaps rearrange some of my ceramics. I think it’s because housework with children, teenagers and a husband in the house is always clearing up after other people, and it never stays completely clean or tidy for long. Now, it just me most of the time, so I make my home as inviting for me as I can. I remember reading that Mary Wilson said she enjoyed polishing the furniture and arranging vases of flowers in a room, standing back and taking it all in, then softly closing the door. I can relate to that.

Urmstongran ??? I’m picturing the squeaking! If I’m not sharing something yummy I eat it in my car !

Sing in a choir and play tennis.

A coffee out, people watching, reading alone, sewing, a facial now and again.

Oh yes and flowers, I agree with others about that.

Go into Thornton’s, buy 3 bags of chocolate - Turkish delight, strawberry creams and chocolate gingers - and a huge bag of their plain fudge. Which I then hide in my bedside cabinet. My goodness those bags squeak when I try to open them quietly ...

Norty me. ?

I go to the gym four times a week and hiding out in my potting shed with my earbuds in .

Yoga class would be great, I try to do it at home but finding the time and motivation is hard even though I feel so much better after x

My Yoga class

More naps would be amazing! x