What do you do that is just for you?

When we came back from Spain I decided I would have fresh flowers in the house every week, they were expensive in Spain and didn't last. Two years on it is still a delight.

I also enjoy Gransnet and being able to order things easily on line, but my big thing is having a zizz in the afternoon in my OWN room.

I have my nails done and can happily spend a few hours at a time doing a jigsaw

I am actually flying soon but that's a bit stressful with everything going on and I will be with other family and young children to entertain lol x

Oo embroidery is very interesting!

I sew every moment I can - I also knit, read, paint watercolours and am teaching myself to embroider.

GN, and walking, Tai Chi and Pilates and my abiding interest for the last 40 years - archaeology, especially landscape archaeology. - fired by my, then, 4 year old son's interest in the subject, I did a part time certificate course when I was working and a further degree when I retired and am active in several local societies.

Both DH and I were agreed that we would never stop each other following subjects we were interested in. It did mean in the early years DH coming home on a Friday after a week or more overseas, to have me hand house and children to him Saturday am while I went off on a course, or he would come home as above and disappear off on a diving weekend the following day.

Work in my garden. That’s for me as no one else cares what it looks like.

Having my nails done. I wake up early so everyday I get at least 2 hours of Classic FM and reading without the tv on in the background, it's heaven.

Yennifer, I was just going to say that studying may not be for yourself but for work purposes. If you can choose your subject just because you find it interesting then that is for yourself. If you're told you need a refresher course or have to learn new legislation, regulations, or systems then that is studying for work!

I go out one evening a week to sing with the local choir.

I travel as often as I can. ✈️

Art classes and I play a tin whistle. I sometimes go to the cinema alone. So relaxing.

I wish I could sing! I love singing but my cat does it better lol x

Read whenever I want. iPad whenever I want. Recently joined a choir on my own.
Love to sing so I guess that’s just to indulge me....

I hadn't looked at studying being for me, it's to be able to move up in my career. I suppose it is for me but it's sometimes quite stressful and time consuming x

I fish - or at least, I will fish when I am fit again. I love the solitude of rivers and large upland reservoirs, so that you can be ‘in the moment’ with nature, the weather, and the landscape around you. Well, something has to compensate you for when the fish are turning their noses up at every fly in your box!?

I was going to say that curvy.

I also meet friends for lunch/tea and I volunteer for the Alzheimer's Society.

My favourite 'me' thing, though, is buying flowers and having them around the house.

Aren't you studying for yourself?

When I returned to education as a mature student I felt that it was for myself. i loved it.

Buy a lot of books and White wine, then have entire afternoons, evenings just reading and sipping. Simple pleasures.

Go onto gransnet!

My daughter is always busy and takes time out occasionally for a massage or has a manicure. I know these cost money but just going out on your own maybe for a coffee or a walk in countryside can be good for you.