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A long challenging bike ride, slow shower, followed by sitting in the sun reading my book.

I paint and draw, garden, walk the dogs and love travelling Great Britain, visit historical places and puzzling.

I can think of nothing worse than living in a retirement community ???

I catch up with friends on the internet. Send a few emails and make a few phone calls to the ones that don't do emails. Its lovely to get the replies.

Love spending time with family and nothing better than sitting down catching up with my daughters busy lives and enjoying lots of cups of tea.
If I am by myself I am happy doing jigsaw puzzles or reading a good book.

Spending time gardening

I love to take walks by our canal; there is so much beautiful plant and bird life to see, and I love to see the swans with their cygnets and watch the youngsters' progress (nearly the size of their parents now, but still grey)
When the weather is too bad for walking I love a good crossword

I like to enter competitions, but spend most of my time in our new garden growing fruit and veg in raised beds and trying to get rid of the weeds and brambles!

I like to enter competitions - like this one!

During lockdown I started doing jigsaws and now have arounf 20 of them that I've really enjoyed doing. I tend to opt for Anne Stokes designs or Disney designs.

I like gardening.
I have certain favourite television programmes that I watch with my feet up on the sofa, an ice-cream lolly in my hand and a cat on my lap.
I'm an online competition addict. Not very successful this year but I keep trying.

I make silver clay jewellery . Its surprisingly easy but really is a great creative outlet.

i love to do quilting and reading.

Trying to get out a daily walk (when weather allows) or at least some kind of home exercise and/or yoga. Need to keep fit and healthy

I have loads of spare time now that so many of the things I usually do during the week have closed, but I'm never bored. I read, surf the net, read discussions in forums like this, walk the dog, walk me! The list goes on

Doing binge tv watching and gardening

I love spending time in the garden pottering about with my plants and making the place look colourful with nice flowers. I also enjoy keeping active walking our new beautiful labrador Callie.

love knitting and card making in my spare time

reading

Gardening while the weathers fine and walking with my husband

I enjoy knitting, patchwork and container gardening.
I've found those colouring in books surprisingly relaxing - 20 minutes helps to get rid of the frustrations I usually feel after checking Twitter!
Reading has always been my go to so it's great to have the local library open again.

I love keeping busy, jobs around the home and garden, crafting, jigsaws, reading, walking, visiting stately homes (when not in lockdown) learning new things, my last course was upholstery which was great fun.

I've like to go for a walk, watch tv, listen to music or read

reading and walking mostly but have lately started doing craft projects and am really enjoying creating and making.

I have two sorts of free time.....the totally self indulgent one, where I do all the codewords and number puzzles in the paper, kenken being my favourite. These are what my mother would have deemed 'useless' activities. They're not useless at all as they reboot me!
Then there's constructive activity like gardening, walking, sewing and quilting, playing piano and concertina and litter-picking in my beautiful local area. Something to show for my time, and reboot myself at the same time.....Maybe mother was right.