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I love to play crown green bowls both for the actual exercise and the social interaction with my team mates

As a full time carer, I don't get that much spare time, but when I do, I like to research our family history. Between us, my brother & I have found all sorts of interesting things about our ancestors.

I sing karaoke online, read thrillers, go for a country walk or maybe bake a cake. I also enjoy entering competitions online.

The thing I love most - arthritis permitting - is a relaxing class of yoga. It's good for the mind, not just the body, and there's nothing like it for easing stress, unwinding and letting your whole being feel at peace with the world.

After a lifetime of working 70 and 80 hour weeks for the Health Service being retired is a joy. Waking up in the morning with a free day is such a luxury that everything I do is a pleasure - reading a book - catching up on TV - listening to a play on the radio - all small pleasures but all things that I never had the time for before - wonderful!

I don’t get a lot of free time at the moment but I enjoy reading, pottering in the garden and walking & photography.

I use my free time to bake. I read lots of books. Visit family. Just chill as I don't get a lot of free time.

Needle felting, baking, seeing friends, watching tv, learning German.

I have taken up cross stitch and flower arranging.

I spend time on my laptop learning about different things from Internet sources, entering competitions, e-mailing friends, doing jigsaw puzzles online etc. I also like doing hands-on wooden jigsaws that get sent on to my better half's father's cottage when I've completed them (they rent the isolated cottage sometimes, so wildlife watching, reading and puzzles are the main sources of entertainment - no TV or anything). I read a lot and this has been a lifelong habit. I have a reasonable collection of books my better half refers to as a 'personal library', and though I have read the majority there are still a fair few on the 'to be read' pile!

We will be moving house soon and I will have a greenhouse for the first time ever. I am looking forward to being able to grow more all year round and to be able to provide more home-grown food. Gardening will be my way to stay calm, stay focused and learn a lot. We have big plans for planting to make our new garden wildlife-friendly, to be mindful of pollinating insects with everything we plant, and to provide homes and food for as many species as we can. We have looked into providing a home for a few disabled hedgehogs and, once settled, we may even add beehives to the hedgehog houses, bat boxes, bird boxes & insect hotels plus all the hedges, trees and other plants in front and back gardens, living walls and roofs, climbers along walls and trellis, raised planters full of food for us and the wildlife. There is a large sheltered area behind two tall trees so I will also be researching what, if anything, I can grow or do there and we suspect it is where foxes may sit in the evenings - one of my new hobbies will be sitting in the conservatory watching foxes in the evenings and other wild visitors during the day. Long overdue, but I have also got a sewing machine - and plan on learning how to sew!

For the last few years I've had shortness of breath and poor mobility, so I spend the majority of my time at home in my recliner chair.
I'm quite content watching TV and doing competitions and games on my laptop and keeping in touch with family and friends.

I enter comps online, also been reading a lot more

I do cross stitch. It really relaxes me & I just love creating something that I can enjoy for years after its finished.

Now I have a little dog I spend it with him. He has some emotional difficulties so I watch programmes like The Dog Whisperer to help me make sense of his anxieties.

I can't think of a nicer way to spend spare time. He's such fun.

Knit, knit and more knit.

I like to walk the dog and also do competitions and puzzles. It keeps me active and my brain too.

Reading, painting and drawing and... decorating (I enjoy it - really!).

Ilike knitting, reading and doing puzzles

I love nature and try to spot it with the birds in my garden or on long walks, getting home and knitting and then bedtime is sudoko

I love to get lost in a good book

I am researching my family tree.

I love gardening and being outside, regardless of the weather. And walking the dog of course. When I am tired from a busy day I watch a bit of telly, I deserve it!

I enjoy entering competitions and researching my family tree when I get some free time.

I enjoy meeting up with one of my daughters to put the world to rights over coffee and cake or gardening. Particularly over covid gardening has given a great sense of achievement when its time to harvest.

When I’m well I like golfing, Pilates, reading and swimming