Monday, October 12, 2015

Various ways of spending time


This is one of our favourite places in Norfolk - Burnham Market. We always visit it when we're staying with my aunt. One of its attractions is the second-hand bookshop, which always has lots of the kind of books that I enjoy: memoirs and diaries and letters of the sort that never get into major bookshops. Then I have several happy weeks of reading musty volumes by people that no one's ever heard of.





It's also a pretty little place.


On a slightly different topic: colouring books for adults seem to be everywhere nowadays. I cannot imagine being so bored that I would want to spend time with one of these. And a friend at choir tonight was saying that she had a sore neck because she'd spent so long crouched over a difficult jigsaw. I've never seen the attraction of jigsaws.

But Mr L and I do spend part of most days doing cryptic crosswords. And cutting up perfectly good pieces of fabric to sew them together again can't exactly be described as a sensible use of time.

But then there are the grandchildren. It's not a waste of time to go to the playpark with them.


 
Even though they won't remember a thing about it in future years.  

7 comments:

  1. Yay--finally someone else who doesn't like jigsaws and coloring. :) I love browsing book stores too, although I'm part of the reason many have gone out of business since I order a lot from amazon.

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  2. You're so funny! I love jigsaws, but they do seem like a giant waste of time. Although, like you said, so do all those other activities. Well, you know -- except the quilting part -- that's just an obsession.

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  3. I was astonished when my son said he didn't remember going to Godstone Farm as a child. It was such a regular outing and a godsend at weekends. He has taken his little daughter there now and it didn't awaken any memories. Perhaps it has changed a lot.

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  4. Of course they will remember because you are turning this blog into a nice book for them - yes? Best present ever? Blog2print?

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  5. I don't get the fad for colouring in, either, but I'm an expert at wasting time in other ways (I can spend whole days in book shops). Oh those grandchildren will remember alright. Just keep showing them the photographs.

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  6. Lovely ways to spend your time! I don't do the coloring books but I have spent time zen tangling and do it with my grandchildren, too.

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  7. They'll remember all sorts of funny little elements of going out with you, to the play park or elsewhere. My grandma's overstuffed leather handbag that went everywhere with us, and could be relied on to burst open at the most inopportune moments. Not that I can recall much of where we were when this glorious and regular disaster struck!

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