A regular weekly schedule would look something like:
- Practical volunteering with a local wildlife organisation.
- Studying something, maybe with the OU.
- Working on the house and garden
- Reading
- A decent length hike
- Working on a particular project: woodworking, writing, painting, coding, maybe putting whatever I have learnt recently into practice.
- Visiting somewhere.
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Personally, I always used to carry a paperback with me and would read in the odd moments that this writer seems to recall as being so dull and soul destroying. I still do carry e-books on my phone of course and use them in exactly the same way - but also with the option of doomscrolling, of course.
As for TV, I was never one for TV - or radio - as background noise. With fiends, I had a bit of reputation of going round and turning such things off when I entered the room, so that we could talk without distraction. I would ask them first, of course.