101 things to do instead of watching television

[Millymollymandy]

Good luck Martina and well done for going 'back to school' - I couldn't do it in a million years so I bow to anyone who decides to do further education like that! I'd like to learn linguistics though as it is a fascinating subject.

And good luck to you too Jampot.

[Martina]

Thanks MMM!

[homegrown]

MMM,
you don't need to go back to school to learn something new and anyway life itself (especially self-sufficientish life is an education every day

We do have a TV, but mostly we use it to play back the videos we tape of programmes we're to busy to watch.

but our list is more like

1. Put the Kids to bed
2. Put the chickens to Bed
3. Put the kids back to bed
4. make a cuppa tea
5. put the kids back to bed
6. reheat said cuppa
7. Wife scapbooks, makes cards, knits whichever takes her fancy
8. Read a book till its time to put the kids back to bed

children a such wonderful things are they NOT

[Green Aura]

No idea what number we're up to so I'll follow on from homegrown

9 Watch the radio - really - reception up here is poor and so we have to listen to it via the sky box. My mother watches it avidly