I started buying the Saturday Guardian about a year ago, lured by Yotam Ottolenghi's recipes.
I teach geography, knitting and scuba diving, not all at the same time although I'm working on it. I enjoy anything to do with being out on the mountains or on/under the sea. Throw in a bit of cycling, baking, gardening and that's my weekend sorted.
I don't tweet or blog or do any other social media stuff to tell everyone what I'm doing. Too busy just doing it. My only attempt at a selfie (sort of accidental, I was trying to get my camera to work underwater) was rejected for this space as it didn't show my face well enough. I like to take photos of great views, not me. My partner seems to feel the same way!
I'm a bit slow to adopt new technologies and digital anything but if ever there was a reason for iPads in class, Guardian Eyewitness photos are it. There's a geography lesson in every picture.
Fifty is approaching but it's not something that bothers me. However, Stella Grey's column on online dating does. One more example of an unpleasant world I would want to stay well out of.
I slowly work through the News, Money and Cook sections, usually on a Saturday afternoon, then Family and Travel on Sunday morning. I'm accumulating recipes in a good old-fashioned cut-and-paste folder, especially the themed ones in Cook that give me ideas of what to do with home-grown veg. Sport and Review usually go straight on the firelighter pile, where the rest ends up eventually, or shredded into the compost heap then onto my veg plots. So it all either heats or feeds me eventually.
