As my friends know, I spend much of my leisure time bungee jumping, leaping out of aeroplanes and riding motorcycles around tracks. In quieter moments, I compose winsome ditties on my much loved Ovation guitar and consume vast quantities of modern fiction, having exhausted the best of the Victorian novelists in my youth. I holiday on the slopes and hoist a spinny on gusty weekends, yet still find time to maintain a passing interest in modern coding approaches to video-games.
Broadly, this might well be true, were it not for the two small lunatics who've turned up in my house and consume near enough every waking minute. I still aspire to continue doing all of the above - I've started so I'll finish - but it's hard to maintain all these pursuits in just 26 minutes every weekend... And, really, all these aspirational attempts to fill your time barely hold a candle to moulding the future of two small girls. I tell myself this every morning, so I'm sure it's true.
And, actually, it's hard to put clear definition to my work and play existences. Before I forged a career in IT, I fiddled around with IT for pleasure - from about the age of 12. At hours which any normal person might consider firmly in the bounds of 'leisure time' - if not sleeping time - you're quite likely to find me working. I don't know if this modern boundary-blurring approach is a good thing or not - but it suits me down to the ground.
Broadly, this might well be true, were it not for the two small lunatics who've turned up in my house and consume near enough every waking minute. I still aspire to continue doing all of the above - I've started so I'll finish - but it's hard to maintain all these pursuits in just 26 minutes every weekend... And, really, all these aspirational attempts to fill your time barely hold a candle to moulding the future of two small girls. I tell myself this every morning, so I'm sure it's true.
And, actually, it's hard to put clear definition to my work and play existences. Before I forged a career in IT, I fiddled around with IT for pleasure - from about the age of 12. At hours which any normal person might consider firmly in the bounds of 'leisure time' - if not sleeping time - you're quite likely to find me working. I don't know if this modern boundary-blurring approach is a good thing or not - but it suits me down to the ground.
