To wonder what retirees do on a grey, wet Tuesday morning

During COVID I worked from home but didn't have much to do work wise, so I improved my French, German and Greek using Duolingo, YouTube and books, painted almost the entire house inside, painted some other things, did more gardening and sewing than usual, learned new knitted methods, learned new recipes for cooking and baking, did some repairs around the house, and listened to BBC World Radio a lot.

Other than some exercise there's no need to do anything.

We can simply be, we don't have to do.

If my gym is anything to go by then they go to Pilates and yoga

Meet a friend in a coffee shop, have a friend round for coffee, stay cosy and do an indoors hobby, catch up on some housework, read a book, go out and browse around M & S or your chosen shop, bake a cake, do some batch cooking for the freezer, have a lie in and luxuriate that you don’t have to go to work.

Isn’t the answer…. Whatever the hell they want to?

Retiree here. Play an outdoor sport (unless it's tipping down). Go to an adult education class, my 8 yr old friend rally builds off road cars and competes, lots and lots of U3A classes near me, well attended.
Trips and lunches, volunteering, lots of sport.

Meet friends for coffee, wrap up and go for a walk, sort out a cupboard, plan the garden, read, paint. Thinking that work is overrated......

I take the dogs out, do the daily jobs which need to be completed regularly, listen to the radio, and then when I'm done I'll read. Some days I might even talk to my husband!
It might sound boring but it suits me.

If you are my DF you embark on endless home improvement project (hes always been handy) and then move on to assisting your neighbours do DIY and garden maintenance.
If you are my DM you sit at home watching daytime tv for years on end.
I have an aunt who got really into reenactment, she spends her winters making costumes and her summers at events and doing living history type work.

I'm glad, OP, that you have a job you enjoy. I used to think that, and all the career stuff, then I got sacked (out of the blue).

The job I do now pays the bills, but I would happily have pizza in the office on my last day, walk out, and never give it another thought.

I am through with spending time, and worry, about someone else's business.

I’m nowhere near retirement and could quite easily fill every day all year round with different activities and hobbies and interests and volunteering too.

As kids if we moaned we were bored, the response was “only the boring get bored” - might sound old school but it made us think 🤔

We have just opened an art gallery (well, two years), so that is literally my retirement plan..

Really depends on your interests, surely? In the country, I like wet, grey days as much as sunny days, just in a different way- long walks with the dogs etc actually much easier when it's not boiling hot. In town I would be spending my days in galleries, museums, meeting friends for lunch, concert in the evening etc- weather doesn't make much difference.

Take a day time course at your local college, learn a new language, how to paint.

My dh volunteers on Tuesdays, meets a friend on Wednesdays and seems to be at the end of the runway regularly too (more regularly then he tells me i suspect!) apparently at the end of the runway it’s pretty busy even in rain (go figure!) I go to work

Museums, art galleries, a matinée at the theatre, a nice lunch somewhere, dress for the weather and go for a long walk. Write some short stories or a couple of chapters of your novel. Cook a really nice, complicated dinner. Curl up with the cat and a good book.