How do you spend your evenings?

[Rainydays55]

Just interested how everyone spends their evenings after work, do you do hobbies, If so what!? With being in lockdown for so long it’s tricky getting back into a normal evening routine!?

[Lampzade]

Used to
Gym
Language class
Cinema - once a month
Read a lot

Now
Tv
Help ds revise for GCSEs
Read rarely
Tidy up
Online language classes

[itsallaboutschmoo]

At the moment it's a bit more predictable:

Finish work
Maybe do a bit of yoga or walk dog if my turn
Have a bath
Cook
Watch TV, chill with DP, end up talking about random stuff/researching holidays and stay up too late
Realise it's midnight when dog starts nagging us to go to bed (he won't go up without us)
Regret choices

In normal times I do amateur theatre so out a few nights a week rehearsing or performing

[DialsMavis]

It depends if DH is working away or at home.

When DH is away I usually cook, clean up, bathe and do a bit of preening and fit in exercise if didn't manage it earlier in day.

If DH at home I might go for a run straight after work with my friend if we didn't get up early enough in the morning or go on our lunch break, and then do my other exercise session, then dinner, TV bed or on nice evenings a picnic on the beach. I get loads more done when he is away and get to bed earlier so get up earlier too.

Friday nights are pizza and film night with DD. In days of yore Fridays were finish work early then have kids and their parents round for kids tea and adult drinks.

[3then2t0day321]

I usually attend a hobby once a week, but its been closed due to covid for over a year. Hope to start again soon

Go for walks when I have energy

Some indoor hobbies in the winter

[Orangebug]

I have three DC and they are all v sporty, so after work / school I spend a lot of time driving them to various activities and picking up afterwards. Cook and eat supper and clear up at some point in between. Take DC3 upstairs and read him a story (the older two can put themselves to bed). From about 9 / 9.30pm I'll be watching TV with DH - some nights he'll watch something I'm not that interested in (eg snooker) so I mess about on my phone. Other nights we choose something together and put phones away. Go upstairs at 10.15/10.30pm, sometimes have a bath, always read in bed for a bit.

At weekends it's a lot more relaxed as the sporting activities will have taken place during the day. This weekend we're going to the pub tonight with another family and doing a zoom quiz tomorrow night.

[U2HasTheEdge]

Running- but this is new
Reading
Crocheting
MNing
TV
Talk to husband
Occasionally go for a drink with friends

[3then2t0day321]

After another very busy 12 hour shift
Made daily phone call
Cooked dinner
Watched one TV program
Fell asleep on sofa
Bed
Another shift today

[CoalCraft]

Pre-parenthood it would be either video gaming or tabletop gaming. Now with 4 mo DD it's either tabletop gaming (a social activity I've committed to) or catching up on sleep!

[mamabear715]

Eat too much, fall asleep on the sofa, wake up & get online until the early hours because I've messed my sleep pattern up.. :-0

[GuildfordGal]

Aside from kids' activities/baths/books/bed:

Run 3 nights x week for about 40 minutes
Cook and eat (very, very late, but it suits us)
Work (freelance at home)
Read fiction
Read the news
Bit of online shopping/admin if necessary
Chat with DH

I don't watch television much at all - we watch a movie or two at the weekend, but that's about it, and how I've always been.

I generally prefer low levels of both light and noise, come the evening.

[saltychoc]

Walk the dogs
Chat/message on the phone
Housework
Meet friends for a a drink
Go for a run
Tidy up the house/clear out a cupboard
eBay/insta
Sewing/crafts
Read
Watch 2 or 3 tv progs a week
Mumsnetting
Step on the cat (she's used to it and does like to sit in the middle of the hall in the dark!)

[tobee]

"I work on my project of translating the Bible into Klingon, then practice the theremin before teaching my dog how to ride a bike. I squeeze in a quick meal of seaweed and popcorn before a late night seance and some Wicca chanting for the good fortune of my favourite umbrella influencers. If I'm lucky, DD won't keep me up by playing her Polynesian techno music too loudly, and DH will whip me up a carrot martini to help me get to sleep."

A proper mumsnetter!

[Pinkyavocado]

The kids do activities 2 nights a week. We see my mum one night a week. Apart from that it’s tea and trash tv. In the summer we spend more time outside in the garden.

[toconclude]

@Shoxfordian

I’m doing an online philosophy course every Thursday from 6 to 8

Other evenings, dh and I cook, we watch tv, play a game sometimes, online book clubs

Sounds interesting. Who's providing the course, if you don't mind me asking? I'd like to do something similar.

[MsAwesomeDragon]

At the minute, working.

After May half term I'm hoping to get some more evenings back. At that point I think a lot of my evening will be spent with my new puppy!!
I also do
Brownies
Crafts (crochet, diamond painting, soap making, whatever catches my eye tbh)
Go for a walk
Watch TV

[Blossomplease6]

The monotony...
Home from work/ school, dinner ect
Dc in bed by 8ish
Finish doing bits like dishwasher, washing
Have bath, do skin care if I can be bothered
Sit down around 9pm watch tv for an hour or 2
Go to bed piss about on phone
Go to sleep too late.
Repeat. Every. Single. Night.
(Single parent)

[tedsletterofthelaw]

Gym
Make dinner
Watch TV
Scroll on my phone
Have a bath
Play computer games

Any number of those things.

[Ponchek2]

Talking to men

[wanderedlonelyasacloud]

Sometimes I just watch tv all night while scrolling mindlessly on my phone

Other times I:
Go and play tennis
Go out for tea with friends or with DH
Read
Do embroidery
Have a bath
Listen to an audiobook
Sit in the garden with wine
Play a game on the switch

Sometimes I have an evening where I do a bit of grooming such as sorting eyebrows etc

Sometimes we don't do much other than have sex in the middle of the evening tbh (no kids yet)

I'm thinking of starting an online course, previously I was worried I didnt have enough time but I absolutely do and it would be much more productive than most of my evenings where I just watch tv

[YouJustDoYou]

an hour of chores or so, a half.hour down time crochet, reading in bed for a half hour, asleep by 10.30pm.

[sherrystrull]

This has been an eye opener. Every evening I don't relax, I'm always doing school work. I realise many other jobs entail evening work but reading this has made me see that many jobs don't entail spending each evening with a laptop.

[MaidEdithofAragon]

Online personal training, then dinner. Tidy up, emails and work catch up and prep (teacher), bath, cup of tea, half an hour's TV, quick dog walk, waste time on phone, ring my mum, message friends, tidy kitchen, go to bed about 11.

[warmeduppizza]

Three nights of the week I have meetings until 10.30, home past 11.00. Two nights I do other work until about 11.00. Two nights I faff about on my phone and drink wine.

[coronafiona]

Eat
Run, walk with a friend or take children to activity
TV
Bed

I don't know what else I used to do!

[Christmasfairy2020]

Thursdays swimming 5 til 530 for dd aged 11. Then rest of week get kids to bed. bath tv and mumsnet