Tell 5 Alive all about your 'me' time (survey open to all, regardless how much 'me' time you have!) and you could win a £250 John Lewis voucher

[HelenMumsnet]

5 alive want to find out what you do during your 'me' time - if you're lucky enough to get any!

By 'me' time, we mean time to yourself away from children, partner or work, when you can let loose and have some fun. It doesn't matter if you don't get much 'me' time; we still want to know what you think. The survey is open to all Mumsnetters.

Please take a few minutes to complete this survey and enter your details for a chance to win a £250 John Lewis voucher.

AND, for another chance to enter the prize draw, please tell us all on this thread what you get up to in your 'me' time, whether it's playing air guitar to the radio, or going out for a muddy bike ride - you can 'fess up here .

Thanks and good luck
MNHQ

[MarionCole]

If I can persuade DS to play with DH or DSD at the weekends, then I will shut myself in the kitchen for a couple of hours and bake.

If I have a day to myself I might do a bit of shopping in peace, lunch by myself with a good book, perhaps the cinema. Nothing too glamorous!

Very patronising survey, thank you Helen for clarifying that free time is time without children, partner and work.

[squeaver]

MisSal - no. This survey will have been through multiple drafts with loads of people contributing. They will be thinking that they've been oh so clever and they've got the tone "just right".

It's embarrassing how wrong they've got it.

[CoupleofKooks]

yes go on MN of course
plus go running

[PuzzleRocks]

The utter disdain here is precisely why I love Mumsnet.

@ TeamEdward

[MisSalLaneous]

Oh no, Squeaver - so effort got them this result?? I feel a little bad about my last post if that is the case, but then again, if childish is what they require of us, well... they started it mum.

[RedLentil]

My theory is that this was written by an alien who has only ever encountered women through the medium of UK advertising 1980-.

[MoChan]

I'm glad it's not just me that doesn't sing and dance to the radio during their five or six minutes of daily time free from their relentless toddler.

My favourite thing is reading. I love reading. But these days, I mostly fall asleep half a page after getting comfy.

I would really like some John Lewis vouchers, though.

[Katisha]

Had to open survey to see what fuss is about.

Nope I can't bring myself to fill it in either. Just too irritatingly twee and lifted from the pages of a glossy magazine.

Anyway can't hang around on here - must practiSe my Mum of the Year acceptance speech. I know I deserve it.

[wukter]

Good.
None of you have completed it.
That means I'll surely win the vouchers.
Do JL stock rollerskates and white capri pants?

[Granny23]

So glad you ALL thought the survey was ridiculous - I thought it was just me, being old, who thought that. Now retired I do lots of things, gardening, political activity, knitting, gaming, baasically anything to avoid housework. However, on days when I am 'in loco parentis' if I am lucky and DGC takes a nap, I curl up on the couch and sleep till they wake.

DH has just quoted his old 'me time' mantra "sometimes I just sit and think and sometimes I just sit".

[becklespeckle]

When the DSs are at school and DD goes down for her nap I like to have a cup of tea and browse the news on the MSN homepage.

Obviously I also MN! I like Facebook too and to read, sew and play computer games but there's not a lot of time for all that!

[serenity]

I fill in surveys...

Is this the bit where I fill in all the bits that I do that maybe weren't appropriate for the survey?

I have realised though that my me-time (of which there is quite a lot really, now the DCs are in school) is created by not doing the stuff that I probably should be doing. I'm finding it hard to feel the guilt though.

[DottyDot]

seriously dreadful survey - hope MN Towers will let them know....

[deepdarkwood]

LOL at WMMC survey - a vast improvement

[MrsMills]

Done, mine mostly involved food and wine

[Ohforfoxsake]

hmm, feel utterly useless after completing that. No 'me-time' except falling down i n front of Americas Next Top Model, exhausted from shouting GO TO BED.

Should I be dancing round my living room inbetween putting the washing away and loading the next lot? Arse. Something else not to achieve.

[FreakoidOrganisoid]

I couldn't fill it in!

Did wmmc's though

My "me time" is in the evening after the dc go to bed. I'm still tied to the house so I mostly just sit tbh

Sitting includes eating, drinking, reading, mning, watching tv...it's rocking chez freak

[Julezboo]

I get in the bath with my book, I have a table where i sit my netbook and watch something on the TV players

[lillyinthesun]

Curl up with a book and eat a whole backet of Jammy Dodgers.

[dudhope]

Depends how long I've got.
If it's 24 hours then I go away with a friend on a spa weekend (just went away to a fab place in chester called 'hoole hall' if anyone is interested). We stay over the night before, get drunk then sweat out our hangovers in the spa.
If it's only a few mins, then I put TRex on and dance round the lounge to 'children of the revolution'.
If it's quiet time, then any book published by Persephone does the job, esp 'miss pettigrew lives for day' which is a must read if you haven't done it.
I also record alot of telly and am absolutely addicted to 'True Blood' because there's lots of fantastic sex of all varieties in just about every episode. Def not one for kids!
I gotta say ladies, you lot need to come on a spa weekend with me, I can tell you all about how to have me time!
Cheers
Charon
Mother of 2, charlie 1, gracie 5.

[StayingDavidTennantsGirl]

Art class and painting, reading, chocolate, mumsnet, facebook games, watching tv.

[GladioliBuckets]

PMSL at survey.

[fillybuster]

My response:

"How patronising! Who thought up these options? Sack them. When not working full time and running a household with nearly 3 children I might spend some time cooking (for the whole family), at the gym, out shopping (for food, children's clothes etc), meeting friends or going out with my husband. Time without children is, mostly, about getting some sanity time with my husband, and getting things done that can't be achieved during the working day or when the kids are awake, not about 'me' time, which is a very outdated concept. Although I can easily spend an hour in the bath with a cup of tea and a good book when I get the chance."

[fillybuster]

Ooh, I like wmmc's so much more....

[Bainmarie]

Read books, watch tv, MN - what an exciting life I lead!