Funny you mention knitting, I told dh the other day that I had thought about taking it up but he laughed at me and just today a friend called and said she was thinking about setting up a knitting circle and was I interested in joining - although she also laughed at me and said she couldn't imagine me knitting!
Friends - yes I've been here for a while... dh is swiss and I had the kids here. I live in a small village and there are even a few expats here. Day to day its difficult because everyone's kids are on a different school timetable and the kids walk to school on their own so we don't have the school gate mums conversations. We all seem to be either waiting for the kids to go to school or waiting for them to get home or waiting to take them to another activity. And I get bored of the small village conversations of SAHMs - who said what, who pissed who off, which children are doing what with which other children.... where you get you hair cut/legs waxed...
Belgo you are so right about concrete objectives, but I have to accept that I am fairly stuck until the dts go to Kindergarten next august, then they will be there for 5 mornings which will just about give me time to do shopping childfree or go for a run. I may try to squeeze in a real course. And I guess I still find the dts hardwork, it takes a lot of motivation and a huge amount of energy to do anything with them away from home especially if we are under time pressure.
Don't think I'm keen on teaching English but I have been thinking about doing something with my language over here - copy editing, proof reading, eventually translation (that's a long way off yet though!)
Belgo - I'm sure we've met on here sometime ago, do you also have twins?
I read anything and everything I can get my hands on. I stand peeling potatoes with a book propped up (unless the dcs are 'helping') but it doesn't fulfill me IYKWIM
I feel as if I'm really wingeing, I don't know if the boredom is normal for SAHMs or If I am just a bad SAHM!
Carocaro are you also away from the UK?