General hobbies while at home

I know the following blog is not about my treatment and what is happening directly to me but it is my way of saying that I am not just lying in bed after a treatment that I am trying to keep brain active if not totally bodily active.
I am catching up on films and TV programmes as much as possible. As you will have seen in previous blogs I have found ITV iPlayer and BBC iPlayer as well as others. My latest viewing was an episode of Ultimate Force with Richard Armitage in and not forgetting Ross Kemp.
I have taken up talking books so that I don't have to hold a heavy tome for too long, with this I subscribe to Audible.co.uk - a great site if you want to follow Stephen Fry and myself with being able to do two things at once. I probably don't follow Stephen's reading list but I do listen to him. I am currently listening to Richard Armitage reading Slyvester and Venetia - both books by Georgette Heyer. I will probably keep this up after treatment to help with my journey to work and doing more walking/exercise.
I am playing around with poetry, that is reading and writing it. I will post some samples at a later date. I have even taken the step of submitting examples of my work to competitions. I am also trying to plan and write short stories and possibly expanding to something a little more substantial. Not that Elizabeth Gaskell or Jane Austen will have anything to worry about.
I am updating my knowledge of classical music by acquiring a selection of CDs on some of my favourite composers and even trying to discover others. My current selection includes Sir Edward Elgar, J S Bach, and new to the fold Sir John Tavener and have then gone a little left field I have bought Dean Martin, as a member of the Rat Pack he was a brilliant entertainer and singer.
I am still working on sorting my photo library I have not touch it since at least 2007, they get taken off the camera and put on my laptop without naming or filing them in to some sort of story. I am getting through 2008 as I type but it is a bit boring and I cannot always remember who or what the picture is of. I am working on a whole load of photos that I scanned when my grandmother died in 2007 as well, this is taking longer as I have no idea who people are and in most cases they died a long time ago.
My next thing is working on my Family History. With the help of some of my grandmothers photos and documents that she had in her possession I have managed to make some head way, but now I need to tidy up the Family Tree software and the links within of some of the family members I have found. This is going to take a lot of time and it is surprising how quickly time goes as you delving into the past. I have managed with some luck get back to 1645 or there abouts with the EVE family (my grandmothers direct family). I have even managed to link up with family on my dads side over in Canada. The big surprise is that Mom and Pops are not the first family members to sell up and head off to Australia. Of course I have been doing this for sometime I just have time now to confirm my findings and cross reference with other research done by my many cousins around the world.

If I am not found on the computer, which now seems to be strapped to my wrists, I could be found doing cross stitch. This is my next project. One of the girls at work is due to have a baby later in the year and thought that I could spend a little time doing it. I have done this project a couple of times before and it is quite straightforward. I just have to wait for the name of said baby and the date of birth so that I can put it at the bottom. Once framed it will make a nice little present.
So I have so many things that I am doing that I don't know where to start sometimes. There again if I did not have anything to do I would be bored and the phone bill would be out of this world. Most of the time I am doing more that one thing at a time, not that I would call it multi-tasking! If you have any new ideas for hobbies, books to listen to or narrators to try then just leave a comment.