Hi David,
I have found online scrabble very helpful- you use your brain but just in small bites also Wordle and when you are a bit more mobile gardening is rewarding.Good luck
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I read each day. At first, like you, I struggled with it, but it got easier the more I did it. I have a Kindle, which definitely makes reading easier as I can enlarge the font size. I also listen to audiobooks. Have you thought of that?
I was also a manual worker, first as an engineer and then latterly in property maintenance. Luckily I have a fully equipped shed with all the woodworking tools you’d need to start making things. I’ve got all the good ideas but not yet the strength or motivation to start.
So, what I have just started is an online Qigong course, that I’m really enjoying. Each Thursday I get emailed the next lessons to watch and learn. I’m only on my third week. I’m hoping it’s really going to benefit my health and enable me to get down to that shed, at last.
Finally, I wouldn’t call it a hobby but I do all the housework so that my wife can just focus on work. I do a bit here and there throughout the day and rest in between and what would normally be done in a day takes a week, but so what. Time is something I do have 
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Hi David3 and other folk, Met a chap locally who was recovering from bad accident he’d had eight years ago, first thing he said to me was keep faith that things improve, not dramatic, but enough for him to rejoice ! The last year he’s been carving/ whittling small toys from lime wood.He has a two bladed small folding carving tool. Think there is help online/Utube and he’s progressed from basic penguins to mythical woodland figures and his grandchildren love them as they got fed up with penguin’s. May give it a try myself Pds
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as lame as it sounds, jigsaw puzzles help the brain. painting by numbers .helped me too concentrate more. in small doses can be quite therapeutic. get some self drying clay and build something.
hope that’s a start for you.
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Hi I find Wordle quite stimulating also Try quordle, octordle and word hurdle as well.Lilian
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I’ve been doing Wordle every day, since finding it. It’s sort of habit forming. Very fun. And I’m getting better with practice. Jeanne
I am glad you are enjoying it. Please try the others I have suggested, I think you should enjoy them too. Love Lilian.
I have been doing wordle & quordle too. I enjoy word games a lot. Will have a look at the others too.
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hello David3, I hope things are improving for you and maybe you are being enabled to get out and about a bit. We have a local “Men in sheds” and I’m wondered if someone was to help you get to one whether you could share your expertise with those wanting to learn. As a crafter I find it difficult to craft now but have a well stocked “library” and like minded ladies (not exclusive) come monthly to make cards which get sold for charity and I can offer advice and guidance as well as lending items for them to try out.
Don’t forget that by sharing on here and elsewhere you will already be helping someone else. all the best.
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