Things to do while on the bench

[Brussels Slumdog]

Use various free pod casts (and other means) to gain fluency in a foreign language.
Start gemming up on all the benefit rules - you've paid enough taxes over the years. Time to take back what you're entitled to.

Thanks MrMark
I have paid enough taxes over the years in all the countries that I've worked
but not enough taxes in the country where I actually live.
To claim benefit in Belgium at my age you need to work 600 something days over the last 360 days. Working in Switzerland,Germany,France and UK does not count.
Took up walking last weekend - 10km of flat boring county side.
The beer at the end made it worth while.

[MrMark]

Use various free pod casts (and other means) to gain fluency in a foreign language.
Learn those web skills you'd always been interested in.
Get an allotment and grow your own spuds - for when the war chest runs out.
Start gemming up on all the benefit rules - you've paid enough taxes over the years. Time to take back what you're entitled to.

[chef]

either:

close the curtains from that awful spring sun and sign up for World of Warcraft

or

go for a drive into the countryside with Mrs BS and have a picnic one evening or something equally charming and outdoorsey

[Cliphead]

...when you find Judith Keppler, the millionairess contestant on Eggheads strangely attractive...

Nothing wrong with that

[SantaClaus]

Watch "Deal or No Deal", "Jeremy Kyle" and maybe even a bit of the Roulette Television channel, then jump out the nearest window*.

*Just in case there's anyone really depressed, please only attempt this is you have a ground floor flat.

[rsingh]

You know you've been on the bench too long..

...when you find Judith Keppler, the millionairess contestant on Eggheads strangely attractive...

[Cliphead]

Is Herman the German's pub still going in Brussels? Might have been called the Fontainebleau or something. Used to play there for beer at weekends.

[Cliphead]

Is Bach the guy who wrote "What shall we do with the drunken sailor" ?
That was the only song the Germans asked me to play in the 70s

Good enough...

[Brussels Slumdog]

Learn some Bach tunes on that guitar

Is Bach the guy who wrote "What shall we do with the drunken sailor" ?
That was the only song the Germans asked me to play in the 70s

[Cliphead]

Learn some Bach tunes on that guitar

[Ruprect]

Pot Noodle.

[Brussels Slumdog]

I've done all those exiting things I couldn’t do while I was working away from home last year.
like:-

Visit the dentist
Take cat to vet
Spring cleaning
Return library books.
Take old clothes to OXFAM (Might regret later)
Bought new stings for old guitar.

Now I am getting bored.

Have I forgotten anything besides a brain check?