Operation Crossword

I'm conscious that I've become a very tedious person recently - most of my "hobbies", if you can call them that, took me out of the house - to the cinema and swimming pool and restaurants and ski runs and so on. But indoors I've become nothing short of a zoned-out biscuit-eating TV-watching bub-feeding couch potato. So I am now making a concerted effort to become more interesting by reading books (I'm achieving about 4 paragraphs a day) listening to music and reminding myself how to do the Torygraph Crossword (my only concession to right wing newspapery.) Like all good diets I give myself, ooh, about 5 days, before I give up...