How do your hobbies or free time change with the seasons or the weather?

A natural way to answer

Quite a lot, really. In the warmer months I spend my free time outdoors, cycling or pottering about outside. Once winter sets in, I tend to hole up at home with indoor hobbies. I more or less batten down the hatches and wait for spring.

Key phrases to use

• potter about — to spend time doing small, pleasant tasks with no rush or plan“I spent Sunday just pottering about the house.”
• hole up — to stay inside somewhere cosy and avoid going out“When it snows, we hole up at home.”
• batten down the hatches — to prepare for a hard or difficult period by getting ready and staying safe“A storm's coming, so we battened down the hatches.”