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According to a magazine I read recently, we now live in an age of increasing leisure. Not o
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are more and more people reaching retirement age with their taste for enjoyment and even adventure, but the working week is becoming shorter and the opp
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for leisure are becoming greater and greater all the time. Not to m
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the fact that people tend to spend less time travelling to work or may even be working from home. What I can"t understand, h
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, is who these people are. As far as I can t
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the whole thing is another one of those journalistic fictions. I admit that there are a lo! of r
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people nowadays, but I am not sure whether all of them are dashing about learing hang-gliding or sailing singlehanded r
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the world. My own parents seem to s
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most of their time gazing at the television. And as for the shorter working week, I wish someone w
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remind my company about it. I seem to be working longer and longer hours all the time. The little leisure time I have is eaten into by sitting in t
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jams or waiting for trains to show up at rain-swept platforms. I haven"t noticed any dramatic improvements in my lifestyle either, but perhaps I just have to wait until I get my pension.