Its ironic that to create leisure time seems to be harder work that actually doing work!  It would certainly be an easier route to keep going to the office, doing email, and moaning that there isn't enough time for leisure activities.
It seems to require a huge amount of effort to break the pattern, and get some leisure time started.
One week ago, I was of the mood that was might easily have made me back out of our plan to work on our project bikes.  Could I really afford the time off work?  Can I really afford the money that this is going to cost me?  How on earth am I going to get all my bike parts down to Jo's forge where we planned to spend 4 days of intense metal bashing and welding.  Shouldn't I be helping my daughter open her shop?  etc etc

However, making the opportunity to have fun appears to be a bit like being a competitor in one of those strong man competitions where you have to pull a double decker bus with your bear hands.  It is almost impossible to get it started, and is only with incredible effort and strain that things start to move... and once they are moving, it gets easier... maybe to the point that actually, it's rolling on its own!

We havent started anything yet, but I am already very proud of myself for just believing that we can!