Some of the girls here have suggested a few really good ideas - I just tried to get myself out of the house at least a few times during the week.

Another thing you could try which worked for me and I'm still going strong 9 yrs later is a book club.

Contact your local Dymocks (or library, etc) - I joined up and we meet once a month for coffee and pick a book - next month we discuss it, pick another one, etc etc.

Ours is run through our local Dymocks and so we buy the book through them with a really good discount - some of the ladies have tight budgets, so they just borrow them from the library or read one of ours... so really, the most it has to cost is the $3 for a coffee once a month!

I found it refreshing to sit and talk about something other than babies and it felt like I was challenging myself a little intellectually again ... and our group ages range from 26 - 70!!!

Theres 6 of us in our group - I'm in three groups now (I'm a big reader )... and have formed some nice friendships over the years with people I wouldn't have met otherwise


Good Luck hun xxx