I’ve always been ____ and that keeps me in good shape, so when I made my mind up to do badminton it was far more about ____ than exercising, especially as I’d only ____ to this part of town and I hardly knew anyone. I hadn’t realised, though, just how ____ badminton can be – so much so that I’ve now been invited to take part in a local championship. I’ve got ____ it, or even coming close, and to be honest I’m not really bothered about that, but it might be fun so I think I’ll ____ I work ____ in a petrol station, which in some ways is quite a pleasant job but last year I found that I was increasingly getting into ____ So I began to study the way electronic devices work and how to ____ I found that fascinating, and eventually I felt confident enough to place an online ad offering ____ I got loads of replies and I’ve now ____ nearly all my debts. I’ve thought of giving up my job at the petrol station, but I think I’d miss meeting different people every day if I worked ____ from home. For years I’d been ____ that some people used to make fun of me, so one day I decided to do something about it: go ____ Feeling that if I could do that I’d be able to do anything, I joined a local club. On my first day I was ____ to find there were two other people who’d joined for the same reason, and we soon became friends. Together we got fitter and stronger, and encouraged each other to keep going, until by the end of the year we felt unconcerned ____ the most challenging of climbs. I never imagined that going ____ could be such good exercise until I’d spent a weekend ____ in the mountains with friends. That was something of a bonus, really, because what’d ____ me to it was that it ____ in every respect to my day job as a cab driver in a noisy, polluted city centre. And although it’s certainly ____ of activities, I find it so relaxing that I always feel it’s ____ Gardening had always seemed to me as just ____, of doing something completely different from office work, or perhaps even – ____ – of winning a prize for the largest home-grown vegetable. So it was ____ that I became interested in it, when the old lady next door ____ her garden while she was away. On her return she was so delighted by my efforts that ____, so I then ____ for other neighbours in their 80s and 90s. They sometimes offered me money, but I always refused to accept it.

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