Now that he has left the wonders of the TARDIS behind, David Tennant has revealed that he’ll be spending some of his newfound spare time trying to improve his skills in cooking and gardening!

“Those basic life skills seem to have escaped me and maybe now’s the time to make them my hobby,” the actor told The Daily Express. “Cooking is not something that comes naturally to me, so I’m working my way through a couple of cookbooks to teach myself.”

He added: “I don’t have any distinctive flair for it. So I’m trying to learn some techniques there.”

And when he’s not conquering recipes in the kitchen, he’ll be busy outside planting and plotting away…

“I’m trying to teach myself how not to kill plants, which I do manage to have the skill for,” he explained. “I’d like to be a little more nurturing with my garden.”