Winter Pastimes

[Greenleaves]

Now that the darker evenings are upon us, what will you be doing the while away the time?

I will still be visiting plots whenever weather permits and have loads of little projects to do over them.

I know some of you will play with your seed tins and that VC has no concept of the real world , continuing with her sometimes mad but fun projects.

Those of you not included in the above, how will you fill the dark evenings?

[Baldy]

I started getting my soldering iron out last year - stripped old electronics for their resistors and such like and did a few diy electronic projects - might do the same this year. Son has a trial game for the local senior football team - might stand around on the touchline showing off my skills in the hope that I too get noticed.
Mrs Balders just mentioned painting and decorating, fitting a new radiator, replacing hinges on a double glazed window and 'taking a look' at the old laminate flooring in the hallway,
Sounds like this might be my 'last post' for a few months...

[Mr Bones]

Carcassonne, the board (?) game, we tend to play it in the darker months plus we like to catch up on a bit of reading.

[Small pumpkin]

Play in the garden when the weather allows. Seed shuffling, planing next years garden, winter projects, more rubbish telly and talk more complete utter nonsense on here

[veggiechicken]

Be careful SP - you're starting to sound like me as that's how I'll be spending the winter too Just doing the same things I do in the summer months.
I have to wonder why GL thinks we should do something different in winter. He's a bit odd, you know

[Baldy]

We don't all live in (so-called) sunshiny south wales VC so we have to do an amount of battening down hatches.

[Potstubsdustbins]

^^^^^^ If GL is odd then I am completely barmy.

Once the seed order is complete and the garden tidied ready for spring I will revert to modelling.

For years I have built scale model radio controlled boats, the last one being a 4ft Severn class life boat. But as I get older I find it more and more difficult to get big models in and out of the pond, so the lot is being sold.

I the present I am researching a real life area to represent on a 6ft x 3ft N gauge model railway diorama. Never done it before and I don't want to play trains, it's the challenge of building it to a good standard that interests me, and again once complete it will go on the bay to pay for the next project.

[veggiechicken]

Its OK Potty, we know you're barmy and do modelling in your shed
I've no idea what a diorama is Care to share?

[Greenleaves]

^^^^a stomach complaint?

[veggiechicken]

A Diorama is probably the catwalk where Potty models French couture

[Miss Mousetrousers]

If it's sunny I'll be sorting out my shed and greenhouse then giving the latter a much-needed clean, another power-washing of the back patios and other paths, emptying and cleaning old pots, and some hand-weeding. If it's not nice outside, as well as getting ready for a certain season including polishing all our many horse-brasses, I'll be cleaning and Briwax-ing some lovely old furniture we've recently bought, doing some cross-stitch, investigating the process of getting my Cockersand Abbey booklet edited and printed, then sorting out all the info I have on the history of the lane where I live in order to possibly have that published at a later date. There's also a lot of thinking to do re- decorating our bedroom and kitchen which will be a priority for 2018.

[Guest]

Its OK Potty, we know you're barmy and do modelling in your shed
I've no idea what a diorama is Care to share?

I thought diorama was the latin name for angels fishing rods yes, I still have flowers on the brain.

As for winter I still have a long list of things to do and would like to do. Being winter doesn't make much difference just some pill popping to perk me up (only vitamins don't panic)

[Thelma Sanders]

I'm going to redecorate my bedroom, last done 10 years ago - so does really need an update
Other than that there's patchwork projects to be getting on with, plus the hours spent on the usual 101 plot plan permutations on Excel - trying to fit in all the seeds in the case

[veggiechicken]

Just to show I don't spend all my time playing with seeds and coming up with nutty plans, I'm going to do a bit more family history research. There's so much more information on the internet now than there was when I did most of my research that I don't need to leave the comfort of home.
Only last night I found the Red Cross records of POWs in WW1 with my grandmother's brother listed. He was lucky to be captured, most of his comrades died at Ypres.

[Scarlet]

Dark nights and cold weather frees up my weeding time so I can practice making more cakes and also do a little silversmithing.

My best cake for this year - need to practice different flowers for next years wedding rush



Getting a little better with stone setting - stud earring made last night!