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    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?

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    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...
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    1574 gin and tonics please Monica, large ones.

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    • #3
      Carcassonne, the board (?) game, we tend to play it in the darker months plus we like to catch up on a bit of reading.
      Location ... Nottingham

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      • #4
        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
        Last edited by Small pumpkin; 02-11-2017, 08:01 PM.

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        • #5
          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

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          • #6
            We don't all live in (so-called) sunshiny south wales VC so we have to do an amount of battening down hatches.
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            1574 gin and tonics please Monica, large ones.

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            • #7
              ^^^^^^ 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.
              Potty by name Potty by nature.

              By appointment of VeggieChicken Member of the Nutters club.


              We hang petty thieves and appoint great ones to public office.

              Aesop 620BC-560BC

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              • #8
                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?

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                • #9
                  ^^^^a stomach complaint?

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                  • #10
                    A Diorama is probably the catwalk where Potty models French couture

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                    • #11
                      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.
                      I work very hard so please don't expect me to think as well!

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by veggiechicken View Post
                        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)

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                        • #13
                          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

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                          • #14
                            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.

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                            • #15
                              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
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                              Getting a little better with stone setting - stud earring made last night!
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