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Title: What are your plans for the long dark nights?
Post by: Rosemary on July 01, 2015, 09:02:10 am: Now we're past the Solstice and the nights are fair drawing in :innocent: , what plans are you formulating for filling the long dark winter nights?

I'd like to learn Gaelic.
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Post by: Castle Farm on July 01, 2015, 09:24:20 am: This winter I hope to take a degree course in astro physics.
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Post by: devonlady on July 01, 2015, 09:51:41 am: Am hoarding books!!
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Post by: Bionic on July 01, 2015, 10:23:45 am: Never short of things to do. Spinning, knitting, weaving, tapestry, rag rug making, felting, learning the guitar and anything else I can fit in
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Post by: marka on July 01, 2015, 01:39:05 pm: Sleep!
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Post by: pgkevet on July 01, 2015, 04:10:53 pm: Last winter i studied to become a sex maniac but sadly failed the practical. This winter i shall work on my plans for world domination instead
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Post by: bloomer on July 01, 2015, 04:47:52 pm: This winter I am launching a soup kitchen at my church,

I don't envisage much spare time, but what time I do have will be spent building bee hives...
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Post by: doganjo on July 01, 2015, 08:38:47 pm: Trying to sort out the paperwork for 3 organisations that I have let get on top of me :'( :'(
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Post by: Carse Goodlifers on July 01, 2015, 09:24:51 pm: Quote from: Rosemary on July 01, 2015, 09:02:10 am
Now we're past the Solstice and the nights are fair drawing in :innocent: , what plans are you formulating for filling the long dark winter nights?
Rosemary.....Really? ??? :o Talking of winter already?

It will be back to the curling for myself.
But I'm hoping to start dabbling with some stick making now I have someplace to do it - my new shed :excited:

Quote from: Rosemary on July 01, 2015, 09:02:10 am
......I'd like to learn Gaelic.
Me too and following our chat last week a new website has been launched by Outlander actor Gary Lewis - http://learngaelic.scot/ (http://learngaelic.scot/)
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Post by: Lesley Silvester on July 01, 2015, 09:29:14 pm: I'm not even thinking any further than this lovely heat which makes me feel so much better and in less pain. I used to hate it but now I love it. It was only 27C here though.
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Post by: mojocafa on July 02, 2015, 07:27:21 am: 10 degrees warmer than me MGOM
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Post by: Herdygirl on July 02, 2015, 08:05:15 am: This autumn/winter I shall be beginning my final year on a History degree course, so lots to research and write! :'(
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Post by: Thyme on July 02, 2015, 09:37:46 am: Learn more Welsh (coming along but still a long way to go).

Learn how to do my own taxes.

Process some fleece into something worth knitting.
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Post by: Beeducked on July 02, 2015, 07:21:00 pm: Sleep.
Knit.
Obsess over seed catalogues.
Read (anything and everything).
Make cheese. I know this sounds like more of a summer thing but have found that my cheese making seems better in the winter. The milk is much richer so makes a bigger cheese for the volume of milk, I have more time and am not trying to preserve everything else from the garden and the temp in the kitchen is much better. Still doing it now but it is more fun in the winter, feels like the place is still producing.
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Post by: Fleecewife on July 02, 2015, 09:27:53 pm: We find in winter there's more stuff to do around the smallholding, in far worse conditions, so if anything we have less leisure time.
I expect I'll still be processing this year's clip......... :spin:
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Post by: waterbuffalofarmer on July 03, 2015, 03:37:44 pm: learning to play this I suppose, to improve my piano playing skills ( I:E None at all) ;D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tr0otuiQuU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tr0otuiQuU)
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Post by: devonlady on July 03, 2015, 04:31:48 pm: My younger son played this, aged 10 for an exam and now my grandson plays it. So many of Beethoven's pieces sound remarkably simple but are not. What a wonderful mind he must have had. Good luck WBF, practise makes perfect so I want to hear you are doing at least four hours a day :thumbsup:
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Post by: devonlady on July 03, 2015, 04:33:03 pm: Forgot to say, I will, of course be carving my spirtle!!
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Post by: SallyintNorth on July 03, 2015, 05:52:09 pm: Quote from: waterbuffalofarmer on July 03, 2015, 03:37:44 pm
learning to play this I suppose, to improve my piano playing skills ( I:E None at all) ;D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tr0otuiQuU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tr0otuiQuU)

Do it now, wbf, while your fingers are young and supple. And when you are old, and your fingers are bent and stiff, say, "Thanks, Sally, for encouraging me to play the piano while I could" ;)