weather is really yuk here at the mo so can't go outside. I have just been amusing myself attempting to do sit ups etc,running up and down stairs till my legs screamed at me to stop ;D has music on dancing round the room like a mad devil my son thinks ive lost the plot ::) but am bored and thought right lets get myself fit. I am due to do a run next month for charity and I can assure everyone i will defo finish last ;D oh and yeah forgot to add aint bullworkers damm hard to use :o I think i will stick to lugging plants and bags of compost at work so come on peeps tell me what mad stuff you do when you are bored and I hope im not the only crazy peep trying to get thin ;)
Ann-Marie
well only weighing in at 9 stone no need or chance for getting thinner. As for boredom buster, i usually start to tinker with something technical or start a carpentry project or pick a book i've read and read it again.
DRINK
SMOKE
AND
PUT SILLY REPLIES ON A4A !!!
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Same as Ragged Robin on the first two, ;D but what i usually do is wind the wife up then run like h*ll ;D ;D ;D, if she's not in then just read books on anything that takes my interest at the time, or if i can get in the garage devise something that usually blows up :-\ and takes my hair with it ;D ;D .
Peter
up date on the exercises no pain no gain well thats what I say to myself ;)
List of things to do (in order of priority)
1. Greenhouse work
2. Go on A4All
3. Go on A4All
4 Go on A4All
5. Read Magazines I dont otherwise get time to do or read a book
6. Catch up on all the jobs that i usualy put off because I am too busy on the other 5! ;D
Think of all the jobs I could be catching up on, plan to do them then wander thru to p.c., go on-line (maybe A4A) and music and forget the rest.
it depends really, if i really can't bear it i go and sit in my shed and watch the plants in the rain while reading a book and listening to the radio.
most of the time though i try and do more work so i can do more gardening when its nice out!
i mess about on the internet, or go swimming, or read or bake...
Light rain doesn't stop me (I've even been known to garden in the hail!) But if it's heavy I can be found in the shed either tidying up, pricking out of sowing seeds. If I don't have any of that to do (or more likely I've run out of compost or pots!), I'll be sorting out all the interesting articles I ripped out of mum's old gardening mags. Or (rarely) doing housework. But most likely sulking because I can't go out and play! ;)
Gardening in Hail? thats NOTHING aqui. I was out working in SNOW one day last winter. Only light stuff mind you ;D
I regret sometimes not having somewhere in the garden to sit and be dry while it s raining. No shed/summerhouse/gazebo or even greenhouse (yet) in this garden. Still could alwats get a brolly and sit on the bench i suppose :-\
Richard - :P We don't get snow here. :P ;D
Quote from: aquilegia on June 21, 2004, 11:22:25
Richard - :P We don't get snow here. :P ;D
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Neither do we much as a rule but just happened to get a light shower of it on this particular day ::)
Well, i am supposed to do the housework, cos I say I am saving it till it rains, but am usually too bored to do it! I annoy Mr Pinks by wandering around the pigsty saying, i'mmmmmmm soooooooo boooooooooored, then I ring my sister and say the same, then I nag the kids to tidy their rooms, then I come on this site, or I'll bake summit creative for dinner, and get fatter! The housework just never seems to get done! ;D
Depends if the children are with me. If they are then I might do baking or cooking which they love to help with or watch Disney movies with them, I love the Disney/Pixar movies and having children is the perfect excuse to watch them ;D. If the children are at school/nursery then I either catch up on work (I work from home so there is always something waiting to be done) or I make hand-made soap which is very enjoyable and creative :D but something that cannot be done with children around. Housework, it does get done but very quickly and as rarely as possible :P.
New thread on Hand made soap please .Dont think it should go under recipes should it? Or even on our Sister site Recipes4all.Thought that i had tried most everything but not that .
If its tipping it down,i normally have a wander over the internet,read,watch a DVD,play with my dog,clean the house (grumble grumble).
Being in East Anglia,the worst of the weather normally misses us so we get sun sun sun! ;D ;D ;D
Put on a video ....get on me bike (the exercise type :D ;D ;)) and go for a nice long ride......make knitted toys......... like Bubble, play with the dogs.....occasional housework :-\....oh, and of course A4A :D :D ;D
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Nice one Pat
Don't know about making soap....but when raining I do the normal....greenhouse, drink, smoke, oh, and sometimes I try to do some work (urgh!!!!) - the emphasis being on TRY!!
CLx
Hi Flower.......when I can't get outside on the bike, or gardening, I fiddle with computers.Have 4 at present in various stages of dis-assembly.Buy them £50 and try to make them go faster.Don't really know what I'm doing but a cheap hobby...Jigsaws too.
Cross-stitch, another favorite of mine, read, go on the computer, watch another repetition of ground force on Style, never liked it in the first place,, more cross-stitch, anything I can think of except housework...its sooo boring. :-\
housework comes a very close second on the list of jobs that i hate doing but has to be done, ironing is top of list.I like doing crosstitch too and work from charts and of course a4a is a defo must ;) dont need a reason to check on the threads do I ;D
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Well it has been piddly widdling down here like mental it has,,,, and I have loved it ............ firsty i stoood out in it...arms outstretched and head tilted to the sky... was well nice feeling the raindrops hitting me face plus saves me having a bath now ;) then I just stayed by me back door chillin like and watching the rain bouncing of the path... falling onto me veg..dripping of me veg... and pitter pattering on me patio, which is prob the best place to pitter and patter.... was nice seeing me veg sort of heave ONE HUGE MASSIVE SIGH of relief... cus come on lets face it...... this season has been well odd.... dunno bowt yoooze but we hardly had a drop since March... and now its here I iz gonna enjoy it.... swear that me veg is singing out there.... iz like they iz saying I iz okay wiv the watercan/hose but I cant compete with the skies... huh talk about being unapreciated... babble alert most deffo...
Oz
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yeah the tigers back! ;D
Oz, you've done it for me again - love the idea of the veg breathing a sigh of relief and singing!! Paints a great picture.
...the same as when the weather is good! I don't seem to have a minute when there isn't something to do, cooking, cleaning, kids, taxi service, garden, allotment, family, errands, etc, etc....and in between all of that, reading my gardening mags, listening/watching Kerrang on the tv, knitting, oh and worst of all.....exercising!
Exercising!!!!! ... so how is that different from cooking, cleaning, kids, taxi service, garden, allotment, family, errands, etc, etc....and in between all of that, reading my gardening mags, listening/watching Kerrang on the tv and knitting?
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When the weather is bad? Pretty much the same as when the weather is good, but not out in the garden - be a mummy!!! And avoid housework - like everyone else it seems. I like the rain though and have been known to stand out in the garden under an umbrella (when it's raining!!!) just for the fun of it.
Just like me Plocket. When I am down on the plot and it starts to rain, everyone knows what I will say...
'Don't worry, tis just a passing shower.' I have still been out gardening in pouring rain an hour later.....sometimes it passes quicker than others! ;D
Well Bionic Wellies, I do try to use all of that as an excuse not to lurch around the lounge copying Rosemary Connely, but if want a size 12 backside I gotta work at it! :-[
Recently I've actually been enjoying being in the garden when it's raining (light showers anyway!) When it finally rained again, I was like Oz, arms to the heavens praising nature for finally soaking everything again. (Plants breathing sign of relief - love it!)
I especially like seeing and hearing the rain bounce off courgette and rhubarb leaves. But the best is seeing the patterns it makes on the surface of the pond. little circles, getting bigger!
Oh I love all the different sounds rain can make! I particularly like it when there is heavy rain at night and it is warm enough to keep the windows open. Hearing it bouncing down on our porch roof while I am tucked up in bed is lovely.
Hi Plocket, yes I like to comfy up when its raining and you haven't got to go out. I don't like wind and rain, I can't see then, not unless someone can invent windscreen wipers for my specs, brollies no good they always turn inside out they make me feel like Mary Poppins.
Hi CL! Absolutely - or a hat that won't blow away - don't believe in Brollies - waste of time. But my hat often threatens to abandon me!!!
Look at your Thistle discussion (last page) and there is some info from William and I think it was Budgiebreeder about putting pictures on the board.
Plocketx
I enjoy cycling in the rain and I too wear glasses. I have found that by using window wax for cars on the lens, the water doesn't stay on the lens it just beads off. Very useful.
TrailRat
Hi TrailRat - excellent thought that - I will recommend it to my husband who wears glasses and gets very frustrated when it rains!
I KNOW I am wandering off the thread but re specs frustration isn't it absolutely the worst thing when you come in out of the cold and they STEAM UP - in shops, doctors any/everywhere >:( Ok gripe over return to thread.....
When the weather is bad I work on a maritime history project which I've been doing for years and have years of work still to do on. At the moment my idea of heaven would be a whole uninterupted week spent in the National Archives in Edinburgh with my laptop, making notes from 17th century manuscripts. As it is I'm lucky if I manage one day a week, and the other heavenly moments are the ones I spend in the garden, which is looking pretty good now the wind has stopped blowing everything over.
Sue
My OH hates it when he opens the dishwasher up and the steam fogs his glasses! Still, it means I have to do it!!!
Good luck with your Project SueM. Sounds like a labour of love!
You could try RainX for your specs -should get it from a motor store. If you're worried about them misting up, you could always do what we divers do with our masks and spit on them :o or you could get one of those poncy anti-misting preperations from the dive shop ;D
Jeremy
Daren't spit on them Jezza, the kids will think I'm trying to be cool. What is it with teenagers spitting everywhere, I'd lose me teeth.
Spitting? Filthy disgusting habit. Don't get me going...!
An olde worlde remedie is to rub glycerine on the lenses. That also helps too prevent a mist up.
TrailRat
Aaah! Now I have some of that in the cupboard.....
Yes Ratty but I also want to see, don't fancy stuff smeared all over me specs, is that the stuff you put on your hair to make it shine?
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No, its a cooking ingredient. Not sure what its used for though.
TrailRat
I use it for making a sort of sore throat drink: put a teaspoon of honey (set is best) in a glass. Pour very hot water (not boiling) water over it and stir so that the honey melts. Add one teaspoon of glycerine and the juice of one lemon. If you use boiling water it kills the vitamins in the lemon. The glycerine soothes the throat, vitamins help to cure the soreness, and the sweetness of the honey makes it more palatable. It can also be used when making merangues - I think it makes them smoother.
Also used to make royal icing softer, so you don't break a tooth when you bite in!
;) I use it to keep leaves shiny when I dry them Ratty, you put them in the glycerine, like holly leaves, when you see the drops coming through on the leaves, take them out then bingo, they stay nice and shiny. 8)