[Closed] Winter evening hobbies... sat indoors stuff.., what have you got?

Making sawdust. 😀

A 21 month old daughter and a MSc to study for.

These are not cheap and cannot be discarded in the spring.

I'm going to design and build a 6000 lumen LED lamp that runs on 1 18650 and has a run time of 12 hours.

Or I might just watch some telly.

Guitar,
Learning new software via the Dummies books,
Poetry,
Cooking,
Snuggling with MrsBouy.

in this order:

work
house
friends & family
car
music
art
games
wine
trolling the internets
sleep

There's just enough time to bathe Baby Nord and put her to bed and cook dinner before slumping briefly in front of the TV and then going to bed.

I CARRY ON RIDING!!

Apart from that though,

Reading
Increase work related certifications
XBOX
Films
Drawing and that.

Climbing wall and spin classes - I know, not at home, but it's indoors and a great way to spend winter evenings.

At home - Reading, cooking, catching up with friends (thinking of starting a regular winter 'supper club'), away working and pestering forumites to meet up to save me from terminal hotel / crap tv boredom!

indulging my inner geek and painting warhammer figures.

present WIP:

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Do you have to stay at home? Plenty of stuff you can do inside that's almost as fun as riding a bike.

I CARRY ON RIDING!!

Climbing wall and spin classes - I know, not at home, but it's indoors and a great way to spend winter evenings.

Okay, okay... maybe I should have said..

accepting that we can't be [s]out riding our bikes[/s] exercising all the time...

Elf - got any sawdust creations you wish to share?

Guitar,
Building stuff in the shed if it's not too cold.
Thinking about stuff to build in the shed if it's too cold.

Internet.
Clean house that has been neglected all summer.
Be a couch potato and enjoy it.

Sorry Yeti- all Top Secet at the moment I'm afraid. 😐

All shall be revealed in the Fullness of Time, however....

I was mostly writing the begins of a book, got to 300,000 words by spring then didn't write a stitch. Hopefully i can get back to it during the dark nights.

Also i seem to amass loads of photo's through the year so get to sort and play about with them.

If the cash is there, i'll have a few pints during some evenings so i get to converse with humans.

I hear you TSY.

Bored Bored Bored of tele.... I think I'm getting old.

I can only do so much Tri training, do not want it to become completely obsessional.

I'm toying with the idea of doing a degree via Open Uni. But that's a BIG committment, worried I might be biting off more than I can chew.

Maybe I should just pick my guitar back up.

I might start drawing, painting and / or writing again. I'll keep taking photos, and possibly build a website to put them on. Catch up on Xbox and fillums, read a few books.

I'll also still be riding and climbing as per the warmer months, and possibly running a bit more too. And going snowboarding in December.

If I had the money I'd spend all winter making LEGO though.

What do you do to keep yourself entertained at home on an evening in these dark, austere times?

I tend to do more DIY in the winter e.g. last night I was working on the new shoe rack / tidy thing for the hallway. Almost complete:

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My sock drawer needs doing if you're free.

[i]M.A.S.B 33 B.P.B.C 63ft Anti Submarine Boat[/i]

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Emails mainly and designing things

Okay, okay... maybe I should have said..accepting that we can't be out riding our bikes exercising all the time...

What have you done with the real TSY?!

I'm going to try and repaint a couple of these...

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To look like this...

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and this...

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Started going to the gym this year, as it's still novel it's fun....

Come January it won't be, so I'll be in the front room trying to play the guitar or catching up on the books I've bought over the past year.

Now we've got a spare telly I'll get the PS2 set up in the front room and play Colin MacRae Rally until the clocks go forward!! 😀

last night I was working on the new shoe rack

What you need there is fewer shoes.

Turbo Training - its dull.

What have you done with the real TSY?!

LOL! Worn him out! 2-3 hours a day just seems enough DirtyG... especially when the legs are only just working.

[i]fewer shoes. [/i]

or less tennis balls.

Jim_Kirk is that a tyranid? nice paint job 😀 as for the op's question. i try to play the guitar,but at present a certain game (skyrim) is swallowing up my life

warning this game WILL swallow your life 😯

If it's too cold to go out, or I'm too tired, then a night in with a DVD, bottle of something alcoholic and some knitting is pretty cool.
I make ace little knitted teddy bears and earn a few quid on ebay selling them along with the usual hats/gloves/scarf type stuff.

Pictures Lizzz? Of the bears naturally.

Nice one Lizzz! 😀

I am thinking of diversifying into childrens' toys myself actually. Don't think i'm going to make the Xmas market though. 🙁

My GF has more shoes than I've had hot dinners, hence the need for a rather large rack....

Without the kids
Guitar
PS3
Xbox

With the kids
Lego
Model Railway

I really need to finish building one of these:

Weight training, Meditating, swimming, watching dramas and documentaries, cinema, gaming.....

My GF has more shoes than I've had hot dinners, hence the need for a rather large rack....

Pics of the girlfriends rack?

Might keep TSY ammused for a few minutes too.

Ha... I knew you wouldn't stick by your convictions Spoony!

BAN HIM!

My GF has more shoes than I've had hot dinners, hence the need for a rather large rack....

There are nine pairs of trainers there. Either you're breeding your own football team, you've got the world's most bizarre mutation, you're secretly a girl, or you've got eight pairs more than you need.

Monday: at work until 9:30, so go home, beer/TV. Collapse.

On other weekdays: Get home from work about 6. Help feed/bath the kids. Listen to reading books. Read bedtime stories. Start working again until 9:30/10:00. Beer/TV. Collapse.

Repeat until you've forgotten what the outside world looks like during daylight hours.

Collapse.

And there was STW labouring under the misapprehension that public sector workers are slackers and the root of all our nation's ills.... 😉

I cleared my granparents' house a couple of years ago and took home some old marquetry kits. For the making of this sort of thing:
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Just come back from Grandpa's funeral on Sunday, so I might try and not make a complete pig's ear of a couple of them.

Wish me luck!

at work 2 or 3 nights
cooking
drinking
Killing/racing friends on xbox live
having a "go" on my weights
fannying about on t'internet
drawing
drinking
reading
going to the pub