Long Winter Evenings

[Ange]

Snuggled up by the stove with a good book wins every time for us. We go through at least two books per week each. The charity shops love us

[jollymoggy]

I've only just started living on mine but most my evenings so far are spent looking at pictures of other boats insides and making plans lol. Also making changes all the time, but it is my first home I've owned

[MarkHez]

Learning an instrument is a great idea but think you'd best avoid drums, the trumpet and bagpipes !

 

As it happens, I liveaboard and play the bagpipes, always gets a cheer when I pipe my way past the visitor moorings! (probably wouldn't at midnight though!)

[Barry]

 

As it happens, I liveaboard and play the bagpipes, always gets a cheer when I pipe my way past the visitor moorings! (probably wouldn't at midnight though!)

 

Are they glad you are leaving?

[Peter-Bullfinch]

I am fortunate in having a woodturning lathe in my garage so I spend winter evenings creating stuff from waste wood. In this case I used two table legs and an offcut from a kitchen worktop.

[Mrs Trackman]

I am fortunate in having a woodturning lathe in my garage so I spend winter evenings creating stuff from waste wood. In this case I used two table legs and an offcut from a kitchen worktop.

That is beautiful.

[Bones]

I posed this question on another thread just as it was running out of steam so didn't get much response. thought I'd try again over here.

 

I can see a time in another few years when we might spend the whole year on board. The weather doesn't concern me at all, one thing that does bother me slightly though is how to get through the long evenings once the clocks go back in October.

 

So I wonder how folks who already live aboard full time while away the dark evenings or do you just go to the pub?

 

 

I do the same as in summer but fall over more because visibility isn't so good. In terms of work on the boat I tend to do inside jobs rather than outside jobs.

 

[Bettie Boo]

 

I do the same as in summer but fall over more because visibility isn't so good. In terms of work on the boat I tend to do inside jobs rather than outside jobs.

 

 

Wow Bones - was thinking of you the other day whilst reading a tread about people who have either left the forum or no longer post - really nice to see you back

[Woodstock]

I am fortunate in having a woodturning lathe in my garage so I spend winter evenings creating stuff from waste wood. In this case I used two table legs and an offcut from a kitchen worktop.

That is beautiful- I have some beeswax candles that would look good in the holders- Do you sell any of your work?

[Emerald Fox]

"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more Wednesday evenings than galaxies."

[Peter-Bullfinch]

Woodstock. I haven't ever sold any thing I have made.I give them away to family and friends and my wife uses some for pressies. If I get a commission I have been known to suggest delivery one evening in the pub! It's more fun and very socialable working these days for no financial gain. I've had more than four decades working!

[Cloudinspector]

Work usually and if not go to the pub

Then spend the daylight hours doing boaty stuff or riding my bike

[Neil2]

I am fortunate in having a woodturning lathe in my garage so I spend winter evenings creating stuff from waste wood. In this case I used two table legs and an offcut from a kitchen worktop.

 

Crikey - you have a garage on your boat????

[patty-ann]

Those candlesticks are lovely.

[the barnacle]

nice bit of turning - i have a graduate bowl lathe but dont get to use it enough.

[Alan Saunders]

This helps

 

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Nostalgia; just like my Mum would serve up in the 1950s when meat was rationed, beef was cheaper than chicken, lamb came from New Zealand and wild rabbit earned a bounty (9d?) for the cost of the shotgun cartridge. Followed by a slice or two of of suet pudding boiled in a cloth. Spotted Dick or Treacle Sponge (actually Tate & Lyle Golden Syrup) smothered in Birds Eye (cornflour) custard.

 

It seems that many young families diets consist of expensive take-away and ready meals, even instant noodles. Phyllis is exceptional.