I am bored with all this snow! Help Needed......

Join the club, Janpled, I think I am getting beyond bored, whatever I mean by that!!!
The traditional thing to do at this time of year is to readall the seed catalogues and send for your seed - well, that took up the first afternoon did't it!
After that you can re-design your garden, then re-design it again.
Spider Solitair on you computer?

this will not save you money, but I spend time every day prepairing food for the birds ,and I have counted ten black birde and a pair of thrushes chaseing eachother from the food ,plus a couple of wag tails and of corse the survivers starlings, what I did was get a hundred weight of cheep potatoes and I boil a large pan of them every day ,I drain them and mash them with a third of a punet of beef driping a hand full of raisons and a couple of choped apples, I wash the potatoes but I don't peal them, tha birds love it ,they are geting fat and fruit, and all day I have black birds singing their harts out. no dout they will think my fruit trees and bushes are a gift later in the year.but I feal that I am doing my bit, and I am over the moon about the thrushes.ps spades for meBA

How about cutting useful articles out of your gardening magazines and filing them properly? I started doing that, but it needs an over-haul! I have a ring-binder with plastic pockets, one per letter of the alphabet, and a card in each with the titles of the articles written on them. I have actually looked something up in there - and found it! I must file the ones just shoved inside it..........:-))

Then there's sorting out any seed packets in a helpful ordered way, e.g. in sowing time order, or possibly alphabetical order.

Have you got any collections of plants? I have a whole lot of different hardy geraniums and clematis. I made a 'word' document for each genus, and put them on the charts in flowering order, and added a photo of each one with a column for when the Clematis have to be pruned. That's very useful, and interesting to look at, as well.

If you have some money to spend, I did a correspondence course last winter - it was an interesting learning experience and really kept me busy! . If you want to know where and how much etc. PM me.

Spider is a great help! :-)))))) My husband plays freecell.......

Thanks guys, fortunately I can play Bridge online but there is a limit to my staying power for indoor pursuits. I just want to get out there!

YES!! So do I! I think I am going stir-crazy!

there is only so much of everything we can do when like this, and we have all done them over and over, so for me its every morning feed birds with anything ive made them, plus apples, raisens, seed, fresh water, anything left from dinner night before, then i do the washing, housework, lunch, any shopping, check birds, watch a dated movie like now which is kojak lol and mess on computer, then dinner, then birds again before dark comes, then bath, then tv, then bed, then start all over again hahah roll on spring im going brain dead here

Housework wow Sandra you are getting desperate!

lol MB haha i know, desperate times call for desperate measures :o))

Make endless plans, get a filofax. I play patience to start the day. Find a book you can't put down, watch the darts, or snooker starting today. Build a large greenhouse (heated) with a potting shed on the end and boredom will end.

i,ve caught the collage making bug!!! after seeing Bernieh's beautiful ones ,I started making some of my own. It is great fun.

my 10 year old and I have sat at the patio window watching the antics of the birds coming to feed. we have made a list of all the different species and looked them up in our bird books. also, seeing Louis drawing of a bird of paradise flower has encouaged me to get out my paintbrushes which I havnt used for many a year

I'm knitting -- at the moment a doll and clothes but always needed are tiny hats and jackets for premature babies and matinee coats for charities such as homestart ( usually the health visitor at your local doctors surgery can help)-- tiny patterns can be found on the internet or even some dolls clthes patterns.
my other winter pastime is quilting -- really keeps the knees warm !
P S Its thawing here......

You all sound very busy to me.....be grateful, some of us have to brave the weather and go to a thing called.....lol.... WORK....:>)

We don't have a TV but we do have a digital projector so hook up to one of the laptops put up the big screen and off to the movies we go. The good thing is we can pause the film for hot drinks, visits to the loo etc...

the compos bin is out of the qestion this weather I surpose,MG

definitely Cliffo even for himself...

Now THAT is not a good idea! LOL. Poor Mr MB - don't even think about it, please! ;-(

lol motinot,, i do work to but only 2 &half days so not bad, but have always worked full time till i met my hubby 4 years ago :o)

Retirement is great - but I do need to get out of here. Even my church service was cancelled today! HELP!! No post for the last week, either.

There's only one thing for it - do what Sandra's doing - go on holiday to a warmer place. :-)))

Yes Motinot, glad I am not the only one. I can't even ask the boss for a day off.

I do work but my office is in the house... has been for over a year now makes life generally easier.

Do you want a day off, Docbob? LOL.

how long have you not had a tv mr and mrs MB?

Currently we will not have had a TV for nearly the last 20 years, Sandra. Before that we had one for short periods as the mood took us. We don't miss it but when we go away for a W/E or holiday we do watch the one in the room - this is usually enough to remind us why we don't have one of our own.

Still hanging on, Barbara :-((((((

Well have to confess Barbara, I did take the day off on Wednesday last, but had cabin fever by 10o clock and there was a real danger I might be commandeered to do some washing up. UGH!!

Poor Mr MB. I am sorry for you! That sounds painful......LOL

Docbob - how about a dishwasher? :-)))) Good present??

i can fully understand that mr MB, its on but nothing on, total waste of energy and money :o)

A DISHWASHER, don't want the little woman getting complacent. LOL.

grrrrr doctorbob :o((

Meanie! LOL.

The art is... to always let the women think they are in charge... :0)

We are Bluespruce, we are, I cook himself does the dishes - simple!

LOL.

At least you get some time off. Today I was out cutting down a Hawaiian Woodrose vine so I can replace it with Podranea (Zimbabwe creeper). It got to about 70 feet and the flowers weren't very good. And then it was dry enough to mow the lawn. No rest.

yes but we let you think that blue lol

It's all down to mind games....the male is normally superior ...:0)

thats your mind playing tricks on you blue, we know exactly how you men tick lol

Sandra...did I tell how gorgeous you are ..?

hahahha dont get round me that way blue :o))) lol

I've been passing the time doing family tree research online. If you look at www.ancestry.co.uk, you can start with yourself, look for your parent's marriage, then their births, and so on back to 1837. The 1841 to 1901 censuses are also on there so you see where your ancestors were living over 100 years ago plus any siblings. You will need to take out a subscription to see the originals but you could probably get along way without the need. I've just discovered two great-great-aunts who both had an illegitimate child before they married

I used the add plants to my page a good way of passing time. I also went through the photos and put names to plants rather than just the dates taken.
i have also totally cleaned and tidied our bedroom & the kitchen [hate housework] and today started knitting a umber for eldest girl.

whats a umber sea...?

I've sown some vegetables seeds and put them on the mantelpiece above the fire! It's only mizuna greens, spring cabbage, and Red Russian kale, but it is one way of making yourself believe the new season is starting.
When they germinate I will prick them on and put them into a frame, even if the snow is still on the ground!
Like you, I hate the winter and can't wait for spring!

umber was meant to say jumper! brain needs to thaw like the snow is now doing :o)

lol sea... thought it was a new fashion item hahah

by the time it is finished it may well be a new fashion item. :o)

lol sea... :o))