Kitchen Garden Forum

Does anyone else get rather fidgety in the evenings, at this time of the year. I often feel like this at this time of the year, but this year it's driving me to distraction.

So what do you all find to do, to keep yourselves amuzed in these dark evenings?

Most of tv bores me these days. I like to read but find the light levels of these energy saving lightbulbs too low for comfort. We'll have an old fashioned jigsaw lurking in the background over Christmas but normally when it gets dark I just feel like hibernating. You could always learn a new language - Something easy like Russian, Japanese, , Chinese ?.?
Have just replaced my ancient laptop with a new one with updated software. Reckon it will take me the whole winter navigating my way around all the changes. I feel like the class dunce fumbling around trying to perform even some of the basic tasks as nothing is where I expect it to be as it was on the old software. Why don't the software designers leave well alone instead of continually updating systems? It just another way of wringing money out of the poor consumer who eventually has to cough up when they no longer support some of the older software.

Tonight preparing an order for work of garden sundries...

Last night trying to learn how to drive works new laptop. I can't find the Winter digging hotkey..
....although I did make sure it could visit here.

Clive.

We have no TV so we spent a lot of time reading (three Sunday newspapers, for instance) , doing crosswords, sudoku and, my favourite, codewords, whilst listening to music. I also knit - now that the grandchildren are all growing and I get bored knitting large items (which they probably wouldn't appreciate in any case), I have started knitting outfits for newborns which are sent to hospitals in Africa. As the partner of one of our grandsons has just qualified as a midwife I am going to ask her if they are ever in need of such things at the large maternity hospital where she works. if so, they might as well stay locally.

I am also just reading a fascinating book about the history of maps, "On the Map" by Simon Garfield. I recommend it.

All the seeds are ordered and most have arrived, so they will need sorting soon. the planting plan for next year is already done.

Never a dull moment ....