Long evenings

Well done loopyloo. Enjoy the fruits of your labour. ?

Thank you Anniebach. My daughter said it looked very eccentric but I shall continue to sew it together and regard as a designer item. No one else will have anything like it.
I have decided in January that the ONLY thing that matters is keeping warm and I will be able to wear that jacket over anything else.

I use my iPad a lot. I play bridge on line with real people and challenge my DD with short tornements. Read on my kindle app, no light needed. Read gransnet blog and add comments, even started a few threads, chat on the phone and FaceTime a bit. Read Facebook.

Watch TV but usually BBC iplayer so I can watch what I want when I want.

At night I go out rarely, especially after dark.

loopyloo, I love your jacket

I don't watch much live TV as I'm often out (the next four evenings!) but if you have to drive that can be a problem, hard to make yourself go out in the cold if you have to scrape the windscreen. We moved a couple of years ago to a lively very small town in North Wales, we only really use the car at night if we go to the theatre, so we can stay busy and mix with people, not sure what you can do if you don't want to move. I do like TV and reading and crafts but, unless you invite people to you for a book club or craft group they are rather solitary.

On the plus side, I love Audible listening books, which means I can do crafts and 'read' simultaneously.
On the minus, I was partway through a post-grad degree and frankly couldn't complete it once I retired.

Probably just for use in the garden. But I might even line it or add some embroidery.

Here is a photo of the jacket made out of squares. Not finished yet.

Hi.

I have just signed up to FutureLearn, which offers free online courses, some very short, and others a few weeks in length. I am currently doing their online course about Autism which has been eye opening, very positive, with online videos, transcripts and online discussions if you want, have learned a lot. I have signed up for Mindfulness which will start next month.

Also planning to join the U3A, our local branch has theatre trips, walks, talks and seminars plus some weekly or monthly classes, some day time and a few in the evening.

Plus I do love watching TV!

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I while away the evenings into the small hours quite easily. However, am I the only elderly lone female who would like a man to entice her to bed early?!!!!!!!!!!!!

Me too see my post further down the page

I play scrabble on facebook against real people, ( you can invite your facebook friends to play) or you can pay random people.

watermeadow. One of the sites on internet that has given me immense pleasure is JIGIDI free online puzzles. It is a friendly and informative site. You can play at any level and choose the puzzle subjects you prefer. It is also fun to post your own photos as puzzles. People's comments are often fun and encouraging. It was Danish originally but players cover the Whole world.

I watch some tv (not a lot) and i spend my evenings on line with facebook and love playing scrabble and word battle.

I'm a radiophobe and spend lots of time listening to BBC Iplayer radio. There's a Barry Humphreys (yes, Dame Edna!) programme on Radio 2 looking back at music from times gone by, which I'm just about to switch on. I love Tony Blackburn and Paul Gambacini, I save their programmes to listen to in the evenings whilst I'm browsing the internet or just relaxing. I also catch up with the radio 4 dramas or Book at Bedtime. Then I sit in bed and read a bit of a biography and then several pages of fiction. Heaven.

I love to watch TV especially Walter Presents .... seriously good programmes, loving Spiral on BBC4, and Vera is back! M

There are some fantastic things on tv, really interesting that you might like, I learn a lot and am selective but don't watch it all the time

I do word searches Suduko knitting jigsaw puzzles some three .d. Paint by numbers. Colouring in books.

i love the long winter evenings and never feel guilty at watching dramas and nature documentaries i also write and read spending time with my cat and play online scrabble

I agree with others that TV isn’t a waste of time. I love a good crime drama, documentaries/current affairs and Corrie. I also enjoy reading and listening to audiobooks. I do a jigsaw occasionally. I like the wooden wentworth ones. They are expensive, but many are resold on ebay after being completed only once. I am also a fan of Twitter and Tweet a lot, usually about politics and current affairs, sometimes about other things e.g. a TV programme. It’s very engaging. You get to know people who tweet about the same stuff and it is not as banal as Facebook often is!

I am writing my memoirs as a child which is for my son and family. When I have finished this I shall do my teenage years in the swinging sixties. Other than that I am having a go at patchwork, also read, watch tv and explore the internet. Time goes quickly

I read, do crosswords/ sudoku, use fb, done some FutureLearn courses & watch TV, some new series starting this week, I have Sky so plenty of Box Sets to catch up on before the light nights when I want to get out in the garden.

I do drive but hate night driving. As I'm a Widow I can do as I please so no fighting over the TV, I love to be warm & cosy whilst the weather is cold/wet/windy

I usually arrive home from work about 5.45 have a quick bite to eat and then 3-4 nights I'm out. Monday at Guides, Tuesday at Rainbows (both meetings are at Community Hall at end of my street) Wednesday another Rainbow unit. This week I have a meeting on Thursday evening (I'm a Division Advisor for Rainbows too), includes supper so don't have to worry about tea, getting a lift there and back so don't have to take the car, bonus. Evenings when I'm at home I tend to catch up on housework and maybe do some crocheting. Sunday evening I babysit for my daughter while she's at work (on her own with 4 children aged 6-13).

I do like to watch some T.V, but select what I want to watch. I quite enjoy the adult colouring books, and get quite absorbed in these...very therapeutic as well.

Grannyknot - thanks for the advice, I prefer not to use Facebook either