I've just been signed off worth for a whole damn month by my doctor- I'm going to go out of my mind with boredom, anyone have any ideas for indoor projects that I can do over the next month to preserve my sanity? 
climbing the walls.....
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Oh, I hope it's curable and benign.
Sew stuff, from clothing to leather
Learn to knit woollen socks and gloves and hats.
Small carvings....make your own really finished firebow and spindle set
Read loads of interesting websites and write down the things you'd like to try.
Figure out what trees are likely to be near you and suss out how to recognise them in Winter from buds and twigs.
Contact the library for the blind, and do some book reading recording for them.
Contact a local charity and offer to stuff envelopes for them.
What do you do normally anyway ? Is there anything involved with that that you might spend time doing without any pressure ?
atb,
Toddy
Sew stuff, from clothing to leather
Learn to knit woollen socks and gloves and hats.
Small carvings....make your own really finished firebow and spindle set
Read loads of interesting websites and write down the things you'd like to try.
Figure out what trees are likely to be near you and suss out how to recognise them in Winter from buds and twigs.
Contact the library for the blind, and do some book reading recording for them.
Contact a local charity and offer to stuff envelopes for them.
What do you do normally anyway ? Is there anything involved with that that you might spend time doing without any pressure ?
atb,
Toddy
Expensive booze and cheap women is a pleasant way of passing the time if your single of course. Catch up on your reading, if your mobile get cooking something you don't normally do, bake bread etc.
Hope your well soon mate.
Hope your well soon mate.
Whittler Kev
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Learn to play the harmonica or flute?
Got both here and never had time to get them out of the cellophane yet (been here 6 months
)
Got both here and never had time to get them out of the cellophane yet (been here 6 months
)
Buy a load of paracord and start knotting! You could make some quite sellable things, like dog leads etc.
Read all brouchures and websites from all manufacturers that you consider
worthwile. Begin deciding what you would consider The Ultimate Outdoor Kit
for each different season. Choose the boots, jacket, trousers, tent, rucksack
and kit of your dreams. Write down packing lists and properties of all the gear.
Be creative and think of colours, materials and how they interact.
Design and build all those small bags that you keep gear in outdoors.
Plan for different hikes, scenarios and adventures. Choose carefully
every single item that you'll bring into the forest.
Then slowly start building your Ultimate Outdoor Kit, weather it's State of the
Art GoreTex or the best price/quality equation gear that you want.
Aim for the long run and spread the cost over time so it will be manageble.
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I actually did this many years ago and today I have what I consider is the
best outdoor kit one can own. I also design and build bags, rucksacks, tents
and tarps. I even have skis and pulks for winter use. (I can wait several years
for a speciffic wool pullower to be manufactured in the colour I want...)
It is a great interest to have.
worthwile. Begin deciding what you would consider The Ultimate Outdoor Kit
for each different season. Choose the boots, jacket, trousers, tent, rucksack
and kit of your dreams. Write down packing lists and properties of all the gear.
Be creative and think of colours, materials and how they interact.
Design and build all those small bags that you keep gear in outdoors.
Plan for different hikes, scenarios and adventures. Choose carefully
every single item that you'll bring into the forest.
Then slowly start building your Ultimate Outdoor Kit, weather it's State of the
Art GoreTex or the best price/quality equation gear that you want.
Aim for the long run and spread the cost over time so it will be manageble.
-
I actually did this many years ago and today I have what I consider is the
best outdoor kit one can own. I also design and build bags, rucksacks, tents
and tarps. I even have skis and pulks for winter use. (I can wait several years
for a speciffic wool pullower to be manufactured in the colour I want...)
It is a great interest to have.
Get obsessive about posting on every forum that interest you. That is what I do when I've run out of things I actually want to do and am stuck indoors (otherwise known as being at work). I have been like that this afternoon at home hence all my recent posts over the last 3 hours. I finished work at 14:30 and been home since about 3pm and am totally bored so I can't imagine how crazy I will be if I had a whole month stuck in like you are.
PS this is not the only site I've been posting on this afternoon. I have been busy just with nothing productive.
PS this is not the only site I've been posting on this afternoon. I have been busy just with nothing productive.
Order an amazon kindle and fill it full of books then IF you are allowed to get out walk to your nearest bit of nature and sit and read the books with a little bit of music and a brew kit. I did that a few evenings over this summer when it was nice enough to sit out. Mine is on top of a local crag beauty spot / nature reserve overlooking the Morecambe Bay. Even Heysham Nuclear Power Station looks good when seen across the Bay with a nice sunset to the west!! Plus I found a load of sloes which probably due for picking right now. Which gin is best for making sloe gin?
Whittle a ball in a cup, it is a ball, attached to a cup, by string
! you will never be bored with a ball in a cup!
! you will never be bored with a ball in a cup!Is there a way to make a message in a bottle out of wood?? A wooden bottle with a wooden boat in it? No point as you won't see the boat when done but must be hard as you can't see the boat as you are making it up inside the bottle.
Whittle a ball in a cup, it is a ball, attached to a cup, by string
Tee hee...
Biker
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
You could try a spot of colouring. Ahem, for grown ups of course. :theyareon
http://bikerbloke.deviantart.com/art/Colouring-contest-257717623
Go on dig out the kid's crayons and give it a go.
http://bikerbloke.deviantart.com/art/Colouring-contest-257717623
Go on dig out the kid's crayons and give it a go.
Relax dude,... the fear of being bored is worse than boredom it's self 
....& if I may quote Jacques Perrin ..." How can one be bored in a world where there is so much to do"....that's my philosophy anyway
... the fear of being bored is worse than boredom it's self ....& if I may quote Jacques Perrin ..." How can one be bored in a world where there is so much to do"....that's my philosophy anyway 
get the rifle out the top window and get that scope plum on the target in the field out back....
(joke)
carve some hooks from bone or hard woods, make a fishing pole to use them on.
CORDAGE you can never have enough, get twisting......
(joke)carve some hooks from bone or hard woods, make a fishing pole to use them on.
CORDAGE you can never have enough, get twisting......
wow! thanks for the response here ladies n gents, plenty of ideas here!
I've been away with family this week I was meant to be diving in New Quay, but the bad weather/back has put the kibosh on that....been catching up on my reading really, I'm just glad Cody Lundin's books are on Kindle lol
Dude, yes please!!- I've PM'd you my addy, will be home Friday
I've been away with family this week I was meant to be diving in New Quay, but the bad weather/back has put the kibosh on that....been catching up on my reading really, I'm just glad Cody Lundin's books are on Kindle lol
PM me your addy and I'll post you up a nice burl to play with...
Will that cheer you up?
Dude, yes please!!- I've PM'd you my addy, will be home Friday
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