Winter evenings WTF do people do?

[Quattr04.]

It’s that time of year where it’s dark as soon as you get home and the evenings drag on and on before a 9pm bedtime

What do people actually do in the winter evenings to not go insane?

I like running but I’ve tried it at night and it’s cold, unpleasant and boring.

Drink wine? Shag? Build airfix kits?

I don’t really like reading and find TV tedious

[21TonyK]

According to a colleague at work today it explains why she has 8 kids and 18 grandchildren.

[Super Sonic]

Internetting. I'm doing it now.

[Lefty]

And




Maybe 3 or 4 evenings a week I’m in the shed with the dogs, fire on and getting on with little jobs on the TVR or the lawn mower or whatever else needs something done. I love it, I sit on my arse in front of a computer from about 0630 to 1600 apart from a dog walk at lunchtime so it’s nice to do something standing up and practical and hands-on.

Other evenings, I work maybe 1 or 2 of them a week. By work this is either client-paying consulting stuff or admin stuff.

Friday nights tend to be in the house watching telly with Mrs L, pissfarting about on the internet or reading or listening to music. Usually with a dram.

I play Hell Let Loose on Xbox either with my 19 year old son or some other old farts like me - there’s a group of us that always try to play together. That’s maybe an hour or two in an evening once or twice a week.

I also twiddle with guitars but honestly that tends to be 10-15 minutes a few times per day rather than a “sit down and play for 2 hours”. Just a fun hobby that I don’t prioritise over other stuff.

Edited by Lefty on Friday 28th November 07:32

[Super Sonic]

Lefty said:

You have the sun shining in through your garage door on a dark winter evening?

[Lefty]

Super Sonic said:

Lefty said:

You have the sun shining in through your garage door on a dark winter evening?

Sadly not but the car is still on that lift

[Super Sonic]

Here's hoping you get it back on it's wheels for next summer.

[Caddyshack]

I do like a good project. Last few weeks have been completing a motorbike refurb with engine swap, I have been able to utilise some 3d cad work and printing too which is also a good use of evenings to learn and make stuff. I do sometimes find it hard to get motivated to go out to the garage and turn on the heating but once going the time flies.

[Hoofy]

Weights, fitness (got my own kit).

Video editing.

Reading.

Music production.

Playing various acoustic and electronic instruments.

Arguing on PH.

[Hugo Stiglitz]

I run, drink wine and sadly work shifts.

[Chubbyross]

Cook, clean up, play guitar, watch Netflix, play more guitar, tickle the hounds, more guitar, put hounds to bed. Sleep.

[Mars]

Play drums

[AB]

If I’m home handy and not playing sports in the evening then it’s dinner for/with the kids, bath, stories, bed then it might be 8:30 or so. Sit down and put the TV on or pick up the iPad and surf the net, tidy out the day’s emails and generally go to bed early around 9:30pm.

Got caught up with Tulsa King tonight as the wife is out.

But yeah, generally get a bath or get on the sofa and chill for a bit or this week it’s been tennis 6:30 - 8:30 Monday, badminton 8-10 Tuesday and padel 9-10:30 last night.

[wibble cb]

Mostly this



Oh wait, she does this in Summer as well….

[LunarOne]

I work from home, so in the evenings I'm either still working or surfing the net or watching Youtube or cooking. But I usually don't go to bed until 1.30 or 2am. But then I don't get up before 9am. Do people really go to bed at 9.30?

[MC Bodge]

LunarOne said:

I work from home, so in the evenings I'm either still working or surfing the net or watching Youtube or cooking. But I usually don't go to bed until 1.30 or 2am. But then I don't get up before 9am. Do people really go to bed at 9.30?

Some people get up at 05:30.

[AB]

LunarOne said:

I work from home, so in the evenings I'm either still working or surfing the net or watching Youtube or cooking. But I usually don't go to bed until 1.30 or 2am. But then I don't get up before 9am. Do people really go to bed at 9.30?

Tell me you don’t have young children without telling me you don’t have young children.

I’m up making coffee and breakfast not long after 6am. If I wasn’t going to bed until 2am I wouldn’t be able to function.

That sort of sleep pattern was me in my late teens, early twenties.

[Mars]

MC Bodge said:

Some people get up at 05:30.

True. Others don't sleep much - bed at 2am, up again at 7am.

[LunarOne]

AB said:

LunarOne said:

I work from home, so in the evenings I'm either still working or surfing the net or watching Youtube or cooking. But I usually don't go to bed until 1.30 or 2am. But then I don't get up before 9am. Do people really go to bed at 9.30?

Tell me you don t have young children without telling me you don t have young children.

I m up making coffee and breakfast not long after 6am. If I wasn t going to bed until 2am I wouldn t be able to function.

That sort of sleep pattern was me in my late teens, early twenties.

51, live alone, don't have children.

[Hugo Stiglitz]

If that was me, I'd have a loud Grandfather clock, a open fire and a glass of Port in hand whilst I watch Netflix in Serene calm.