Yeah, Project Work Has Slowed Down Again!
Winter = My Projects / Summer = Wife's Projects!
Broadly speaking this is the situation... Leading up to the nice weather the wife turns her thoughts to spring cleaning the house and getting her garden sorted out ready for the BBQ season!
This means more of my days are spent doing jobs round the house, repairs decorating and cleaning up the yard after it has been neglected over the winter season. This includes cutting back the jungle that has grow with a lot of the plants looking like triffids!
In fact we have just had our fort test BBQ of the year just to make sure the darn thing works after taking it's winter coat off (and checking the Calor gas bottle). 😆
One 'house job' I did have to do that actually positively impacts my ability to work in my attic man cave was the installation of some blackout blinds over the roof Velux windows. As soon as the sunny weather starts the attic starts to become an oven because of the big windows which makes working up there quite unbearable!
Unfortunately, proper Velux fitted blinds are very expensive and as we have lots of other jobs to do I had to find a cheap solution, which I duly did thanks to Amazon. They had a 'stick on' kit of black out material and velcro strips for just £9 which would solve my problem...
So that's one job done, that helps me *without* the wife moaning about costs!
Moving to Small Projects
Another change may have to be me moving away from the time consuming large model making projects to more manageable small ones. With more house jobs to do I need more manageable hobby jobs that can be easily fitted in between my other work.
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| Above: Current vintage Matchbox restoration jobs. |
Long sessions of me disappearing up to the attic to do a complex and time consuming large scale model is off the menu for the next few months. Instead I will be trotting up and down stairs splitting my time more equally between jobs for the wife and jobs for myself! 😐
I have two big projects still on my 'To Do' board left over from the winter season - those being my Library of Books book nook and the 1/32 Tiger Moth kit which I just got started on. So I have tweaked my schedule (again) and will be continuing with these but at a more spread out pace (and hopefully finishing them before we get to the end of the summer).
The bulk of my projects - I have decided - will be the small ones I have found are easy to get through quickly: The Matchbox restorations & Gaslands car conversions AND I have restarted my peg soldier projects (but this time as 3D printed models)
The good thing about smaller projects is that I am getting through them quite quickly, so there will actually be MORE for you to see!
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