What Do You Want To Learn in 2012?

mioliere

I'd like to find more time to write, and to crochet. I don't know where all my time goes, but I always seem to up against it! I'd like to get back in to horse-riding; it's ages since I've done any. We've spent the last two and a half years renovating our house; now that it's more or less finished, I want to do more exciting and less dusty things with my time!

Spider in the Bath - I'd like to learn the ukelele. It's meant to be really easy!

Cheerfulness - here's a link to a Yorkshire pud recipe that was featured on Jamie Oliver's Britain the other night - it's foolproof! http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/pastry-cake/baby-yorkshire-puds-creamy-smoked-trout You don't have to do the smoked trout bit, although he said it was probably the best mouthful of food he'd ever tasted! For Cornish pasties, just google 'Cornish pasty recipes' and you'll find loads.

VJsmum

I'd also like to write more
Go back to learning how to play the piano
to spend less time on here (lovely tho you all are )
say no more often
learn how to be more eco friendly (that with at least 3 and possibly 5 flights next year )
grow more (ETA veg and fruit - not me!)

tea_lover

I'd like to learn how to cook better. I'm getting better at meal planning now and try to cook from scratch where I can but I know there's a LONG way to go and definitely lots of room for improvement.
I'd also love to learn how to be a mum, so all fingers crossed please that next year is our year!

trifles

I'd love to take a class on making hats!Outrageous ones particularly-I love accessories I can make myself especially from recycled stuff.

rachbc

I'd love to learn to crochet properly too
To get better at bread making

imogen-p

I guess the main on is to get the allotment up and running properly, I got it in April as a waist high patch of weeds with a good amount of bricks and rubble in the soil, along with bindweed, horsetail, couchgrass and a derelict shed with only two and a half walls.

Dug most of the bricks out but it was a losing battle against the weeds as everything growing faster than the few hours a week I could put in. Now that not much is growing I'm hoping to clear it out over the winter, so that when it comes round to spring I'll have an allotment growing things I can eat.

Biggest problem with the allotment is that there's no tool storage and without a car it's a bus journey with the tools there and back, as it's about two miles away. (Although since I buy a pre pay my bus card for getting to work it's not actually costing me any extra, just getting more use out of what I've already paid for.)

Other than that I'm hoping to fix the fence in the garden at home, there's a temp fix involving chicken wire and reed screening, but I doubt that'll last the winter. I need it more secure so DS can play out there.

Get a slow cooker and use it. (There's a possibility of being given one at christmas so I'm holding off trying to get a freecycled or ebayed one until then.)

goobergirl

1. Learn to use my sewing machine and actually make something

2. Learn to make pastry

3. Keep my house clutter free

Linda32

I'd like to learn to crochet as well, infact, to that end, I might put some hooks and yarn on my Christmas list from OH. :j

beemuzed

Learn to use my overlocker that's been sitting around for nearly 18months. (Hangs head in shame!)
Stay away from my laptop for long stretches of each day - spend far too long on it.
Learn the art of self-motivation...after 62+ years I still haven't acquired it. So much I'd like to do - and have time to do in retirement - but do I? Nope.
Am so full of admiration for anyone like Spider in the bath - so that's what I really need: motivation.

LameWolf

At this point, I'll be happy to train my stupid body to sleep at appropriate times. I'm on reversed sleep pattern, and have been for an age - nothing I try seems to change it, so that needs addressing.

The other thing is I really have to learn to pace myself. I was diagnosed with lupus back in 2003, and have never yet got my head round pacing; I tend to push through the pain and force myself to continue when every joint and bone is saying "rest" and I need to learn not to do that.

I know it doesn't sound like much compared to some of the ambitions already posted, but believe me, if I can get my head round this, it'll be a real achievement.:o