Cabin Fever?

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Anyone else with cabin fever? I'm ready for some better weather now, it seems to have been winter way too long already. I need to get out and spoil some film in good light, or I'll end up panic buying something I don't need and will hardly use.

I'm planing to work on a few projects and seeing which fly, Village Cricket, Working Lunch (the English eating), Random Strangers (some street in colour), and Northern Monoliths (19c industrial architecture) are the working titles to date.
 
Yes, me too. Waiting for good weather and weekend coincidence has been a pain. Hopeful for this weekend though, although no projects.
 
Well, the Maple Leafs are all but mathematically eliminated from the hockey play-offs, and I'm itching to ride my motorcycle again, so yes I'm ready.
 
Sparrow said:
Anyone else with cabin fever? I'm ready for some better weather now, it seems to have been winter way too long already. I need to get out and spoil some film in good light, or I'll end up panic buying something I don't need and will hardly use.

I'm planing to work on a few projects and seeing which fly, Village Cricket, Working Lunch (the English eating), Random Strangers (some street in colour), and Northern Monoliths (19c industrial architecture) are the working titles to date.
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You sound like a Northern nancy boy. Go out and take some pictures, its not cold at all but merely a state of mind.
 
That's fighting talk from what sounds like a soft-southerner ... I don't do cold these days, and anyway it's rough in't north ...
 
Between 6 and 8 Celsius in your neck of the woods today. That's perfect walking temperature. The expression "Big girls blouse" comes to mind :D
 
We're still on centigrade up here, but sadly due to illness my lungs object below 12 or 13 degrees these days, thankfully I've retained my dress sense ...
 
Sparrow said:
We're still on centigrade up here, but sadly due to illness my lungs object below 12 or 13 degrees these days, thankfully I've retained my dress sense ...
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In that case you're excused as long as you've retained your sense of humour too. :)
 
well I'm waiting for my house to sell and build a new darkroom wherever I end up. Until that happens I have permanent cabin fever cos I've had dismantle darkroom to make the house saleable.
Sounds like you have plenty of project ideas to be working on. I guess that's what the winter is for, planning future outings.
 
Yes! We had a horrific winter, and we're just 50 miles from Mexico. For days the temps were around minus 17 degrees at the coldest, and now nearly all of the very old trees and cactus are dead. We lived too long in Hawaii to go through this again. It might get rainy or voggy, but you were still warm and could get out and about. Of course, all of the Yankee retirees here think this was nothing, and compared to what they're used to it's probably true, but we're going to St. Pete, Fl (possibly Fort Myers too) for a Look-See in a few months. Enough already. I'd rather be hot and humid, thank you very much. There's always the cool ocean, and the ocean's breeze way down there.
 
All this 'real clothing' and 'bad clothing' stuff sounds a bit like excuses to me.

To quote a friend of my parents, a Southerner born on Peach Tree Street in Atlanta, Georgia, "I don't blame anyone for being born up North [pronounced Naw-eth]. Just for being dumb enough to stay there when they're old enough to know better."

And to quote her late husband, "Hell, I was clear though to 17 'fore I realized pèople wore shoes in summer as well as winter."

Or for one I've heard more recently, "Never live anywhere it's too cold to grow tomatoes outdoors."

There've been some glorious days here lately, and yesterday in Brittany (200 miles north of here) it was warmer outdoors than in. So yes, I sympathize with anyone suffering from cabin fever. But then, among the places I've lived for extended periods are Cornwall (born there), Malta, Bermuda, California and south of the Loire (where I am now).

Cheers,

R.
 
this seems like the longest winter of my life...so much snow and incredible cold spells.
when i was younger i would hike out in the boonies and shoot the lonely little churches standing alone in a field but now 2 blocks of city street and my arthritic hands and bum hip are screaming for some warm comfort.
for pete's sake...we are STILL scraping ice off car windows in the mornings here.
and the upcoming summer is supposed to be short and wet...
 
back alley said:
this seems like the longest winter of my life...so much snow and incredible cold spells.
when i was younger i would hike out in the boonies and shoot the lonely little churches standing alone in a field but now 2 blocks of city street and my arthritic hands and bum hip are screaming for some warm comfort.
for pete's sake...we are STILL scraping ice off car windows in the mornings here.
and the upcoming summer is supposed to be short and wet...
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This may be one of the advance warnings of old age. You and I are of an age, and even though I know that winter 09/10 was longer and colder, 10/11 seemed longer and we needed more heat on, for longer.

Cheers,

R.
 
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