NormT wrote:
Ralph,
Happy to see you're back. Not much traffic on this forum, may be partly my fault,I post very little. I do log on often.
Can't help you with your rain problems. I spent 3 days in London many years ago, the sun shown every day, guess I was lucky.
Norm
Hi Norm,
It sure is a far cry from the early days of 'The Daily Puzzler'. I would set a question every day and get lots of responses. This board would fill my inbox with notifications and the world was a much simpler place back then. I guess most people are on social media now and the forums are old technology - a bit like me!
The past year, here in the UK, has seen a spike in interest in all hobby interest subjects, including woodwork, due to the pandemic. People have been stuck at home with more spare time than they have ever had. It is not only woodworking that has had a sudden flood of new or returnee participants. One of the things we have been allowed to do during the national lockdowns has been to use our allotments as a form of exercise. The waiting lists has grown many-fold and we have no vacant plots. The trouble is, a lot of the newcomers don't realise how much hard graft it takes to get to the stage where you can sit outside the shed drinking a cup of coffee and admiring a plot full of fresh fruit and vegetables. I suspect that as soon as restrictions are lifted, a lot of people will give up their new-found interests and go back to what they were doing before; being entertained as opposed to entertaining themselves.
It has now stopped raining and has been dry for thirty-six hours, maybe we can get back to doing something in the garden...
All the best for the coming year, let's hope it will be better then the past twelve months!
Ralph.