how many hobbies??

[albal]

My subs are due nov 1 for the golf club. My problem being as i do more & more cycling i'm finding there is not enough time for 2 hobbies.(+ I'm more into biking these days)
1 has to go. (finance is also an issue) Any one else have these problems?
It looks like i'll be suspending my membership for an indefinate period.
What makes it a little difficult, I was introduced to the club this year by an old friend, which was painfully slow (old members club), & i feel like i'm letting him down.

 

[Noodley]

...feel like i'm letting him down.

Ask him to pay for you....

 

[Zippy]

Re: letting your friend down. Maybe the golf has given you a dodgy hip or RSI n your wrist and your GP told you to take a complete rest from it for six months? He also said that cycling was an excellent way of realigning your hip since it was the golf swing which put it out and the linear cycling should help put it back. After six months either your friend will have forgotten about it all, or you will miss it so much you'll want to go back.

As for hobbies, I cycle commute to work by short or long routes, but also go along to and practice Yoga every day (not a puffy Yoga I can tell you!) and this compliments my cycling as it helps to iron out any tight muscles.

I also keep an allotment plot, but take the dog down there on his walkies.

Its a case of overlapping things I have/want to do.

 

[thomas]

I manage to fit cycling around going to the pub and drinking copious amounts of beer....just goes to prove it's possible

 

[Norm]

Way too many for me. Aside from Daddying (kites, models etc) and Hubbying (house, garden, dog etc), the garage is filled with the stuff that goes with golf, walking, cricket and table tennis as well as the bikes (a couple with motors, 3 without), the Land Rover and shooting. Then there's photography, archery and computers in the house, along with the left-overs from hobbies which have been dropped for lack of time, including squash, sailing, windsurfing and being a master of international espionage.

Too many toys.

 

[Spinney]

Too many - cycling, walking, kayaking, gardening, eating cake and drinking tea, reading...

 

[Dayvo]

I work on a golf course, so I get free membership and free rounds (and because I'm a member of the Norwegian Greenkeepers' Association, I can play anywhere in Norway for free - although that probably doesn't help you that much!).

I much prefer cycling, though, and would rather ride for four hours than play a round of golf!

I don't know what the best solution for you is! If you enjoy golf, couldn't you just have a weekend membership, so as to remain a member until such a time when you have more time to play, or are less able to cycle; i.e. when you become an old bugger age pensioner?

 

[Sam the Eagle]

did you actually have to pay a joining fee, or was it just a case of going through the members vetting process? Either way, you might be making a loss there but there are many other ways to play golf regularly (or not so regularly) as a 'nomad'

EDIT: reading the OP again, at least it seems you have the opportunity to merely suspend your membership. Not all clubs will let you do that (certainly not in London), and financial constraints is as good a reason as any, and well understood

 

[Mr Pig]

Don't worry about it. Golf is a terrible game anyway. A good walk ruined.

 

[zacklaws]

You can never have too many hobbies, but I agree affording them is a major problem. Just forked out £1500 for a new bike which has skint me, Xmas is here almost and nothing in the kitty, and in January I have to fork out nearly £400 just for my fishing and that's only one of my hobbies from my list.

Cycling, bowls, model making, building antenna's, radio DXing, scanning, astronomy, water colour painting, playing the harmonica, seafishing, coarse fishing, fly fishing, wargaming, building computers, getting drunk, bird watching, aircraft spotting, photography, gardening, flight simulation, stamp collecting, military history.

Think I'll finish there but I know I've probably missed one or two. Some I leave for a few years before going back to them, a bit like my cycling, stop for about 5 to 10 years and then start again, but in all my life I have never took it up so big as I have this time. Its actually beginning to sink in that I'm getting on and times getting short so making the most of it

I always look forward to that question at interviews your virtually guaranteed to be asked "what hobbies etc do you have", you should see the looks I get but it does break the ice a bit, especcially well into the interview I start mentioning all the ones I have forgot.

 

[gavintc]

You can never have too many hobbies, but I agree affording them is a major problem. Just forked out £1500 for a new bike which has skint me, Xmas is here almost and nothing in the kitty, and in January I have to fork out nearly £400 just for my fishing and that's only one of my hobbies from my list.

Cycling, bowls, model making, building antenna's, radio DXing, scanning, astronomy, water colour painting, playing the harmonica, seafishing, coarse fishing, fly fishing, wargaming, building computers, getting drunk, bird watching, aircraft spotting, photography, gardening, flight simulation, stamp collecting, military history.

Think I'll finish there but I know I've probably missed one or two. Some I leave for a few years before going back to them, a bit like my cycling, stop for about 5 to 10 years and then start again, but in all my life I have never took it up so big as I have this time. Its actually beginning to sink in that I'm getting on and times getting short so making the most of it

I always look forward to that question at interviews your virtually guaranteed to be asked "what hobbies etc do you have", you should see the looks I get but it does break the ice a bit, especcially well into the interview I start mentioning all the ones I have forgot.

And they are probably thinking; 'obviously escaping his wife'.

 

[albal]

Thanks for your thought on this. I cant afford to lay out a large sum so will have to suspend for now, my friend suggested dont pay the other stuff......... er 'like the revenue' i said.Yeah right..... (nice people)
I know i can ride 'for free' , so i'll carry on doing that.

 

[potsy]

I'm in a similar position to you albal,fees due at end of year so have decided to buy a new bike instead.
Have been playing golf for about 6 years but since getting into cycling have found my interset in it going down hill.

 

[vernon]

over the past year, on top of getting a 100km ride in nearly every weekend, I have managed to get to several gigs per month usually with friends, slot in three festivals, spend a fortnight cycle touring in France, play my Uilleanne pipes, do husbandy things, build two bikes, eat out a couple of times per month with friends have a couple of residential booze ups with colleagues, hold down a teaching job, be a school governor

Things that I haven't managed to do:
Watch more than an hour or two of TV per week
Wonder how to fit it all in - Google Calender helped to plan my hectic life

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Photography, playing my many guitars (more of a second job, that one), DIY (not really a hobby but we've just bought our first house so I have no choice), walking, drinking heavily and cycling. I don't really see cycling as a hobby any more though, I don't get the time to ride for the sake of it and tend to use the bikes as a means of getting around.