Other people's hobbies

[rich p]

I imagine that the field full of metal detecting folk looked over the hedge and thought that I was the loon as I cycled by this morning but I can't imagine ever wanting to swap places.
Any hobbies you don't fancy?

 

[accountantpete]

Bottle digging - you dig for 5-6 hours for a couple of codds worth £3 each and just occasionally get a pot lid that may be worth £70 or so.

 

[rich p]

Bottle digging - you dig for 5-6 hours for a couple of codds worth £3 each and just occasionally get a pot lid that may be woth £70 or so.

Blimey, I've never even heard of that one! It makes metal detecting for ring pulls sound positively orgasmic.

 

[Dayvo]

Metal detecting sounds fun, and potentially very rewarding.

Can't say I'm too enamoured with the thought of stamp-collecting, or train-spotting, but each to their own!

 

[marinyork]

I wouldn't want to do Pylon spotting. Metal detecting, dunno there's something fun sounding about that, even stripping any financial rewards out of it.

 

[andrew-the-tortoise]

Riverside angling has always seemed odd to me, especially when the fruits of an afternoons fishing are chucked in a keep net, fondled, then chucked back for next time.

But the preservation of our waterways is mainly due to this hobby - so it can't be a bad thing.

 

[Velorum]

I have often seen groups of 'bus spotters' in Reading armed with cameras and notebooks.

I would rather watch paint dry.

 

[Velorum]

I wouldn't want to do Pylon spotting.

Pylon spotting?

Ive just googled it and come up with this

http://www.pylonofthemonth.org/

Good god.

 

[Dayvo]

My brother has a mate who collects tractor seats!

 

[ComedyPilot]

Was it one here somewhere, where someone had met a bloke who metal detects on Spanish beaches, and makes about €15,000 a year from it?

 

[bonj2]

I imagine that the field full of metal detecting folk looked over the hedge and thought that I was the loon as I cycled by this morning but I can't imagine ever wanting to swap places.
Any hobbies you don't fancy?

snowboarding/skiing. The blokes at my work are into it, but what's the point in a hobby that you can only do once or twice a year, unless you're really rich? It's essentially a holiday-only hobby isn't it.

 

[bonj2]

Pylon spotting?

Ive just googled it and come up with this

http://www.pylonofthemonth.org/

Good god.

I must say it's unexplainably slightly surreal when you're up right close to a pylon. There's a bit in wharncliffe woods where the bridlepath goes right under the power line really near a pylon, it's almost eerie in a weird way, can't really explain why. But i can't see why one's anydifferent to another - once you've seen one you've seen 'em all!

 

[Cubist]

Never mind Bus spotting, what about Eddy spotting?

 

[Brains]

Father of a friend was into Wartburg cars and London Trams (this was in the 1980's, so 30-40 years after the last tram)

 

[Ian H]

I would rather watch paint dry.

Now there's a hobby.