What are you other hobbies?

[Alex321]

Good to hear that it's still being kept alive. Love to watch. Quite keen on folk music and used to go regularly to Cecil Sharp House on Saturday nights. What is your side called?

Sweyn's ey Morris - based in Swansea.

Here is a video of us dancing at the Tredegar House folk festival in May this year (I'm in the middle on the side nearest the camera).

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqx03f2xCW4

 

[Badger_Boom]

I'm now too slow for techno so its funky house and disco.

I dabble with ambient to avoid upsetting the neighbours, Mrs BB and the dog. I’ve also got too many (cheap) guitars for someone who only knows about five complete songs after about 30 years of noodling.

I spend the rest of my spare time as an Army Reservist because being allowed to shoot holes in stuff is cathartic.

 

[Reynard]

I spend the rest of my spare time as an Army Reservist because being allowed to shoot holes in stuff is cathartic.

A bit like smacking someone over the head with a sabre, I'd imagine...

Fencing is a hobby that I miss (it was more than a hobby at one point), but sadly the nearest club is just too far away to make it worthwhile travelling to sessions.

 

[stephec]

I've a collection of young trees and shrubs that will eventually become bonsai, a telescope that will now get more use as the nights darken, a big pile of plastic model kits (mainly aircraft), and a banjo ukulele that I've not touched for a couple of years.

Running would probably be my main hobby now.

 

[Hover Fly]

Golf, strangling small animals and self abuse.
Apart from that I also enjoy a bit model railroading.

Is strangling a small animal not pretty much the same as self abuse?

 

[Profpointy]

Golf, strangling small animals and self abuse.
Apart from that I also enjoy a bit model railroading.

That's well dodgy - golf's a rubbish game

 

[Sharky]

That's well dodgy - golf's a rubbish game

I feel sorry for golfs - grown men hitting their balls with metal sticks.

 

[HarryTheDog]

My other Hobby is Latin Ballroom dancing which I took up nearly 5 years ago with my partner. At 60 I increasingly realise its something I should have taken up at 16. Its a massive subject really, It causes joy and frustration in equal measures.

 

[byegad]

Erm!
Railway modelling, Bird Watching, Photography, RC Cars, both Rock Crawling and Bashing.
Having been retired for 16 years I often wonder how I ever found time to earn a living.

 

[Cycleops]

That's well dodgy - golf's a rubbish game

At last, somebody who remembers the old Monty Python sketch. Can’t remember exactly what it was about but some sort of TV games show where the contestants hobbies were trotted out. I think the commentators retort was ‘ think he got marked down on the hobbies, golf is not very popular here’.

 

[Oldhippy]

At last, somebody who remembers the old Monty Python sketch. Can’t remember exactly what it was about but some sort of TV games show where the contestants hobbies were trotted out. I think the commentators retort was ‘ think he got marked down on the hobbies, golf is not very popular here’.

I think the Avon and District river wideners club was a team name in that or something similar.

 

[Cycleops]

It was the Avon and district catholic river wideners society.

 

[Oldhippy]

It was the Avon and district catholic river wideners society.

That's the one.

 

[Profpointy]

For me it's caving and scuba diving (albeit not done the latter for a year or two and my tanks are now out of test). Apart from that I read, perhaps study even - mostly astronomy / physics, history, and engineering.

 

[FishFright]

For me it's caving and scuba diving (albeit not done the latter for a year or two and my tanks are now out of test). Apart from that I read, perhaps study even - mostly astronomy / physics, history, and engineering.

I used to do quite a bit of caving in the early 90's. Great fun !

If your know Darfar* Pot in the Manifold Valley, I was one of the team that found the upper entrance. Other than that it was mostly sporting trips. One of the guys I caved with became a cave diver of some renown , shudder !

*Choose your own spelling for this one.