Your other hobbies

[scotty110788]

Got idea from another thread when they set me off, but what is your main/other hobbie? mine has always been long distance walking/camping (Not a daysacker ) last walk i completed was the pennine way which i wouldnt mind cycling it now tbh. so feel free to share, hope theres some interesting replys

 

[ianrauk]

Fishing and Football.
Haven't been fishing now for a couple of years now.
Was big into Carp fishing and Sea Fishing. Fished since I was a small lad.
Football, have been watching Chelsea play since 1974. I recently gave up my season ticket which I had held for 15 years due to disillusion of the game. Have been to a couple of games this season but do not miss it.
So that just leave Cycling as no:1 hobby now.

 

[gaz]

Badminton, not played for a while now due to my shoulder. I'm pretty good, played for the BUSA league at uni.
Poker, made a pretty good living off of this whilst I was at uni. Prefer to be sitting at the table rather than online and made good money at the casino playing with the fishes.
Pool, Used to play a lot but again, due to my shoulder it's been a little less. Got a good shot with lots of control over the white.

 

[Norm]

Photography, computers, music (play piano / keyboards), motor sports, sailing, shooting, motorbikes, R/C helicopters and reading. Oh, and walking (or daysacking ).

The kids and dogs take most of the time, though, so I mostly just read magazines about the other stuff.

 

[Smokin Joe]

Model making, mainly R/C stuff but that has been dormant for a few years now. I dabble with collecting Subbuteo sets and accessories and I've just started putting together the bits to make an American railroad in N Gauge. I was tempted to try with Z gauge but that involves hideous expense.

 

[vernon]

Bagpipe playing - I have a Northumbrian set and an Uilleann half set. They've languished for the past year unplayed.

Low whistle and tin whistle, D key.

Aeromodelling - freeflight and controlline. Non of the R/C fancy stuff.

Pyrothechnics - got a great bunch of recipes for showy explosive demonstrations. Some of them scare me and there's a few scarred lab ceilings and a few emotionally scarred kids and miraculously I am unscarred.

Pie making - short crust pastry, hot water pastry, puff pastry, suet pastry, beef, steak and kidney, corned beef and onion, beef and ale, deep case pies, plate pies, pork pies, gala pies, stand pies, game pies, mince and tatie pies and always on the look out for new recipes.

Model engineering - waiting in my shed are the tools and bits and pieces to make gauge one live steam locomotives when I'm not distracted by pies and pyrotechnics.

 

[Cubist]

I coach a junior rugby team now I can't play any more, but my main hobby other than cycling is shooting. Clays ( I shoot for the force team but have represented England and Great Britain Police at trap shooting) , and game shooting (I'm a member of a DIY syndicate in North Yorks) and rifle. I used to shoot for the school team and as an individual junior (U18). I have the honour of being the 1980 U 18 Oxfordshire champion, but was competing in a field of three!! Still do quite a bit of pest control for a good number of farms.

 

[Night Train]

Making things, out of wood, metal and fabric.
I am working on building an electric car for commuting having already built an electric mini tractor to play with.

I am also rebuilding my house, it is a long project and lots of fun.

I act in amature theatre and also build and paint the sets and make the props though I am going to jack that in.

 

[numbnuts]

Kayaking, sea fishing from kayak and beach, kite flying and for this year wild mushroom picking

 

[vernon]

Still do quite a bit of pest control for a good number of farms.

Could you do some pest control for a good number of kids in my school.

I'll make sure that there's no witnesses.

 

[vernon]

Kayaking, sea fishing from kayak and beach, kite flying and for this year wild mushroom picking

Be careful with your mushrooms....

 

[GordonB]

My main hobby, now morphed into my wife's business, is collecting fountain pens and I have somewhere in the region of 1000. I also play, and sometimes make or customise, some relatively unusual musical instruments as in autoharp, Appalachian dulcimer and bowed psaltery.

 

[Brandane]

Motorbikes. Had my bike licence since 1983, before I bothered with cars. Wouldn't call myself a "biker" in the stereo typical sense; I just enjoy tootling about on it. As in, going from Scotland to the south of France!
Unfortunately my eyesight is not what it once was and I have to wear glasses for driving. They are such a faff to wear under a crash helmet, and they keep steaming up, to the point that they make biking less enjoyable. Current bike is a Honda CBF600 and it will probably be my last. Although I did say that about the Yamaha Fazer I had previously .

 

[Cubist]

Could you do some pest control for a good number of kids in my school.

I'll make sure that there's no witnesses.

Have you tried a nit nurse?

 

[vernon]

Have you tried a nit nurse?

I thought that you might like the challenge of precision shooting with no penalties for near misses