Hobbies

20 Nov 2005

Having done a search (don't want my botty slapped......well, ok, maybe I do) there doesn't seem to have been a Hobbies thread for a while, and I'm sure there are a lot of new members since the last one, so here goes.
What..................apart from sex................do you really enjoy doing? For me it's biking and reading (and no, before someone says it............NOT at the same time biggrin

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20 Nov 2005

Other than spending far longer than I should do sat at my pc, a couple of the things I like to do are go to gigs and I follow the BTCC (British Touring Car Championship)
As sports go, the BTCC has got to be one of the best for value for money. Depending on the track - a ticket will cost somewhere between Â£20-Â£30 and will get you on for the practice and qualifying on the Saturday, as well as all the racing on the Sunday. Anyone under 12 gets in for free if with an adult. On the Sunday, not only are there 3 or 4 support races, but there are actually 3 BTCC races at every meeting too!
For those of you that know the BTCC, I'm sure you will agree that it is some of the most exciting, genuine racing on four wheels to be found, For those of you the don't, I would strongly recommend either getting to a race meeting or catching it on Itv, or Motors TV (no - not Men & Motors!!) next April when the new season starts!

20 Nov 2005

I am becoming more and more interested in visiting well-read biker babes, especially if they live in beautiful Warwickshire lol

............... but I'm afraid I don't know any :cry:

20 Nov 2005

Hi all,
First post in this forum and this looks like a good easy place to start. smile

I'm into motorbikes (love my fireblade), cycling, music, walking, sometimes even...... gardening?? redface

20 Nov 2005

I love the movies.....going to the cinema and seeing a good film or even a dumd film with lots of action,just to take my mind off the shit is great therapy for me.....god i won't tell you how many DVD's i own and i don't mean porn.

20 Nov 2005

Quote by Nomad_Soul
I am becoming more and more interested in visiting well-read biker babes, especially if they live in beautiful Warwickshire ............... but I'm afraid I don't know any :cry:

Sorry mate, can't help you....................I don't know any either sad

20 Nov 2005

Quote by ijiot
Hi all,
First post in this forum and this looks like a good easy place to start.
I'm into motorbikes (love my fireblade), cycling, music, walking, sometimes even...... gardening??

Welcome to SH biggrin

But honestly....................gardening :roll:

20 Nov 2005

Quote by Lissa
Hi all,
First post in this forum and this looks like a good easy place to start.
I'm into motorbikes (love my fireblade), cycling, music, walking, sometimes even...... gardening??

Welcome to SH biggrin

But honestly....................gardening :roll:
and whats wrong with gardening........just completely done mine over the summer and bloody chuffed with it! wink

20 Nov 2005

Quote by da69ve
Hi all,
First post in this forum and this looks like a good easy place to start.
I'm into motorbikes (love my fireblade), cycling, music, walking, sometimes even...... gardening??

Welcome to SH biggrin

But honestly....................gardening :roll:
and whats wrong with gardening........just completely done mine over the summer and bloody chuffed with it! wink

i use the Ghengis Khan approach to gardening.................I go out twice a year and hack everything down to ground level................seems to work :D

20 Nov 2005

We should get into gardening more... gets us outdoors :P

20 Nov 2005

My hobby is :-
re-reading "Lady Chatterley wink

phredd

20 Nov 2005

My hobby is being here lol...sad i know rolleyes

but i also know im not the only one :twisted:
Also i enjoy abit of cross stitching...reading stephen king books.....oh i have a very new hobby too...but its my secret :twisted: wink

20 Nov 2005

Quote by ijiot
We should get into gardening more... gets us outdoors :P

So does dogging................and that's FAR more fun biggrin

20 Nov 2005

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20 Nov 2005

Quote by givemeahug
My hobby is being here lol...sad i know but i also know im not the only one :twisted:
Also i enjoy abit of cross stitching...reading stephen king books.....oh i have a very new hobby too...but its my secret :twisted:

There's nothing sad about being on here. I don't post a great deal, but I love reading all the posts. You can find it all here.......help and advice, support for people going through a tough time, fun, serious issues............I think whatever you wanted to ask or chat about there would be people more than happy to join in.
Stephen King though.....tooooooooooooo scary for me................I'm a wimp :cry:

20 Nov 2005

:dry: I actually really like gardening - love pottering about in the summer picking home-grown flowers and growing my own vegetables.........i even have a greenhouse :shock: redface

ops:
that said, I tend to have little phases - and now the 'season' is over, i prob wont even go out there again til February! :roll
so, stuff that occupies my time (other than SH, and I'm here alot! ) .... i 'do' embroidery sometimes :shock:, ride horses, read crime books and study! That's it! confused

Oh, I forgot, shopping!! biggrin

:D :D

20 Nov 2005

Quote by Darkfire
:dry: I actually really like gardening - love pottering about in the summer picking home-grown flowers and growing my own vegetables.........i even have a greenhouse :shock: ops:
that said, I tend to have little phases - and now the 'season' is over, i prob wont even go out there again til February! :roll
so, stuff that occupies my time (other than SH, and I'm here alot! ) .... i 'do' embroidery sometimes :shock:, ride horses, read crime books and study! That's it!
Oh, I forgot, shopping!! :D :D

I used to quite enjoy gardening, but since we moved from Brum all we have is a concrete yard sad

, so now I stick to growing pot plants indoors. smile

I read loads of stuff, but tend to avoid anything that could be described as 'literature', preferring crime, sci-fi, horror, and thrillers. I'm also weird enough that on occasion I read text books cover to cover, and not always for subjects I'm studying at the time :shock: .
I guess I wouldn't be alone on here as a player of roleplaying games, live action roleplaying, wargames, and strange boardgames (try if the weirdest you can think of is Monopoly or something mundane like that). I'm also a recovering first-person shoot-em-up addict, as I've realised that however much I like fragging people for hours on end, my tennis elbow doesn't agree with me. :cry:
I go sailing with Mrs. DP when I can (approx. once a year at the moment), and have lots of books on boat building, though I'm not sure when I'm going to have the time to get on and build my first boat (a 12' dinghy with a four-cornered spritsail).

20 Nov 2005

I read a lot - all sorts of stuff. I try to read a lot of stuff from good prize shortlists, anything with really good reviews, and try to read anything someone recommends to me; also read a lot of travel stuff, historical fiction, even the odd detective novel.
I read a few peoples' blogs quite regularly, although I've never kept one myself.
I still think of myself as a backpacker even though the last time I really went 'backpacking' is over a year ago... so I spend quite a bit of time planning hypothetical trips, floating about on backpacker websites, keeping in touch with friends I've made travelling who are all over the world etc.
I really love theatre, although I've just moved house and haven't yet found a local am-dram group - when I do, I'm sure that'll take up quite a bit of my time. In the meantime, I try to get to see something either at a local theatre or in Bristol as often as I can afford it.
I used to volunteer at a helpline in my old area, and am looking for a new one around here so I can start doing the same sort of thing again.
And of course, there's SH.... biggrin

Cocoa x

20 Nov 2005

Quote by LateRon
Other than spending far longer than I should do sat at my pc, a couple of the things I like to do are go to gigs and I follow the BTCC (British Touring Car Championship)
As sports go, the BTCC has got to be one of the best for value for money. Depending on the track - a ticket will cost somewhere between Â£20-Â£30 and will get you on for the practice and qualifying on the Saturday, as well as all the racing on the Sunday. Anyone under 12 gets in for free if with an adult. On the Sunday, not only are there 3 or 4 support races, but there are actually 3 BTCC races at every meeting too!

Aaahhhhh the spectator life rotflmao

It's far cheaper to stand the other side of the fence you know, and far more fun wink

For those of you that know the BTCC, I'm sure you will agree that it is some of the most exciting, genuine racing on four wheels to be found, For those of you the don't, I would strongly recommend either getting to a race meeting or catching it on Itv, or Motors TV (no - not Men & Motors!!) next April when the new season starts!

Ooohhh you have no idea how wrong you are..... Have you tried Hillclimbing?? Now that's exciting biggrin

To answer the orignal question, we spend most of our weekends at various motorsport venues, including Hillclimb's, F1 GP, circuits and Steve has been known to do the odd Rally. So for us we have very little time for anything else.... When I get the chance I do like my garden, but that isn't very often these days lol

Shireen
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20 Nov 2005

Ok hobbies are ..... walking on the Moors... reading ... mostly novels to relax with but sometimes biographies... playing guitar (classical) .... going to the pictures .... crossword puzzles and studying local history biggrin

DD :D

20 Nov 2005

My hobbies include, surfing the net and coming on here rolleyes

I am very artistic and love to paint pictures, make "things" and create sculptures, I love films, theatre and music, and going for nice long walks (along the beach in particular)
I am also a very good cook when I have the time and love to concoct new dishes.
smile

20 Nov 2005

Hmm, suppose mine would have to be music, and playing the guitar. I do like a good strum!!

20 Nov 2005

motorbikes motorbikes and er motorbikes biggrin

and being on here of cause

20 Nov 2005

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20 Nov 2005

My main hobby would have to be my beloved gibson les paul custom, i don't really play it, i just kneel down and worship occasionally lol ( just kidding i do play it just really badly)
I also like to play with a proggy called sybalius hooked up to my mac and a korg keyboard which i use to create backing tracks to drown out my awfull guitar playing.
Other than that the net, my time here and of course my bike..........

20 Nov 2005

howdo :shock: i like to do gardening i find it theraputic and relaxing and the big veg does have a double benefit drinkies

used to like walking so if theres anyone fancies a day out plz add me poke

scuba, squash, tennis, badminton and r/l are all past endeavours that i'd like to start again.
open to all ........

20 Nov 2005

Apart from coming on here and going in the chatroom which I do far too much!!!! :twisted:
I play the guitar and also do patchworking and a bit of cross stitch.
I walk my dogs but thats more of a necessity and I also ride a bike.
But my biggest passion for thos of you who dont know (I am sure there must be one or two) is being a volunteer with British Red Cross. I am a first aider with enhanced skills which means I can use an automatic external defibrillator and also use oxygen and entinox as well as the normal first aid skills. I am also a first aid trainer training both members and the public and recently I abseiled 150ft to raise money for the organisation!

20 Nov 2005

Quote by oliveoyl
I am a first aider with enhanced skills which means I can use an automatic external defibrillator and also use oxygen and entinox as well as the normal first aid skills.

Aaahhh but can you use Equinox as well Olive wink

Shireen
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20 Nov 2005

I am in to everything... Theres not enough time for all my hobies.
What do I do....
Astronomy
Design and Build telescopes (I am on a slightly different kind of forum for that)
Cycling ( I am a member of a Time Trail club, Actually won a throphy this year! Fastest 10 for the club. Not the fastest in the world but mins for ten miles)
Motorbike ( I have a R6 and just rebuidling an old GT550)
Building Weird Computers (I have just built a pc in an Ammo Box)
Electronics ( I build anything from Audio Amps to Controlers for Telescopes)
But my main hobby at the moment is rebuilding my current house. I bought it cheap as the old bloke who lived here did nothing to it for years. So I am just about to paint the ceiling again!

20 Nov 2005

Well I would have said going to the cinema but on reflection I haven't been to the cinema since the day of the Leicester Munch (3rd september)
Perhaps live music (not since 7 October excluding my annual Seventies weekend last weekend).
Beer Festivals (soon be time for those winter ones you know)
Arghh so what do I do..work eat sleep come on here for several hours....work eat sleep come on here for several hours. What a fantastic life I lead.
Regards
Harry Jones