Hobbies

[Shakespeare]

The reason I joined this Forum, is because I really enjoy messing about with wood, nothing special mind, build a shed etc, anything in fact, with no frills, just plain good old solid workmanship. Times though, have changed, I now have some good woodworking equipment, and beginning to take my time with the projects. This has made me think of earlier times, when I used to build model airplanes, Aeromodelling, and fly them, engines and all. This hobby, I still love, but just haven't the time anymore.

Just wondering if any others have, or used to have another special hobby that they used/still enjoy.


Baz

 

[wizer]

I have had a few but seem to have settled on woodworking. Cooking was a big hobby for me since I was a teenager. I paid to do a full chefs course, just for the fun of it, never intending to do it as a profession. Over the last couple of years my interest has waned, mainly due to poor health and not enjoying eating in general. I am cooking the xmas lunch this year tho :roll: For a couple of years I had an allotment, but again had to jack it in because of poor health.

I dabbled in photography but never really devoted enough time to it.

I guess the first ever hobby was IT/Computers. I had a Spectrum 48k and then an Amiga, setting the groundwork for my eventual career. Wish I'd been into woodworking back then.

 

[Shakespeare]

Hello Wizer, Funny you should mention cooking, cos my wife won't let me in the kitchen to do any cooking. She says that as I go to work ( she doesn't ) the kitchen is her domain, and I shouldn't have to do any cooking. Mind you, I don't complain that much, just agree with her. I also went into photography, and gained a City & Guilds in Starting Photography, but that was when we had only film cameras, gave up and then Digital came along.

 

[PowerTool]

I spent about five years doing tabletop wargaming (Games Workshop) - still have hundreds of painted figures taking up the half of the dining room that isn't full of timber... :wink:

Andrew

 

[Shakespeare]

Blimey Andrew, bet those figures took some painting, or did you buy them already painted and ready to go to war ?

 

[Steve Maskery]

Well, I, too, like cooking, which is just as well, really, as SWMBO is out at work earning the money to keep me in a nice comfortable middle-class lifestyle that I otherwise have no chance of affording. Humble Spag Bol tonight, although I've also baked a rather nice Irish Brack for a friend's charity cake stall on Saturday.

I used to run a magic business, cabaret act in the late 70's early 80's and a kids' show for best part of 30 years (Young Magician of the Year competition 1975!). Sometimes I miss the magic, I don't miss the children.

I've recently started going dancing again, after 25 years or so. I used to do competitions (what Rita and I couldn't do in 3/4 time wasn't worth doing) but now it is Ceroc. OK, but not the variety of proper ballroom. But it is an effort to negate the effects of knowing how to handle a saucepan.

When you don't have a career almost everything you do is a hobby!
S

 

[mailee]

Well I have had more hobbies than you cna shake a stick at! I also used to build and fly model aeroplanes and helicopters. I also used to be a scuba diver for a number of years until an injury stopped that. I used to collect and shoot firearms. and even had a short spell as a toxophilite (Archer) Even with all of these hobbies I still maintained my first and foremost one of woodwork.

 

[shim20]

my other hobbies downhill/xc mountain biking and my car not much but keeps me out of trouble :lol:

 

[Digit]

Like mailee, been there etc. I use to raise tropical fish, that led onto running a pet shop, then there was rallying, that lead onto building a kit car, then I discovered motor bikes. Despite nearly being killed on one I've accepted that it's a terminal disease. Then there was model aircraft of course. My first radio model was a Junior sixty, admit you remember it and I'll guess your age!
I built the model, the radio, the engine and crashed it as well. Then there was the radio ham bit, I was swatting for the morse test when I met the wife, never did get round to the test! :lol:

Roy.

 

[Smudger]

Hello Wizer, Funny you should mention cooking, cos my wife won't let me in the kitchen to do any cooking. She says that as I go to work ( she doesn't ) the kitchen is her domain, and I shouldn't have to do any cooking. Mind you, I don't complain that much, just agree with her. I also went into photography, and gained a City & Guilds in Starting Photography, but that was when we had only film cameras, gave up and then Digital came along.

Ah! My missus gladly gave up the kitchen years ago! But she appreciated the Leek and Potato soup I knocked up for lunch...

I retired a few months ago, and I've been looking out some old hobbies and starting some new ones.

Photography - constant interest. Trying to get 40 years of negatives onto digital.

Cooking - now 'cooking on a tight budget'! 1001 things to do with mince!

Making movies - mostly of the brand-new grand daughter.

Military miniatures - back to an old hobby from many years ago, medieval and Roman, 54mm. In fact I spent a happy hour in the workshed yesterday making a sort of painting tray with a lip for holding paint bottles.

Lots of decorating and home maintenance, a whole new garden to make in France.

And woodwork, attempting to pull my skill levels out of the primeval swamp...

 

[RogerS]

Gliding and windsurfing....even windsurfed in this country on one very cold Dec 27th. That was a long time ago. Now I'm a warm water windsurfer (aka Greek holidays in Vassiliki) and as for gliding...well, not been up for years, but I will again one day.

 

[Vormulac]

I did roleplaying and wargaming and still have the painted figures and books somewhere, I did airsoft skirmishing for a while, pistol shooting which I loved, a bit of archery too. I've been a keen cook since aged about 5 when my dad taught me to cook eggs on his old service issue stove (metal stand thing with little paraffin/wax blocks). In the last year I started delving into my lifelong interest in photography and bought a decent camera and did a 10 week OU course for fun. Sadly I don't really have the time to do any hobby activities at the moment.

 

[cant-weld-wood]

i will confess i still play with cars.
1/8 scale nitro powered rc cars and there is the real thing in the form of a
1978 & 1979 corvette's used for drag racing but both cars are street legal. the cost of maintaining them is unbelieveable (glad i dont own
them) and then there is the wood side of things

 

[RogerM]

. Then there was model aircraft of course. My first radio model was a Junior sixty, admit you remember it and I'll guess your age!
I built the model, the radio, the engine and crashed it as well. :lol: Roy

Ah yes - the little brother of the Super Sixty! Never did get into power, preferring gliders. Built numerous soarers, including a Phase 2, Phase 4, Monterey, Little plank amongst others. I've still got an airworthy Phase 6 on top of the wardrobe - must dust it off sometime!

In the same vein, I spent a happy 10 years hang gliding, and built my own microlight in the garage AND survived flying it for 4 years before packing it in because of having a young family.

 

[maltrout512]

I don't have or had many hobbies, but one I took up just over 3 years ago is metal detecting. It was always I will get a detector and never did. Went to a local dealer as I say 3 years ago and bought an entry level digital machine, about £300. Knew a farmer well and asked if I could go out detecting. 600 plus acres boy what a play ground. Since then and it's like any hobby you then buy a better machine. Year into detecting on this farm, I struck gold (well almost) I actually found a hoard of Roman silver denarii. 103 in total dating from late 3 BC to 138 AD. They are still going through treasure trove system. Anyway I still try to go out twice a week if I can and other than the hoard have found some very nice coins and artifacts. The oldest artifact is a bronze axe head dating about 3000 BC. Anyway thats my hobby.

 

[Grinding One]

The Wife says no more hobbies for me.....I metal detect too ,have for years,I laugh at the people in metal detecting magazines that state they found 5 coins in a week end.I fine 5 in about 5 minutes or I move to another spot.
I collect old milk bottles,soda bottles ....have some nice old Boy Scout Patches ....Old tools,Guitars,various instraments,45 records....I guess I`m a museam....have a little bits of stuff I havn`t seen for awhile tucked away....And I collect how too books.
I think its time to start selling some things...

 

[Woodmagnet]

I used to go Sea Fishing 2 or 3 times a week but
had to stop because my neck and shoulder
problems meant i couldn't cast out without
suffering pain. Even woodworking is at
a standstill now, i can sometimes manage
an hour or so but suffer for it. I was given
my late b.i.law's metal detector a few months
ago but have'nt used it yet. I can't wait to
have surgery so i can start "doing" things
again.

 

[filsgreen]

My latest fad, I mean hobby is flying, I'm got 34 hours in but I'm grounded at the moment . All my friends know me as the fad king

At present I have a Telescope, digital keyboard, acoustic guitar, about £1000 worth of model railway stuff, Canon Eos 500 SLR camera and camping gear all in the loft

Phil

 

[Shakespeare]

There's quite a variety of hobbies here then, and strangely, most of them I can associate with.
Photography
Aeromodelling, and yes, I did have both the Super and Junior Sixty
Deep sea fishing, but heart attack put paid to that,now fresh water
Took a couple of flights in a Cessna, but too expensive
My other passion is my boat, 27ft and on the Broads
Did I mention Pike fishing, lol
A short spell at Archery, and then on to air rifles
But now, the woodwork. lovely

Baz

 

[cant-weld-wood]

i forgot to add fishing to the list totaly forgot about it must because i have been only twice this year (b----- weather)we have had dont help