Hobbies - What's Your Pleasure?

[Giantvanman]

Not another stitch up occupation.

Good one.

Old habits die hard and all that

 

[cazyp]

I keep/breed various reptiles. Some rarer ones also for future release projects.

I also collect and tinker with old (60's 70's) LED watches along with some others that catch my eye. Value unimportant.

 

[Giantvanman]

There's no dispute in our house that I'm a better at machine sewing than than my wife. She of course is better with hand sewing.

I made a tent at the age of 14 and have been doing it ever since. Just basic stuff though, nothing fancy.

It may sound mad but I approach it like any mechanical or engineering project. Pattern stuff is pretty straight forward but planning and making from scratch has its own engineering challenges, as you know. Not been doing it long but enjoy it immensely.

 

[artyman]

Sailing,or racing was my main hobby for 35 years, too old to win championships these days, so now playing guitar and singing, (wish I had a collection of Les Paul's ) photography and when I get time painting.

 

[B33fy]

Currently Building a car from scratch, best described as a mid engine Caterham with a supercharged duratec lump giving anything between 3-400bhp in a 600kg car..hopefully.. enjoy the engine building the most, some before and after of the engine below.

 

[Deleted96908]

Serial Entrepreneur 25 years - always something going on, but when I wind down I like to study 19th and 20th century political economy and camp in extreme temps. Exercise courtesy of my home gym - Watt bike, Ski Erg, C2, Smiths Machine etc.

 

[TheFoX]

supercharged duratec lump giving anything between 3-400bhp

Well, let's hope it is closer to 400bhp than 3bhp.


As for me, gardening. Just spent £2,000 on a Rhino Greenhouse, and have been growing courgettes and tomatoes (cherry and cooking), as well as four tasty cauliflowers. It's amazing how much more tastier veg tastes when you grow it yourself.

I also grow runner beans outside the greenhouse.

When I'm not in the garden, I'm out and about in the Merc.

 

[Deane x]

Well, let's hope it is closer to 400bhp than 3bhp.


As for me, gardening. Just spent £2,000 on a Rhino Greenhouse, and have been growing courgettes and tomatoes (cherry and cooking), as well as four tasty cauliflowers. It's amazing how much more tastier veg tastes when you grow it yourself.

I also grow runner beans outside the greenhouse.

When I'm not in the garden, I'm out and about in the Merc.

Got to love gardening ,I do love spending time on my allotment

 

[BEJ]

Sailing - at least I did before old age caught up. Flying light aircraft, I belong to a flying charity for disabled people and we fly off for a few days now and again. Last two trips were 1) Lunch in Welshpool, dinner in the Isle of Man, next lunch in N. Ireland followed by two days at tthe Kyle of Lochalsh
2) N. Wales for two days.
And of course the SLK

 

[Charles Morgan]

Singing, roses, opera, history, cooking and wine. Keeping classic car repairers off the streets seems to have become one of late too.

 

[Wheelsnuts]

Vintage/antique tin toy and train restoration.

 

[219]

Most of my life have been into Hi-Fi , as some previous threads attest , enjoying all kinds of music too ; also have had a lifelong interest in Mercedes-Benz , thanks to my dad buying his first one 51 years ago , when I was about 6 years old - suspect my seven year old son will have a similar interest ; since my son seems to have taken a great interest in steam trains and his Hornby set ( now wish I hadn't sold mine , with proper metal locos , when I was about 15 to buy Hi-Fi equipment ) , I have happily followed suit ; photography has been an interest since my dad passed on an Ilford Sportsman when I was about 10 , now my day job

 

[B33fy]

Enjoy the hifi as well specifically Home cinema, finally got my system how I want it with a pioneer AV amp and Monitor audio speakers paired with a BK electronics sub and a few other bits.

Mixed it up with a bit of DIY (another hobby) and buried all the cables, just completed a wet room as well, which took some serious work to complete.

 

[gadget1960]

Sporting clays, riding the gsxr 1000 as much as possible, kick boxing, cylinder head development / engineering / flow bench testing.
Watching motogp (live or on tv).
The first three are hobbies but the last is (at last) a growing part time business .

 

[BIRMA]

I'm into hi-fi and have a Bow Technologies ZZ1 amp and a ZZ8 CD player plus some 5 foot high JBL speakers that are shaped like a boat hull at the rear, epic sound stage.
I also buy and sell FTSE 100 shares as a profitable pastime scares my wife to death at times but on the whole do very well.
I like my motorbikes too.
I forgot to mention I collect rare watches and pens they are kept locked away so forgot to mention I have them

 

[pembssurf]

I surf. Hence the username. Also like to dabble in tech n video games.

 

[Mrhanky]

I like fixing things and the family are often dropping off little projects for me.

I have in the past enjoyed, marine reef keeping, ponds, 1/5th scale racing and collecting mont blanc bits.

However, I tend to become obsessed with hobbies to the extent I spend too much time on them.

So currently my hobby is my business and my family.

 

[harvin1975]

I don't have much time for hobbies. The family, house, garden and work keeps me super busy. Do get down the gym 4 times a week, but would class that more as a lifestyle than hobby.

 

[mat8n]

Have been riding Bmx bikes and skateboarding for the past 20 years ( I'm 32 now ) and still going hard at it!!! Love home cooking and my tunes. Will have to get some pics up sometimes, but most of all my 2 young daughters (2 & 5), absolute little darlings love them to bits

Bmxing for the past 35 years!

I've got a street/Park bike that I use mostly(not quite so hard these days) and also a race bike that iI take to the track and do OK on! Got a cruiser too, but my son uses that at uni!
I'm 43!

Road bike and mountain bike get used occasional as does the trials motorbike.

 

[Ash]

Windsurfing still at 49.9. E class estate swallows up the gear very well but mein gott i hate sand.
cycling too, but have yet to get tow bar, the only sensible way to mount a bike rack
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