What are your hobbies?

stickyfiddle

RiftAmps said:

stickyfiddle said:

@Riftamps the Mazda is awesome but what we all really want to see is closeups of the Nova behind you   

It's an unbelievably well-prepared car and the owner, Jason Wood, is the nicest guy you'd ever meet. I had to chase him down for the win at Silverstone and he can certainly pedal a FWD Hot Hatch!

Fun fact, it's not a GTE chassis but a standard car converted to GTE spec to make it eligible for his championship. Genuine GTEs are both too rare and expensive to risk turning into a race car that can be ploughed into a barrier and written off at any minute.

Nice - they're great little cars. My Dad has rallied them pretty religiously since about 1995 and still swears by them for their class. For rallying he doesn't actually like the GTE and SRI - the slightly softer ones are usually better and more chuckable, not to mention WAY cheaper! 

Timcito

I like cooking a lot.

I also act, although that crosses into a side-gig for work because I get paid for what I do - quite modestly, I hasten to add!  

thecolourbox

Aside from musical activities (all of which are quite strictly solo) I think mine would be mostly drawing (on paper and on digital software), and generally being in nice countryside places be it walking, canoeing, cycling (though i'm rubbish at that).

Oher hobbies have come and gone - bread making (i kept eating it all), reading (i read leases all day for my job so need to relax my eyes afterwards), swimming (hard to find anywhere with enough capacity to enable me to swim without idiots), poetry (realised it was dull).

MrBump

Music (guitars) covers the artistic and creative hobbies nicely (plus you probably don't want another hobby where you're making decisions about what to fund, i.e. new pedal or new camera lens) - but if you find you're stuck in a rut you may want to consider something more physically challenging. 

My other non-music thing is Wing Chun kung fu.  I started it when I was still in my 20's, and I'm 53 now.  It's less stretchy and jumpy than other martial arts, so it's kinder to my older bones.  Wouldn't be without either guitar or WC.

BillDL

I really don't have a great deal of time for hobbies or pastimes while I'm very busy working full-time as a middle-aged gigolo for older women, but I'm finding it much more difficult these days to maintain enough stamina for a full session without having to stop several times for a cup or tea and a fag and a bit of Voltarol on my hips and knees, so I'm seriously considering giving it up.

I would like to have more time to go out walking and exploring new places on foot with my camera.  There's so many interesting places within easy reach of me that I have either never visited or it's been a very long time since I last did.  I'm soon to retire and I will have to try and improve my fitness as well as start relaxing mentally and enjoying life, so walking regularly may be just the answer for me.  The funny thing is that I don't have a whole lot of patience for arts and crafts kinds of hobbies, yet I really enjoy tinkering with and repairing guitars.  There's only so much of that you can do in a day unless it's your job. 

fretmeister

I forgot about cooking.

Particularly low and slow BBQ.

Perfect excuse to sit in the garden with a beer and tend the fire. A lovely bit of peace and quiet.

thecolourbox

Cooking for me is an interesting one - it's a sort of enforced hobby. The wife works harder than I do in her day job so cooking always falls to me and I have to try and find any joy from it that I can despite not really enjoying cooking all the bastard time. I like eating, so cooking is just the equivalent of getting the train to a gig or something I suppose

munckee

Petepassion said:

Revolutions said:

I read lots, listen to vinyl (& accidentally collect it), take photos with an old 35mm SLR, build cheap pedal kits from time to time, lift weights, box (2 sessions if I can: 1 bag, 1 sparring), write sometimes, spend a lot of time hanging out hugging my dog & doing walks with her.

what I wish my hobbies were:

Petepassion said:

Motorcycles, martial arts and sex.

But does highly greaten the risk of broken bones, knackered joints, STD's and death.

I bet the sex is the most expensive!

Lestratcaster

Music and guitars is my main one, and I'm lucky enough its also a job for me too.

I'm also a big football fan (Arsenal supporter) and regularly contribute to the dedicated thread on here.

I'm also into tech stuff, cooking and travel, but not as avidly as football and music. 

guitars4you

Music and guitars - I know it's my job but also my hobby

Sport - Less taking part now as I'm 64 - But played quite a few sports in the past and until not so recently - So more of an arm chair fan now as against taking part 

Dog and all the walking that goes with it

Read a lot - Always have 2 books on the go at any time - 1 fiction and 1 non fiction 

Daughter has just left a big gap that needs filling - She is 22 now and only just left home to start a job in London - But prior to that, even when she was at uni, dad's taxi firm was always required and I loved spending time with her and ferrying her about

Have a passing interest in many things, but the above 3 are my main interests outside work - But even work is more of a hobby than a job

giomaiele

munckee said:

Petepassion said:

Revolutions said:

I read lots, listen to vinyl (& accidentally collect it), take photos with an old 35mm SLR, build cheap pedal kits from time to time, lift weights, box (2 sessions if I can: 1 bag, 1 sparring), write sometimes, spend a lot of time hanging out hugging my dog & doing walks with her.

what I wish my hobbies were:

Petepassion said:

Motorcycles, martial arts and sex.

But does highly greaten the risk of broken bones, knackered joints, STD's and death.

I bet the sex is the most expensive!

All this is cracking me up 

Petepassion

munckee said:

Petepassion said:

Revolutions said:

I read lots, listen to vinyl (& accidentally collect it), take photos with an old 35mm SLR, build cheap pedal kits from time to time, lift weights, box (2 sessions if I can: 1 bag, 1 sparring), write sometimes, spend a lot of time hanging out hugging my dog & doing walks with her.

what I wish my hobbies were:

Petepassion said:

Motorcycles, martial arts and sex.

But does highly greaten the risk of broken bones, knackered joints, STD's and death.

I bet the sex is the most expensive!

Well that would depend on my current relationship status...which appears to fluctuate a fair bit

jasonbone75

What are hobbies? Oh and what is sex again I appear to have forgotten...

Offset

Music and guitars

Churches and church architecture (perhaps a bit odd for an atheist...)

Time with family and dogs (trite but true)

Films

Company + wine

I used to read loads but haven't had the time recently.  Something I plan to rectify when I retire.

hollywoodrox

VimFuego said:

outside of music I guess my hobbies are mostly reading, hiking and stalking the streets cleansing them of the filth, corruption and depravity of modern society. 

You are Paul Kersey 

hollywoodrox

Shrews said:

Horse racing. Trying to fathom out the unfathomable from a huge array of stats is the ultimate puzzle for me.

Going to the races. I have now been to 57 of GB's 60 racecourses and will finish the other three this year, plus maybe the 2 in NI.

I used to be big into horse racing many many years ago . I love to read my dick Francis books too 
his son felix writes them now . 

darthed1981

I play guitar...

I like music and collect physical media.

Love a good movie.

I like sci-fi and military history, and the odd thriller novel, starting to read the Reacher books.

Gassage

Play cricket
Coach rugby (elite Level 4 coach)
Write on rugby and get paid for it
Dogs
Cars
Travel
Scuba
BDSM

TTBZ

Other than guitar, just bikes really. Mountain, bmx or road/gravel. In the summer it kind of takes over from guitar as my "main" thing, then it switches back to guitar when the nights draw in and it gets all cold and wet again. 

the_jaffa

stickyfiddle said:

RiftAmps said:

stickyfiddle said:

@Riftamps the Mazda is awesome but what we all really want to see is closeups of the Nova behind you   

It's an unbelievably well-prepared car and the owner, Jason Wood, is the nicest guy you'd ever meet. I had to chase him down for the win at Silverstone and he can certainly pedal a FWD Hot Hatch!

Fun fact, it's not a GTE chassis but a standard car converted to GTE spec to make it eligible for his championship. Genuine GTEs are both too rare and expensive to risk turning into a race car that can be ploughed into a barrier and written off at any minute.

Nice - they're great little cars. My Dad has rallied them pretty religiously since about 1995 and still swears by them for their class. For rallying he doesn't actually like the GTE and SRI - the slightly softer ones are usually better and more chuckable, not to mention WAY cheaper! 

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