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vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Wed Sep 03, 14 2:05 pm Post subject:

Bebo wrote:

Clay pigeon shooting. It's fab.

It's easy if you shoot them once they've landed.

robkb

Joined: 29 May 2009
Posts: 4205
Location: SE London

Posted: Wed Sep 03, 14 2:13 pm Post subject:

sgt.colon wrote:

I fly fish.

That must be quite difficult.

Virtually nothing I do outside work has any connection to my work.

robkb

Joined: 29 May 2009
Posts: 4205
Location: SE London

Posted: Wed Sep 03, 14 2:14 pm Post subject:

mochyn wrote:

I suppose my degree comes into this category. Can't see ever earning any money as a medievalist!

I will ban my daughter from reading this...

Bebo

Joined: 21 May 2007
Posts: 12590
Location: East Sussex

Posted: Wed Sep 03, 14 2:19 pm Post subject:

vegplot wrote:

Bebo wrote:

Clay pigeon shooting. It's fab.

It's easy if you shoot them once they've landed.

One stand I shot on Sunday morning I hit 10 clays with 9 shots. None of them were on the ground.

Barefoot Andrew
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Joined: 21 Mar 2007
Posts: 22780
Location: In the 17th century

Posted: Wed Sep 03, 14 3:09 pm Post subject:

robkb wrote:

sgt.colon wrote:

I fly fish.

That must be quite difficult.

sgt.colon

Joined: 27 Jul 2009
Posts: 7380
Location: Just south of north.

Posted: Wed Sep 03, 14 3:29 pm Post subject:

Barefoot Andrew wrote:

robkb wrote:

sgt.colon wrote:

I fly fish.

That must be quite difficult.

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Wed Sep 03, 14 8:44 pm Post subject:

I make a point never to try and make any of my hobbies pay. It takes all the fun out if it and makes it feel like work, however much you loved it before. I don't mean you shouldn't like your work, just that you shouldn't spoil a good hobby.

I would like to say I knit, although it wound be more accurate to say that I collect yarn. And I garden (although the garden is winning) I sew, spin and dye sometimes and dabble with soap and things. I'd like to do a lot more of those things. I did do some clay shooting, and loved it - I would like another go at that sometime. I'd also quite like to learn more history, too. On the whole, I'd just like the hobbies I have to stop getting away from me!

I did a pottery course once, that was very enjoyable. Good, squishy fun.

BahamaMama

Joined: 21 Sep 2006
Posts: 2315
Location: Away with the fairies

Posted: Wed Sep 03, 14 9:25 pm Post subject:
Botannical illustration - the levels of concentration banish all other thoughts and worries

Nell Merionwen

Joined: 02 Jun 2008
Posts: 16300
Location: Beautiful Derbyshire

Posted: Wed Sep 03, 14 10:02 pm Post subject:

wellington womble wrote:

perhaps I need to come and visit you. We can do fiber stuff and talk history.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15687

Posted: Thu Sep 04, 14 7:06 am Post subject:

I have the problem of my hobbies getting away from me too WW. Like you I spin, have done weaving, knit, embroider, and try to do something with the garden. Have done some research into history, but specific periods; 17th century and Iron Age, as we have done re-enactment for 17th century, and reconstructive archaeology (I think it is called) for Iron Age. As a result I have been spinning for 2000 years.

OtleyLad

Joined: 13 Jan 2007
Posts: 2737
Location: Otley, West Yorkshire

Posted: Thu Sep 04, 14 7:16 am Post subject:
Growing stuff to eat I could happily do almost 24/7. There's always something new to try: fruit/nut trees, herbs, soft fruit, unusual veg (this year its Tiger Nuts, Siberian Honeysuckle and Japanese Wineberries) and then you get new things to cook with.

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9727
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Thu Sep 04, 14 9:56 am Post subject:

I play the recorder and whistle, and go to folk sessions and gatheringswith folky friends, where we play (mr CIG plays the melodeon) along with them

I knit and collect yarn

I want to get into sewing but it seems to involve finding bigger chunks of time

I draw (not terribly well, but who cares)

I really enjoy impractical cooking - most of my cooking is preserving the harvest, or making dinner etc, but it is nice to bake something you don't need, just for the joy of doing it or learning a new technique

I've just taken up cycling again after a long break. I walk regularly too.

We've recently bought a van again, and are converting it into a camper. A fun process in itself, but when done we shall be spending a lot of time using it mostly as a day camper to go to the beach and moors.

My biggest hobby is reading. However panicked things are, I always find time to read, even if I have to give up sleep to do it.

SandraR

Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 2346
Location: Devon

Posted: Thu Sep 04, 14 10:46 am Post subject:

Reading through everyone's hobbies, I've realised it has been far too long since I've done anything 'for myself'.

Gardening used to be my escape but has turned into more of a chore, the hens were but are now the start of a small business and I can't remember the last time I did further research into the family tree. I can't recall when we last spent a night or day away from here other than visiting Dad - I think when we went to CastleFarms to collect some birds and that was years ago!!

Time for a few changes.

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35934
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Thu Sep 04, 14 1:15 pm Post subject:
I think that recognising that time spent on myself is not time wasted is one of the most important lessons I have learned over the last few years. Life should not just be about survival.

gregotyn

Joined: 24 Jun 2010
Posts: 2201
Location: Llanfyllin area

Posted: Thu Sep 04, 14 1:19 pm Post subject:

I am in the process of having a bungalow built, and the builder is putting in a clear span roof to allow a 'dormer style' attic. In there I intend to go back 60ish years and put my model railway, Hornby Dublo 3 rail down for the first time in 30 years and shelve the walls to display my Dinky toys, and put the Bayko and Meccano at another end for playing with if I want! I can't wait for my friend's 3 year old to get to 7 and hope he likes the idea, so that I can have a serious excuse to play! I will be in, I hope, before the end of December, but who knows?

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