What are your hobbies?
 

So, what do you all enjoy doing in your spare time?


I have a few interests which include:


- Tropical Fishkeeping

I have kept both community fish and cichlid's, planted tanks, raising baby fish, currently my main aquarium is a 500 litre Mbuna tank.


- Aviation photography and plane spotting

I've always loved aviation and seeing aircraft fly. I enjoy taking photos of airplanes and reading up on all things aviation.
I was recently lucky to drive up an active runway at night and get some airside shots.


- SUP (Stand Up Paddleboarding)

Recently got into paddleboarding. I absolutely love being on the water, it is very peaceful. My last adventure on Lake Windemere was great fun.
I've just purchased a new board so looking forward to getting out on the water again soon.





How about you? What are you into?
Let's chat about our hobbies.

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I like archery, cooking (curries and braai especially), I do play guitar if you can call butchering 3-4 chords playing.
Currently a lot of my spare time is taken up with a graduate diploma in theology. I have to do an Old Testament exam (4th time lucky) and am writing an essay on "The Sermon on the Mount".

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Wow, that sounds quite deep the theology diploma but must be such a wealth of information to take in.


I bet archery is lots of fun. I didnt known what braai was. Just looked it up. Sounds delicious!

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Building and repairing computers all things tech
Cycling
Walking
Martial Arts (more past now)

I like talking on my CB....

Listening to my 8tracks and cassettes :)

I love going out and enjoying nature when its warmer........

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I used to do a lot of carpentry, indoors and out, but the huge price hikes on wood and fixings have put an end to that for the most part.

But I still have my gardening, and raising JMOA chillies in the greenhouse to send seed to other growers to keep the original strain alive.

I'm also an avid cook, and make all our evening meals from scratch (usually).

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Photography (Nikon D5600 - 10-20mm, 18-55mm, 18-400mm & 35mm prime)
Reading
Making model kits

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I used to do a lot of shooting, but had to give it up due to shoulder issues.

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I still do a few commissions for fun. Currently guilding a large bunch of twigs for a local florist to use in a widow display.
Enjoy creating meals .... on the lines of Kippers and Custard ... but more of an edible fusion cuisine type of thing.
Discovered BTS so I'm trying to learn Korean and seem to be causing a lot of amusement to those trying to teach me.

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I love cooking, baking, reading, watching movies at the cinema, gaming both retro and modern and building and collecting Lego.

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I think a neighbour's hobby might be watching TV.

2 big men delivered a new one for him today. The box is now outside after the set was wall-mounted.

It's 98" screen on sale at Curry's for £5,999 !!! It weighs 61kg!!!

At least he didn't go mad and buy this model....

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When I joined Costco they had a something like a 150" TV costing £250k. Your payment included a survey to see if your house could take it and a two man install. You had to pay upfront by bank transfer but (I guess) some monies returned if the survey "failed".


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I also snap off pictures, I have a Canon R6MkII with the 24-105f4 kit lens and 50mm f1.8. I don't really get out enough at the moment to learn full use of it.


The theology course is very interesting and working full time a bit of a slog.


Archery is great fun, look up local clubs to see if they do have-a-go sessions or get on a beginners course. Our club do both but have-a-go is mostly aimed at groups, I think the beginners is in the £50 ball park and you are coached to the level you can join a club and shoot independently. If you are in the are Wye Valley Archery is a field archery centre where you get to walk around woodland and shoot at animal shaped targets.


Braai(vleis) is the South African for BBQ but the name is logical braai = fire, vleis = meat. I mostly do indirect cooking then do some direct cook of veg and things. Burgers and sausage other than boerwors or speciality items are rare. A proper braai would have the men folk around the fire with beer cooking and sampling the meat and talking cricket or rugby, the women in the kitchen doing salads, drinking sherry and complaining about the men.