What are your hobbies?

[Halcyon]

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.

[tweetiepooh]

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".

[Halcyon]

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!

[Jaymoss]

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

[Dude111]

I like talking on my CB....

Listening to my 8tracks and cassettes

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

[Taf]

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).

[Hom3r]

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

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

[joglynne]

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.

[Anonymouse]

Mainly reading and writing; I've published several stories as Hieronymouse on FanFic.net. I was into archery, reaching First Class* in 1993 and, until I fell apart, Bowman in 1996. Can't now after the stroke - I get tired too easily.
I used to love scratchbuilding, mainly SF craft, but my right hand is seized up with arthritis.

* <fond reminiscence> The 120cm outdoor targets are divided into 5 coloured rings - white, black, blue, red, yellow (traditionally it's 'gold'). As a rough guide, First Class puts all 6 of your arrows in blue or better at 100 yards and you're in the top 25% of UK archers. For Bowman, mostly in red or better at 100 yards, and they're the top 10%. I once shot a New National [4 dozen at 100 yards, 2 at 80] and I found I'd made 1st with 18 arrows to go!

One time it was a breezy day and I was shooting a Long Metric (3 dozen at 90 metres, 3 at 70), and for the 2nd of 6 (you shoot 6 in an end, as they're called - at Bolton Institute part of our Archery Club recruiting spiel was 'Learn How To Shaft Your Boss [the boss is the target, while the shaft is an arrow] And Get Your End Away!) I was drawing back, and even before I finished the draw, everything felt so perfect - bow arm, back, shoulders, arrow in a dead straight line, exactly as they should be** - I just knew the shot would be a gold.
For Metric rounds the rings are subdivided further, so you can score from 0 (a miss) to 10 (inner gold). I was right; arrow 2 (it's standard practice to number your arrows) was 2cm from the exact centre of the target. I'd had a Zen moment. An error of 2cm in 9000, i.e. arc tangent 0.013 degrees off-centre. The most precise shot I'd ever loosed.
I'd never known the like before. Never did again.

** This is where the phrase 'put your back into it' comes from, i.e. using the full power of your back and shoulder muscles to bring your shoulder blades together.

Oh, I miss it.
</fond reminiscence>

[Stephen]

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

[Taf]

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....

[tweetiepooh]

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.