Author Topic: Got any other hobbies? (Read 23611 times)

Aegis Bearing Mel · « **Reply #50 on:** 29 October 2013, 05:13:53 pm »

Getting back into me fire gubbins again after a wee break.
Juggling, Diablo, Poi and a wee bit eating & breathing, more fun now it's darker earlier and I can scare the neighbours with the jets of flame over the wall.

caretaker · « **Reply #51 on:** 29 October 2013, 06:42:35 pm »

just driving around in my white van....

mickvp · « **Reply #52 on:** 29 October 2013, 09:31:15 pm »

between working 40+hours a week, and going to Uni, hobbies are more or less a thing of the past for me

Used to enjoy a wee bit of guitar, and own an xbox which never sees the light of day these days either.And for someone who only "dabbles" in guitar, I seem to have ammased far too many. I have 5 or 6 now. including these two, which I use the most (excuse the fingerprints

):

My Takamine Acoustic

My Ibanez RG

really need to get round to selling the Ibanez. it rarely comes out to play these days either...shame really.

Hedgetrimmer · « **Reply #53 on:** 29 October 2013, 09:37:40 pm »

Heh, that's 3 of us playing Takamines Mick - you, me and Exup. Although Exup reckons mine is orrible to play

Doesn't help that the strings are like rusty barbed wire.....

mickvp · « **Reply #54 on:** 29 October 2013, 09:47:13 pm »

yeah exup showed me his the other night (ooooh errrrrr), come on then. get the pics oot!

i hate when the strings start to go like that. you can stop that happening for a while by wiping the strings down when your finished playing. stops the sweat building up so much and rusting them

Hedgetrimmer · « **Reply #55 on:** 29 October 2013, 09:54:55 pm »

Yeah, I usually use that Fastfret stuff. It's just that when Exup tried it, I hadn't played it in some months. Got some new strings knocking around in a drawer somewhere. Well, mine isn't a really expensive one, a mate of mine had one and when I sold my Guild (was good for blues, but not very "bright" for other stuff) I liked how his sounded.

mickvp · « **Reply #56 on:** 29 October 2013, 10:10:35 pm »

very nice

Liking the natural wood look.

Exupnut · « **Reply #57 on:** 29 October 2013, 10:13:45 pm »

Big fat sound. Brilliant pre-amp. A grand well spent. Imported it from USA coz u can only get this one in Matt and without the bling or the Finnish in the uk. I fink the mother of pearl looks wicked and soon as I saw it i wired the cash and bought a hard case aswell so it wouldn't get focced up by some low paid spotty baggage handler nob. I also have a hofner which i use for slide.

mickvp · « **Reply #58 on:** 29 October 2013, 10:16:29 pm »

ha! I bought mines in Canada on holiday as well (cheaper, plus as you say, hard to get one over here with the MOP inlay, although I only got 1 inlay), and took it back home as normal luggage

Exupnut · « **Reply #59 on:** 29 October 2013, 10:20:02 pm »

My jam partner :-)

Exupnut · « **Reply #60 on:** 29 October 2013, 10:26:19 pm »

Quote from: mickvp on 29 October 2013, 10:16:29 pm

ha! I bought mines in Canada on holiday as well (cheaper, plus as you say, hard to get one over here with the MOP inlay, although I only got 1 inlay), and took it back home as normal luggage

Oh yeah.. The fukin import tax... Geetar was £1,050. Case £150 and tax £180 £1400 was defo worth it tho. Just need to lower action a little and it'll sound and play like a foccin dream.

Exupnut · « **Reply #61 on:** 29 October 2013, 10:29:06 pm »

BBC 1 now. How jimmy Hendrix became a god.
"Lord i hear that HS2 a comin ... Hear that HS2....hear that HS2.... Yeah i hears that HS2 a commin...." Lol

steviebhoy · « **Reply #62 on:** 31 October 2013, 08:09:19 pm »

Quote from: nick crisp on 28 October 2013, 10:53:34 pm

I've been known to dabble in a bit of sketching and painting, but haven't done much for a while. One of my better efforts in watercolour and gouache:

They pictures are fantastic you are far too modest.
Stevie

Hedgetrimmer · « **Reply #63 on:** 31 October 2013, 08:16:22 pm »

Well, those are some of the better ones. For every good painting I turn out, I do about 20 that look like a 3-year old's finger paintings...

ChristoT · « **Reply #64 on:** 31 October 2013, 08:45:20 pm »

Quote from: nick crisp on 31 October 2013, 08:16:22 pm

Well, those are some of the better ones. For every good painting I turn out, I do about 20 that look like a 3-year old's finger paintings...

Well, when you consider that squirrel pic of Exup was one of my better ones...

My hobbies? Sailing in Turkey, motorcycles, fettling motorcycles, talking about motorcycles etc...

I love aircraft too - especially WWII and cold war jets.

Hedgetrimmer · « **Reply #65 on:** 31 October 2013, 09:04:00 pm »

I think the Phantom will always be my favourite fast jet of that era Christo. When I was about 13, I went for a week to RAF Coningsby with the Air Cadets. As well as getting to crawl around the BBMF Lancaster, a couple of us spent an evening standing by the airfield perimeter watching the Phantoms take off - jeez, but those things were loud on full afterburner, they made the ground shake like no other aircraft I've ever seen! We also did an aircraft wash on a Phantom, and got to help the groundcrews on them in a hangar - I remember them being huge great things, and you wondered how such a massive construction could go so fast. I think they are like the big muscle cars of the aircraft world. Never got to work on fast jets while I was in the RAF though.

Skippernick · « **Reply #66 on:** 31 October 2013, 09:06:40 pm »

I regularly stand on platforms watching trains.

caretaker · « **Reply #67 on:** 31 October 2013, 09:09:25 pm »

actually i like a bit of mtb. lovely tracks down south and west wales. got an old giant rincon and a new-ish mongoose tyax.

JZS 600 · « **Reply #68 on:** 05 November 2013, 08:49:06 pm »

Just got my competent crew cert from the RYA

ChristoT · « **Reply #69 on:** 05 November 2013, 08:53:46 pm »

Quote from: JZS 600 on 05 November 2013, 08:49:06 pm

Just got my competent crew cert from the RYA

Congratz!

Slaninar · « **Reply #70 on:** 06 November 2013, 08:11:45 am »


Fenomenalni Rivelinjo!

Samaha · « **Reply #71 on:** 06 November 2013, 03:44:45 pm »

I've got a season ticket for Brighton and Hove Albion, I dabble in a bit of spearfishing and I also spent the best part of this century living in the Alps snowboarding.

Looney tune · « **Reply #72 on:** 06 November 2013, 11:29:17 pm »

Shooting
Hunting ( fox )
Golf, not near as much as when I was a young 2 handicapper
Fishing, fly only
Dog training / judging
Having a good Sunday session in the pub
Sex

Doddsie · « **Reply #73 on:** 06 November 2013, 11:47:38 pm »

^^^^^^^ Hmmmm, I notice they are all hobbies you can do on your own!!!!!

slimwilly · « **Reply #74 on:** 07 November 2013, 06:51:23 am »

Self doing hobbies are the best,,no relying on others to remember anything then.