Got any other hobbies?

[taurus66]

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:

Now that is a picture I like, being a cat person myself...

[Kosmic Kartman]

You're a pretty good artist Nick.

:thumbup

In fact I'm very impressed with some of the things the rest of you do. Even making empty beer cans :-)

[Exupnut]

does that mean i can av a go an ur awesome bike (wiv the wank mirrors) ?

[Motorbreath]

I like astronomy.

Today I visited ESA's Deep Space Antenna 2. It communicates with deep space probes and satellites. Awesome:

[Exupnut]

That is very interesting... Can u find out where i come from? R there squirrels in space?

[Motorbreath]

Lots of squirrels, sure. And chihuahuas.

[Kosmic Kartman]

does that mean i can av a go an ur awesome bike (wiv the wank mirrors) ?

:rollin :rollin :rollin

[BluprintZ]

Like a couple on here, my hobby turned into a business.
At 44 years of age and at the end of a fairly long relationship, in 2001, i put in for a grant and set up an Audio/Visual production studio.
Then in 2004, i incorporated a music publishing company and two independent record labels, releasing just over 30 albums.
In 2008, i put the labels on hold and concentrated more on corporate work, which was much less stressful than dealing with the prima donna's in the music industry.
A lot of my work now, involves transferring vinyl to cd and vhs to dvd, plus i've been supplying weekly podcasts to a company in Switzerland for the last five years.

http://www.stiwdioeglwys.fsnet.co.uk/

G ; )

[Dead Eye]

I'm sure I'll pick up more hobbies as life progresses but primarily its mechanics (both car and bike) and then gaming... yeah yeah yeah, I know... PC is my weapon of choice - I own consoles but use them so rarely I often forget they exist

[bluefaze]

Bloody hell, you lot make my hobbies seem so boring, and wot a lot of talented foccers you are.
Apart from my fazer I do a bit of fly fishing, tie flies, just joined a shooting club, .22 and .38s until I get through the full bore course. I have just bought a DSLR, wish I could take photies like KK or Tori, can't use the thing yet. :lol

[Aegis Bearing Mel]

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]

just driving around in my white van....

[mickvp]

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 :o):

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.

[nick crisp]

Heh, that's 3 of us playing Takamines Mick - you, me and Exup. Although Exup reckons mine is orrible to play  :lol  Doesn't help that the strings are like rusty barbed wire..... :rolleyes

[mickvp]

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

[nick crisp]

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]

very nice

Liking the natural wood look.

[Exupnut]

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]

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 :lol

[Exupnut]

My jam partner :-)