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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: thermidorthelobster on June 20, 2007, 19:07:19
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Now I've got rid of the 101, I've realised I need a hobby to keep me occupied and off the streets when I'm not hard at work.
I currently paramotor (http://www.paramotormag.com) but it's weather-dependent.
We've got a load of Hornby train gear in the loft (via both sets of parents) but nowhere to set it up...
Photography is interesting at times but I only really get into it when I'm travelling.
What does everybody else here do, apart from getting muddy and wielding spanners?
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I sometimes walk up a mountain or 2, explore old mines, gold panning in the local rivers, photography, and this year I have taken up fly fishing.
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I do cross stitch only I get told off for spending too long on it and spoiling my eye sight :roll: If I don't have long I do something simple but I have done some that have taken months :wink:
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Ummm ..... well ..... I think I can count er ..... bar the obvious ....
Music :)
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Make model's up like tanks,mill vechicles, trucks etc also build and fix rc cars,boats,trucks and tanks that fire 8mm bb's :twisted: :lol: 8)
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My hobbies apart from the obvious of Landys, beer and off roading, are aviation and military history, building model aircraft as it concentrates my mind and takes the stress away. I'm currently working on a B24 Liberator. It satisfies my alter ego!
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Uuuurm...
Fancy taking a guess?
:oops: :oops: :P
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mine are
drinking, off roading
St John Ambulance i'm a seargent within the brigade
I train martial arts with the Relistic Self Defence association looking at becoming a instructor www.rsda.org.uk
dazza
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i feel quite adventurous with this lot...
Kiting, skateboarding, mountainboarding, ice skating and im a pro snowboarder(well you know)! but... you cant beat a good game of command and conquer with your mates :twisted:
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:lol: Hmm yeah well landrovers, getting them muddy, beer, but my other hobbie that i am getting back into now is mountain biking which also involves getting muddy a lot of the time, music too bit of walking :shock: , but this year i am wanting to have a go at snowboarding !! :lol:
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Offroading is my main hobby.Ive just stated messing with rc cars again after a few years break..
Cheers Gav
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Power/Traction Kites, My Zuk, and mountain bikes.
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Anoying my mate with my honda sp1 as he's had to sell is bike due to a baby
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I try to teach as much Rock climbing and skiing as I can 8)
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Used to be a Pro Mountain Biker until my knees went POP 15 years ago :cry: but trying to get back to it for sun only. I keep & bread Tropical Fish & Lovebird Parrots. Took up Bonsai (small trees :lol: )found it very relaxing
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Scuba Diving
Waterskiing
Sailing
Shooting
Walking up mountains
Tinkering with Landies!
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Apart from the Land-Rovers, and the GLAss rep for the Island, I do a bit of "taste testing" for a number of cider makers, and a similar task for a couple of chocolate companies - this I do totally on a volountry basis......
I also collect, restore and occasionally race 'Scalextric' and other slot-cars (Got around 700 tucked away)
I also collect 1/50 scale plant and machinery models - diggers, 'dozers etc, and I'm slowly learning to fly an electric (as opposed to i/c motor) radio controlled helicopter.
Plus a bit of walking, cycling and photography
Plus giving SWMBO a good listening to - this takes up a fair ammount of time.....!!
Regards, Chris
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Colecting Land Rovers
Mending Land Rovers
Going for a social drink with my mates
Game Keeping
Clay Shooting
Walking my dog
Fly fishing
I think thats about all
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i do a bit of mountain biking, snowboarding, am into drag racing and i do a little tiki carving ( see sig pic ) it's about 4ft tall and is my 1st attempt :?
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I go fishing, fly model aeroplanes as well as teaching others to fly.
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ive got back into mountain biking, the last time i rode a bike i was at school :lol:
least i still get the chance to get mucky !!
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Ive just started fly fishing again after a 13 year break from it, apart from that I clay pigeon shoot at the weekends and from the 1st of September I am to be found sitting on mud flats/estuary somewhere trying to shoot some duck...
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Power kiting, climbing, sailing... Though I seem to end up spending most of my time trying to keep my trucks on the road.
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I go fishing, fly model aeroplanes as well as teaching others to fly.
Wonderful hobbie especially when you dont have to take the bits home in a bin liner after a day at the club. :lol:
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horse riding, fishing, shooting, off roading of course and dare i say it country walks with dogs and girlfriend
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Offroading is my main hobby.Ive just stated messing with rc cars again after a few years break..
Cheers Gav
Ah, GAV from UKRCRC?
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Fishing*, Photography and metal Detecting
*Sea fishing is best, I like the bit where i get to smash thier heads in untill thier eyes bulge.
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Fishing*, Photography and metal Detecting
*Sea fishing is best, I like the bit where i get to smash thier heads in untill thier eyes bulge.
Dude... Too much info! :lol:
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My garden keeps me occupied when not trialing, or fixing what I broke whilst trialing.
http://www.twango.com/channel/Muddymike.Garden
Mike
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Knife Making (http://members.mud-club.com/profiles/Cassillis/gallery/Knives)
Walking stick making/collecting.
Pub
Fishing
Pub
walking the dogs
Did i mention the pub :D
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Clay shooting, Drumming, playing around with cars, advanced drinking, I am also into my hi-fi gear which is totalling about 3K at the moment!! Oh, and with my latest 5.5 litre Merc. purchase my new hobby is called 'fueling up'!!
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I sometimes ride my skateboard
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reading, internet.
making stuff for other people.
sleeping and drinking cider.
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HMMM lemme think:
Underground Exploration,
Beer,
Photography,
Beer,
Hill Walking,
Beer
Mountain Biking,
Beer,
Kites,
Beer.
Oh and did I mention BEER?
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Sailing
Only one person said sailing?
I have just taken up sailing, and though it can be a little physical at times it has to be one of the most relaxing things i have ever done (apart from drinking)
Its not that expensive to get into either, with second hand sailing dinghys fetching less than a cheap winch ;)
Cheers
Mark
(http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p130/l666mud/DSCF2556.jpg)
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Tried wind surfing a few years ago that works you hard.
Building PC (Usually my own)
Playing with most electronic gadgets (Xbox 360, Projector, Hifi, Weather station Equipment (http://wyken-weather.co.uk) and many others)
Walking (seems to be more of us doing that than the ramblers groups)
Most finish R/C Hovercraft (taken about 2 years so far)
Watching others drink beer (Don't like it myself but fun watch everyone esle)
keep on thinking about getting the mountain bike out but then I relize that when I bought it Rock shocks were still figment of someone imagination and then I forget it.
Photography
Web Sites (my own)
But the Tomb-Rover is defenately the most expensive and time consuming.
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We've got a load of Hornby train gear in the loft (via both sets of parents) but nowhere to set it up...
You can always find somewhere for it. My room currently sports a 24ft end to end Marklin layout around two walls at picture rail height!
Industrial archaeology
Internet
Reading
Web design (hopefully this will turn into a paying hobby given time!)
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These days all I seem to do is eat, sleep and work :roll:
Been through plenty of hobbies in my time though.
As a child, I always enjoyed drawing. Had many pictures on the Blue Peter notice board! And I've still got the badges and signed photo's to prove it :oops: :lol: Those were the days of John Noakes, Petra and Shep.... ah, memories!
Model aircraft (static, powered R/C and glider R/C), crashed too many to mention :oops:
Model railways (sold it all when I got into cars).
Cycling (still get out occasionally)
Motor racing (still have my MG Midget race car, but not in use now)
Photography (but even that is done at work now since I started product photography :roll:)
Oh, and designed and draughted a house once, right down to the quantity surveying, but never got to build it!
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the land rover takes up most of my time/money at the moment as im trying to do some cool electrical stuff to it which will probly not work :lol:
i used to make model boats and sail them
then i moved onto a model rocket where it claimed you could put an egg in it and it wouldnt break, i never had any success,
then i tryed my hand at rc cars but they proved more unreliable than the landy :lol:
now im looking at getting back into mountain biking, and taking up canoeing, i have a canoe but no paddle yet :lol:
hopefully going to take up rock climbing next year at uni
for now exam revision :'(
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Speaking of model railways ... we've got one at work, it goes round the office. There is a time-table and each train hauls different cargo, there's the savoury express, the sweet express etc etc. I think we must be mad....
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I sometimes ride my skateboard
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And 'body-double' for Zach Braff (http://www.scrubs-tv.com/cast_zachbraff.html) :-'
Ummm ..... well ..... I think I can count er ..... bar the obvious ....
Music :)
What about the old 'armour-plating'???
Used to be a Pro Mountain Biker until my knees went POP 15 years ago :cry: but trying to get back to it for sun only.
Oh!?
Who did you ride for?? (team/sponsor/factory??)
but my other hobbie that i am getting back into now is mountain biking which also involves getting muddy a lot of the time, music too bit of walking :shock: , but this year i am wanting to have a go at snowboarding !! :lol:
I know about your MTBing Marc, as we've got a 'date' at Kippax in July :lol:
(unless you've forgotten)
As for me?
I involve myself with........
Cycling;
Some of you may have read (or remember) my additions to the 'Fancy A New (push) Bike' (http://www.mud-club.com/forum/index.php/topic,52391.0.html) thread started by 'Martha Focker'.
So you know that I've been back on them about a year (after a semi-enforced lay-off), and have been racing intermittantly (with mediocre results) since last September.
The racing is a branch of the sport called 'Cyclo-Cross' (for details ot what it's about, see; 'About' (http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/web/site/BC/cyx/cyclo_cross_about.asp) & 'Get Into' (http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/web/site/BC/cyx/cyclo_cross_get_into.asp))
I also ride on the road a lot, but ought to really do more :oops:
Running;
I only really started this as a 'back-up' to the cycling, as some Cyclo-Cross courses demand a bit of running.
I'm not really 'up there', but at present can manage a 'rolling' 5 &1/2 run in 40minutes, and have been told that that's a fairly good time at my training level/experience (unless they're humouring me???)
But..... I've entered a 5-miler that takes place in June, & want to be able to comfortably finish it in a decent-ish time (roughly between Darrington & Wentbridge)
Joanne (SWMBO) told me last November that she'd get back into training & run a race that I did at Bingley - it was 'Cyclists verses Harriers' - & beat me over the distance :-k :-k
Reading;
Rather varied tastes, no specific writer/genre, but a few are;
Bill Bryson
Stuart Maconie ('Pies & Prejudice'; great book :clap: )
HP Lovecraft (lost my copies during the last house move)
Michael Crichton ('AirFrame', 'Prey', 'TimeLine')
Biographies (examples; Johnny Cash, Lance Armstrong, 'David Copperfield' (http://coppersblog.blogspot.com/))
Industrial Heritage books ('Great Stink of London', about the building of the sewerage system is superb)
Music;
Quite varied, but not much 'modern' stuff & definately no 'dance'/'drum & bass'!!!!!
Some favourites include; Steve Earle, Tindersticks, Bruce Springsteen, Dixie Chicks, Snow Patrol, Stray Cats, Alison Krauss, Coldplay, Leonard Cohen, Cocteau Twins, Catatonia, etc.........
Photography;
Mainly in support of my 'www', which now has almost 4,000 images on it!, and almost 340,000 hits :shock:
What I want to do;
I'd like to be able to play a few musical instruments properly
1. The Guitar, I want to be able to do justice to one of these (http://www.gretschguitars.com/gear/index.php?product=G6120SSLVO&cat1=&cat2=&q=&st=1) :drool: :drool: :drool:
2. The Banjo. I used to have one, but never did it properly, it's due to a long liking for Bluegrass.
3. Double-Bass. But..... played as the 'slap-bass', again, a long liking for rockabilly does it!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=RKQbZiJNgtA&feature=related
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Fighting, sort of a mix of Ju-Jitsu, Wing Chun, Escreda and just plain dirty tricks. Although the club has disbanded, so I need to find a new one.
Go bodyboarding and surfing (well twice but have my own board :doh: ) when I'm in cornwall.
Have had the intention of digging my MTB out since march, got as far as looking at it and going ermm! Getting a bit fat now so need to get of my butt and train more, so looks like running and MTB's will be back on the list.
Should add walking, but half the time I walk just because I'm to lazy (and tight) to use my car!
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Have had the intention of digging my MTB out since march, got as far as looking at it and going ermm!
You've got your own Motor Torpedo Boat.... WOW! :lol:
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Have had the intention of digging my MTB out since march, got as far as looking at it and going ermm! Getting a bit fat now so need to get of my butt and train more, so looks like running and MTB's will be back on the list.
Well, as stated, I only started again last Easter,& I dropped 2 stone in roughly 10 weeks*!
I think I'm hovering about the 9'9" - 9'10" mark! (doesn't half help on the hills)
I even went for some new trousers in our Sewing/Linen Room at work, & was told "Sorry, we haven't got any with a 29" waist!!" (down from 32")
* Obviously, eating sensibly was the other cue.
No chocolate, fried food, sweets, etc.... (I'm tee-total & a non-smoker, so that part wasn't an issue for me)
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Trail bikes, best thing in the world!
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then i moved onto a model rocket where it claimed you could put an egg in it and it wouldnt break, i never had any success,
I've still got mine - never did launch an egg. I was more interested in using the lower powered motors and getting a scale speed liftoff (rather than the thing disappearing upwards in a microsecond and never being seen again!)
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Speaking of model railways ... we've got one at work, it goes round the office. There is a time-table and each train hauls different cargo, there's the savoury express, the sweet express etc etc. I think we must be mad....
I want to work for you Neil :grin:
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I sometimes walk up a mountain or 2, explore old mines, gold panning in the local rivers, photography, and this year I have taken up fly fishing.
This year I have combined exploring old mines with photography
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Speaking of model railways ... we've got one at work, it goes round the office. There is a time-table and each train hauls different cargo, there's the savoury express, the sweet express etc etc. I think we must be mad....
Must be large scale to handle those cargoes - here's what I bought before catching the off road bug:
(http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x21/Kingofthemountains/Misc/AlpineC.jpg)
and something I built from balsa, brass rod, plastic section and assorted odds and ends. The only commercial parts are the wheels and couplings:
(http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x21/Kingofthemountains/BerninaBahn/MVC-018X.jpg)
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hmm had a few hobbies over the years
Model Railways has to be the biggest one of the lot i dread to think how much the collection would be worth back at my parents house :shock: lots of time spent on that hobby with a great deal of satisfaction getting everything to work properly lol
Landrovers .. they have always been the love of my life but its only been about 4 years since ive been able to furfill my needs and now they take a major part of my life up, and through them ive entered the club and never looked back
Model Boats
fairly new to this but im currently building a sea tug "amsterdamn rc" if anyone wants to google it looking forward to seeing it working
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I sometimes ride my skateboard
:)
And 'body-double' for Zach Braff (http://www.scrubs-tv.com/cast_zachbraff.html) :-'
I forgot that you mentioned that a while ago ;)
Well remembered :D
:afro:
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White water paddling
trying my hand at a bit of wood carving
Like many others, dusting off the mountain bike and heading into the woods to keep fitness up...
Si
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Trail bikes, best thing in the world!
Just not as agile as a trials bike :wink:
I sometimes ride my skateboard
:)
And 'body-double' for Zach Braff (http://www.scrubs-tv.com/cast_zachbraff.html) :-'
I forgot that you mentioned that a while ago ;)
Well remembered :D
:afro:
I have a good memory, but it must have been 2 (perhaps 3?) years ago?
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Cycling;
I also ride on the road a lot, but ought to really do more :oops:
At the moment most of my rides are only up to the 3 hour mark, but that's to keep the wife happy
Ie: I'm not disappearing off all day, but I intend to do perhaps 4 (maybe 5 hours) on Saturday & Sunday on the road-bike.
This will either be;
1. Up to Otley & Bolton Abbey
2. Or down and over HolmMoss (A6024), then coming back over Woodhead Pass (A628)
3. Perhaps carrying the HolmMoss down over the Snake Pass (A57), with that fearsome climb out of Glossop 8-[ 8-[
Running;
I only really started this as a 'back-up' to the cycling, as some Cyclo-Cross courses demand a bit of running.
I'm not really 'up there', but at present can manage a 'rolling' 5 &1/2 run in 40minutes, and have been told that that's a fairly good time at my training level/experience (unless they're humouring me???)
But..... I've entered a 5-miler that takes place in June, & want to be able to comfortably finish it in a decent-ish time (roughly between Darrington & Wentbridge)
I've been out earlier & done a 50minute run, the longest I've done so far, the time jumped up by 10minutes & just over another mile.
Perhaps that's not a lot, but it certainly felt a lot whilst I was doing it :-k
Got the scary pictures when i got in, but they're not really suitable for public viewing :shocked:
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Before my accident my hobbies were...
Building my house .
building drag bikes.
riding bikes (motor and peddle).
walking.
swiming.
camping.
reading.
partying hard with the bike club..
and being self employed,,,working all hours...
since my accident.
fiddleing with stuff in the garage (mainly 4x4 stuff)
walking (to the pub)
camping in a big comfy caravan.
working for a big company making climbing/safety at height/arborist equipment.
drinking red wine and listening to music .
watching TV..
oh and I had to sell all my bikes :'( :'(
I've gone from 13 stone to 17 though I am 6'3" so carry it well ;)
just had the ok from the doc to start at the local gym (payed for by the nhs) twice a week with a trainer so I should be able to shift some weight if my spine holds out :lol: :lol:
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I'm into horses, well, its my main hobby. I have an ex racer who I've reschooled. Competed as back up crew (and navigator!) in endurance riding upto world level, went as groom with someone to the World Equestrian Games in Aachen, Germany, 2006. Strangely, thats partly what got me into off roading.
Still get the pushbike out occasionally and go for a ride, and am a frequent visitor to the gym! 8-[
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Trail bikes, best thing in the world!
Just not as agile as a trials bike :wink:
no but much more fun, you cant go EVERYWHERE stood up! besides im not good enough to ride a trials bike and i dont look very good in an open face helmet! (who does?)
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Trail bikes, best thing in the world!
Just not as agile as a trials bike :wink:
no but much more fun, you cant go EVERYWHERE stood up! besides im not good enough to ride a trials bike and i dont look very good in an open face helmet! (who does?)
True, we're not all Dougie Lampkin
Having said that................ who needs an engine??
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=VzmoFPEGy48
(best viewed with volume at '0')
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forgot to mention
I ride my skateboard now and again too ,no trick stuff anymore just go carving on some of the long hills round here ,,
but don't tell the misses as I'm not suposed to incase I come off (again) ;)
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Work in the garden, fly a model helicopter, well crash it most of the time :doh: play the drums
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Mine are Land Rovers in general, fixing my Land Rovers, Off roading,and Scouting, which include Outdoor Persuits, Hill walking, Hiking, Kayaking, Climbing, Camping.
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Sleep, Beer Good rock music eg Iron Maiden Rolling Stones Springsteen Zep etc, military history of mechanised warfare
BBQ and growing chillis
Jeeps
More sleep n beer..... :dance: :D
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good to see im not the only putting a martial art here!
teaching Kung Fu first dan black belt!
reading,
cycling,
Fords!
Landy's
honda motor bikes
cars in general
motor bikes in general,
F2 side car racing, fastest rookie in 2006!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :P
snow boarding
drinking,
flying, in real planes
anything with an engine!
most things with b**bs lol
now getting into horse riding- first lesson on monday, a gentle hour long hack through lanes that are closed to 4x4s :oops: :oops:
setting up my business i love all the added stress it gives me :?
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almost forgot...... iv recently taught myself to weld! it really REALLY is satisfying! i can now do basic ally too, not bad for a second hand welder from here!!!!!!! thanks again JDB
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I do a few bits...Well currently dont having cracked a vertebrae doing one of them last week- 6 weeks in a back brace and really not seeing the funny side!
Mainly Im a whitewater kayaker and raft guide
I Climb (hence the back injury!)
Do a bit of mountaineering (mainly so I can get my ML to be more employable!)
Play with landrovers and cars
Dabbling in learning to ride trials and street on my bike!
Used to be really into railways- but not really got the time anymore!
Currently bored as Im not allowed to do any of the above.
Chris
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I think my username gives it away. But i love to go fishing too. And i like walking round car boot sales. Get me out of the house. :)
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Playing the piano is my main hobby, but I also enjoying cooking - especially baking :angel: hence littlepow's new tummy!!!!!!! :oops:
I'm currently developing a very unhealthy ebay habit :evil: to replace my very healthy gym habit :doh:.
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I am into clay and game shooting, target shooting- small and full bore, game keeping, walking dogs stuff like that!!!
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cassillis, cool blades mate, i used to collect samuri swords but sadly no more. how i miss them, do you sell them.i like to hill walk and mountain bike as long as my knees hold out. :)
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Shooting - clays - wildfowling - game -
Landrovers
Fishing (though not for a long time)
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Playing the piano is my main hobby, but I also enjoying cooking - especially baking :angel: hence littlepow's new tummy!!!!!!! :oops:
It's the evil cheesecake that's the culprit :twisted: :lol: Of course, the Black Sheep has absolutely nothing to do with littlepows new tummy :lol:
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Shooting - clays - wildfowling - game -
Landrovers
Remind me where you live again so I can avoid driving past your house :shock: ;)
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Shooting - clays - wildfowling - game -
Landrovers
Fishing (though not for a long time)
Shooting Landrovers seems an odd hobby unless you happen to be an owner of a LR :-k
Sorry guys, as a LC owner I just could not stop myself :roll: :lol: ;)
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i cant believe they get away with calling it a 'land cruiser', such a blatant rip off of the brittish legend.
mind you i suppose it is a bit like a cross between a land rover and a PT cruiser.
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i have recently taken to drunkenly coming home to wake up and find i brought my previous nights beer glass on my desk, i have a shelf full :twisted:
i want to learn how to weld and be able to make things decently from metal rather than buy it or ask people to do it for me, i also am getting more and more interested in playing with electronics, i spose i had better learn these two soon as i am swapping my bulkhead, and need to make a decentish job of the thing because im going on the landy rally im almost three months now :shock: no pressure :lol: any one else find there more productive on the later side of midnight?
Running;
I only really started this as a 'back-up' to the cycling, as some Cyclo-Cross courses demand a bit of running.
I'm not really 'up there', but at present can manage a 'rolling' 5 &1/2 run in 40minutes, and have been told that that's a fairly good time at my training level/experience (unless they're humouring me???)
But..... I've entered a 5-miler that takes place in June, & want to be able to comfortably finish it in a decent-ish time (roughly between Darrington & Wentbridge)
I've been out earlier & done a 50minute run, the longest I've done so far, the time jumped up by 10minutes & just over another mile.
Perhaps that's not a lot, but it certainly felt a lot whilst I was doing it Thinking
Got the scary pictures when i got in, but they're not really suitable for public viewing shocked
i ran the half marathon last year and fully dont intend to do it again soon :lol: its the point where your releaved to think youve ran the full 13 miles and see the sign that says you have done three :lol:
i seem to be collecting land rver parts, i have half a land rover in the garage currantly ( well it has a steering wheel bulkhead, speedo, ingnition lock and key, steering lock works and it has a clean heater not full of mud :lol: now all i need is an engine n some wheels and maybe a chassy but i could use gaffa tape i think :lol:
kieran
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Playing the piano is my main hobby, but I also enjoying cooking - especially baking :angel: hence littlepow's new tummy!!!!!!! :oops:
It's the evil cheesecake that's the culprit :twisted: :lol: Of course, the Black Sheep has absolutely nothing to do with littlepows new tummy :lol:
What the one that you feel furring your arteries :oops: - it's good isn't it :twisted:
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Running;
I only really started this as a 'back-up' to the cycling, as some Cyclo-Cross courses demand a bit of running.
I'm not really 'up there', but at present can manage a 'rolling' 5 &1/2 run in 40minutes, and have been told that that's a fairly good time at my training level/experience (unless they're humouring me???)
But..... I've entered a 5-miler that takes place in June, & want to be able to comfortably finish it in a decent-ish time (roughly between Darrington & Wentbridge)
I've been out earlier & done a 50minute run, the longest I've done so far, the time jumped up by 10minutes & just over another mile.
Perhaps that's not a lot, but it certainly felt a lot whilst I was doing it Thinking
Got the scary pictures when i got in, but they're not really suitable for public viewing shocked
i ran the half marathon last year and fully dont intend to do it again soon :lol: its the point where your releaved to think youve ran the full 13 miles and see the sign that says you have done three
That's what's worrying me - that SWMBO will try to persuade me to do a10miler, then a half-marathon.
Then, if I do succomb to a 'halfer', the conversation will go something like this;
"You've done a half, so why not try a full-marathon?"
"But, my sweet. I have no interest in doing so"
"Why not??, Lance Armstrong won 7 Tours', & then ran the New York Marathon!, so why can't you? Just remember what he went through!!!" (alluding to his battle with Cancer)
"Because, oh flower of my desert, Lance is a superman!!"
Or, have I been watching 'Scrubs' too much, with JDs weird little day-dreams/flights of fantasy?? :-k
However..............
She did say to me after I did the 'Cyclists verses Harriers' (runners) at Bingley last year & was deriding my position/time, that she'd start running again & whilst I rode it this year, she'd run it & beat me!!!
It was an horrendous mudbath for the first stretch, & definately favoured the runners!
(which was; 54.16. 82nd/97overall finisher. 27th/34 riders),
Whilst admittedly, she's back on the treadmill, and slowly starting to build up again, I see no real commitment to what she said.
I'll have to remind her :-'
Closer to the date, if she's still running, we'll have a drive up & we'll run round and see if she can beat my 2007 time (also, I'll print off last years results & see how we'd have placed :huh:)
2006 = 2.59:36 (http://www.velonews.com/./article/11155)
2007 = 2.46 (http://www.bikingbis.com/blog/_archives/2007/11/4/3334649.html)
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scrubs is funny, if she suggests you do the full marathon do a hommer simpson and run as fast as yoy can to the pub and stay there :lol:
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scrubs is funny, if she suggests you do the full marathon do a hommer simpson and run as fast as yoy can to the pub and stay there :lol:
Scrubs is scarily like work.
It's actually one of the few medical programmes that a lot of our staff agree on, & will watch in preferance to things like 'Casualty'
Pubs??, I'd sooner do the run!
:-k :-k :-k If I cunningly fail to finish the 5-miler, or in a time that I feel is abysmal, she might not even mention half-marathons :-k :-k :-k
(but, I guess pride will not let me do it 'half-assed')
As Lance says..................
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varied hobbies/interests
a) 'serious' home cinema (bigger financial drain than my V8 Grand Cherokee!!)
b) game/clay shooting
c) deer stalking
d) fishing - all sorts, but salmon preferred - but sadly limited due to now living in England rather than rural Perthshire!
e) Black Labradors
f) car detailing but NOT the obsessive/compulsive type :evil: - just decent products and a proper maintenance/care programme - and YES the Grand is used off road :lol:
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scrubs is funny, if she suggests you do the full marathon do a hommer simpson and run as fast as yoy can to the pub and stay there :lol:
:-k :-k :-k If I cunningly fail to finish the 5-miler, or in a time that I feel is abysmal, she might not even mention half-marathons :-k :-k :-k
(but, I guess pride will not let me do it 'half-assed')
Rather scarily, she did mention half (& full) marathons last night :shock: :shock: :shock:
I admitted that I'd done the maths based on my present times/distances & could manage roughly a 3.15 marathon
Except there's 'no way on this earth' I could do that distance :roll:
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Sorry, but I think anyone who runs for fun are mad! I used to go running with a local club as a teenager, all it does is cause pain! Fair play to those who are serious about their running though - hat off to them!
I'm into horses - cross country, show jumping, dressage, western, hunter trails, combined training. Currently trying to teach my self the flute (nothing like American Pie!!) and not getting very far!
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I have spent some time on and off trying to learn to play electric guitar. I've got as far as a wobbly and very bad version of the James Bond theme...
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the only marathon i'd be interested in begins with S and ends in X - and has an E in the middle!!!
and yes its a dream :evil:
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Sorry, but I think anyone who runs for fun are mad!
i too take my hat off to them, but i fully agree when i hit the 6 mile point on the half marathon and my dad kept on driving past in my landy as a "support" vehicle i kept wishing to swap places :lol:
i do have a slightly strange beer glass collection, go to the pub then wake up with the beer glass next to the bed its certainly a strange experiance :lol:
speaking of which who else has changed a body panel on their car and tryed to get the sticker off for a Laugh and ended up with the hack saw cutting round the sticker, i nailed mine to my wall :lol: ( i hope it isnt just me )
kieran
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Sorry, but I think anyone who runs for fun are mad! I used to go running with a local club as a teenager, all it does is cause pain! Fair play to those who are serious about their running though - hat off to them
I'll agree with the pain bit, I much prefer my bikes.
But, I've said I'll do it
I have spent some time on and off trying to learn to play electric guitar. I've got as far as a wobbly and very bad version of the James Bond theme...
As stated earlier in this thread, I want a Gretsch G6120 & the ability to do it justice [-o<
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I paint little soldiers :lol: The ones in the pic would be about 15mm tall if they were stood up
(http://www.mud-club.com:8081/galleryimages/1e31082d8e51914caeab4f3bc82c7c31.JPG)
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i collect old games, and old electric guitars, there worth more than my landy :shock:
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I have spent some time on and off trying to learn to play electric guitar. I've got as far as a wobbly and very bad version of the James Bond theme...
As stated earlier in this thread, I want a Gretsch G6120 & the ability to do it justice [-o<
The 'Gretsch-Master' playing 'that' music
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hoYql7-Rcj0&feature=related
And also;
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qMpfRmWfjrs&feature=related
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i collect old games, and old electric guitars, there worth more than my landy :shock:
I can understand that :-k ;) :grin:
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Well I USED to be a champion archer (when i ws MUUUUCH younger) and also used to ride horses rugularly but 4 kids have put pay to that, and since Hubby has been off sick he has started to take an interest in the garden ( a Major achievement :LOL:) and also has taken up CB radio again after a break of a few years - he was going to do his amateur exam but cant find a local course..
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Ok, mine are.
I have a series three that is undergoing "verbal restoration" as in im only talking about it at the moment
I sprint race my Lotus elise in the Cornish Speed/St Eval Sprint chapionshiops, two class wins in two events.
I also do all the maintenence and upgrades on the Elise
I have a 5 acre farm in Cornwall where next year I will get Chickens, Pigs, Sheep etc.
I have just started gardeneing, including grapes/peaches whihc are in Greenhouses on the farm.
I go to auctions/car boots a lot and buy old junk
I do lots of IT related stuff but its my job, however I do spend a lot of time tinkerign with stuff
Managine building work on our flat/annex on the farm for a holiday let
Decided to give up/put on hold playign golf when I moved to cornwall as the above is quite enough to kepp me busy
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Interesting to read what you people do...
I ride Mountain Bikes (fully rigid, singlespeed) and BMX, I work in the cycle industry !
I occasionally go out for chocolate, and come home with a Land Rover of some description !
Always been a pistonhead, and have had loads of quick (proper) cars !!!
Big fan of Rallycross !