Big-G

I am curious (read nosey) as to what hobbies people have apart from their Scooby.
I suppose I'll get alsorts of funny replies ( champion stud, beer taster for Stella etc.) but what do you do with your spare time?

I confess to be building a model railway, to be used to display my collection of Liliput (Vienna) model trains.

There, now I am out in the open....I like model trains...

Just getting my flame suit on (not an anorak) waiting for the jibes....

Big-G

P.S. don't be shy, tell us of your hobby.......We won't laugh...

chiark

*must resist train set comments* (My dad is just starting to get back into model railways - they've had a summer house built to house 'em. He gets exceedingly upset when I ask him how his train set in the shed is coming along )

Socially acceptable hobbies for me are limited to learning to play the piano, learning the art of photography (good excuse to feed by gadget lust), collecting a bit of cash for charity whilst having a damn good laugh, and resurrecting the near dead in the form of obsolete computers/PDAs.

Geek hobbies are probably the obsolete computers, and also anything to do with PDAs, PCs, you name it... If its got an electronic pulse, I'll quite happily try to take it apart to see how it works, then get it back together again.

This should possibly be in NSR, but what the heck?

supertouring

I spend time on my website - www.supertouring.co.uk

Gutmann pug

Mine are more fads then hobbies ......

Fishing
nitro cars
Sport .....used to be playing but now its mainly shouting at the TV
Watching motorsport when possible (live)


Normal sort of stuff I guess

oh and my website too . www.northloop.co.uk I wasnt gonna say that but you started it supertouring

Big-G

Thanks chiark,

I also confess to the P.C. bit.
I have built a network of 5 PC's in my house, I built all the PC's from Scratch and really enjoyed the challenge. My PC' s ALll, seem to w**rk
OK.


Big-G

Doink

I play a lot of lacrosse in my spare time. Four times a week infact.
I wont be offended if you dont know what it is though!

rgv_stu

clay pigeon shooting
bit of fishing
riding my motorbike / mountainbike

Stu Smith

Playing on (and rebuilding when I have broken) the PC and a bit of fishing!

Dont get time for anything else with work and the missus!

richardg

driving my kit car, spending too much time on scooter rallies on my TS1 Lambretta (including Holland!) and of course working on the house...

Jamescsti

Just taken up Scuba diving

MichaelH

Tae Kwon Do, supporting my home town football team bless em - Leeds Utd, and usual computers, gadgets etc.

chiark

A leeds supporter in Sheffield? That's brave!

SiDHEaD

I don't think I really have any hobbies. Generally to knackered to move out of the chair when I get home after being up at 6:30 and not going to bed till late. Have a Nitro RC car but a bit p'd off with it at the mo as I keep ripping the tyres off the rims

Spent a while recently trying to get mine and my girlfriend's forums up and running - http://www.wuh-tuh-fuh.net .

SPIKE LIKE MIKE

the usual suspects i think, fishing,live shooting(the bird type)not people in banks-though this would be helpful to pay for the go go juice ,and a bit of hunting(the female type ha ha .

and most wk ends there is the usual 2-3 hr clean of the car!!

Greeno

Well i try to have a few...

I am in the process of learning to play the keyboard/piano...

I have also just recently started to make some of my own music, using Reason 2.5, got my Midi keyboard, mixer and all...anyone else use this on here...???

I have also just started Tae-Kwon-do lessons again, i used to do it back in the day before i discovered beer and women...lol...

G.

Little Miss WRX

Football referee, building model cars and mountain biking for me.

If I could afford it rallying, but no chance at the moment.

messiah

Golf
Tropical Fish
Video Games
Home Cinema
Orienteering

quite fancy Scuba Diving too as well as some of those night navigation exercises in the car.

Scoobychick

iTrader: (1)

I spend most of my spare time and all my holidays spectating at rallies so I guess you'd call it my hobby

chiark

Sal
*cough* canal *cough*

Phil Harrison

Do you fiddle about with obsolete Games, Chiark?? Ahh, the happy days when you actually managed to destroy the Starglider!!!

Two Horses (hitherto occasionally politically incorrectly ridden ) - makes the cost of Scooby ownership look like a drop in the Ocean. Rifle Shooting both at Home and Overseas

Phil

EddScott

Oh Hobbies. You know, if I had no hobbies we'd have that sofa the misses is always banging on about. We'd have the new fridge, washing machine, cooker, insert boring white goods appliance here!

1st off is RC car racing. Every Sunday during the winter we run 1/10 electric touring cars and during the summer its 1/8 rallycross nitro buggies. We're just starting rallycross so I've forked out quite a bit getting it up and running. Be it 1/10 electric or 1/8 gas both cars at the start line are worth about £7-800 each plus transmitter, charger, starter box etc etc etc.......

2nd is Slot car racing (or Scalextric to the masses in the UK) Just finished building an L shaped talbe in the loft. Should give enough room for a 20+m track. Initial outlay for track, tables is quite alot but then every month a new slot car comes out that just has to be added to the collection. I'm on about 25 cars so far but some of the more devoted have well over 1000.

3rd is PC gaming. Don't get much time to do this but I tend to buy a game and play until completion before buying another.

Oh and the wife and daughter keep me busy.

PS - BIG G - can you post some pics of your railway - I'm looking for inspiration for the scenery on my slot car track? For the longest time as a child cars played 2nd fiddle with me trains. My old man still has loads of the stuff. The son of one of the chaps that works with us is building a digital railway in his garage.

flopit

Flying my Helicopters and taking action man for a ride

flopit

Another one of my Helicopters

flopit

And my back garden

steffiraf

Horses for me too. I show him thru the summer and spend the rest of the time just riding round the countryside with a blatant disregard for road users(joke). Horse was here before the car etc etc!

TonyG

I'm one of the amateur astronomers onhere, so I've been known to point my big six incher at the sky on occasion...
Also like playing my guitar (loudly and badly).

Big-G

Built this


To house this :-




And that's as far as I've got, sorry no scenery yet.

Big-G

EddScott

Big-G - will you have a feature area and then a sidings area where the trains are kept? Don't know what the right terms are. Theres something so very theraputic (SP) about watching trains.

Looks great though mate!

Mr Pants!

Yep, I dable in the arts of music.

Been playing for about 28 years now! Wow, time flies.

I use Acid Pro linked to a Roland MC505 beatbox, made some fun stuff with that, I also have a Yamah Tyros keyboard for playing.

Other hobbies are Photography and I am starting my training in March to become a Special Constable, fancy giving something back and hopefully having a life changing experience in the process...

pete1977

just started r/c aeroplanes ,4 solo flights so far and only 3 crashes(i shouldnt have sacked the lessons so soon!),not too bad i thought
also bodybuilding,squash and a bit of shooting.