Hobbies

[Jonny]

I don't know if this has been asked before, but obviously guitar takes up a lot of my 'hobby space', with a range of guitars and my VHT; but does anyone have any other hobbies?

I like building model kits, photography and art in general, and the thought of what everyone else does came up; since most of us veterans can tell we like guitars very much. Whether that's buying them *cough* or playing them in a band as well.

[Roobubba]

Computer gaming (mostly 1st person shooters online with mates, PC gamer only here) and building computers.
Photography - got my first SLR last autumn, got a 365project going at www.365project.org/roobubba and enjoying learning that!
Non-guitar related music: piano especially at the moment.
Not sure if my occasional running counts...

I used to have soooo many as a kid/student but time/work/study got in the way, so I had to give up judo, orchestra, quartet and solo viola playing (my sister now has my viola), rugby, rowing, cricket and countless others :(

[gwEm]

musics definitely my main thing. though i have taken up road cycling - it takes up alot of my time though and I'm considering stopping

[JDC]

Does socialising count? I keep getting invited out, drinking vodka and then laying it down on the dance floor.

Other wise I'm a boring sod who spends too much time on the internet reading the news and watching cats on youtube. I do working out too but that has slipped a bit and need to get the habit back.

[nfe]

Learning is my main one, really. I just like garnering knowledge. Philosophy, anthropology and ancient history, mostly. But anything that takes my interest.

Reading fiction too, but mostly I read academic stuff.

Other than that it's really the usual TV/Film and music related stuff, festivals, gigs...

Used to play lots and lots of rugby as a youngster but wrecked my shoulder and had to pack it in at 18. Also used to play Games Workshop too, still mournfully walk past the shops now and again and fancy getting back into it. But then I smell the people.

[juansolo]

I do this, play with this and this, and have been known to make a few of  these. What with my day job as well, I don't actually don't get a lot of time to noodle around on the guitar!

[ToneMonkey]

Roo - Wait until you have kids mate. You'll be surprised at just how much more you have to give up  :lol:

I know it sounds soft, but I spend a lot of time socialising with my mates. I'm in the house from 7.30pm when the lad goes to bed, so we quite often have a house full of guests. Most of the time it's good, but the washing up it creates is becoming a bit of a pain in the arse.

I'm also trying to get a business off the ground, which although it probably can't be classed as a hobby, definitely takes up more time and brain space than one.

I'm starting to get back into golf again as I used to play when I worked at a golf club. I like all sports where you can smoke and drink at the same time. Played a couple of times in the last month and I'm terrible. I really like it, but it's one of those sports that divide people and I don't really want to be considered as a golfer.

[Loomer]

I used to play Warhammer 40k (no poofy Fantasy for me, no!), but with the business of my band and all I haven't the time for it anymore. So now it's just music, and that's it.

[Sancho]

Apart from music and reading (which isn't really a hobby in itself, just something I've done all my life) my only hobby is Warhammer 40K.
Played it throughout the nineties, quit in 99 and picked it up again in 2009. A hobby I share with my wife, btw.
We got the new Warhammer fantasy set as well, but haven't gotten around to it yet.

[tomjackson]

I like running and going out into the hills on my MB.  Mainly running though as it's not so much a time commitment.
Shin splints coming back now though so I'll have to knock it on the head for a month or so....

Roo, some great photos there

juansolo has the best hobbies :D

[Alex]

I used to have hobbies, but that time is distant now.  :(

Dungeons & Dragons (and similar RPG games) nights with friends were among my favorite; I also enjoyed doing Martial Arts.

Nowadays guitar is the only hobby left, apart from some occasional computer gaming. 

[Andrew W]

I take quite a lot of photos and sketch and paint a bit though not as much as I should and  I go to watch a lot of cricket in the summer. I see a lot of films too but then I guess that's a bit too close to my job for it to be purely a hobby. :)

[dave_mc]

i used to play golf (badly) but i got pissed off with our cr@ppy weather after a couple of summer washouts :(

does dossing count?

i guess reading...

i'm just waiting for afghan dave to turn up to say wanking

[ToneMonkey]

juansolo has the best hobbies :D

Yes he has.

[Philly Q]

Shin splints coming back now though so I'll have to knock it on the head for a month or so....

I get shin splints and lower back pains whenever I try to run, I'm sure there must be ways of avoiding it but I haven't figured it out.  So generally I don't run.

Anyway, apart from buying guitars I am mainly into films - mostly genre movies (esp. horror), world cinema, old classics.  Not romcoms.  I have loads of DVDs but my interest was tailing off because it had reached a point where nothing much was being released anymore.... but now I've started all over again with Blu-ray.  :roll:  :lol:

Also into reading, there's never a time when I don't have a book on the go.  Fiction, 99% of the time.

I've also developed a new, unwanted "hobby" this year - since I became diabetic I spend many a happy hour trying to work out what the hell I can eat without (a) raising my blood sugar and (b) losing even more weight.  Also doing a reasonable amount of exercise to try to stay as healthy as I possibly can.