Hobbies

That_Girl_ Is_ A_Cowboy · 09-06-2014 11:12PM #1

I used to only have one main hobby which was computer game playing but over the past three years I took up a range of different hobbies like:
Jigsaws
Colouring
Cross stitching
Knitting

My favourite is knitting. I did a little bit of it in school a long time ago and enjoyed it a lot and took it up last year and since then I learned so much and work on making loads. Knitting relaxes me so much.

Colouring in books might appear to be childish but I can assure you it's not. There are colouring books available for adults like mandala designs. Also celtic art colouring books. I find it very therapeutic. This is a newspaper article from last week about colouring:
http://www.calgaryherald.com/mobile/story.html?id=9901606 Colouring is going down a storm in France.

It's been ages since I played a game on the computer and longer since I made a jigsaw. I might take a break from the knitting and play a game or make a jigsaw sometime.

Do you have much hobbies and what are they?

Muise... · 09-06-2014 11:17PM

I thought hobbies were for local boffins.

I prefer more open-ended activities - maybe because my brain works in jigsaw mode all day, I prefer to daydream when I'm free.

AnonoBoy · 09-06-2014 11:23PM

I like to work with ponies in my spare time.

Love me a hobby horse so I do.

Layinghen · 09-06-2014 11:25PM

Wine tasting is my hobby:P

The Backwards Man · 09-06-2014 11:25PM

I have a wide and varied range of intersting and stimulating hobbies.

Fcuk, six thousand posts here in a year, who am I trying to kid?

caustic 1 · 09-06-2014 11:27PM

surfing, gym, walking I love crafts at the moment trying (failing so far) to crochet mandala but I will fecking do it if it be the last thing I do.

Rothko · 09-06-2014 11:37PM

Drawing/painting
Listening to music/playing guitar
Reading

maguic24 · 10-06-2014 09:15AM

Hobbies ^____^

Badminton
Jogging
Hillwalking/Hiking
Drawing
Scrapbooking
A bit of reading when the mood takes me.
Gym Yeah right!!
Boards - seeing as I spend copious amounts of time on it. :P

I'm impartial to a bit of swimming but don't do it often enough to call it a hobby.

stefan idiot jones · 10-06-2014 09:22AM

Snorkelling.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FWYm59taCBo

--LOS-- · 10-06-2014 09:22AM

Sketching/painting, music/gigs, that's the boring stuff for CVs.

My actual hobbies that I do all the time would be pc gaming, internet, people watching and binge-watching.

Banjo String · 10-06-2014 09:23AM

I have a full time job and also two terrorists toddlers.

Nuff said.

caustic 1 · 10-06-2014 09:24AM

binge watching?

maguic24 · 10-06-2014 09:28AM

--LOS-- wrote: »

Sketching/painting, music/gigs, that's the boring stuff for CVs.

My actual hobbies that I do all the time would be pc gaming, internet, people watching and binge-watching.

Damn, I forgot creeping!

--LOS-- · 10-06-2014 09:43AM

caustic 1 wrote: »

binge watching?

Ye TV series, movies, documentaries

Being so dedicated that you could pride yourself on finishing an entire series in a weekend.

kylith · 10-06-2014 09:45AM

I took up knitting and crochet a couple of years ago and I really enjoy them. It's nice to have something to do with my hands because I find just watching telly very boring. I play the odd video game too; working my way through Arkham Origins over the last few weeks.

I'd love to take up cross stitch but it takes too much concentration for me to be able to do it in front of the telly, and himself insists on having the room as dimly lit as possible in the evenings.

looking_around · 10-06-2014 10:14AM

Cycling
Reading
Gaming
Forums
Yoga

sheesh · 10-06-2014 12:10PM

Fishing
photography
choral singing
hiking

whisky_galore · 10-06-2014 12:29PM

Cyberstalking
Swing dancing
Buying weird sh!t on ebay
Playing bagpipes

Karl Stein · 10-06-2014 12:38PM

BASE jumping
Wingsuit flying
Free rock climbing (no ropes)
Parkour
Potholing
Compulsive lying

Witcher · 10-06-2014 12:44PM

Shooting...clay pigeons and benchrest.

A Song of Ice and Fire/GoT..I read the books, watch the show, collect some figures and I have a replica sword from it.

Gaming..a bit now and again..only the MGS/GTA/AC series really. Bit of COD for the single player.

Then the usual stuff..reading, music etc. I used to play football but I had an operation a few years ago ago, stopped while I was recovering and never went back.

beano345 · 10-06-2014 12:50PM

Polishing rocks

PizzamanIRL · 10-06-2014 12:51PM

Basketball
Bit of video games
Poker

maguic24 · 10-06-2014 12:52PM

i can't believe nobody has said masturbating yet.....

Am I really in AH?

*pinches self to be sure*

Witcher · 10-06-2014 12:52PM

beano345 wrote: »

Polishing rocks

Agent Hank Schrader is running a deep cover operation here it seems.

PizzamanIRL · 10-06-2014 12:53PM

maguic24 wrote: »

i can't believe nobody has said masturbating yet.....

Am I really in AH? *pinches self to be sure*

Not a hobby. It's a need.

maguic24 · 10-06-2014 12:54PM

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

Not a hobby. It's a need.

Oooooooooohhhhhhh. Gotcha. :pac:

The One Doctor · 10-06-2014 12:59PM

Homebrewing, RC planes/FPV, messing with orbital mechanics (via Kerbal Space Program), a bit of painting, cooking etc. I don't count reading as a hobby because it's instinct to have a book wherever I go. About the only time I don't read is when I'm having sex.

After December my main hobby will be preventing the destruction of the universe by a marauding newborn.

GiftofGab · 10-06-2014 01:15PM

Rugby - both playing and watching
Football - play the odd 7 a side and watch it too.
Gym - Go about 3 times a week.
Golf - love to get a few rounds in the summer.
Reading - go through phases of reading loads to months without reading anything.

kowloon · 10-06-2014 01:25PM

beano345 wrote: »

Polishing rocks

For Christ's sake Marie, they're minerals!

anncoates · 10-06-2014 01:39PM

I prefer vague interests.

Hobby is always a bit of a tyrannical term to me. Like something 70s Boy Scouts were forced to do: stamp collecting, model railways or trainspotting.

Davarus Walrus · 10-06-2014 01:42PM

I love to hit the golf course at least twice a week, and have been chipping away (if you'll pardon the pun) at my handicap. Now play off 5.

When I was standing on one of the tee's in my local club I would spot the kitesurfers doing their thing just off the beach. It looked fascinating. So I did a few lessons and became hooked. Some of the participants tend to be crusties, but it's great fun. I'm becoming fairly competent at it these days.

Received a gift of a week long cooking course in Ballymaloe. Now love to cook. I'm not as liberal with the butter and cheese as the teachers in Ballymaloe, but I've never had complaints about the quality of the things I rustle up.

Have a bit of a thing for large robust red wines from Southern Italy at the moment. That's not some much a hobby as an excuse to have a glass or two of wine though! The main thing I've discovered so far is that you don't really get a decent wine for less than €15-20.

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