Off Topic Passions, Hobbies and Interests

I was hoping a well run co operative club might , but thought they might try charging extra due to Ehab sentiment tax

 

A bit like computers, phones etc, golf clubs are vintage after a year GLP...

 

You can order them online from Tiger Leisure. Ring the shop up or go in, the staff are normally helpful.

 

I’ve got ****loads of old ones - probs about 300 as a rough guess - that I was considering selling. I’m not giving them away but if you or anyone on here is interested in a job lot you can have first dibs.

If you’re seriously interested DM me and I’ll count them up and give details of seasons etc.

 

You are Me and I claim my £5... it is exactly how I feel... the one word that people use after they've read my poems is " talented ", I get really embarrassed I honestly hate it. I think they are crap, that is my coping mechanism, I don't get sucked into all this praise etc, to be truthful I sometimes read what I've written and think it's someone else's writing, have I just written that !!

 

I love that.. "all the gear and no idea"
Six words that can explain a 10 page story.. brilliant!!

 

Heard somebody on the radio a while back (one of the great and the good) saying that in retirement she planned to spend one third of her time earning money, another third 'giving something back' and the rest doing what she fancied.

Sounded like a plan to me so I've tried to do that. Still earn a bit of money, I do some charity work, and for the rest, play golf regularly (once every 3 years, regular as clockwork), muck about with motorbikes in the garage and ride them occasionally, man's stuff in the garden, digging, chopping wood and such, spend far too much time on here, look forward to every City game, walking, CIY (as in cock it up yourself).

Don't know how I ever found time for a fulltime job...

 

I cycle a good bit, great thinking time, a usual thought that pops into my head is 'what the hell did you come this way for' and am currently building a new one (well learning from you tube videos), buying bits here and there. Used to golf a lot but perhaps only get out 3 or 4 times a year now, which is a shame. I have promised myself to get out more this year catch up with old pals etc.

Question to those in the know, how difficult is it to re tile a slate tiled shed. Or is it something you shouldn't consider a hobby and get the experts in...?

 

I have just got into growing stuff especially veggies and fruit in the garden. I built the raised beds first.
Apart from that I am a miserable ****, but I do enjoy moaning when on a train about all the ignorant twats who have their feet up, bags on seats so others can’t sit down, put earphones in when using their phones and then proceeding to shout as they talk quietly..... I also like to moan about the useless ****s on the road when I’m driving, who have no ****ing idea on how to use lanes, drive like total arseholes and basically get on my tits. When driving my coping strategy is to constantly repeat my mantra.... “****er”, “****er”, “****er”. When I have been back to good old blight I do like to mention about the same ****ers are still driving slower than every one else in the middle lane of the motorway.

I also like to travel but don’t do it as much as I would like.

 

Playing guitar, reading, walking, swimming and growing chillies

 

Thanks RTR - I asked as my Daughter was diagnosed recently as severely dyslexic. She's really bright but frustrated by it massively. I bet there's a lot of kids I went through school with that had Dyslexia that weren't diagnosed and struggled as a result.

 

My Daughter spells a lot of words phonetically.

 

Beauty - They'll probably be classed as retro now then

 

Beer making.
Wine making.
Infusing spirits.
Walking.
Caving (now much limited).
Reading.
Cooking.
Caravan.
Terrier slave.
Counteracting offspring's astonishing ineptitudes.
Keeping the wife sweet.

 

You are Victor Meldrew and I claim my £5.

 

I haven't got it but I can imagine exactly what she's going through, as a child I'd listen to words that people used, I'd use them in conversation but with no idea how to spell them. It is like having a door close on you, the words you want are on the other side but you have no way of bridging that gap, it gets very frustrating and sometimes I'll be honest it gets me to tears... there are some wonderful people out there now that can help, my only regret is I allowed things that happened to me as a child to dictate things I did... her intelligence will shine through,

 

To people such as your daughter and myself the sound of a word is more important than the spell.

 

I do quite a bit of dancing once a week. Done the tango, argentine tango, waltz, salsa, rumba, cha cha, mambo amongst others.