Main hobby is coaching the Electric Eels Powerchair football team. Been doing that for about 5 years now. Youngest lad plays and that means thousands of miles a year up and down the A1 and M1 going to tournaments. I get a lot of pleasure seeing players develop. It can be challenging at times but the rewards are immense. A lot of pro footballers could learn a thing a two about perseverance and personal development from some of our kids. Also it seems there's a few guitarists among us ! Me included, been writing a few songs recently and recording some in my mates home recording studio. Like to read as well.
If you'd like one of my poem books, I don't want any money, message me and I'll send you a copy, tell your daughter that the man that wrote this has similar problems, I'm not saying it's brilliant but it's not bad for someone that has gone through life without any help and managed to write this...or I'll drop a copy off somewhere if you don't want to give out your address..
Mainly playing guitar and just generally listening to music. Saying that, I've been messing about with synthesisers a lot more recently. enjoying that plenty. Oh, and drinking. Lots of drinking.
I have an acoustic guitar. Can't play it. Get annoyed with it. Pack it into the loft. Get it down after a period of time. Repeat.
That’s my problem, I’m not prepared to be **** at anything. I want to pick up a guitar and play Stairway To Heaven on the first go. I can’t get it into my head that everyone was **** at everything the first time they did it.
Know the feeling. I was so bad it drove my ma crazy me scratching away on it all hours in my bedroom. So much she eventually threw the bloody thing downstairs when I was around 15 . I wish we had an accessible loft I had the last laugh when I inherited my gran's upright piano - she couldn't move it. I was crap with that bloody instrument too !
Seriously, my sister has mastered drums, flute, trombone and various other instruments. How can a six stringed instrument be so bloody frustrating The amount of times I've got close to smashing it
Well as everyone's spilling I recently decided I need an extreme sport back in my life so I bought a few big traction kites with a view to strapping a board to my feet and sailing the seven seas. I got bored of video games when I turned 20 or so but I've got this VR stuff which is brilliant, and doesn't need the telly so she can still watch her ****. Big win. Always been big on music, have guitars and all sort but again got bored of them and prefer sitting at a PC with a synthesiser just making random crap. And by extension festivals and clubbing - proper clubs not liquid & envy or other city centre ****e that plays radio 1's top 40 on repeat. Wouldn't go in those places if I was paid. Other than that I've always enjoyed ****ing around with mechanical stuff and making things. Got quite good at it so now we've got CNC machinery at work which I'm in charge of programming and operating and designing everything, which is beginning to take over my life. Main hobbies are probably eating and sleeping. Started to grow a bit of a belly and struggle to fit in my 30 waist jeans these days.
Looking on the bright side, it's fortunate it was an acoustic guitar and not the bagpipes. It could have been me at the bottom of the stairs with the neighbours putting the boots in
Animals. Mainly dogs. Most of my spare time is spent at dog training or dog training seminars/workshops (agility, obedience, behaviour, tricks, heelwork to music), on the beach with dogs, or out walking in the middle of nowhere with dogs. I enjoy single handedly paying my vet's mortgage too. We foster dogs, cats, birds etc for charity rehoming too. I'm on the committee and do a fundraising and stuff for them as well. Reading - mainly crime fiction the darker and more humerous the better. Doing a dog grooming course in the hope I can eventually ditch the office and do dog based stuff for a living.
I like hiking, trying to get the wife into it. I spend a lot of time in North Yorkshire so when I can I take the boots for an early morning hike, sunrise up there can be phenomenal. Used to do a lot of snowboarding and skiing back in the day too, would like to get back into that at some point. I play football twice a week at Saturday league level, it's not glamourous but it keeps the dream alive. I enjoy astronomy and all things scientific too, there's something awesome about looking up at the sky into space. Other stuff to kill time includes video games, travelling, reviewing restaurants (in a non-bellend type way), writing scripts and I'm teaching myself to sketch landscapes. Maybe one day have a Bob Ross style show on Estuary TV.
This thread is making me look at my life , I need to do more. I go to work , come home , watch tele then go to bed , boring bastard reallly
Acoustic guitars can be a bugger to learn on as they usually have thicker strings than electrics, which hurt your fingers more. You could try a cheap electric into an amp with headphones and jam along to a CD or MP3 player.
