Music - I am a punk rocker since the very start in '76. I go to a couple of gigs a month, be those mates' bands or those that others will have heard of. I still have my old bass which I play along with my youngest daughter who is now learning drums. Some days, hearing is problematic. Cooking - if you love to eat,, you'll learn to cook. I've been doing a lot of seafood stuff recently, particularly, Oriental and Asian recipes. I've got a great Chinese supermarket nearby that sells this stuff at ridiculously good prices Gardening - I've moved to the edge of South London/Surrey in the last 5 years which brings a much larger garden, sufficient to justify a ride-on lawn mower, well, 3 actually but one's being used for parts for the other 2. Live long enough and gardening gets you in the end. I never would have believed it. Swimming and cycling - because my body's that badly damaged that I can't run any more. Rugby takes a terrible toll and I've had 2 spinal operations, including disc replacement in my neck, 2 on my right shoulder, both knees are pretty much shot and prone to inflammation and I'm waiting on a re-build on my right elbow. Rugby is for watching, good people. Motorcycling - particularly the bikes of my youth. I tend to buy and sell them pretty regularly but have an obsession for the MV Agusta which is a problem as they're mostly tiny and/or massively expensive. I want a 750 S but at £80,000 for a nice one, I'll need a lottery win and will stick with my 1969 MV 350 for now.
I'm a big family man so most of my spare time outside of fotball is spent with the kids - although I do try to mix the two: my four year old is developing excellent two-footed control and insists on wearing his Spurs shirt even if it's freezing outside. As I think I've mentioned previously, I also do a lot of interfaith work - often the cause of me missing games as the events and conferences are usually at the weekend. Put on a lovely event recently where pupils from Muslim, Jewish and Christian schools all 'classroom swapped' and experienced a day in another faith school. Incredibly moving reading the feedback and just what the world needs to counter the avalanche of bigotry rearing its ugly head across the world at the moment. My only other hobby is waiting patiently for the release of Half Life 3 - literally the only game I have any interest in. But judging by current rumours this one could well be a lifetime hobby! Great thread HIAG, really intriguing to read about everyone's other interests
I must confess that I spend a lot of time in the garden too, mine is not quite ride on mower size, but we have plenty of garden! My wife is the chief gardener and I have trained my older sons to cut the grass. But I do take great interest in the 'market garden' we have 5 fruit trees and have had good crops of plums, cherries, apples and pears. we also have rhubarb, raspberries and strawberries. Vegetables include runner and french beans, petite pois, mange tout, Courgettes, onions, new potatoes, asparagus, peppers, tomatoes and cucumbers. I like you would never have believed that gardening would get me - but it has!
Good thread - can we all join in or are you going to tell me to **** off again - or have you mellowed out from your mini meltdown
Music from HIAG's band should be played before every match at WHL while the jumbotron displays a montage of his best wind-ups.
I'm sure you are welcome, as long as it isn't a thinly veiled attempt to provoke. Post in the spirit of the thread and I hope no one will kick off?
My ride-ons are really a bit of fun and to save what's left of my rapidly failing body. This is one of them - please log in to view this image When 2 are running I race my daughters round the garden. You can pick them up on ebay for £200 or so in the winter.
I am going to buy one of these next: please log in to view this image These are around the £400 mark on ebay. Parts are expensive but fully available from Germany. You'll never moan about mowing the lawn ever again.
My old man keeps trying to give me his ride-on. You can get £35 an hour for cutting grass in this part on the world... I've had serious hobbies in the past. All of them turned into jobs. Radio controlled cars - became a model maker for Rover/BMW. Computers and programming - wrote **** for nPower. Gardening - I currently have my own gardening business. I would never recommend turning a hobby into a career. They say if you find a job you love, you never work a day ever again. I say that it takes over your life and you're always working Still love gardening Since my divorce a couple or three years back, I date milfs and gilfs. It's a very enjoyable hobby
A known HIAG account "provoking" the HIAG account ?? That is PL board business. As is he/I/HIAG pressing "like" on his/my/HIAG postings.
Or I am a g4e account gone rogue ?? Can be difficult to keep track (and if so for me - imagine what it must be like for the not606 plank-ton like Ginger Marks) .
Well, I'm meeting up with the boys in about half an hour for three hours of rehearsal. We have a gig tomorrow night - a club, and one of our better paying venues. Tonight, we'll run through some stuff that needs polishing up on (we gig most weekends, but there's always something that needs to be polished up), plus there are a couple of new numbers to try out. I think I will take along my Strat Plus. It's not a gigging axe, but it hasn't seen any real action lately, so I think it's justified. I suppose collecting guitars is another hobby - I do have quite a few - although I see it more a labour of love.
Look, if you don't have anything to add, stay away. You really didn't need to come on to this thread to write that. Can you not see the problem I face, daily, on the general board, with morons like you doing nothing but posting digs and ****?
