Off Topic Hobbies

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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.
 
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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 <applause>
 
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"Thanks for that Brian" said:
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.
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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!
 
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Hoddle Is A God said:
We all have them.

Football, for example, is the obvious one that has brought us all together, to this place and time. Okay, for some it's more of a blind obsession - a job, even - but for most of us, it's a hobby, to be enjoyed (and sometimes endured) as part of a healthy, balanced life.

But is football your only hobby? Is it even your principle hobby? Or is there something else that tops it?

For me - and this may sound like something of a confession - football isn't quite the hobby that it used to be in former times. For example, I no longer hold a season ticket (as I once did, over several seasons), and the fact is that I get very little opportunity to attend professional games, these days. That doesn't make me any less of a fan - I have been supporting Spurs for as long as I can remember - but it does indicate that football isn't really that important in my life.

I have a lot of interests, but if I was to choose the three that most preoccupy my time, in order of priority, they would be as follows:-

my rock band - I play lead guitar
photography
card magic

I've been interested in music since my pre-teens, and I first picked up an electric guitar when I was 14 years old, and haven't put it down, since. The band has been gigging on a semi-pro basis for around 6 years, we've played several festivals, and have even had our stuff played on local radio.

I've got in to photography at around 16 years old. My first camera was an Olympus OM1n. I can develop my own film, but predominantly use digital media these days. I have never had an exhibition of my work, but I am the resident photographer for an online magazine.

I have been an amateur magician since I was a kid. There used to be a magic club in Shoreditch when I was a kid, that used to meet every third Thursday in the month, and which my mother used to take me to. I remember that we used to take the No. 123 bus, off Lordship Lane. Recently, I've got back into card magic, having forgotten the buzz it used to give me.

I've Noticed that there is a tendency, among some people on this forum (not necessarily this board) to sneer at folk who express an interest in things other than football, or even to cast doubt that people engage in these things. Why is that? Is it so very hard to believe that posters have interests other than posting crap on an internet forum?

What hobbies do you lads have? How important are they to the quality of your life?

Is posting on this forum viewed by you as a hobby?

Don't feel obliged to give us your life history, if you don't want to. Nor am I going to invite you to hug a tree with me; but I thought it might be interesting to find out what you lads really like to do away from the world of football.
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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
 
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gooner4ever said:
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
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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?
 
The Changing Man said:
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!
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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 -

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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.
 
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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 :)
 
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SpursDisciple said:
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?
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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.
 
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.
 
gooner4ever said:
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
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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 ****?
 
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