Whats your Hobby

I was wondering what people do for hobbies.
I do Photography and electronics I love fixing things I got a few of things from DDT and fixed them then posted them back on working I can fix most things and am a wizz with a soldering iron.

Photography also, doctor who (im not a fanatic bit i am a fan, and i collect 5" figures), DVDs (1500+ in the collection), blogging, and lots of other things!

I have a go at making cards with stamps, i did some for teachers and for the first time used different colours on the stamp.

My big interest at the mo is growing my own fruit & veg.

I also like cooking, knitting, stitching and reading.

we have just had a go at growing peppers and some carrots the peppers taste lovely you cannot beat home grown

i like the internet tv music and i have also had a go at oainting by numbers

my hobbys are powerkiting, cycling and music

My hobbies include fish keeping , I have a tankful with Malawian Cychlids, which are great and real easy to keep. I also have a pond with a few Koi carp . I also have an aviary with a flock of Zebra finches which have just started prducing this years offspring. Its quite a thing to watch the young birds developing and taking their first flight.

some beautiful fish you have..... i didn't get to say thanks for the light.

i to have started up fish keeping, children keeping, knitting, card making.

card making,making book marks,scrap booking,cross stitch,water colour painting ( less often for that one )taking photos of nature mainly

im leaning to photoshop my pictures too, this is one om really please with...

click on the link - https://2img.net/h/i42.photobucket.com/albums/e315/combomphotos/scarborough%20harbour/a2j_scarboroughharbour0924.jpg

i think you like taking pictures of boats combom am i right.

yes boats, but skies and beaches really interest me, esp in gloomy but well lit weather

I aquascape

AC

I enjoy lots of things but particularly crafting (making cards and papercraft), the internet, swimming, walking, reading and doing crosswords

Am also loving the Olympics at the mo too

Hugs,

Mel x

well i have started my favorite hobby again which is Horology The Science of time ( watch and clocks Repair) so if anyone has any mechanical watches or clocks they no longer want i will be gratefull dead or alive.

wish i had known that a couple of months ago ,threw out a old watch

Thats typical but hay hoI have a couple of mums at the moment which i am sorting they have been wound too much so I am in the process of stripping them.

Hi sleepy0905.You probably know this already so I apologise in advance but the British Horological Institute is based in Upton midway between Newark and Southwell.They are not generally open to the public except,I think,twice a year at the beginning and end of British Summer Time.However,they may give a special guided tour if you ask nicely Not only is it their headquarters but has a difinitive library on all things to do with watches/clocks and as a fabulous collection of grandfather clocks and other notable timepieces such as the 'speaking clock'. They have 'full' workshops and I understand that they do courses.There was certainly demonstrations when I looked round last year.
Even if you knew all that,I can recommend a visit to anyone that may read this post as its only a short distance from Lincoln.

I Agree, I have never been but i have had dealings with them before they hav excellent workshops and are very helpfull and for people into clocks they have an excellent collection.

I love gardening, anything craft related, reading, watching period drama's and I am really involved in Girguiding UK as an International and Duke of Edinbugh advisor and am also a Ranger leader. In my spare time I love to travel as much as I can and visit beautiful places.

sleepy0905 wrote:well i have started my favorite hobby again which is Horology The Science of time ( watch and clocks Repair) so if anyone has any mechanical watches or clocks they no longer want i will be gratefull dead or alive.

As an apprentice in london in the mid fifties I discovered the Wallace Collection which was located in Manchester Square. All museums were free then and this particular site had a room with about 250 working clocks from the last 500 years all of which were kept in good order. You had to be there at a certain time: when all the clocks struck the hour the the noise was 'effening deafening, a fantastic symphony of sound. Mid-day was the best as the hour chimes were the longest. Wiser heads than mine have mentioned Upton which despite its restricted opening times is well worth a visit. Check first and then a bus or train to Newark will get you on the Southwell service which runs through Upton.
May all your escapements "beat even".
Regards,
Arkley.

sleepy0905 wrote:Thats typical but hay hoI have a couple of mums at the moment which i am sorting they have been wound too much so I am in the process of stripping them.

I do envy you sleepy; I only ever had one mum! Do you regret winding them up so often?, when can they have their clothes back after you've stripped them?

If you need any help with a clock (not a watch), then 50 years familiarity with the science and the beauty of timekeeping can be at your disposal on receipt of an e-mail. Be aware always that society would be in ruins without accurate time-keeping. Our lives are governed by a digital master that never sleeps; happier days saw the the clock running down at the dimming of the day, evenings were a time to slow down and reflect. Now of course I can be served exotic vegetables from faraway places, flown here by air from poverty stricken countries who's workers slowly starve on the pittance they receive from our high street retailers; "come and work for the minimum wage" the supermarkets cry, give up your time with your family and serve (apologies to Seahorse) "the god of greed who serves the rich while poor men starve".What happened to that day of (non-religious) rest when hands could be held and jokes could be shared and children could be carried aloft on fathers shoulders? is retail therapy the answer to the gradual decline of honest relationships? Throw your loyalty cards away and get out there to these parks this weekend; show your kids the sky and the earth and be aware that if you stand still then Seahorse will plant you and if you move then Combom has you on film.

I do envy you sleepy; I only ever had one mum! Do you regret winding them up so often?, when can they have their clothes back after you've stripped them?

I dare not wind her to much she would smack me round the back of the head and as for the clothes they cannot have them i took them to charity

atm i like putting caramacs on top of seagulls, probably