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Original poster

To wonder about all these hobbies that your DHs seem to have?

206 replies

Primafacie · 07/10/2014 23:04

Inspired by a number of freds where the OP states that her DH has a hobby that (invariably) takes up all their time.

I always wonder what that hobby could be. Is it just me?

If your DH has a hobby, please can you tell me what it is so I can go to sleep :o?

TIA

OP posts:
Idontseeanysontarans · 08/10/2014 11:29

Oh yes. How could I forget the thrill ride that is DH and DS's collection of N Gauge trains?

PropertyWidow · 08/10/2014 11:54

NC as this would definitely out me!

Horseracing, mainly over the jumps. He rides in races (against the professionals, it's called being a 'gentleman rider') on his own horses. We also go to watch racing a lot, here and abroad. He also does a lot of training in the gym to keep fit for racing.

TeenagersDriveMeMad · 08/10/2014 11:55

Surfing, building stupid cars (currently doing 1.9TDi engine conversions on everything Confused), and building slightly more sensible rally cars. And helping me with the horse Grin.

I'm very glad we're both 'into' the same stuff or I'd never see him!

Shroomboom · 08/10/2014 12:20

Muay Thai (Thai boxing), Jujitsu, golf, Pilates, running, working out.
We don't see a lot of him tbh Grin

hiddenhome · 08/10/2014 12:23

Martial Arts
Mending stuff - electronics, clocks etc.
Bellringing at the church
Chemistry
Photography
Music
Painting
Sleeping

(He's retired) Grin

maninawomansworld · 08/10/2014 12:30

DW and I are lucky we are into the same things so whenever we can dump the kids we go out together, rather than vanishing off to do our own things and never seeing each other.
List includes:
Horse riding / going to the races
Shooting
fishing (mostly me - DW isn't too bothered)
Cycling
Triathlons (and training for).

God knows how we fit work / kids in!

OhMyArsingGodInABox · 08/10/2014 12:34

Music and martial arts.

When we met I had romantic visions of a house filled with beautiful melodies, which tbf does happen a bit, but listening to him practise the same thing for two weeks solid gets very wearing.

TilTheStarsFall · 08/10/2014 12:40

My DH is an adult instructor with the Army Cadets. He's currently a Company Sergeant Major and it takes up so much of his time it isn't funny. He's also away some weekends and for a fortnight in summer, plus courses which can be either a weekend or a week.

He's also Chairman of our local Legion Branch. Also fairly time consuming especially at this time of year.

Cyclebump · 08/10/2014 12:41

Rugby.

EddieVeddersfoxymop · 08/10/2014 13:44

Motorsport. Working on the car for the afore mentioned motorsport. Planning what to do to the car next, for the previously mentioned motorsport. Watching motorsport. Playing motorsport games on the computer. Spotted the trend yet?

Original poster
Primafacie · 08/10/2014 22:25

This has been very enlightening. It's got me thinking about all the different walks of life on MN. Thanks everyone!

OP posts:
arethereanyleftatall · 08/10/2014 22:31

Golf

sharon56bus · 08/10/2014 23:00

Onanism

Original poster
Primafacie · 08/10/2014 23:09

Sharon :)

Who doesn't?

OP posts:
Weathergames · 08/10/2014 23:14

Jumping out of aeroplanes Hmm

OraProNobis · 08/10/2014 23:22

Swimming. Pickling onions. Drinking. Annoying me. Not necessarily in that order! DS (adult) does Warhammer - now that I truly do not get.

NormaStanleyFletcher · 08/10/2014 23:25

Rally driving. Weekends away driving, plus weekends away fixing cars.

MindReader · 08/10/2014 23:28

Hornby model railways.
Trainspotting.
Listening to the weather on 'the wireless'
Watching weather reports on TV

And, repeat....

MindReader · 08/10/2014 23:30

Wonders how to introduce H to weathergames H so that he could 'take him along' on a plane jumping day

icclemunchy · 08/10/2014 23:36

Warhammer Confused every wed night plus the odd Sunday afternoon and weekend away.

Plus he's a season ticket holder but only does home matches. I can't complain too much since I have horses and he never minds me pooling off to ride them.

Although he's started playing some poxy war hammer type game (blood bowl?!) on the iPad and that really is driving me mad

Momagain1 · 08/10/2014 23:39

Tae Kwon Do, 2 nights a week and random Saturdays that he never remembers to put on the joint calendar.

Stretching Very serious stretching because of tae kwon do. He is a tall man so he takes up a lot of room! He does a lot of it out in the close now, using the stairs and bannister. He also randomly starts doing TKD moves and one day he is gonna break something. He broke the bathroom sink when he was a teen, practicing a kick. He will never hear the end of it, it was the only time his DM had to call the council for anything like that! They thought he and his brother might be delinquents or something! Oh! It was embarrassing!

He hadn't been playing guitar much since we moved. He doesnt really have a place for it, our room is too small, there is no spare room, so there's only the lounge, and he knows the repetitiveness of scales and practice drives me bonkers. And then he starts singing. Boy, can he not sing. (I am worse) We've talked about a corner of the dining room as his music spot. Which should be interesting as I can hear our neighbour practicing several instruments (not all at once) and singing the other side of the wall. He is much better than my husband.

HoVis2001 · 08/10/2014 23:40

Our shared hobbies are singing and coastal rowing.

My DH's, hmn, independent hobbies are genealogy and collecting sketches of early modern (pre-1750 or thereabouts) memorials in local graveyards.

With the genealogy, he's gone a lot further than the basic family tree stuff and has won awards for articles he's written. He also has an obscene memory for names and dates and looks very hurt when I get lost in the middle of him relating a long explanation of how person x was related to person y. Blush And he refers to people in the seventeenth century who were distantly related to an ancestor of his as "this one cousin of mine..." Hmm

With the graveyard thing this has resulted in some lovely but fucking chilly days out in which we go to a graveyard, he sketches monuments and I work on drafting my webcomic. The only problem is he sometimes wanders off when I'm deep in my own sketchbook and I look up to a suddenly eerily empty corner of a graveyard...

hoobypickypicky · 08/10/2014 23:40

"DH is a volunteer crew member with the lifeboats."

I'm humbled and full of respect for your DH, Emsyj.

Mine regularly plays golf and badminton, enjoys watching football and a beer with it and he fishes too.

And fishes.

And fishes.

And fishes.

In the Tay. In the Tyne. In the Test. In the Bahamas. Here. There. Every bloody where.

Theas18 · 08/10/2014 23:41

DH sings- in a big choir , and he deps at cathedral too at times - sometimes conveniently when dd2 is also singing, sometimes inconveniently when she's not lol.

He plays piano and church organ and is actually having proper recorder lessons .

Me I'm usually too Knackered to do anything more then surf the net but I'm another knitting/ sewing " born old".

fidelma · 08/10/2014 23:46

Squash, reading, comics!