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Gentlemen - your hobbies please

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Higglepig · 11/04/2009 14:59

Good afternoon Dadsnet,

Please could you share with me what your hobbies are? Is it all footie and golf or are there some closet cross-stitchers and rose cultivators among you?

This is not a joke, I'm genuinely interested.

Thanking you...

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mrsmaidamess · 11/04/2009 15:05

Well my dh is at the football (hobby no 1)

He is currently trying to teach himself guitar (hobby no.2)

He cycles (hobby no.3)

He is writing his own version of Schotts Miscellany, with his family history and trivia in it. (hobby no 4)

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Higglepig · 11/04/2009 15:09

Goodness, busy man. Learning guitar is a v nice idea - has he picked it up again after a long absence or is this a completely new thing?

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mrsmaidamess · 11/04/2009 15:13

His folks wre having a clear out at their house and very kindly gave us his old electric guitar and acoustic. It needs re stringing, but he plink plonks away quite happily. (He was in a 'band' in his youth -Ha!)

twopeople · 11/04/2009 15:28

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bodiddly · 11/04/2009 15:33

I am sure dp would answer but he is currently snoring in front of wallace and grommit. His answer would no doubt be, xbox and ps3, his motorbike, watching f1 and superbikes!

Pan · 11/04/2009 18:16

guitar ( acoustic), reading, running and weights, cooking which I love doing, arts and crafts with dd, esp. glass painting.

Why?

bronze · 11/04/2009 18:22

Radio control models of the flying kind. For DH that is

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Higglepig · 12/04/2009 20:36

cheers, folks - thanks for all your contributions. Glass painting is an interesting one.

mrs - can just imagine your joy when that electric guitar arrived...

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Pan · 13/04/2009 18:37

glass paints is probably in Arts and Crafts somewhere. You can make wonderful 'lead' lined images that are adhesed to glass or any flat surface and the light shines through them wonderfully well.

sockmonkey · 13/04/2009 18:53

DH is a warhammer fiend. sigh.

Pipeyspov · 21/04/2009 16:14

Reading (Terry Pratchett, Cadfael), dancing (Scottish country with DP, lots; Highland and general boogieing if ever I get the chance) gardening (vegetables only, if you can't eat them they're a waste of space,) knitting (I know, I know, it is rather gay "in touch with my feminine side" but I only started because I wanted some spectacular socks/hose to go with my kilt and poor DP is still trying to finish my Saltire sweater for watching the 6 nations and world cup rugby in so she said "Learn to do it yourself!!". And just taken up chocolate making. How's that for starters?

Kevlarhead · 21/04/2009 21:34

"DH is a warhammer fiend"

Wow... Classic, or 40k?

I... play computer games too much. And I put DS back to bed agaian and again and again.

I may develop other hobbies once the little sod starts falling asleep before 10pm.

CMOTdibbler · 21/04/2009 21:39

DH plays D&D and other table top roleplaying games, reads and watches rugby/football/cricket

PadDad · 24/04/2009 00:32

A goodly amount of theatre and standup comedy. Used to perform standup -- strictly as a hobby, not trying to make it any kind of career.

Footy, season ticket and on tv.

Writing screenplays and graphic novels, a few poems for the wife.

Used to play a lot of Trivial Pusuit and was in a couple of decent pubquiz teams.

Loads and loads of cinema, sadly drastically curtailed by the toddler. Am thinking of changing my mentality to DVD release dates rather than cinema release dates. That will be difficult if the Mark Kermode reviews can therefore no longer immediately guide my filmgoing.

singledadof2medway · 04/05/2009 09:22

fishing, buffaloes (like the masons before you ask) other countryside pursuitscooking baking n reading about all i get time for

beardydad · 05/05/2009 07:51

I'm well into cycling. Which goes very easily with the 1 day a week we can spend as a family. Lurking on here when Katie and Peter is on in the evenings, does that count ? I have no interest in football.

Maninadirndl · 04/06/2009 00:56

Gardening, cooking, astronomy (not much this year though)

HumpingAnteater · 04/06/2009 04:50

Modelling (plastic kind) and Astronomy.

alltrue · 12/06/2009 11:40

cycling, books, cake, books about cycling and cake, football, rugby

MrUmble · 07/12/2009 00:05

1.Interstellar navigation

  1. Iradicating Xenomorph infestations
  2. Knitting
Grubbyfoot · 07/12/2009 12:08

I play a goodly amount of PC games, follow about 50 webcomics and dead-tree books, Play D&D, and go to a WMA (wester Martial Arts) club where I batter people about the (bemasked) face with a bastard sword. Occasionally I make a batch of wine, and even more occasionally someone other than me dares drink it.

HeiligFeierabend · 09/12/2009 20:15

DH shoots ducks except he never actually hits one

cheesychick · 18/02/2010 14:05

I suppose there's nothing wrong with the boys playing with their little toys (I mean video games and Warhammer! ). Keeps them out of trouble. You should only worry when he blogs about his bloody "space wolves army space-wolves-grey.blogspot.com/". At least he doesn't have to pay for this rubbish I keep telling myself.

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