Well mainly Astronomy ,astrophotography and storm photography also
collect and read biggles books by We Johns have over 300 books ,these are
war and crime stories for boys going back to the 1930s
Also like gardening ,large vegie garden and flower gardens
AL
Biggles books, brings back memories, I still have a few from my youth, occasionally I re-read them.
When I think about it, I have far too many hobbies and far too little time to enjoy them. Photography, Boating & fishing and Mountain Biking are the main time and money wasters at the moment.
Transcribing and learning some of the early blues guitarists works from 1925-1950. Time consuming (transcribing) and fully satisfying being able to play them myself.
Otherwise SF novels and photography.
1 / 82, 1 / 85 magnum , 4 / 86
a good core of late 80's and 1990 french claret was purchased when i was much younger at local auctions (and when it was much more affordable)
and if you have not had a good german riesling....... well you have not lived!
pat
Well, there are quite a few: Current:
* Running an astronomy Club
* Festival Director
* Writing and playing Music (Uke)
* Radio Announcer
* Fossicking (Gems and Gold)
* Collecting good Red Wine (and drinking it)
* Sailing
* Photography
* Weather Watcher/Stormchaser.
* Gardening Previous/occasional:
* Hang Gliding
* Bush walking
* Snow Sking
I am sure there are 10 other hobbies I have left out there !
Love the idea of your bottles mate. Can't remember how many I've stumbled across when working around in rural areas. You can always tell the older ones as they are much more arty than anything we produce today. Kind of goes for anything a bit older, seems like a bit more love in the detail. I love old buildings with their creative architecture and the detailed craftmenship. Just don't see it today and I think that's what makes the older things special.
As for hobbies my lovely wife and I have recently taken up indoor rock climbing after watching some cool docs on freestyle rock climbing. Hoping to one day tackle a more serious climb. It's a great way to spend some time with the wife as its a team thing and you have to work together.
Starting to see the results too which is suprising after only under a month into it. We are coming up with some great life mottos. After not completing a climb my wife said she felt a bit like a failure (it was pretty tough for her) but I said failure is "not getting off the ground". She later replied failure is "not trying at all". That was priceless.
Love my motorbikes too. Nothing better than winding country roads and creeping up the middle in suburbia to smoke tintops (and cruisers!) off at the lights. Nothing but clear road ahead and no agro bumper car users.
Apart from astronomy and collecting telescopes and astro gear, I also have a fair collection of fishing rods and like to wet a line whenever I can.
Music is my other interest. Completed my music performance diploma a few years ago after two years of hard practice.
Entertaining my wife and eating out takes up the remainder of my time. Life is good.
Biggles books, brings back memories, I still have a few from my youth, occasionally I re-read them.
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I still like biggles books but gave most of my collection to my brother who has quite a large collection.
Have you seen Roger Harris's web site www.biggles.info It chronicles all the W.E Johns books. If you are interested I have extracted all the information into a file that you can read off line. However it is 86MB long!
Have a look at the attached document. (the links won't work without the database)
Barry
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I collect money but I keep needing to swap it for other things. As a result I don't have a very large collection and it gets regularly depleted.
A very popular hobby Barry
Having survived dirt bikes and hang gliding as a youngster, I'm now a respectable middle-aged gardener and casual astronomer. I also took up high speed, adrenalin charged dog chasing for a while until we resorted to an electronic zapper to keep the little bugger in.
i am a keen wine collector and i love collecting old wine glasses.... anything vinous at all
I inherited from my mother, a collection of 6 glasses that had been given to her by the Duke of Gloucester. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_..._of_Gloucester
She was in service at "Green Hill" where the Duke and his family stayed whilst in Australia in the mid 1940's. She became very friendly with the family, and she was often invited to join them on their day trips, picnics, drives to the beach.
He was very fond of a drop, notoriously so LOL
I've attached a photo of the glasses. There are 2 of each type.
My sister has the photos from this time, including a photo of a very young Prince William (deceased) which he signed for her.
1) Astronomy and Astrophotography
2) Building scale models (military, cars, terrains, space, sci-fi)
3) Photography
4) Collecting coins and bank notes (have quite a nice collection), collecting figurines as well
I rarely find the time to get outside and set the scope up as I'm way too tired after 9pm when I get the two kids to bed.
There must be a bunch of us in this boat! Our 3 month old has just started sleeping through, so I'm dusting off the obs..... I'm looking forward to winter, when you can get in a couple of hours before 9/10pm....
I also tinker with some wood work, have filled the garage with machinery, so much that my car now lives on the driveway....
I inherited from my mother, a collection of 6 glasses that had been given to her by the Duke of Gloucester. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_..._of_Gloucester
She was in service at "Green Hill" where the Duke and his family stayed whilst in Australia in the mid 1940's. She became very friendly with the family, and she was often invited to join them on their day trips, picnics, drives to the beach.
He was very fond of a drop, notoriously so LOL
I've attached a photo of the glasses. There are 2 of each type.
My sister has the photos from this time, including a photo of a very young Prince William (deceased) which he signed for her.
Great story Nettie, brushes with Fame seem to run in your Family
) off at the lights. Nothing but clear road ahead and no agro bumper car users. 
