Thread: Other Hobbies?

Mmmm, coffee. I am pretty much obsessed with espresso, which is torture because I cant afford the machines to make it correctly in my own home. Oh well, I do enjoy custom blending beans for various applications and have gotten pretty handy with an Ibrik.

All my other hobbies revolve around traditional music, mostly English.

I play a melodeon for a morris team, an English Ceilidh band and general amusement and free beer. I have several, three hand made Italian jobs. two Castagnaris, a Tommy (see my avatar) and a Lily, and the latest one, a Dino Bafetti Black Pearl which cost me an arm and a leg (around £4000, $8000 in total. have MAD, Melodeon Acquisition Disorder!) and a couple of German Hohners I use when the weather's wet and we're dancing out with the morris.

Also play several other instruments when the mood takes me, at various stages of proficiency, fiddle, mandolin, tenor banjo, guitars acoustic and electric, ukulele.

Every Wednesday night through the summer my morris team dance out at various country pubs in the area which also allows for another hobby, real ale!

Tuesday nights are pub music session nights where I meet up with friends and just play for the pleasure of it. Some members of the public do actually stay in the bars too!

Gareth

-I like to cook, a la my childhood fantasy of becoming a chef
-I am a coffee enthusiast
-I am a newspaper writer
-I am an *amateur* novelist

- I am a collector of WWI militaria
- I enjoy surfing
- I am a homebrewer of fine ales and meads
- I play guitar


Kyle

I collect dust. I have a dust collection that would be the envy of any collector anywhere. I have many fine examples of modern dust but I also have some very ancient dust. I have quite a bit of what I am certain is pre-cambrian dust. I have Napoleonic dust in absolutely mint condition! I have just located a perfect sample of paleocene era dust, if only this stuff could talk!

Like several others who've posted here, I'm a burgeoning amateur chef, although my grad-student income keeps me from indulging my desire for pots, knives, and razors all at once, and accordingly my knife collection isn't quite up to par yet. I'm also an enthusiast when it comes to both tea and beer, as well as wine and cheese to lesser extents; alas, as yet my interest in all these things is purely as a consumer, and I can only dream of sharing in rugrad02's homebrewing.

I also spend quite a lot of time maintaining and tweaking my stable of computers, and during the fall and winter I often knit up a couple of scarves for Boston's chill. My camera also comes out from time to time when I'm feeling inspired.

Bridge, Computer programming, Sailing, Fishing (sea fishing not course fishing), Scuba diving, Origami, Lock picking, Conjuring.

Fun thread! Icedog, I have no idea if you truly collect dust or if that was an elaborate tale of fiction, because I've never heard of such a thing. Either way it made me smile

I am an unfortunate sufferer of HAD, Hobby Acquisition Disorder. Too many hobbies to support financially, hah! Not drinking saves a ton of money though. Here we go:

- the latest = kites (eventually would love to kiteboard, got a trainer kite on its way to practice with)
- fine woodworking (furniture, acoustic/electric guitars)
- guitar playing and recording songs
- mountain biking, hiking
- recreational soccer (love pickup games!)
- fitness: triathlons, running, lifting
- photography (mostly nature)
- painting, drawing
- bonsai cultivation
- cooking
- pc games (currently Civilization IV and Counterstrike: Source, used to play Tribes 2 back in the day!)
- skiing
- web site creation
- poetry, writing

These are next on the list, once funding is procured hah:
- kayaking and sailing small one- to two-person boats
- stone sculpture
- train a husky (won't happen for a long time - won't have time to be home with it with my job)
- archery or marksmanship
- martial arts (took judo once, would love to learn another)
- pilot helicopters
- short films

igo hunting and fishing and hang out outdoors for the most part

Originally Posted by trewornan

Bridge, Computer programming, Sailing, Fishing (sea fishing not course fishing), Scuba diving, Origami, Lock picking, Conjuring.

Is it a lucrative hobby?