Topic: What do you do when you are not toiling the soil.

[BarriedaleNick]

Aside from working as a busy IT manager for a large independent school and doing the garden/plot (which doesn't leave that much time!) I love cycling - both watching it on the telly and riding my nice new carbon framed bike.  Did  challenge a couple of weekends ago to climb 2.5 km upwards which was difficult as there are many decent climbs nearby.  Also walking - SE London isn't far from the green bits and we walk either in or out of town every couple of weeks.

Naturally I spend a lot of time on a PC - still love playing games but spend more time on news and tech sites these days.  Reading - since my near sight has started to go I have read less and less but trying to remember to take my glasses with me and changing the font size on my ebook I have started to get back into that - lots of science fiction and popular science stuff plus I read New Scientist most weeks.

Just getting into yoga which I have found to be great - thought it would be accompanied by a load of woo woo nonsense but it is a great way to keep fit/flexible and to learn to concentrate/focus.  Other than that Rugby in the winter and cricket in the summer.  Went to Cardiff on Saturday to see Sarcens V Toulon and generally try to get to the oval or Lords  to see a game once or twice a season.

Making bread, cooking, jams and chutney making, photography all feature throughout the year.  Have given up the wine making due to access consumption!

My wife was just telling me to get some indoor hobbies for the winter as I get a bit grumpy when I can't get outside!  Any suggestions??

[Obelixx]

Thanks Ace.  I'll have to have a look around as there are no such classes in my local town.  Looks like I'll have to try Geoff Hamilton's recipe for wooden ones to keep me going till next year.

[ACE]

ACE Do you ever get people who are frightened of Morris Men? 

Some people can be frightened of things that cannot possibly hurt them. Nothing that a good kick up the backside won't cure. Although I do get a bit nervous of Nissan Micra(spit) drivers

Load of people seem to be doing lots of stuff, seems gardening might just be a sideline to some of them. I am also a member of a celihd band, run a monthly folk club, sea fishing, caravanning, bird watching, writing a book (doesn't everyone) and I drive the missus crazy by trying to learn a new musical instrument every year, crumhorn this year.

I do have a yearning to try hang gliding, but her foot has been firmly put down on that one.

[antipodes]

Apart from working full time, I also do a lot of cooking and bread baking, reading. I also sing (just taking lessons but my teacher might do a choir next year and I am quite game for that) and play piano (badly) and have taken up jogging, which I try to do a couple of times a week.

[pumkinlover]

We are an interesting lot!! Love your utensils GL!!

[caroline7758]

I sing in two choirs and we have a campervan so get away in that when we can. And work full time :(

[Emagggie]

Anything craft related. Making candle holders for the garden with glass jars and beads and wire at present.
Now learning the ukulele but need to practise a lot more to keep up!
Bridge.

[goodlife]

We are an interesting lot!! Love your utensils GL!!

Utensils? ..shawl pins they are...though supposed they would do chop stick job..

Here is some of the proper 'utensils'..

[Silverleaf]

Hey Pumpkinlover, you're really close to me! I live in Upper Newbold. :)

[pumkinlover]

We are an interesting lot!! Love your utensils GL!!

Utensils? ..shawl pins they are...though supposed they would do chop stick job..

Here is some of the proper 'utensils'..

Duh..........!

Hi Silverleaf, I'm on Brockwell allotments maybe you would like to visit sometime (when it stops raining and I have tidied it up!!!)

[Silverleaf]

Hi Silverleaf, I'm on Brockwell allotments maybe you would like to visit sometime (when it stops raining and I have tidied it up!!!)

Ooh, that sounds lovely, I can definitely do that. :)