what are your hobbies?

"It's getting closer, I can just make it out......YES! It IS the BA from Manchester!"

I'm not ashamed of this. Okay?

amongst the hobbies he looked at were choral singing (welsh and turkish), model car racing (something he does himself), line dancing, pottery evening classes (ha), bird watching and, at the end, Sealed Knot re-enactments. there was also some bloke whose hobby seemed to be walking the streets with a megaphone trying to get people to stop watching tv and bring a chair and sit outside and talk to each other (the freak!).

anyway, general consensus was that people need hobbies and the more organised and social they are the better.

(actually, whilst he did study art it was an ironic evening class in pottery that got him started on his turner prize winning ways. he made a good presenter too.)

fnarr.

seems to be a lot of language learning going on based on recent pub conversation. friends are currently studying, or thinking of studying, spanish, russian and finnish. others are doing maths and musical composition.

grayson did seem up for all of it. apart from the singing. was quite happy belly dancing on the minibus though.

Also occasionally I wuv to drink/mix cocktails.

I'm brushing up my German.

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I used to needlepoint more, should get back to that too. Contemplating taking up guitar after a 15 yr hiatus.

I think I don't trust people without hobbies. Not that they have to be all DIY, although I do like that, but...without broadening pursuits apart from work and basic life maintenence.

cooking is the big one now, i love it. i don't know how to cook many real dishes, though, so i'm making good friends with the fannie farmer cookbook for very basic stuff. also reading (at least in theory - i have no time right now), contradancing, running, singing (in theory, i don't have time to commit to a choir). but i do play glockenspiel in the marching band and get overinvolved with student groups!

play with yerself. you can interpret that ANY way you want, nudge nudge wink wink.

what did they do all day, laurel?

i repeat...

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Bump.

Emma needs a hobby. She likes reading, music, art history, and kittens (and lots of other things, too).

She doesn't like sport.

What do you suggest?

photography?

She did GCSE photography while at college and loved it, but digital photography has put her off. A digital SLR might tempt her back in but it's the expense...

best money i ever spent was on a Canon EOS 400D SLR, i love photography now, it takes up most of my time.
used to be in bands which took up all my spare time, now it's all photography and reading/learning about it.

sick mouthy, you don't have to spend a fortune to get started.

ah, the halcyon days of butt dickass

I'd say £500, which is what a 450D and a lens would cost, pretty much, was quite a bit!

why get a 450D when they've had a bad press? you could get a 350D or a 400D quite cheap now.
also, there's many makes of camera for getting started that are way cheaper than the obvious Canon and Nikon(eewww) choices.

how about learning a musical instrument then ?

I've been thinking about buying a fairly decent DSLR - I need a hobby other than Call Of Duty 4. These are the cameras I've got in mind, the prices are from Amazon UK.

Nikon D60 - £340.00
Nikon D40 - £249.00
Canon EOS 450D - £453.00
Canon EOS 400D - £479.99
Canon EOS 1000D - £375.97

Can anybody steer me in the right direction?

My wife trawls charity shops and junk stalls and the like, and buys up 60s and 70s art glass and other stuff that she flogs on eBay for £££s. A bit mundane really, but it's certainly cheap and she does a bit of research on the pieces too, which she finds interesting enough. Downside is that we have a house full of a bazillion glass vases that she's decided to keep, added to which, she's always on the PC when I need to use it.

That sounds promising, NickB; although I'm not sure how much of that kind of thing there is to be found down here.

oh you'd be surprised what people keep stored up

Yeah, she digs up this crap all over the place. It's the out-of-the-way places that give the better finds too, you don't get as many people around who know what they're looking at.

(most of it just looks like old junk to my untutored eye anyhow)

xxxxxxp

Having a 400D i may be quite biased, but if the 450D is cheaper (maybe because it didn't get good press) and you want the "latest" model, go for that.
I know people who still use 350Ds and are still happy with them. It's more about the lens rather than the actual body of the camera. Can't say i know much about Nikons, apparently you're either a Canon or a Nikon user. All the cameras you've listed are low end models, there's not going to be much in it apart from the amount of MPs.

I would go to a shop and hold each of them and see which feels right to you before choosing on spec or model.

I wish I'd bought the low cost Nikon D40 rather than the high priced D80, I'm betting my results would be almost identical.

Thanks

I think cooking, eating and drinking might be my most recurrent hobbies. Also washing up, usually to Bruce Springsteen.

Rinsing In The Streets

Brilliant Dish Guys

You can get the 450D with 18-55mm lens kit for under £400 according to http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/256960/canon-eos-450d-digital-slr-camera-k/

I want that.
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She did GCSE photography while at college and loved it, but digital photography has put her off. A digital SLR might tempt her back in but it's the expense...

so has she joined in or is the camera always in your hands?

how much time do you spend on your hobby?

i still knit quite a bit (but i hardly ever really finish/seam the shit i knit).
also taken up photography but i'm trying to take it slowly (technically very difficult for me, i don't want to be intimidated)
i play tennis
i read (for the moment shite books, like cornwell, cause i wanna feel as though i'm reading a lot. quantity vs quality hahah)

i more or less have given up music and writing. the latter was something i wasn't any good at anyway.

the latter was something i wasn't any good at anyway.

nah that ain't true.
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