Other hobbies

[gghc87]

In an attempt to get to know everyone a bit better just wondered what other interests/hobbies apart from Family and Esprits everyone had.

Personally I like

Scuba diving

Karting

Land yachting

Clay pigeon shooting

Photography

Playing cards (especially poker /blackjack)

Motor sport

Model aircraft and helicopters

Gadgets

Astronomy

Horse riding

Weekends away

Good restaurants

Real ale

Edited July 30, 2007 by gghc87

[matk]

How do you find the time to drive your Esprit's!

Playing the drums

Listening to 1970s rock music

Going to see tribute groups in small pubs and getting drunk!

Fixing my car (and as its an S2 that is not a minor thing!)

Building model car/aircraft kits

[cly_mitchell]

My hobbies include:

Firearms

building

hand loading

shooting

Hunting

dove

deer

duck

Restoring Pinball Machines

Golf

Sound engineer

Cars, Motorcycles, and Boats

[Kimbers]

OK here's mine:

Pool: World rules, League play.

Poker: Online, casino Tourneys and hopefully nxt year Vegas

Gaming: Online and computer strategic war games/RPG's

Motorbikes

Racing: Watching and nxt year doing it myself!

Collecting: Lotus Memorabilia and WW1 Postcards

Writing: Currently done 3 magazine articles and outline sketch of a book.

Cinema: at least once a week (saw Transformers last night!!! AWESOME!!)

[SE Owner :-D]

Carp Fishing (obsession not hobby)

Cooking/Eating (Not Carp)

Drinking

[Tony K]

Rowing

Bicycling

Video & Multimedia production

Writing & Publishing

Guitar & Bass Guitar

Architecture

Design in general

Travel (to the extent time & money will allow)

Funk/Soul/Disco/Motown music

Older popular music from Croatia

Brazilian music

Sailing

Working out

Restaurants that are individual & privately owned (i.e. no chains) & prepare their food from scratch

[Jonathan]

I do quite a bit of everything but the only thing I do really get into atm are :

Cars,

Engineering / wroking on the garage,

Prefab / inventions,

Cars,

Technology,

Ancient general, political and military history (Greek, Egyptian, Roman history)

Modern general, political and military history (mainly UK)

Cars,

Photography,

Poker,

Oh did I mention cars ?

Moaning about work

Eating olives

Music / movies,

DIY

The only thing I dont do a lot of is relaxation !

Kimbers if you like real time stratergys I'm helping to develop the next version of this game :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome_Total_Realism

We're working on V.7 atm then moving to a new game engine - my chief role is coding the AI and I chose how the units in the game perform, also doing some of the historical write ups / research and testing as well.

[Splodge s4]

Mine would be:

Playing Drums (Hi Matk )

9 ball pool ( Hi Kimbers )

Cars (Hi Jonathan )

Mountainbiking, ha thats a new one I think

Fishing in the river Avon, bottom of the garden (Hi Se owner )

Homebrew wine making

That will do....

[Setras]

i have a few as well

instruments....

Keyboard/piano/organ (Old style wurlitzer and church)

guitar

violin

drums

trumpet

(even bagpipes)

and can sing,

still on a musical kick

I DJ Hard Dance/house/techno/ (semi Pro under my forum name)

and write electronic music (again as setras or purplerainbow google

both for a laugh, if you find the tunes be kind)

Scuba diving

(about the only physical hobby)

Love Astronomy, use 6" reflector with CCD camera and can regulary

found in a field looking at the sky

Science and technology (currently studying Cold electricity)

build and fix PC's and other electrical things, recently built a deguassing

coil after my home made railgun caused so much magnetic interference,

it penetrated the shadow screen on the TV giving the psychadellic next to the speaker look.

Also have been known to play the odd PC game and currently own ps2 and 3, xbox

(getting the 360 next month along with a Wii)

Still play D&D, magic the gathering plus other board games (settlers and the like)

I have Casper who is an Eleven yr old GSD who I love to bits..... Usually taking up the rest

of my free time with walks, brushing, throwing the ball, throwing the ball, throwing the ball,

throwing the ball, throwing the ball , throwing the ball, throwing the ball, throwing the ball

and throwing the ball. Dids I mention THROWING that damned ball. He sees me doing something

like working on the car, he comes along and drops the ball in the tool box, washing basket,

shopping bags, PC case and in front of the lawn mower....

The rest I cant talk about due to it being besides the esprit in the title

[Advantage]

I like walking in the rain, holding hands and am a good listener.

Oh sorry, I thought this was a different type of thread.....

[Katie]

Antiques....Victorian English and Continental

Antique Objet d'arts

Ecclesiastical salvage

Architectural salvage

Gardens and gardening

Stately homes,castles

Swimmimg/sailing...being in the sea/on the sea makes me happy!

Really good food

Music, of many genres(I trained for 7 years at music conservatoire but I'm no music snob!)

Shopping.

Driving out on a warm day

Spain

Star gazing

A good storm

Cosy nights in

[Paul C]

Cars,

Curries,

Ale,

Not talking about work,

Not thinking about work,

Not socialising with work people,

Meeting up with mates on a daily basis,

Meeting mates for a pint on a daily basis,

Lunch and lazy saturday afternoons in the pub,

Being a flood tourist,

Diet (one stone lost this month),

Beer and curries (its a weekday diet, and it's working)

Omega chronographs,

Webley and Scott pre-war rifles and pistols,

The titanic wreck,

Being scared of wasps,

Being very scared of dogs,

Not being scared of cats,

Watching my cat bite Vicki,

Music,

Walking about and that,

Conspiracy theories (Diana etc..),

Chocolate,

Banana Milk,

Honey Roast nuts (with a pint of best),

Old things i find.

[OwenGT3]

Hi, Her's some of mine.

Model making, any scale.

Computer Graphics (also my Job)

Video/film making

Animation, stop motion, CGI, or Flash

Star Wars and Star Wars costuming. Have a pucker Darth Vader costume!

Presently building a 1:1 R2 D2, radio controlled with all the bells and whistles!

Photography

Model car collecting

Very anorak hobbies. Not the sort to mention to a woman if you're trying to impress, but then I have a wife so I don't need to anymore!

Owen

Here's some CGI work. Me Vadering it up with other SW nuts! I don't do appearance anymore, so if you see a Vader it's not me.

[V8 Owners Fem Slave]

lol heres my list.....

music...listening to, enjoy singing

Architecture

hiking/walking...trees nature

swimming

used to love doing archery

driving....fixing cars

painting....murals

arts and crafts....silk painting, glass engraving, embroidery, needlepoint, many many more

reading

watching cycling, road races/track

watching F1

watching athletics, swimming, gymnastics

love avoiding housework...i am very skilled at it...lol

there are others but i can't think of them at the mo....

[WayneB]

Stuff I dig (besides family and anything to do with Automobiles)

Honesty

German Shepherd' s (Alsations to the Brits)

Donkeys (dont have one ATM , but will get one)

Anything to do with Aviation.

Submarine movies.(Das boot)

Sunken shipwrecks and underwater exploration (Titanic, Bismark etc.) but I cant dive due to me being scared of the water (but I can swim) go figure.

Science Fiction (Ray Bradbury)

The book Kes

Art (particulary pop art)

Music (not classical, rap, reggae or jazz though)

Women (where would we be without these facinating creatures)

History (alot can be learned from it)

Talking to old people (see above)

Drinking Bacardi and Coke (not dependent, but I like a drink once in a while)

Stuff /Things I dont like.

Moaners, Whiners, Lazy Gits, Bullshit Artistes,Nit Pickers, Bullys,Braggers, Liars, Politicans, Snobs, Know it alls, Greed,Rotweilers, Jelly Fish, Rain, Ballet, Guns,Riverdance, Circ du Soliel, Florida, Mind Gamers,Scruffy Herberts,3rd. world Dictators ,Porsche 911's, People who still live with there parents past the age of 25, Ugly women who think there hot, Nazis, People with no sense of humour,Spoilt kids, dirty buggers who drop litter all over the place, Rhetorical question askers, Atomic weapons.

I appologise If your any of the above (not really)

Edited July 30, 2007 by WayneB

[cly_mitchell]

What the hell is wrong with third world dictators?????????????????????? Thats' a rhetorical question.

[USAndretti42]

Ecclesiastical salvage

Architectural salvage

Is that the same as stealing the lead off the rooves?

My interests are:-

Lotuses of all shapes and sizes

Lotus history

Cars

Motor racing

Engines

Science (particularly physics)

Bill Bryson books

Houses (Wife is an estate agent so this is self-preservation)

My dogs

My goodness. Never realised I was so boring. :crybaby:

[John V6]

The wife & women.

And then work.

[Bazza 907]

Not much spare time but when I do, Arsenal FC

Bazza

[John V6]

Good man Bazza,

My dogs name is Gunner !!!!!!!!!!!!

[islandbloke]

Cars, women, nice hoppy beer in moderation, motorbiking, cooking, making music, flying.

[Jukka]

Here is my list

British cars (special Lotus, Landrover)

Hot air balloons, Yes I'am pilot

All other aviation

photography

computers

cats

dark beer

Formula 1

...

[Jussi]

I remembered we have similar topic earlier....

Here it is: http://www.thelotusforums.com/lotusespritf...?showtopic=7817

I have those same Kois at the moment in the pond +3more little ones.

Computers

HomeTheater

HIFI

Photographing

Cars

Hanging on our Race-Track Cafeteria

Car shows,meetings and races

Still love those cats :crybaby: Although no more cat sand all over the place...

Still making some Espresso or other coffees.

Still drinking couple of ciders time to time

[abrussich]

racing the type 61

playing with the Ducatis

sampling imported beers

fine wine or a nice glass of Port

good food

music, not as much as in my earlier years but every now and then

the kids, (2 Akitas and a cat)

movies and/or a good book, sci-fi or fantasy preferred

list is subject to change at any given moment

[Paul C]

Sunken shipwrecks and underwater exploration (Titanic, Bismark etc.)

Interesting Wayne,

I Assume you have the 'Discovery of the Titanic' Book by ballard and Marchall?,

And the 'Discovery of the Bismark' by the same. I also have a later book from a

Cameron expedition, along with it's accompanying DVD. On top of this i have about

14 hours of documentary and undersea footage of the Titanic, including Camerons

last dive when he reached the turkish baths. Recently i aquired a facinating book

that contains nothing but newspaper pages from the time. Shockingly some of the

april 15th papers claimed 'Ship sinking, all believed safe on carpathia', only to be

followed the next day with '1400 feared lost'...