Hobbies and interests other than exploring

[night crawler]

Heres one of mine

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Spectacular

 

[FIXITNOW2003]

I restore vintage electronics items mostly radios and record players , so love seeing sets in abandoned places

 

[BikinGlynn]

I restore vintage electronics items mostly radios and record players , so love seeing sets in abandoned places

nice, I love the record player

 

[TeeJF]

Crikey where do I start!
as u prob know I do a fair bit of wildlife photography which goes along side exploring quite nicely.
As you may also of guessed I ride bikes!
Iv rode mountainbike since I was 10 (36yr) also have done fair bit of road riding (I did 328 mile in 24hr about 8yr back but would struggle to do 32 now lol) & ridiculously I started riding bmx a few years back which just hurts!
I do a bit of running just to try & keep fitness but cant do that like I used to cos of dogey back.
My son is 17 & also rides & is getting rather good now, dont u hate it when that happens & u are suddenly struggling to keep up.

I love cars & have 2 projects on the go which Ill prob never get finished.
Also have house Im doing ground up restoration which Im getting there with but have been there 6yr already lol, its a luxury of living on my own that I dont need to rush. (the girlfriend wouldnt live in my place the state its in lol)

Oh I have a couple of canoes too just cos well u know I may get bored.

Lifes too short IMO I like to cram as much in & liv life at 100mph but love it!

Anyway only pics I have at work are these few birds & one of my lad at suffolk bike park few months backView attachment 520015View attachment 520016View attachment 520017

Bird watching huh? You'd like it here then. I saw a Snake Eagle really close one day late last year. There's been a pair nesting somewhere close by. I hesitate to say the next field, it's further than that but we see them disappear just over the ridge about half a mile away and then they tend to come back from that direction later. They aren't very active at the moment - the cold I guess, but come the spring they're over us daily. And we've had a Kingfisher dipping from our pond - little tw*t! Lost several goldfish to a snake too but since I put 'erbert the rotating owl up on the rocks they've been giving us a wide berth. He has a head which spins with a little plastic sail on top so I guess to a snake that's pretty scary. Got some bl**min' big snakes here though - had a six footer when we first bought the place. A male Montpelier my wife says it is - apparently they're easy to sex because of size and a black "saddle" behind their heads. Eventually got a little video of his missus too...

But my passion was diving and skiing. Too old for that now sadly and it's curtailed my urbexing a bit but it happens to us all!

 

[ParysPerspective]

Aside from exploring, watching sport, photographing cars, pubs with good beer - I love the countryside, historic tourist attractions, adventurous tourist attractions, and hikes. I like to push myself as I have a fear of being unsafe at a height (not the general fear of heights), and I like try to and keep as active as poss to slow down deterioration from my fibromyalgia.

 

[night crawler]

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Aside from exploring, watching sport, photographing cars, pubs with good beer - I love the countryside, historic tourist attractions, adventurous tourist attractions, and hikes. I like to push myself as I have a fear of being unsafe at a height (not the general fear of heights), and I like try to and keep as active as poss to slow down deterioration from my fibromyalgia.

Show off Last time I did any climbing was over 50 years ago

 

[ParysPerspective]

Show off Last time I did any climbing was over 50 years ago

Who cares when you did it. The point is you did it! All about the memories! Yeah, maybe I am showing off a little haha. But I’ve impressed myself!

 

[BikinGlynn]

Bird watching huh? You'd like it here then. I saw a Snake Eagle really close one day late last year. There's been a pair nesting somewhere close by. I hesitate to say the next field, it's further than that but we see them disappear just over the ridge about half a mile away and then they tend to come back from that direction later. They aren't very active at the moment - the cold I guess, but come the spring they're over us daily. And we've had a Kingfisher dipping from our pond - little tw*t! Lost several goldfish to a snake too but since I put 'erbert the rotating owl up on the rocks they've been giving us a wide berth. He has a head which spins with a little plastic sail on top so I guess to a snake that's pretty scary. Got some bl**min' big snakes here though - had a six footer when we first bought the place. A male Montpelier my wife says it is - apparently they're easy to sex because of size and a black "saddle" behind their heads. Eventually got a little video of his missus too...

But my passion was diving and skiing. Too old for that now sadly and it's curtailed my urbexing a bit but it happens to us all!

Eagles sound excellent to me, keep feeding the snakes!
did u ever get into cave diving?
The thought terrifies me but have done a few short free sumps so I guess its something Ill progress to oneday

 

[night crawler]

ParysPerspective​

You mentioned cars as well. The first was one I helped out with in Mini Se7en racing. The white 1275 GT is what I built during that time, it has a Cooper S engine in it i rebuilt. The car in the garage was my wifes runabout, when she bought a new Mini Cooper I decided to rebuilt hers, 4 years later after working on it in the evenings after she and the kids went to bed the yellow one was the result and the engine was a 1380 one I built producing about 100BHP at the wheels you can see a video here of it on a rolling road shootout. I sold it back in 2011 as I was still a hooligan in it.

 

[BikinGlynn]

ParysPerspective​

You mentioned cars as well. The first was one I helped out with in Mini Se7en racing. The white 1275 GT is what I built during that time, it has a Cooper S engine in it i rebuilt. The car in the garage was my wifes runabout, when she bought a new Mini Cooper I decided to rebuilt hers, 4 years later after working on it in the evenings after she and the kids went to bed the yellow one was the result and the engine was a 1380 one I built producing about 100BHP at the wheels you can see a video here of it on a rolling road shootout. I sold it back in 2011 as I was still a hooligan in it.

Nice, did I mention I have a moggy with a 2L fiat twin cam lump in it? (one of my projects)
I had 6 or 7 moggys after passing my test & am a bit of a petrol head, when all the "cool" kids had xr2's & stuff I was racing em in my moggys.
The one I have now before I decided to do the fiat conversion I had a 1275 A series with twin Su.
I had this linked to a seiera 5sp gearbox & rear axel. Seiera front disks with evo shocks (Jag ones I believe that I modified to fit).
I even had electric windows & central locking Id mackled up myself from scrap cars.
God I miss them days!

 

[night crawler]

Nice, did I mention I have a moggy with a 2L fiat twin cam lump in it? (one of my projects)
I had 6 or 7 moggys after passing my test & am a bit of a petrol head, when all the "cool" kids had xr2's & stuff I was racing em in my moggys.
The one I have now before I decided to do the fiat conversion I had a 1275 A series with twin Su.
I had this linked to a seiera 5sp gearbox & rear axel. Seiera front disks with evo shocks (Jag ones I believe that I modified to fit).
I even had electric windows & central locking Id mackled up myself from scrap cars.
God I miss them days!

Funny you should mention Moggies I took this photo in the Snetterton Paddock back in 1976, I think it had a V4 in it though I have seen them with V6 and 8's

 

[BikinGlynn]

Funny you should mention Moggies I took this photo in the Snetterton Paddock back in 1976, I think it had a V4 in it though I have seen them with V6 and 8's

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nice. Year I was born ;-)

 

[ParysPerspective]

100bhp in that mini. I bet that was dangerously fun!

I just took a pic of a Mazda 323 with 27k on the clock, and there’s only 23 of them left on the road! Shameless plug, but my car pics are on insta, @carpix__uk

 

[night crawler]

100bhp in that mini. I bet that was dangerously fun!

I just took a pic of a Mazda 323 with 27k on the clock, and there’s only 23 of them left on the road! Shameless plug, but my car pics are on insta, @carpix__uk

Watch the video in the link, that might give you an idea

 

[BikinGlynn]

Watch the video in the link, that might give you an idea

thats really cool, some random crap u have photographed on there though

 

[night crawler]

thats really cool, some random crap u have photographed on there though

Ah you were perusing though my channel then

 

[TeeJF]

Eagles sound excellent to me, keep feeding the snakes!
did u ever get into cave diving?
The thought terrifies me but have done a few short free sumps so I guess its something Ill progress to oneday

Noooo... for the both of us cave diving is a bit of an adrenalin sport too far! Although I suppose wreck diving can be pretty dodgy too if you go deep inside a ship. ANY dive which entails no clear path to the surface has an escalated risk factor and people don't realise that it doesn't even need to be a dive where you go inside a structure etc. Any dive where the depth/time combination requires you to carry out decompression stops on the way up is also more risky as, even though your ascent is not physically blocked, in any situation where you ascend without carrying out the necessary stops on the way you would almost certainly get "bent" with consequences which vary from as trivial as a patch of itchy skin, through pain in a joint, to all manner of neurological issues, paralysis (temporary or permanent) to heart attack and even death! So the tendency is to carry a bail out bottle with sufficient air (or mixed gas) to cover you in the event of the failure of your main supply. This was especially important when we were diving with rebreathers as there was a host of things which could potentially fail on a rebo due to the complexity of such systems. But thankfully they were not an expensive one way trip; rather, they were really very reliable if maintained and operated properly. That said my wife got a double hose kink her rig when we were on a wreck dive so she was breathing the same bit of air inside a six inch length of blocked hose until I bailed her out and we ascended! I also had a potentially nasty situation on a night dive on a "benign" wreck in Malta where I got hung up on some metalwork and nothing I could do would free me. I was literally about to take my cylinder off in order to get free when my buddy came back into the wreck to find me as he realised I hadn't followed him out. Trouble was he kicked up the visibility totally - a "brown out", so I had to wait a further five minutes or more for the viz to clear enough to see my way out having been "un-hung" by him! All good fun - not! But then that's the reason for all the training' and the lack of same with a well known diving organisation originating in 'murica is the reason why they have so many diving incidents!

As for the snakes... I'm trying to discourage the buggers before they decide to chow down on my Koi. They reduced my Goldfish numbers by half in a week before I went out and bought Roto-Owl!

 

[TeeJF]

Who cares when you did it. The point is you did it! All about the memories! Yeah, maybe I am showing off a little haha. But I’ve impressed myself!

Some lovely pics there. What was the obelisk and also the fort type thingy set in steep embankments?

 

[Hayman]

Noooo... for the both of us cave diving is a bit of an adrenalin sport too far! Although I suppose wreck diving can be pretty dodgy too if you go deep inside a ship. ANY dive which entails no clear path to the surface has an escalated risk factor and people don't realise that it doesn't even need to be a dive where you go inside a structure etc. Any dive where the depth/time combination requires you to carry out decompression stops on the way up is also more risky as, even though your ascent is not physically blocked, in any situation where you ascend without carrying out the necessary stops on the way you would almost certainly get "bent" with consequences which vary from as trivial as a patch of itchy skin, through pain in a joint, to all manner of neurological issues, paralysis (temporary or permanent) to heart attack and even death! So the tendency is to carry a bail out bottle with sufficient air (or mixed gas) to cover you in the event of the failure of your main supply. This was especially important when we were diving with rebreathers as there was a host of things which could potentially fail on a rebo due to the complexity of such systems. But thankfully they were not an expensive one way trip; rather, they were really very reliable if maintained and operated properly. That said my wife got a double hose kink her rig when we were on a wreck dive so she was breathing the same bit of air inside a six inch length of blocked hose until I bailed her out and we ascended! I also had a potentially nasty situation on a night dive on a "benign" wreck in Malta where I got hung up on some metalwork and nothing I could do would free me. I was literally about to take my cylinder off in order to get free when my buddy came back into the wreck to find me as he realised I hadn't followed him out. Trouble was he kicked up the visibility totally - a "brown out", so I had to wait a further five minutes or more for the viz to clear enough to see my way out having been "un-hung" by him! All good fun - not! But then that's the reason for all the training' and the lack of same with a well known diving organisation originating in 'murica is the reason why they have so many diving incidents!

As for the snakes... I'm trying to discourage the buggers before they decide to chow down on my Koi. They reduced my Goldfish numbers by half in a week before I went out and bought Roto-Owl!

Here in Bournemouth, a neighbour has her goldfish disappearing. Almost certainly birds of one breed or another. And she has three foot high plaster heron by the pond.

 

[TeeJF]

Here in Bournemouth, a neighbour has her goldfish disappearing. Almost certainly birds of one breed or another. And she has three foot high plaster heron by the pond.

The plaster Heron approach doesn't work unless you move it every couple of days. We had a Heron sit atop our tallest tree weighing up our plasmo-Heron very intently. But after we started moving it regularly it has never come back. Our issue is snakes and a particularly persistent Kingfisher. Fortunately the Koi and Goldfish are too big for the Kingfisher now so it contents itself with the pond fish which breed like b*ggery anyway! My concern is more the snakes, foxes and the occasional Genet, the wild boar can't get past the fence!

Tell them they'll need to put a fine net over the pond if moving their plasmo-Herron around doesn't work.