Hobbies and interests other than exploring

[BikinGlynn]

I do love music, growing up in the 90s I was a bit of raver lol. Still like to keep up with the dance music scene, and love drum and bass. I wonder when I'll grow up!? was a huge Streets fan back in the day, and went to a few gigs, some great times.
I was bought up listening to the likes of Bob Dylan, and David Bowie . Music has always been huge in my life, love all music really.
What music you into ?

I still think general Levy is some sort of God myself

 

[Stealthstar79]

I still think general Levy is some sort of God myself

Incredible!

 

[Sarah Waldock]

I recently got into a new hobby - AI art. It makes me chuckle at times, when people do pics of abandoned places [and there was a comptetion on the site recently about abandoned places] and it gives me a feeling of nostalgia for when I was fit. here's one of mine

 

[TeeJF]

I grew up in the 50's and by the late1960's I was in to Heavy Rock so Deep purple, Cream, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer were more my scene, face it Ian Gillan loved over the river at the Springs. Ok so I went to see a few bands at the Empire Pool Wembly ELP were awesome but I also went to see Wings there which turned out better than I thought. I went to one of the first Reading Rock Festivals and saw Uria Heep and Dr Feelgood who were brilliant. In the Punk years well The police at Oxford along with Ian Dury and the Blockheads of yes Barkley James Harvest. I've also bee to see the Stones twice and U2 twice along with some other bands I have forgotten at Wembly but the big disappointment to me was Michael Jackson, we took the kids to see him and I felt it was rubbish. I fell asleep watching David Bowie (I had flu), loved Phil Collins but I feel the one band I really feel privileged to have seen was Lynyrd Skynyrd and the old Oxford Pollytec in 1975, it was amazing to watch and something I never forgot.

Barclay James huh? I vaguely knew Woolly (bless him - great guy, sadly missed) and I met the whole band when I worked at the BeeB. Also Ian Anderson, Thijs Van Leer, Phil Collins, Ozzy, Toyah, Vince Clark, Alison Moyet, and lots of others... great times. I found a video on You Tube the other night of Japan on the ORS and to my surprise I found myself on it getting in the way of one of the cameras... Oops! I didn't catch ELP first time around but saw them some years later. Bloody awesome gig. Held back a gaggle of screaming girls when we had U2 in the studio around the time of War. Apparently Ian Gillan lives just down the road from us when he's here in Portugal where he has a villa, but he tends to spend most of his time in the States. Our builder's wife knows him. Then down the road a few miles there's lots of Prem footballers... but we keep well clear of that area!

 

[TeeJF]

I recently got into a new hobby - AI art. It makes me chuckle at times, when people do pics of abandoned places [and there was a comptetion on the site recently about abandoned places] and it gives me a feeling of nostalgia for when I was fit. here's one of mine

So that picture wasn't real then? Looks pretty convincing if that's the case! I think we will soon all be out of a job!

 

[ParysPerspective]

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

That is Castle Howard, North Yorkshire.

 

[HistoryBuff]

I cook. This is chicken fried rice (I had a bunch of leftover veggies) with potstickers (store bought, those are HARD to make), and for dessert Pot de Creme. I'm actually cooking my way through the Better Homes and Gardens cookbook focusing on wartime recipes. The Pot de Creme is close coming in at 47' I believe, but it seemed sufficiently close.

 

[night crawler]

How are your cake making skills

 

[BikinGlynn]

How are your cake making skills

well they look lovely but cooking is bane of my life!
Honestly no idea how anyone can enjoy it spend hours for something thats gone in 10 min... Thanks God for weatherspoons

 

[night crawler]

well they look lovely but cooking is bane of my life!
Honestly no idea how anyone can enjoy it spend hours for something thats gone in 10 min... Thanks God for weatherspoons

I can do that as well if you like. I must admit since I retired I like cooking though I'm not that adventurous

Sorry I forgot the mushrooms

 

[Priority 7]

well they look lovely but cooking is bane of my life!
Honestly no idea how anyone can enjoy it spend hours for something thats gone in 10 min... Thanks God for weatherspoons

Says the man that sits for hours waiting for a bird to fly by....15 secs at a rough guess
Have to day I think I need some professional help...too many hobbies I want to do and keep adding to them:

Model making used to do 1:72 scale but my eyes need binoculors to do those now so moved to 1:35 but boy I remember when airfix was a £2.99 kit and super basic no we are talking Dragon £50-60 a kit and made to be a precision replica of someone like Wittmans last Tiger Tank.

Just started on Mudlarking which I have to say is really relaxing and I got to spend 4 hours on the thames foreshore with Steve Brooker from MudMen last weekend.

Want to give Metal Detecting a go.

FInally for now bottle dump digging but feel like I did when I started Urbexing...how in the hell do you find a cool location.

 

[Cuban B.]

I can do that as well if you like. I must admit since I retired I like cooking though I'm not that adventurous
View attachment 534826Sorry I forgot the mushrooms

This is my idea of good food. In fact it's making me hungry looking at it.

 

[night crawler]

Says the man that sits for hours waiting for a bird to fly by....15 secs at a rough guess
Have to day I think I need some professional help...too many hobbies I want to do and keep adding to them:

Model making used to do 1:72 scale but my eyes need binoculors to do those now so moved to 1:35 but boy I remember when airfix was a £2.99 kit and super basic no we are talking Dragon £50-60 a kit and made to be a precision replica of someone like Wittmans last Tiger Tank.

Just started on Mudlarking which I have to say is really relaxing and I got to spend 4 hours on the thames foreshore with Steve Brooker from MudMen last weekend.

Want to give Metal Detecting a go.

FInally for now bottle dump digging but feel like I did when I started Urbexing...how in the hell do you find a cool location.

The Old Fair Mile dump is just off the Thames Path at Cholsey right by the River Thames. I used to play around there as a kid and I always wonder what lies under the ground there.

 

[BikinGlynn]

So that picture wasn't real then? Looks pretty convincing if that's the case! I think we will soon all be out of a job!

its pretty excellent, the greenery dosent quite look right to me