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well just thought i would start this new thread on what other hobbies us koi keepers have, well as you can see in my picture my son and i race model boats. i did this from the age of 17 for 15yrs and then gave up only to start again this year and having been back for the first year i have already had 4 wins out of 6 races and also won the masters this year. i also love carp fishing of which we went to france last month and caught some cracking big carp. so come on every one lets here what other things we all do. mark
Last edited by markf1fan : 13-09-2010 at 11:50 PM.
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Hi there. I guess my main hobby is Golf, but I don't get to play much these days. I used to do a lot of fishing (mostly Carp) but haven't done so for probably 3 or 4 years now. However, as we're getting a touring caravan which is going to be sited, that's about to change, because as luck would have it( ) there's a fishing lake on site. On the whole I'm quite a boring person, so nothing to exciting for me. Oh yes, I should have said, I love my veg patch. How boring is that ?
well we went to the nationals this weekend boat racing and guess what i got a 2nd place with my 15cc boat. should have won with the 3.5cc boat but for me getting to excited towards the end of the race winning by 2 laps i hit another boat and ended up 4th. not to worry as have already won the drivers championship for the 15cc class this year and am winning the 3.5cc class with only 2 races left to go.
mark
I took early retirement thirteen years ago at fifty-eight and took up golf, (I used to play squash for a team in the North-West Counties Leagues but gave up when I was fifty). I play golf three times a week, as long as it doesn't rain.
I spend a lot of time (and money) on our garden, here's a tour, but this video is a couple of years old now, I've made a few alterations and additions since. It's all my own work.
I've played a leccy piano for more years than I can remember, this was my fifth, about ten years ago but is still going strong. I can play and download the recordings onto a floppy disc (yeah! it's that old) and then play them back like this. I'm only not a "proper" pianist, but I know my chords.
I took this up four years ago. I'm not very good, I don't practice enough, never had any lessons, can't you tell! I need to improve my "long tones" but that needs hours of work. I'm happy just playing along to the backing tracks I play and record on my leccy piano.
The jukeboxes "followed me home" about two years ago.
Half the fun is just keeping the b***ers workin'.
"So much to do, so little time."
__________________ "I don't mind if you don't like my manners!
I don't like them myself, they're pretty bad,
I grieve over them on long winter evenings."
Last edited by Doghouse Riley : 16-03-2011 at 03:13 PM.
Great looking garden (& pond of course!) as a keen gardener myself, I can see that your hard work has paid off. Well done!
Thanks for that.
I made my two Japanese lanterns myself. They are concrete with an outer coating of mortar with added yellow cement dye to give a sandstone effect.
When I made them 25 years ago it was because I couldn't find any in garden centres that weren't horrendously expensive and didn't look naff.
I saw this photo in a book on Japanese culture and copied it.
Just bits of wood and plastic tubs to create the formers and molds, laid out on a sheet of contiplas.
Total outlay about a fiver.
Then I made this one.
__________________ "I don't mind if you don't like my manners!
I don't like them myself, they're pretty bad,
I grieve over them on long winter evenings."
Then got more adventurous with a six foot pagoda, with a lot of detail including the pin joints. Again, all concrete, except for the hardwood verandah rails. It took seventeen molds, but with cut up bits of polystyrene blocks stuck onto the sheet of contiplas it's quite easy. I made a couple an evening over a week and a half.
They are all illuminated by low voltage lamps as are all the other lights in the garden, from four switches in the lounge.
__________________ "I don't mind if you don't like my manners!
I don't like them myself, they're pretty bad,
I grieve over them on long winter evenings."
Last edited by Doghouse Riley : 16-03-2011 at 05:12 PM.
well i would say my main hobbys are fishing (course, carp and sea) can beat a good sesion of fishing in the summer heat with a few bears i also enjoy djing took it up at 13 now i have my own mobile disco the only other thing i really like is shooting (air rifles) what a rush hitting the centre of the target from 100ft with a £40 chinease made rifle, scope zeroed in perfectly phaps :P funny enough it broke four weeks later so no more target practice as im not prepared to buy a new rifle till i can afford a decent one £1000 with scope and necisarys oh and i, also like gardening, well should do seeing as im a gardener (but you wouldnt geuse it if you saw my garden!)
Last edited by kingfisher91 : 16-03-2011 at 06:43 PM.
what other hobbies do us koi keepers have. 
) there's a fishing lake on site. On the whole I'm quite a boring person, so nothing to exciting for me. Oh yes, I should have said, I love my veg patch. How boring is that ? 
i also enjoy djing took it up at 13 now i have my own mobile disco 
so no more target practice as im not prepared to buy a new rifle till i can afford a decent one £1000 with scope and necisarys 
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