Hobbies?

[jenkinsbrynmair]

- Fishing: I love Tenkara, it’s like fly fishing, but without a reel.

The reel is only there to hold the line when you're not actually fly fishing anyway

 

[amandaj57]

Apart from the obvious, I run a wormery and get the most gorgeous compost for growing seeds in, which in turn helps plant up my veg beds.

I like preserving and am adapting all my favourite recipes to reduce the amount of sugar and use honey instead. My favourites so far have got to be Honey and Lemon Curd and Clementine, Whiskey and Honey Marmalade. I have a lot of fruit bushes dotted all over and always get mammoth crops of blackberries and raspberries.

I am also a bit obsessed with making yoghurt. I have a lovely heirloom culture which can be used indefinitely that makes superb Greek style Yoghurt with honey (it can be strained so thick, I use it instead of whipped double cream, particularly when it is fresh made and has a milder yoghurt flavour) or a French set style which is superb with Vanilla. (I was lucky enough to tutor a gentleman from Madagascar through his Maths exams a few years ago and when he passed, he gave me the most enormous bundle of Vanilla pods that he grew on his family farm. They look nothing like the dried up things we get and he did explain they keep the best for themselves. Even after a few years, they are still juicier than I can get in the shops).

I also like hill walking which is just as well with an energetic Boxer dog and living in the Peaks.

 

[Paddington]

The reel is only there to hold the line when you're not actually fly fishing anyway

It’s still a layer of complexity I don’t need in my life!

 

[Moobee]

I need a good rye loaf recipe that I could get away with in a bread machine. Sorry for blasphemy but I have serious wrist problems so proper kneading would cause pain for days. Last attempt was way too dense.

Have you tried a food mixer with dough attachment? Do most of mine this way.

 

[Moobee]

Organic veg gardening, preserving, baking, cooking (spending lockdown trying out new recipes, mostly vegetarian), furniture upcycling/painting and a bit of upholstery, sea kayaking when tides and winds allow. Walking the spaniel on the local sand dunes.
Latest thing is eBaying our unwanted stuff which I started before Christmas to declutter a bit and make a few quid and it’s turned into a beast. OH worried that I might sell her if she stands still for too long.....

 

[BeeKeyPlayer]

Too many is my answer ..

What, no mention of writing, Philip? I think your contributions here should figure!

 

[Garry R]

Surprised to see so few fishermen. If you like wild trout fishing try Orkney. A bit of a trek but it's my annual trip for the last 10 years with a group of guys I was at school with so been fishing with the 50 years plus!! Not big fish but free-rising and really can fight compared to the reared rainbows in put and take fisheries.

 

[Jimmy]

Surprised to see so few fishermen.

I thought the opposite, far more fishermen here compared to work colleagues. If wild trout/grayling fishing was as accessible as my apiaries I know what I would do more of.

Fishing in the Orkneys sounds great - I've been reading David Street's 'Fishing in Wild Places' this winter, he describes fishing in the Orkneys (possibly Shetlands, can't remember) amongst other locations and it's all very tempting. There are a few small put and take trout fisheries near me but I much prefer wild trout fishing to stocked waters.

 

[deemann1]

Any of my spare time goes into building beekeeping equipment, I must admit I use to love Metal detecting but haven't the time anymore.

 

[Michael ECB's]

Fishing, stocking new dams and then fishing them to stock new dams so I can fish them to stock new dams... ( 2 of the fish below didn't make it)
Mercy killing - dinner for the wife...

 

[Erichalfbee]

I thought the opposite, far more fishermen here compared to work colleagues. If wild trout/grayling fishing was as accessible as my apiaries I know what I would do more of.

We used to have a very active Grayling fisherman on the forum

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

We used to have a very active Grayling fisherman on the forum

but he prefered trolling to using the fly

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Fishing in the Orkneys sounds great - I've been reading David Street's 'Fishing in Wild Places' this winter, he describes fishing in the Orkneys (possibly Shetlands, can't remember)

good fishing to be had on both (and in the Western Isles, always hoped that one day I'd have the opportunity to do it when we were patrolling around that way, but whenever we were stuck alongside for any reason it was either a case of I didn't have my rod with me or, it was because we were storm bound so fishing was nigh on impossible. Managed to have a bit of fishing all over the British isles and had quite a few trips to Western Ireland around Corrib mostly even managed to wet a line (and catch a trout or two) in Lesotho

 

[pargyle]

What, no mention of writing, Philip? I think your contributions here should figure!

Haha ... That's not a hobby ... it's a curse !

 

[Swn58]

Growing Vegetables, Painting and constant worrying

I have allotments. My background is mainly based on me having my hands in soil! I also paint etc. as some may already know on here. I cook and bake a lot, always have.
I used to hunt & fish, but I prefer to stay in a good relationship with my partner Veggie-burger anyone?
As for worrying? I gave it up a few years ago.

 

[Lottie]

Obviously being on this forum our main passion is bees, but does anyone have time for other hobbies or interests? My other love is sign language, fascinating and so priveleged to be able to use it in my job. Gardening is my other hobby, renewed this year by researching bee loving plants. What interests you?

Where to start? Cooking, baking, making stuff, sewing, knitting, gardening, tennis, swimming, running.......

 

[Gunner]

In addition to my beekeeping:

• Shooting - all disciplines - shotgun & rifle.
• Fishing - mainly fly fishing for trout but still have my old float rods. Still dreaming of trying for a salmon one day. Was meant to go & try in Iceland this summer for my 50th birthday but a certain virus has put an end to that...
• Home brewing (using a Grainfather)
• Gardening - when the wife allows me to interfere or there is hard manual labour required!

Common link to the above; I like to produce food for the table. It's the hunter / gatherer instinct in me.

 

[Swn58]

I forgot about the wine, beer and mead making. Living off a considerably reduced income now, makes that a necessity! I'm sure that it's better and safer than any than shop bought stuff.

 

[Swn58]

I forgot about the wine, beer and mead making. Living off a considerably reduced income now, makes that a necessity! I'm sure that it's better and safer than any than shop bought stuff.

I can't remember.....did I mention that I made wine, beer and mead.............?

 

[Swn58]

Bread baking, sourdough and rye mainly. Cheese making occasionally.

"Blessed are the Cheese-makers"