the nma family shed

[Heno]

so yeah, i thought i would start a little thread about this topic and what people do to alleviate it. no matter wherever you look everything is on repeat. we wait with deep desire for the next season of this or that to be released. but in reality for most of us around here we've seen it before in some form or other.

so what do people do to address this? what pastimes, interests, hobbies, etc. do you have that keeps it real.

maybe, just maybe, there might be one or two topics that get discussed in here that justify a thread of its own or a bump of a now defunct one

i love cooking to be honest. and am slowly getting the hang of it. family and friends will eat it with choking with reluctance. i like the whole prep thing too. love to use as many natural ingredients as possible and am looking at growing some and also making mine - like my own bbq sauce or hoi sin sauce or the like.

i also used to like making military models, particular tanks and oft times germans ones since they were were the best

and i like fishing. sea fishing, rod and line, even pots and nets.

anyway, for all us here, for now it'd be good to share how you alleviate the possible boredom

if any wants to ask any questions about what i mentioned,. feel free.

[Anna Woman von NRW]

Nice,

Possible boredom? How about real boredom - that's why I can write so much shite  Honestly you should see the reams and reams on this machine and on paper that I've spewed out. There's one of the ways I occupy myself right there. Sometimes if I'm feeling really brave/pissed/stoned I think I should find a local writing group or spoken word bunch but I've never managed to stay brave/pissed/stoned enough to follow through on that. Mind you I have very recently got a "The Guardian" comment account and that seems to be quite cathartic 

Warhammer 40K models. That's another one. Picked it up through my son and while he's long grown out of it I still make the models. Dark Elder that's my army and each winter there's another squad being done. I'm most proud of the Bloodletters of Khorne I did for him and the Soulgrinder - check the Warhammer website to see what I mean, my babies are awesome!

Archery is my favourite though, it's a bit like chess, easy to learn really hard to master. 4 years I've been into it and I've never found anything so satisfying, don't matter if I'm having a crap days shooting or if I'm getting golds. Just a few hours a week in the zone away from everything is what matters. Good fun too, we shoot targets, zombies, drop shots - all sorts.

Last is gardens, plants, trees, landscape, natural world. More about flora than fauna, there's something about plants that gets me. I could be the NMA Board Gardener's Question time 

[Amandistan]

I am never bored. If i am i get really depressed. Therefore I work two jobs and keep busy.

When i do have free time, I focus on physical fitness mostly. I have ADHD so my energy is endless. If I don't burn a lot of energy I also get depressed.

I also do a lot of hiking and mountain biking for solitude and to be among nature. it keeps me sane.

I also like cooking but doing it for a living makes it not as enjoyable. However creating new recipes and flavor combinations is always fun.

Driving around aimlessly is also very enjoyable. I spend more time in my car than at home.

I also enjoy visiting privately owned coffee shops. I drive for 30 minutes just to visit a particular one aout 4 times a week. That may contribute a bit to the non-stop energy

Basically boredom is not part of my vocabulary. 

[Heno]

anna, i'm with you on the writing. i have so many notepad files called musings with a date on them from years of thinking something or years of typing something, thinking i've rambles on too much and then copying out the whole piece saving it for later. hundreds in fact. not sure i would go as far as getting comment account. i think if i do then it will only happen when my brain has the time away from being busy bored......

used to love warhammer. got whole boxes of unmade stuff from our kid was younger. used to make them with him.  i can make the models to perfection but being as colour blind as i am doesn't lend itself to painting them or the settings. i have about 10 finished tanks, or ones that need a coat before i continue and can't bring myself to try just in case i ruin what is so well put together. think i might go and dig out the warhammer stuff in the autumn. the hwole setting and imagery allows me to drift away and escape anyway.

cool on the archery. never tried it. not sure i have the patience to be honest. things like that i can stick with if i can be good from the outset but lose interest if it takes too much practice.

you must be on the impulsive adhd end if the adhd spectrum amandistan. how does that go for you. i am very familiar with the passive end.

[dilla]

Live for fishing
Luckily on the west coast of Wales,I've got the sea,rivers and remote mountain lakes.It's a great leveller.you think you've got it mastered after a good day and next time -Nothing.Also love cooking sea food foraged(and occaisionally caught)from the shore.Also collect old fishing tackle.Used to tie flies but lack patience(except when fishing) and eyesight not so good now.

[Heno]

that'd be the irish seas......so thats where all our fish are going

never really got into freshwater fishing. i did catch a pike in cheshire once. 13lb or something. also tried fly fishing on lakes and just couldn't master the cast

what sort of sea fishing where you are dilla? do you get plaice and codling and the like? do you know the depth of water?

[dilla]

Hi Heno,
Mostly bass and flounder.My mate catches codling from his Kayak,but we hardly ever get them from the shore.All the rivers around here are spate rivers with wild brown trout(tiny but tasty)sea trout,and very occasionally a salmon.fish mostly at night to avoid the jet skiers,speed boats etc and get some piece and quiet.
Fished Ireland a lot in the past, but mostly around Co Mayo.

[Wessexy Witch]

Cooking. I love it.. and the eating. I run the "Let's get cooking" club at school which encourages parents to come along to. We cook cheap/healthy meals in less that an hour and show just what you can do in a limited time on a limited budget. The kids learn about a balanced diet and are encouraged to try everything and most discover they like a lot more than they thought. He's one for you...we had a mum and kid last term who made a fuss about every ingredient we used (bah,hate that...never had it..urgh what is that etc..). Mum didn't know what a parsnip, courgette, swede, butternut squash, chick peas or kidney beans were and said all her boy would eat was bacon sandwiches. He piped up "That's coz it's the only thing you make me". 
 It's the most popular club at school and we have been begged by kids from the Juniors to run the club for them too.

Away from school I love my garden and grow fruit, veg and flowers. I've had an amazing crop of plums this year and my little tree has suffered with bowing and snapping branches.

I love to decorate. I've glossed the window sills and doors this weekend because I have the house to myself. I'm having a cup of tea now as a break from painting the kitchen cupboards just to spruce them up a bit.

Sewing. On Friday I bought a £2.50 quilt cover from a charity shop and turned it into 2 pairs of curtains and tie backs for the kitchen.
Yesterday I made a  new Jolly Rodger flag to fly on my car aerial.
I'm also doing a cross stitch to put up in school. It's the words of "All things bright and beautiful" with pictures of animals and flowers around the outside.

Animals. I love my 2 black cats. Jet and Ebony. I have tropical fish ( 2 tanks) and a pond with frogs, snails, dragon flies and fish in it.

If I'm not doing any of that stuff I always have a book on the go .

I quite like the New Model Army too.

 

[Heno]

like wow. that is some going

we had a cat called jet. brightest one we ever had

got a few kittens at the moment. orphans we took in. hand feeding them. full time job. but one of our dogs does all the maintenance cleaning them and watching over them

Hi Heno,
Mostly bass and flounder.My mate catches codling from his Kayak,but we hardly ever get them from the shore.All the rivers around here are spate rivers with wild brown trout(tiny but tasty)sea trout,and very occasionally a salmon.fish mostly at night to avoid the jet skiers,speed boats etc and get some piece and quiet.
Fished Ireland a lot in the past, but mostly around Co Mayo.

fishing in mayo is good. anywhere on the south or west coast is good. we have a shallow bay here and the mussel trawlers come around every few years and drag the bay for the mussel spate to plant elsewhere leaving nothing for the ecosystem to grow from. fishing used to be good. have to go far off to get anything these days and with the weather so unpredictable its hard to know when.

[Wessexy Witch]

fishing in mayo is good. anywhere on the south or west coast is good. we have a shallow bay here and the mussel trawlers come around every few years and drag the bay for the mussel spate to plant elsewhere leaving nothing for the ecosystem to grow from. fishing used to be good. have to go far off to get anything these days and with the weather so unpredictable its hard to know when.

Much easier if you do it in water !
 

[sozbot]

I'll add myself to the list of those who love to cook. I've spent so many happy hours in my kitchen cooking experimental (and sometimes quite extravagant) things, which are almost always even more fun to eat! My husband also loves to cook and we're both rather good, so we eat well. I'm coeliac, so in order to avoid gluten I tend to eat mostly fresh fruit, vegetables and lean meat. I'm also becoming quite good at gluten free baking, which can be tough to get the hang of. Bread is still not particularly great, but I make some pretty fabulous cakes and biscuits.

Also, I love to read, I'm an avid walker, and the husband and I like few things more than to park ourselves in a pub and watch the world go by.

Even though I'm a musician (singer) by trade, I still find that there are a lot of musical pursuits I'd class as hobbies - things I don't do for a living and are therefore a bit of a break! I write songs which will probably never see the light of day, I do covers and arrrangements of artists I love that will similarly probably never see the light of day, and I am getting back into solo classical piano playing (although I do play for singers/instrumentalists as part of my job) which will never be my career, but working on and playing a beautiful piece by Chopin, Ravel, Debussy etc to a high standard is enormously satisfying.

I'd be lying if I didn't mention my love of shopping, which has had to be curbed quite drastically since we got a mortgage

[Heno]

some of these posts are making me feel a little boring, not just bored

i've a wheat intolerance so was diagnosed coeliac back in the day. but i have not trace of it now. and you can't grow out of it so i guess i never was. gluten free baking is really tough. big L has made some excellent cakes though including the most ridiculously almond flour based chocolate cake with a raspberry jam in the middle and just below the chocolate covering on top.

the music interest sounds great. you should do some a share with the other occupants of the shed in private on youtube or something. be great to hear

Much easier if you do it in water !
 

ahahaha

prefer to do it in a boat to be honest

[Rusco]

Well I often look at next couple of days what I'm going to do at home. Then next next couple of weeks what I'm going to do outside at the forest and to our house. Also, because I have to live quite often "from hand to mouth" what comes to resources; or simply wealth - if there is any; I have to be prepared for the big bills from renovations that takes all my money.  On the other hand I'm always looking at particularly next half year or so: at late autumn after preparing to winter I start timber work and chopping that will last to April or May. That's work you could not do at summer because of the pests and fungus that attack the woods - in the case you don't do the work straight from start to the finish. Last couple of years I've chopped 16 cubic metres of wood. At winters we use 5 to 8 cubic metres of them.

I like to make woodcrafts at my working room. Should do also print making (woodcuts, engraving, collagraphs, dry point and embossing) and graphic arts there, but the renovations and main job takes all my time... I make my own experimental digital music with samples, synths and a computer. Used to play drums in bands quite long too but I quit it 2 years ago.

[...] i like the whole prep thing too. love to use as many natural ingredients as possible and am looking at growing some and also making mine - like my own bbq sauce or hoi sin sauce or the like.

I like to cook too, but my wife's taking more and more that area. Interesting Heno that you do your own hoi sin sauce! I make at times tahini from sesam seeds, and some "beef" from veggie ingredients. I think I'm quite excellent with making seitan too. First I started with grain and nowadays moved to using only glutein.

I and my wife love to watch birds and other animals too. We feed them massively during winter. 

[Guido]

2 kids. What's boredom?

Beside that I love to strum on my acoustic and master the final solo of Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" on my electric guitar. When I become too frustrated because David Gilmour still does it better than me I go out and fly my RC planes. Cooking is another favorite of mine, especially grilling with my Weber barbecue kettle. There is so much you can do with it. I've documented some of my latest attempts on german site Grillsportverein.de (vegetarians, beware!):

http://www.grillsportverein.de/forum/threads/kleiner-pfingst-flashback.215451/
http://www.grillsportverein.de/forum/threads/griechenland-in-owl.214051/
http://www.grillsportverein.de/forum/threads/lieber-pizzabaecker-des-vertrauens.200112/

Sh*t, I'm getting hungry already... 

[Heno]

rusco, you're making me hungry. when i'm experimenting with sauces i always make one i know is liked and then try a variation to one side. i have started to add tumeric as part of the rub to roast pork and reduced the amount of ginger. the results are ridiculously good and different.


guido, that is some cooking. i'd advise everyone to look at the images of what guido cooks. seriously. the banana will be tried here tomorrow