What do you all do for fun UKY?

I do NOTHING!  My life is all about relaxing.
When I finish work and housework (cleaning, laundry, cooking), there is pretty much no time left to do anything else, so I either go to bed, or go to the pub!

Well cleaning comes pretty low on my list of priorities, all things considered!  Lol!  Lower than it should really.  

I work part-time, and if I'm not too knackered (which I usually am the days I work), I do stuff such as...

Travelling quite a bit - sometimes it feels like we travel more than we are home.  Inevitably, we have various bits of half or wholly unpacked luggage & suitcases strewn throughout our home most of the time, along with travel books...  (And if we're not travelling, we are usually full-scale planning our next/upcoming trip!)

Which also leads to rambling as part of that...add to the luggage bits, rucksacks & walking maps & books on walks.

Also, I like to cook (and drink!).  And reading & listening to music & watching really good tele (Dr Who & other particular series we like - no reality TV--ugh) or films.

And I meet up with friends & have lunch or coffee quite a bit on my Mondays or Fridays off.

Sometimes I think I'd really like to join a book group or start one, but each time I've tried that so far - I've been disappointed and not really that into it.

I am supposed to be participating in a creative writing group right now, but I fear I have not been very disciplined with it - story of my life!  

I go to Pilates once a week.  I was going to the gym at the end of last year too, but with everything else going on that's fallen by the wayside & I'm trying to figure out if I am going to get back into now or just do something else like walking more.

This year, I really need to get into DIY & repaint/redecorate/fix up the house -- it's not my strong suit, however, I'm afraid.

I'm not much into organised group/club activities - I'm too disorganised & spontaneous for that.

And I really like sleeping too!  

Wow, thanks all for answering. It’s nice to see so many different activities and interests!

Wow, chary you’re definitely not a lady who leisures!

The next thing up is learning to do chicken scratch embroidery which fascinates me.

 

This looks hard!

I would say that the thing I do the most is go to shows. 'Shows' generally being DIY punk/indie gigs. I've been doing that ever since the age of 15 and it still makes me happy happy happy. It's almost a way of life rather than a hobby, since so many of my friends are in bands and most of what we do revolves around music.

 

This is great!! You’re right, it is a lifestyle.  And I agree with you on the getting paid to travel. I love it as well!

3.  Another interest is in ancient sacred sites (stone circles, holy wells, tombs, dolmens, standing stones, etc.)  I've got to get down to chary's neck of the woods as my favorites are down there (bottom of Cornwall) and I have't been for ages!

You should make it up here sometime, for so many reasons, hehehee, , but oh have we got stone circles, and there are amazing ones on the islands (Lewis, up to Orkney, etc!)

Mineral/fossil collecting - been doing it for years, unfortunately I'll have to get rid of a large part of my collection before I move. I'm sure I'll start it again on the other side of the pond.

Oh, I know there’s a fair whack of interest in mineral/fossil collecting here in the UK, so hopefully you’ll be able to pick this back up with ease (or likewise, if you’re moving from the UK to the US)

Guinea pigs.  I've been fostering guinea pigs for a local rescue for the past 18 months.  (My own died a while ago and I was unable to adopt more since I knew we were moving to the UK).  It can be a lot of work and sometimes upsetting, but hugely rewarding.  We've made some great friends through this too.  But we're looking forward to adopting our own pigs once we move.

Yay for Guinea Pigs! I’m jealous!! 

I do NOTHING!  My life is all about relaxing.

Oh  yeah, nothing wrong with this either! Relaxing is good for the soul and mind. I should do more of it!

Well cleaning comes pretty low on my list of priorities, all things considered!  Lol!  Lower than it should really. 

 

Yeap, me too!! That’s how I manage to do all that I do! (My house is minging! )

Travelling quite a bit - sometimes it feels like we travel more than we are home.  Inevitably, we have various bits of half or wholly unpacked luggage & suitcases strewn throughout our home most of the time, along with travel books...  (And if we're not travelling, we are usually full-scale planning our next/upcoming trip!)
 

I know this feeling all too well! 

You should make it up here sometime, for so many reasons, hehehee, , but oh have we got stone circles, and there are amazing ones on the islands (Lewis, up to Orkney, etc!)

I should indeed! 

{Fun? What's 'fun'??}

I read -- or watch old movies on TV.

When I retire will have more time to do all those things I think I do but never get around to, like:

knit
sew
walk
draw
genealogy
garden

Well cleaning comes pretty low on my list of priorities, all things considered!  Lol!  Lower than it should really.  

I work part-time, and if I'm not too knackered (which I usually am the days I work), I do stuff such as...

Traveling quite a bit - sometimes it feels like we travel more than we are home.  Inevitably, we have various bits of half or wholly unpacked luggage & suitcases strewn throughout our home most of the time, along with travel books...  (And if we're not traveling, we are usually full-scale planning our next/upcoming trip!)

Yes to all of this...  I have a large world map (3.99 from the Works!) near my computer which keeps me inspired. Looking at maps is a big hobby for me and I test my geography knowledge in my spare time (especially at two in the morning when I should be working on my course work )

Reading about North Korea has become a hobby for me recently since one of my best friends is planning a short trip there. My fingers are crossed that I'll go with her since it seems like a once in a lifetime trip. Btw, if anyone is even remotely interested in this area of the world, I would highly recommend reading "Nothing to Envy" by Barbara Demick. Their stories are simply breathtaking.

Languages! My Japanese and Turkish are decent enough that I can hold conversation and watch tv without subtitles. After uni ends I hope I'll focus more on them...

Parkour!  Something that I started last year and I absolutely love it! It's one of the few things I've ever wanted to continue--along with ballet. I'm still doing mostly basic stuff but I'm a lot stronger than last year! Yay!

I'm a workaholic, and I travel for work a lot. This year I'm going to hit Japan and China probably as well as the US (I normally end up in the US at least twice a year for work). I may take a talk on tour as well this year and hit up the all the game developer conferences.
I have a game to promote this year as well. Game promotions can be pretty exhausting but seriously fun, you travel around with your game and get interviewed (I've even been in Italian Playboy! ) and you run stands at gaming events for people to try your game pre-release.

I'm a part of the indie game scene so go to some indie events, and serve on panels etc. Which is fun a lot of the time.

Obviously games are a big passion and I play a lot, Facebook to iOS to console,  or whatever is fun/cool/new.

I'm a follower of any new London restaurants and the London street food and supperclub scene. Supperclubs are amazing and worth trying if you're food inclined and have limited money! You meet some lovely people and eat some fantastic food, in someone's cool house, the atmosphere is great.

I love the street food scene because of it's total lack of pretension and personal touch, and because I love cheap, fast food The pop up, catch 'em whilst you can nature is also fun, so I spend plenty of time hunting down the newest and coolest ones at various markets around London.

I also sew, tried to learn to knit and have mostly failed at this. I lark about on various instruments, I do archery, and I've started bouldering I love it but I'm absolutely rubbish at it.
I ride my bike slowly around London, I like to go dancing on a Friday after a few drinks, I bake cookies and cakes. I am a pretty decent confectioner (which is my main passion, the baking is secondary to the confectionery), I make more than decent ice cream.

I'm a scarily competitive cook If I eat something at a restaurant I try and beat it at home It's fun, challenging, expensive and often frustrating!

Mango & Shiso sorbet anyone?

Personally, I love cooking, baking, drawing (although not for quite some time now), writing poetry, but most of all....travelling (just not enough time or money to do with so many places I want to see!).

 

I desperately wish I could sew... not really for fun, but for the chance of having unique and potentially less expensive clothes.

genealogy

This fascinates me, but sounds like it can be quite hard?

Languages! My Japanese and Turkish are decent enough that I can hold conversation and watch tv without subtitles.

Wow, I'm impressed!!

I'm a workaholic, and I travel for work a lot. This year I'm going to hit Japan and China probably as well as the US (I normally end up in the US at least twice a year for work). I may take a talk on tour as well this year and hit up the all the game developer conferences.
I have a game to promote this year as well. Game promotions can be pretty exhausting but seriously fun, you travel around with your game and get interviewed (I've even been in Italian Playboy! ) and you run stands at gaming events for people to try your game pre-release.

This sounds quite interesting, the game promotions!  I like travelling for work to new cultures- only for the fact that you're really mingling with the natives then and they are local, so they'll often take you to best places to eat, etc. 

travelling (just not enough time or money to do with so many places I want to see!).
 

There's just never enough (time or money) is there. Oh to be independently wealthy!

This fascinates me, but sounds like it can be quite hard?

Got started when I was trying to find documentation for my Irish nationality/passport. Used the link to my grandmother (whose own mother was a cousin of some kind to Woodrow Wilson  ) My grandfather's family has been elusive so would like to find more about his side. Think I need to do some on site detective work!  (My parents already searched my father's family going way back.)

Got started when I was trying to find documentation for my Irish nationality/passport. Used the link to my grandmother (whose own mother was a cousin of some kind to Woodrow Wilson  ) My grandfather's family has been elusive so would like to find more about his side. Think I need to do some on site detective work!  (My parents already searched my father's family going way back.)

I've done quite a bit of this too and it's completely absorbing. In a wonderful way. It's been about a year since I last looked into it all, but I'd like to pick it up again.

You can find out all kinds of fascinating stuff! For instance, Henry VIII is my third cousin 15 times removed!

You can find out all kinds of fascinating stuff! For instance, Henry VIII is my third cousin 15 times removed!

Only 15 times!! Then you must be kissing kin to the Queen and George Washington 

This sounds quite interesting, the game promotions!  I like travelling for work to new cultures- only for the fact that you're really mingling with the natives then and they are local, so they'll often take you to best places to eat, etc. 

For me, it's getting to go to places I never would go by myself. Like the week I spent in Springfield Missouri, birthplace of Brad Pitt! Or the amount of time I've spent in Dubai or Monte Carlo, they're not high on my list of places to visit so I never normally would have gone, yet I got to see some amazing things and do some fun stuff. I love having a game on tour, the buzz around it is amazing, I remember being at a show and there was a 2.5 hour queue to watch a video of a game I was promoting, I must have spoken to 10K people that day. At another show people literally ran for our stand when the show opened after queuing through the night, I thought I was going to get trampled! Seeing people that passionate and dedicated to what you do makes me really happy.

We're really expanding into Asia, so looking forward to getting to Korea and China this year *fingers crossed*

For fun, I'm into:

• Sewing! Most of my spare evenings and weekends are spent sewing new clothing. Like last night, my husband was out, so I made myself a new top, which I'm wearing today. I have a very active sewing site at fehrtrade.com.
• Running! I've been running for about 7-8 years, but I joined a running group back in August and it's really got me psyched up and excited again. I recently ran my first half marathon, but I've done about 5 10k races. I usually run before work on Mondays and Thursdays, on Tuesday nights with my group, and a long run on Saturday morning.
• Gardening. I've only been gardening for four years, but I enjoy growing food, and eating something I've made myself. Which ties into...
• ...cooking. Cooking is totally creative for me, whether it's looking at X ingredients and thinking about all the different ways they could go together to form dinner, to making my own preserves or cheese or bread or cakes.

I also spend a large proportion of my spare time doing work on our boat, but I can't really say that's purely for fun. It's more as a means to a beautiful end result some years down the line...

What a great thread, PB! 

There is such a difference between what I do and what I do for fun - only because it seems fun time is rather limited these days! 

Renovating and decorating: nice to make our house a home, but really hate the 'process' of it. I just like the selecting materials phase and have no patience for the doing and the tradespeople negotiations

Languages: This one has seriously slid down the list, due to time, but sometimes I combine it with reading or travelling to keep or gain a new language skill

Travel: trying to slowly work our way through Europe - Iceland is my must-do for my birthday this year

Reading: I'd like to read for pleasure more, but I read lots of academic stuff for various professional courses on the go

Gym / Walking: no time for the gym these days, but if I get the chance, I walk everwhere I can

Karaoke: mostly 80s stuff + red wine with Mr MLG

Volunteering: I have done lots of this in the past. Considering starting this again, maybe in the autumn. Interested in advocacy and schemes that reduce homelessness and promote inclusion by working with people, so that they can better access resources

Baking: I find this one relaxing and nothing like the smell of biscuits or cakes to make the home feel, well, more home-like

Listening to music: getting my cassette tape back catalogue to MP3 and discovering new music

Games: I like role playing games on the PS3 and old skool board games.

Mostly, I *heart* food + friends and coffee.