Biking - £400 bike with maybe £100 of upgrades. Just a hardtail and it's too damned small for anything but jumping. Each month about £30 in petrol getting to and from different biking places. Mainly Glentress (http://www.7stanes.gov.uk/forestry/achs-5rnfvj) and a couple of times up north to Laggan/Wolftrax. Where I live is pretty flat and I have no biking buddies nearby, so it sucks a little that I need to take the car whenever I want to do anything good. Messing around with bits of wood and doing my Ray Mears/Survival thing - about £20 for some knives and a firestick. I like trying to carve things out of bits of wood. It's a good stress reliever. Walking - petrol to get to nice places.
Cosmology Dictionaries Engineering Theory Geography History Humour Languages and Linguistics Mathematics Military Technology Military History Philosophy Poetry Architecture Art Theory Religion Physics text books Science & Technology Popular Science Air Warfare Computing Fantasy Fiction Science Fiction Spy Fiction Plays and the odd mainstream novel. Why?
I spend hundreds on RC planes and model railroads. I spend thousands on telescopes and binoculars. I spend tens of thousands on collector cars and boats. After all, it's only money.
Oh, and anything else I come across that looks remotely like it might be interesting and I have the money for at the time. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Yeah but Inzomnia asked what I read. And most of my writing isn't a hobby so much as a nasty compulsion.
:runaway: Uh, its unimaginable to me. If I read something non-stop, for example Harry Potter, it took me 3 days to finish it. And that was really nearly non-stop! So maximum I could only read 30 books/month. Unless what u read is always as thick as tintin, smurf... but look at your list!! I wish u could help me read this book hydrology and the management of watersheds for my next exam preparation Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
It's fun. I read for fun. My current "record" is five 3-400 page paperbacks in 4 hours. A friend lent me his copy of Terry Pratchett's "Weird Sisters" one lunchtime and I returned it 22 hours later (and I had slept and worked during that period). His comment was "Oh, you haven't bothered reading it". I then told him the entire plot, how the characters developed, quoted verbatim much of the text and explained the semiotics. I read all three volumes of Lord of the Rings in less than 15 hours. It's a personal burden I have to carry.Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Including foreign language and technical ones. Philip Jose Farmer's definition of a dullard was "someone who opens a dictionary to find a definition of a word, looks it up and then closes it".
Just another rainy Sunday afternoon... It's the reason I have so many books in my collection. If they're worth reading they're worth keeping. And if I don't get a new book or three (or five or eight) per week I get withdrawal symptoms. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
yeah seriously that is fast. do you enjoy the books and take it all in reading at that speed? it would take me a whole day or even 2 days to read that many pages and enjoy it. peace.
