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Hobbies & Leisure time?


What do the rest of you do with yor spare time when your not milking, feeding, breeding or talking about cows?
 
Deer stalking and fishing are my two main "non farming" interests, oh and better not forget my wife.(just incase she reads this!)

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Play football once a week, just 5-a-side with friends, age range from 10-48.

Run the local Scout troop, having been promoted from Balloo in Cub Scouts.

Watch Ulster rugby as often as possible, and red wine in front of the telly with a roaring fire is pretty popular too. emoticon

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surf the net, read,scrapbook,garden,quilt and spend time with the local LARRF group (Ladies after relaxation,recreation and fun)we meet monthly and always have a great time.we try to alternate our activites so we might go tenpinbowling one month and card make the next.Sometimes we get in someone to teach us something like massage.
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Gardening, walking, and it's the season again for once-a-week ice-skating.

And travelling is one of my favourites too, especially to the UK

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Spare time? Don't have any!!!!!


Well, not exactly.


Courting, Church stuff, singing and some social fills all my spare time up. Haven't relaxed (as in sitting down) in years. Too much to do. The old heart will probably not stick it.......


...Ahhh. I suppose I'll have to slack the revvs off when I get a few more miles on the clock.

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PS There are a hundred and one things I would like to do, but don't have time for. But even if I didn't work, I couldn't fit them all in.


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Sport!!!!! Play football (soccer to you americans and irish of a certain persuasion) for a local team which means training on a Wednesday and Match on a Sunday. Badminton just started on a Tuesday and if there is a match (football/soccer) on the box the TV belongs to me!!!!

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Trying to spend sometime with the family ie Karen(the wife),Hannah 6 and matthew 3.
Boys' Brigade and other church activities and if a baby sitter is available then the pictures.
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Hobbies, hmm . . . don't go to church, but have a sister who lobbies for me in her nightly prayers. Watch a lot of sport on television, sales take a dip whenever a five day test is on. Read a lot; more and more non fiction as I get older, but still enjoy the likes of James Ellroy, James Lee Burke, John Sandford and Nelson DeMille. Enjoy movies especially the Coen Brothers. Travel.

Lugging semen flasks to and from my pick up and walking through cows is about as active as I get, this has become a little livelier in the last few years as seasonal breeders throw bulls in to the herds to clean up when they are done with A.I. Beggars make straight for me, they recognise the opposition when they see it. Thus it was a shock to the system when I was press ganged into walking up Kilimanjaro in September. Seven of us set out, two dairy couples, a travel agent, a university employee and a semen smous. The university employee had to turn back after two days when she started battling to breathe. Three out of the remaining six summited. Both dairy farmers and one of their wives. The wife of the other was literally 200 metres from the top, but was so nauseas she could not continue. I had called it a day the night before, just too knackered to continue. Unfortunately I could not blame the altitude (4800m at this point, there was still 1000m to go) as I suffered no ill effects, but rather just too over conditioned and unfit. The two day walk down hammered the joints and I limped for a week afterwards. Highly recommend the trip to anyone.


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Love my football - played in local leagues till about 36 and then went to 5 a side. Now if i turn up I always pull a muscle and ache all over. Finally and reluctantly had to stop before my knees and hips gave in.
So now I play golf but wished I had started younger. I have taken on the role of junior Organiser at Llanymynech Golf club where Ian Woosnam was a junior. My lad plays a lot and we have some wonderful young players who have really developed well. I enter them into lots of open, county and national competitions, get them quality coaching and now we have several players playing for Shropshire and Herefordshire and North Wales Boys. We have two playing for Wales. The other parents are a great help and the role is very rewarding.

I like to go skiing every year and the kids start to bully me into submission around this time of year so I will have to start planning our next trip soon.

I too like fishing but haven't found any time for it in recent years - just like surfing - these things get sidelined with the intention of rekindling them sometime.

Travelling is a great passion and my job has taken me to lots of wonderful places. Now I have a business organising farm tours and have this year taken farmers to Spain, Italy, Sardinia, Isle of Man and Ireland (always a favourite - great cows, great people and lots of fun). Busy organising a trip to Verona Show in March and Holland in April.

Obviously, I could not do all these things farming.

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