You know, about 18 months ago I could safely say I had no hobbies, and hadnt had any for several years. As a kid I was very arty and was always making or drawing stuff, but that died after GCSE art pumped all the inspiration out of me.
Anyhow, last year I was doing a placement at Motorola, and I booked time off to go sailing on a tall ship for a week in Feb in the Canaries (with the Tall Ships Youth Trust,
www.tallships.org). I came back totally addicted and booked another 16 days off in May/June, have been another time since, helped the charity out at a couple of boat shows, and hope to join them again this summer as a volunteer Deckhand.
Also got into dinghy sailing (from the biggest to the smallest, hehe), have completed Royal Yachting Assocs Start Sailing levels 1 and 2 (capsizing was fun, wheee).
And I got some amazing but not-good-enough photos from the first two voyages, which prompted me to get a new digital camera which could do it all justice, so Im well into my photography now with a Fuji S5500 (though not taken it out for a while).
What else - oh yeah, after not being bothered for a while, Ive jumped head-first straight back into web-design and stuff - just developing my own site but Im learning
Finally, I moved to a place which was 2 miles or so from uni, so Ive been cycling almost daily for about 9 months now. Its fun
Once the weather clears Ill do it on weekends too - Aug Bank holiday last year was great - bikes, beer, Bristol. Brilliant.
Phew. All of that within a year. I was so boring not so long ago...