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Need something to keep me from p**sing off my wife - I keep moaning about not having anything to do! (she reads most nights and practices the flute- ex pro).
I really fancy kids things - RC cars/helicopter, train set, Scalextric (no one to race against) but would feel a bit of dick going to the park with my toys as I'm nearly 60!
Got bored with Xbox etc - so any ideas along the lines above to keep me out of the pub and stop me getting a Jimmy So-vile reputation locally.
Could go crazy and ride a bike?
Scalextric (no one to race against)
Race against yourself with a controller in each hand, while giving your best Murray Walker commentary. That's what a proper kid would do.
Some sort of indoor fitness training regime?
Lego, clearly.
Buy a drum kit.
Take up indoor climbing.
Yoga
Bouldering?
Indoor drone racing - hide outside and fly through the house using an extravagant course you've made with fire hoops and so on?
I've got plenty of riding arranged at weekends and can't be arsed cleaning my bike at 10pm each night.
I already go to the Gym three times per week, need something to make/construct then play with, although the making part is what I usually enjoy most - Got enough bikes/wheels so no bike building etc.
bike building - Oops
Jigsaws
Forum Trolling
Beer making
Gin making
Buy something mechanical and strip it down then rebuild it
Crochet
Whittling
Learn to draw
Running.
Classes at the gym.
Zwift.
Night class at local college.
These has all helped me stay sane over winter in the past. The first 3 also mean I general come out of winter fitter than I go in.
CFH - brilliant!!
Learn the guitar.
Tinder Lego
I know this one!
Try reading [url= https://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/what-hobby-for-wet-winter-nights/ ]threads on STW[/url]. Amazing how much time it can occupy.
Indoor drone racing
That's one way to get round the retarded new drone laws.
I'll be making drones and planes with a mass of 249g maximum, and call it a challenge.
In the mean time, afaik, the CAA don't classify model rockets as drones or flying model aircraft, so I shall continue flying model rockets of all sizes from tiny, to "I can't really justify this expense".
Are RC Helicopters covered by the "drone" regs?
I have a couple of 1000 piece jigsaws ready for when winter arrives. It's surprising how into them I get. I'll sit down to find "a couple of pieces" and hours pass.
I’ve got plenty of riding arranged at weekends and can’t be arsed cleaning my bike at 10pm each night.
What Sir needs is a rigid singlespeed.
I washed it recently to sell it, first time in 2 years. Chain lubed in putoline, of if I CBA chainsaw oil. Other than that it only get's maintained when something actually fails, which with disk brakes, tubeless tyres and no gears is basically never. It doesn't even make it back into the shed Dec-Jan when it's really horrible.
Matchstick models?
Mister P : I’ll sit down to find “a couple of pieces” and hours pass.
I think you'll find that is related to early onset dementia, step away from the jigsaw
Edit : I'd quite like a Holly Willaby for winter nights, where can i buy one?, amazon is showing no stock?
Are RC Helicopters covered by the “drone” regs?
They don't need to be, as you'll only fly it once before it crashes into pieces.
Model railways. You and Rod Stewart.
Have you got a workspace? Garage/shed? I love projects like furniture-making and other 'maker' projects. Used to use a lot of traditional woodworking skills, but now I get more of a kick out of making things with my 3D printer and CNC machine in combination with the normal stuff.
See this thread for lots of 'maker' things:
https://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/what-is-the-last-thing-you-made-pics-pls
Lego was the answer.
Or if you have an Xbox and are bored with it, find some new stuff on there. Game Pass is £7 a month and there are over 100 games on it. Everything from fun indie platformers, to first person shooters and even strategy games
I'm currently enjoying Stellaris
Carving spoons from random bits of wood. You'll either be busy making a mess, or busy cleaning up the blood from when you cut yourself.
I'll be hand weaving once I can boot my lad out of the attic room and get my loom set up.
I saw some grown-ups with RC toys while riding at Rivington the other week.
No judgement from me but they did look a bit sheepish about it - and in sartorial terms, they could have come straight off the set of Detectorists.
Personally I'd sort my garage out and maybe learn a language or musical instrument if I had time to burn.
Model trains. My boys have a train set that's been in build since the eldest was about 5. Now 10. It's got a lot of surface area (7*4 feet ish) but the pottering / creative side of it I like, making buildings and scenery, learning to solder, weathering trucks etc. It's a great way to lose a filthy wet weekend or an hour or two of evening. Also do the occasional airfix.
I also do like to read and I volunteer for a local sports club so I've often got a bucket of admin I could be doing on that!
What I need is less time fillers!
Learn to use a DAW, possibly the biggest timesink known to man! Second only to becoming a modular synthesis enthusiast. Watch your body morph into an emaciated creature of the night, a skin tone described as somewhere between grey and rigor mortis. Beholden to the silicon pushers, inevitably found broke and dead, clutching a handful of patch cables in your hallowed synth cave!
Guitar set ups and repair. Plenty of cheap guitars on Facebook marketplace etc. Buy some and make them play great.
I recentley stripped down an old air rifle, replaced the seals, oiled etc. and got it working again. Still need to re blue the steel and sort out the stock, so potentially an old gun could keep you going for ages! Plus you get to do some target practice in the garden (you can buy exploding targets now!). No license needed.....
she ........practices the flute- ex pro).
Sounds to me like you’re sorted.
Make a cigar box guitar and then learn to play