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I play petanque.


It's not that unusual, I guess, but it's good fun and there's a growing league in London along with regular tournaments across the South East and beyond plus my team heads out to Marseilles in July to compete in the Mondial de Petanque de Marseille. We've yet to win anything, due in part to playing against better, more experienced teams but also due in part to excessive beer and Ricard consumption.


If you're interested we are always looking for new players. Another forum member recently started playing and after one afternoon of playing is about to invest in a set of decent competition standard boule.


Petanque FTW.

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Guitar is a great hobby takes years to learn but is a very satisfying pastime and 3 chords can allow you to play a myriad of popular songs from the past 50 years, well almost, I have been playing since I was a kid and it has brought me a lot of happiness over the years and now I cannot imagine my life without one. It's one of the easiest instruments for a beginner but one of the hardest to master.
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Horsebox Wrote:

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> I play petanque.

>

Just 'googled' it. looks like fun...it reminds me of a game I played called Tejo, its played in Colombia & involves chucking a weight at a target..it also involves explosive caps too...


Tejo

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Mikecg Wrote:

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> Guitar is a great hobby takes years to learn but

> is a very satisfying pastime and 3 chords can

> allow you to play a myriad of popular songs from

> the past 50 years, well almost, I have been

> playing since I was a kid and it has brought me a

> lot of happiness over the years and now I cannot

> imagine my life without one. It's one of the

> easiest instruments for a beginner but one of the

> hardest to master.



Hi mike, I already play guitar..I love it

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Stamp collecting, bridge, golf, taking photographs of buses and cataloguing them.


Not.


Probably if you were going to do any of those you would be doing them already though.


Edited to say: An ex of mine spent hours doing three of those, and an ex work colleague from Basingstoke did the other. Buses. Had a whole room of his house devoted to the photos. I shared an office with him for over a year. He also smoked a pipe. In the days when smoking in offices was allowed. It was a very small office.


Hey, you could take up pipe smoking as a hobby. Clan is a good pipe tobacco, mmmmmmmmm.

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I want to resurrect my old darkroom but need a new enlarger. Sadly found out that Durst stopped making enlargers 3 years ago so I guess I will have to buy second hand now ... bummers


However Photography is a great hobby and with the modern fangled digital thingies you can shnap away until your heart is content

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brilliant game horsebox... I used to play regularly with mates in North London but somehow got out of the swing... had been meaning to find out what was happening locally or set something up for the summer...


thought the Dulwich Woodhouse had a piste... think they may have removed it...


sorry if I have slightly highjacked your thread Andystar!! Have done a brief search on the forum but not much forthcoming


hey... just remembered... Cleaver Square, Kennington. The south London Mecca for p?tanque .... there used to be a piste in the middle of the square and there is that really nice pub the Albert so everything you could dream of!!!


look what I just found... good old internet eh!



http://www.obps.co.uk/team.html

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Xena: Worried prince Wrote:

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> I want to resurrect my old darkroom but need a new

> enlarger. Sadly found out that Durst stopped

> making enlargers 3 years ago so I guess I will

> have to buy second hand now ... bummers

>

> However Photography is a great hobby and with the

> modern fangled digital thingies you can shnap away

> until your heart is content


i've got an enlarger it u want it...i did photograghy for a few yrs

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bigbadwolf Wrote:

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> When I'm really really stoned I sometimes indulge

> in the occasional Airfix model, any scale will

> do.

>

> Reading.

>

> My remote control helicopter.

>

> Walking. Clears the mind.

>

> Porn.

>

> Posting on the forum.


Darling Wolfie,


Why don't you go to confession to sort out your little "porn" hobbie. Then, when God has forgiven you, you could perhaps apply for an alotment, volunteer to work with a charity or take up morris dancing. You sound like such a sweet man, I hate to think of you titillating and degrading yourself in this way.


Do you have a wife sweetie? Don't you think she would be disappointed in your depraved behaviour? Think of the horror on your mothers face (OHMYGOD)!


Cut back on sugar and white bread, omit tea, carbonated drinks and alcohol. Go organic sweetie. Clean the smut from your life. We are all here for you darling...

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