What DFW hobbies do you all have ?

debbycatz

fishface-69 wrote:

How do you make gin - recipe please!! I do scrapbooking but think I'm a winter scrapper!! Rediscovered the joy of cooking (love my chilli!!) & reading & house much cleaner than it used to be! Clicking on pugsback, online surveys & watching naff tv...also trying to find a sport I like as recognise that I need to get out more but cheaply!! Great threa by the way!!

Hi Fishface (that feels a very rude way to address you btw ). Thanks for your reply, I have thought about scrapbooking but some of the scrapbooking materials in shops seem very expensive. I guess it's just a case of finding cheap stuff or stuff around the home and using ones imagination eh!......hmmm...that could be why I'd be no good at it :rotfl:
BTW - your diary is another one that I have thoroughly enjoyed reading - thanks for letting us into your life, it has been an inspiration :beer:

zombiecazz

spud30 wrote:

Hi Zombie,

Following on from CAFCgirl's cherry drop vodka, I was wondering what flavours you add to your voddy, gin brandy etc?

Hope I'm not giving everyone the impression I drink a lot

I've made kumquat brandy and gin, plum vodka and ginger/kumquat whisky.
halved the plums, !!!!!ed the kumquatand peeled & sliced the ginger. Dissolved a load of sugar in water to get a runny sweet sugar syrup. filled the jars with the fruit. poured in some syrup and topped up with alcohol of choice. Keep in dark cupboard and shake once a day. Ready to drink after three weeks, but can be kept a lot longer.
Also Strwberry gin is fab make same way.

Note don't use bashed or bruised fruit.

Dr.Lou

In the summer try and spend as much time outside as possible, like to walk along the beach/ or in the countryside to keep fit.

Like reading anything and everything. In the winter every so often research family trees, it's free to do in the archive offices.

Also like cooking (vegetarian stuff).

dinkylou

I dance for a local theatre group and act with another group as well.

Very cheap to do if you're in a club and very sociable.

Means I don't need a gym either as thats all the exercise I need. Also, you don't need to be that good as there are people with all abilities there.

LizD_2

Cross-stich, cardmaking and just taken up knitting again. Also dressmaking. Does cooking count if it's a necessity?
Talk to my Guinea Pigs.
Go to National Trust places when I can (I'm a member, so entry is free). Walking - live in Dorset, the west of the county is beautiful.

Oh, and I fit a full-time job in there somehow! :rotfl:

4Chickens

I have an allotment plot. Costs my a fiver a year and get free food from the other allotment tenants.

And bye the way I am going to be on Anglia TV between 6pm and 6.30pm tonite. I got interviewed yesterday on my allotment. I was dead nervous and they will probably edit me out. But if they don't, I'm the woman in the navy polo shirt standing next to the derelict greenhouse making a tit of herself whilst supposedly off work sick

DontDoDebtKids

You lot are great and quite inspirational.

Myself, I read (libarary books!), gamble (matched betting), cook and scheme*!

DDDK

*=generally about what to do to get debt free quicker :beer: and what it's going to be like when I am debt free :A

debbycatz

cindiedunkley wrote:

I have an allotment plot. Costs my a fiver a year and get free food from the other allotment tenants.

And bye the way I am going to be on Anglia TV between 6pm and 6.30pm tonite. I got interviewed yesterday on my allotment. I was dead nervous and they will probably edit me out. But if they don't, I'm the woman in the navy polo shirt standing next to the derelict greenhouse making a tit of herself whilst supposedly off work sick

Oh, fame at last eh cindie Hope your employers aren't watching eh

Many thanks for your contribution :money:

**purpleprincess**

I go jogging, cycling, walking, I knit which doubles up as pressies!! Read (swap books at work, endless supply of books at no cost!) paid clicks, surf MSE, cook and bake, make cards :think: anything that is moneysaving or doesn't cost a lot really!!!

CAFCGirl

**purpleprincess** wrote:

I go jogging, cycling, walking, I knit which doubles up as pressies!! Read (swap books at work, endless supply of books at no cost!) paid clicks, surf MSE, cook and bake, make cards :think: anything that is moneysaving or doesn't cost a lot really!!!

does that include friendly chats with the sort of locals on msn?