vinylweatherman
You type well loads
- Joined
- Oct 14, 2004
- Location
- United Kingdom
Do what I did - with some winnings a couple of years back I bought a good Garrett metal detector. Keeps you out in the fresh air, doesn't cost you money and you can spend hours doing it - all with the possible 'big win' if you get lucky. I must admit it's still in the box, unopened.
That's a nice option. There are many things that one can do in the better weather one hopes (often in vain) to get during the summer month (and yes, I intentionally typed the singular, I live in the UK )
I can understand that someone who works on computers for a living, and gambles on them for leisure, would not see yet another computer based hobby as "something refreshingly different".
The problem I have noticed here in the UK that even the so called "fresh air" is no longer free. I visited Cheddar Gorge back in the 1980's, and the town of Cheddar was a tourist trap designed to part one with one's cash. Even climbing a flight of steps had been turned into a paid for attraction!!! However, go into the gorge itself, away from the town, and one could park up and walk, taking in the scenery for free. On a more recent visit however, every conceivable layby, many created purely by the cliff formation in the gorge and road running through it, had had a few white lines marked on it and a notice put up advising of the parking charges. Even cheekier was the fact that it was so damn hard to apply parking charges this far out that one was instructed to drive all the way into Cheddar and buy the parking ticket from the "gift shop" associated with the caves and town based attractions. This was a couple of MILES from the farthest marked parking bay!!!! (There are, however, a couple of indents so far up the gorge and so small, that they have NOT been turned into chargeable car parks ).
They will start charging for the scenery next, even if you came by bike or on foot.
(Well, to be blunt, they DO in Cheddar, remember that flight of steps - it only leads to the PUBLIC FOOTPATH that runs along the top of the gorge, how cheeky is that!).