Any interesting hobbies for Girls?!

[jennyh]

I have noticed that there are loads of football, rugby and running clubs but nothing that inspires me as a girl, does anyone know if there are activities groups for women that are flexible and cheap? I cant afford to join a gym but fancy getting fit before the summer and meeting a few local people.

[dulwichmum]

Dear Jennyh,

Start a blog! I can thoroughly recommend it. I was watching The Bill, Eastenders, Coronation Street, Holby City and Bad Girls, and now I have a hobby! Start a blog and I will give you a link. It is the best fun. You have a computer, you don't need to buy any special boots, sticky back plastic or even leave your house...

DM

[jennyh]

I love it! sad thing is that i dont have enough interesting stuff to babble on about, desperately need to do some exercise and feel a bit more alive, sick of the fact my boyfriend plays football, runs, rides his bike etc....need to join some more clubs i think - tv soap club might be the winner

[dulwichmum]

Dear Jennyh,

Oh look, you have just got the material there for the first post! Come on sweetie, what are you going to call it?

I have made dozens of chums since blogging, it is not solitary or sad... Well, I don't think so.

DM

[jennyh]

I will have a think! Problem is that until recently i worked for a magazine and had blogs and writing shoved down my throat for a while...although an insight into the devil wears prada life could be interesting...

meanwhile, anyone doing sport let me know!

[dulwichmum]

Dear Jennyh,

You have me hooked already!

DM

[mockney piers]

JennyH

You could go for a nintendo wii, a strange combination of not having the expense and overcoming the inertia to go down the gym AND getting some exercise.

I have buns of steel since i got the golf game and do a regular 18 hole round withou even leaving the living room.

http://www.nintendojo.com/infocus/view_item.php?1175965488

[vicksg]

Hi Jenny,

I play korfball - it's a mixed team sport with similarities to netball and basketball but better than both those! That's the good news. The bad news is that our season has just ended. However, we'll be doing a demo/try out session at the Green Fair in Dulwich Park on 20th May. Bring your boyfriend along too and try it out - you never know you might get hooked and come along when training starts again in September.

x

[Pierre]

go to Up'n'running, buy trainers, run gently.

Find http://www.fetcheveryone.com - start running. Gets you fit, like.

: P

[Louisa]

Jenny I am a member of the Dulwich Paranormal Club, and we go out twice a week in and around Dulwich. We gain access to old buildings and we all have cameras and other equipment. It is exclusively female thus far, and there are 32 people so far with age ranges from 18 upto 64.

[Mark]

The Dulwich Paranormal Club, does such a thing really exist?

[mockney piers]

What if Louisa is actually a very tech savvy poltergeist herself?!?

[TillieTrotter]

ooh Louisa, tell us more

[Joe likes dinner]

Jenny,

I'd thoroughly recommend a nintendo Wii, great fun, although not so good in the middle of the summer,

Perhaps the paranormalists need a blogger?

[Louisa]

Mark the Dulwich Paranormal Club has been around for years! We used to meet up in Dulwich Park on a sunday evening, but this all stopped about 4 years ago now. I've been going to meetings for a long time, we often meet up in Dulwich Library for group sessions with guest mediums, but the most interesting aspect is when we do our walks and investigations! We quite regularly can be seen walking around Dulwich Common, love investigating the woods, there are some very old spooky buildings up there. Being a tech savvy poltergeist isnt easy mockney, it takes me ages to gain enough energy to type!

[TillieTrotter]

What is the criteria for joining? What equipment do you need to start?

[Louisa]

There isnt a criteria, you can be a believer or a sceptic! Just come along to the next meeting, you dont even need a camera!

[fractionater]

Yeah I'd be interested in that too - can you post some details please?

PS - I'm a bloke

"Don't cross the streams!!!!!"

[TillieTrotter]

When and where?

[James]

What's wrong with boys and make-up?

[Keef]

Jennyh, there used to be a gym in the basement of my building just opposite Sydenham station. It would seem that it's going to reopen as a women's gym... Don't know if this is the sort of thing you're interested in, and have no idea yet what it'll cost, but will gees my eye out. Mrs Keef said she's going to try it when it opens, so I'll see what she thinks...

[louisiana]

I'm vaguely Asperger's spectrum, so it's cycles, excessive vinyl, technology and all that :-S

Tho' paranormal sounds fun (I used to live a few yards from the Interplanetary Society in Vauxhall, BTW).

[James]

Was only being silly and flippant ;-)

My best female friend is into disused tube stations and local history. Plus she has an encyclopaedic knowledge of 70s funk. Seriously.

Personally, I like Mean Girls.

[jennyh]

thanks everyone, lots of great ideas! I think that i might take up tennis for a bit - see if i like that, keep trying things out - process of elimination!

[TillieTrotter]

Louisa, cant seem to find anything on the web re: Paranormal Club, can you publish the next meet date on here. Also where is the nearest spiritualist church. Thanks