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Hobbies

My hobbies

An activity that you do for pleasure when you are not working

By that definition my 'Hobbies', 'Activities' and 'Events' are all really Hobbies. Even so I will continue to refer to them separately, accepting the there will be some overlap.

Also included in that definition would be eating, and watching TV. One an essential, the other a pastime. Neither covered here.

ASUS TUF Gaming A17

 

ASUS TUF Gaming A17 Laptop

 

 

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 Test re-run but with all Apps Closed, except background processes.

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Big Box 1

 

Big Box 1

 

Big Box 1 was my first home built computer.

Previous computers were either from work or bought as a complete unit.

Big Box 2

 

Big Box 2

 

Another home built Tower computer.

The CPU was a Intel Core i7-5820K

The Intel Core i7-5820K was a desktop processor with 6 cores, launched in September 2014. It is part of the Core i7 line up, using the Haswell EE architecture with Socket 2011-3. Thanks to Intel Hyper-Threading the core-count is effectively doubled, to 12 threads.

 

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Genealogy, Family Trees and History

 

Genealogy, Family Trees, Family History, Local History, One Name Studies and One Place Studies

 

This is such a broad subject that it has a site all to itself.

 Enter my Genealogy Site

 

More links and information below as well ...

Romsey Model Railway Show

 

Romsey Model Railway Show

 

Occasionally I would visit the Romsey Model Railway Show in Crossfield Hall, Romsey with my Dad, and sometimes with my Brother.

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Photography

 

I have been interested in photography since childhood. This was generated in part by my father’s interest. My brother is also a professional photographer. His name is Trevor Hurst. Click on his name to link to his web site. I have used a wide range of equipment in that time including Pentax, Olympus, Nikon, Panasonic and Sony. My first Camera was a box brownie.

Natural History

 

Again I have been interested in Natural History since childhood. I started writing a book on animal classification in my first year at secondary school. I never completed it as there were already better books available. However, the research for my book did give me a good understanding of the structures of classification systems. At the time that I started compiling the book I thought that there were only two primary classifications known as Kingdoms. This was based on the Linnaean classification. The Animal Kingdom and the Plant Kingdom.

Trucks, Motorhome, Military and Motoring and other vehicles

 

Trucks includes the trucks, coaches, and library van, some of which were ex-military.

My history with motorhomes and my dream motorhome that never was.

Company cars as well as those I have driven is covered by motoring, and other vehicles is primarily for the boat.  

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Genealogy and History

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