A bloke needs hobbies - passtimes, things to while away the time in between Rugby test matches. For this reason, the versatile Bloke has a store of equipment, carefully stashed in the appropriate place (the floor, the hallway, the shed, under the kitchen table, the wash-house, under the house, in the roof-space or whereever he last put it down) in case the need arises to take up arms against a sea of boredom.

Your average bloke can expect to have an interest in the following hobbies:

• Watching Rugby on TV
• Taking Engines to bits
• Building household furniture
• Building Houses
• Fencing, Ploughing etc
• Hunting (and not just the neighbours pets, although that's fun too)
• Skinning and Tanning (see above)
• Repairing household items (Lawnmower, Fridge, Tractor, etc)
• Beer Testing.

To facilitate this eventuality a good bloke is often known to collect items bound to be of use at a later date. Less visionary people call this sort of thing "Hoarding", a word that is never used when the less visionary person REALLY NEEDS that spare ball-cock to stop their toilet cistern overflowing in the middle of the night and when the plumber is going to charge triple time for at least three hours to come and fix it... Blokes expect and accept this sort of thing - so long as the two crates of beer are on the back step the following morning as soon as the bottle store opens. (Unless of course it's the toilet in the bottle store that's stuffed, in which case it's THREE crates, and before the jobs starts).

Tools
A Bloke NEEDS Blokes tools - for most jobs this consists of three hammers - The sledgehammer for knocking away debri (or making debri to knock away), The claw hammer for general work, and the panel beating hammer to threaten the neighbours with when they complain about the noise from the previous two.

There are other tools appropriate to the passtimes above, for which the Bloke must be prepared.