Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: roopoo Date: 05 Jun 01 - 02:31 AM My main hobby is making salt dough models in order to avoid doing as much housework as possible. (To keep it at this level of output I have to now and again attend craft fairs to sell it). Of course if the output drops (as often happens due to other commitments) then there's the panic stage when a fair is looming. And I make green men out of it too, Clinton! I would collect 19th century Staffordshire pottery if my finances would permit me; so instead I am a somewhat eclectic collector of things that just take my fancy. I try to be a cottage gardener as far as my tiny (but mainly walled) lousy-soiled garden will let me. I have been a morris dancer for nearly 18 years, but now mainly play for the side. Andrea |
Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: ddw Date: 05 Jun 01 - 12:01 AM Damn! I was just running over in my mind what I've done as hobbies in the past and what I do now — which is almost nothing — and realized I must be getting old. I used to fly and drive some competition (sports car gymkhanas). Gave up both to save money to get married. Bad swap. I used to swim and ski a lot but haven't done either in years. Also got into photography, complete with darkroom and, for a while, a studio. That progressed to a second job for a while and then circumstances changed and I quit and sold off most of my equipment. Now I like working on home and garden projects — well, sometimes — and poke around for antiques and tour Civil War battlefields. I also play guitar (mostly blues), Autoharp (mostly old-timey and fiddle tunes) and a little piano (mostly country). If the arthritis keeps progressing at its present rate, pretty soon I'll be a complete has-been. david |
Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Billy the Bus Date: 04 Jun 01 - 11:47 PM John in Hull, You may regard yourself as a "newbie", but, you're inspiring some thought provoking threads mate! Take your camera with you on delivery runs - somehow I think you could record some wonderful Hull "Folk History" from 2001. Photography used to be a hobby - Peg - where did you get your Spotmatic from? My Pentax S1 (1960) is getting tired and needs an upgrade. I even took snapshots of a few doors decades back. RichM - about 10 years back there was a neat poster of doors in Wellington (NZ) - don't think I'll have much luck, but will try to track it down. JiH, Murray will probably have a different definition of "syntax", but I reckon it's a Government inspired rake-off on houses of ill-repute... Sings...
Me mother's a bawdy house keeper, Falls over in drunken stupor.... Anyway.... Hobbies... Yeah... #1 is Living - never been paid for it yet. Others indulged in, over the last half-century, would include all those mentioned above, apart from Belly Dancing - not a pretty sight, in my case. Mind you, I could do a damned good Zorba's Dance - here's a toast to Anthony Quinn ..;) Ummm.... Think I've had a couple of other "Hobbies" - like woodwork - which reminds me of "Hobbies" fretsaws and magazine. Jigsaw Puzzles and... Aaarrrgghh... I'll shut up Sam
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: GUEST,JohnB Date: 04 Jun 01 - 11:24 PM Well there's the music,(now down to three of us called Triangl) the music, (a 70 or so person choir) the Morris Dancing. The Blacksmithing (which was full time for a couple of years, until I got a contract which paid REal money) and for the last 20 years building this house that we live in. Along with a bit of gardening JohnB |
Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 04 Jun 01 - 09:20 PM Thanks for replying everyone,looks like youve all got some good hobbies. Llanfair, what is potager gardening? Bill D ,what does ICQ mean? john.:-) |
Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Bill D Date: 04 Jun 01 - 07:14 PM I used to fancy myself a collector..stamps, coins, matchbooks(as a kid), books(esp.folk & sci-fi) , maps...but I finally realized that what I was, was an 'accumulator'....since physical space has become a premium, I suppose I now 'accumulate' internet/WWW things...bookmarks, images, programs(and places to GET programs...mostly free ones), fonts (thousands!!), names on my ICQ list, computer games(the kind that are puzzle-analytical like FreeCell), etc., etc..... the wood is sorta beyond hobby, as hard as I strive to keep the fun part in it, 'cause I need to make part of my income with it. |
Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Spud Murphy Date: 04 Jun 01 - 07:08 PM I'm living, too, Kim, but this is the first time I ever found someone besides me who looked at it as a hobby. I dont see it's any big deal, though. Mrs. M says I may live even longer if I'd just straighten up and fly right. Spud |
Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Clinton Hammond Date: 04 Jun 01 - 06:38 PM Llanfair My mead recipie is available on my web site... trades, unnecessary but accepted! Click here to find it...
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: DonMeixner Date: 04 Jun 01 - 06:12 PM I find it hard to divide hobbies from an active business. I am a silversmith, I learned from my Dad and I am teaching my sons and daughter. I often have bracelets in the auction for mudcat and I have another to offer but my scanner went belly up so I am sunk in regards to sending a picture just now. I also make wooden dolls. I collect original comic and cartoon art as well as comic books old and recent. (Would love to see a scan of one or two of Rick's cartoons) I have a fine collection of antique fishing tackle, one or two muzzle loaders. And I perform and collect folk music!
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Matt_R Date: 04 Jun 01 - 06:08 PM I love building plastic models. I used to spend a lot of my time from 14-17 building them, but fell out of it once we got back to the states. Since I'm slacking off for the summer, I decided to get back into it again. I'm finally finding the models that I lusted over as a teenage...WWII German armor. So far I've got a Sdfkz 251/1, StuG IV, Pzkpf II Ausf G, a Pak40/L46, plus so figures. Today I just bought a Kubelwagen Pkw K1 Type 82 and some German machine gun troops which I am building as I speak. I also was painting a Grumman Wildcat today, and have the Enterprise 1701-D and a B-52 waiting in th wings. What next? Either a Marder or a Panzer Panther. |
Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Llanfair Date: 04 Jun 01 - 05:24 PM ClintonHammond, I'll swop your recipe for Mead for mine for elderflower wine!!! Now I don't work for a living anymore, hobbies include: Gardening, producing veg and stuff in the greenhouse, polytunnel, and potager garden. I keep poultry as well, and a pair of geese. Crafts, I'm making and selling driftwood mobiles just now, and have put an order in for some willow to make plant supports and stuff. Wine, jam and pickle making. At the moment I'm working on reinstating the town's market charter, so I can start selling all the stuff I've bought in junk shops, so I can go and look for more!! There's the singing and CD'S, of course....... Cheers, Bron. |
Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: GUEST,Dancing Mom Date: 04 Jun 01 - 04:01 PM A friend just got me started on birdwatching, especially Blue Herons and other shore birds. Singing. I belong to a small theatre group that does New Age sprituality- type stuff. Band Booster for my kid's High school marching band.Herb and Flower gardening. Dancing. Did I mention singing? Sharon |
Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Mr Red Date: 04 Jun 01 - 03:53 PM Shameless plug I am an information junkie, specifically folk venues as listed on website cresby.com though I do venture into paper in Folkwrite (latest issue out in July) and Somers Folklife "Folk!" magazines. Would finding 4 leaf clovers count as unusual? not to mention "RED" |
Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Kim C Date: 04 Jun 01 - 03:27 PM I forgot to mention I am a living history reenactor, but that's more of a lifestyle choice than a hobby. ;-) |
Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Amergin Date: 04 Jun 01 - 02:58 PM well....i make necklaces using a monkey's fist.....i come here....i write....but then wannabe writers are a dime a dozen....i like to sing.....guess that is it... |
Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Bev and Jerry Date: 04 Jun 01 - 02:48 PM We are Town Criers. If you want to know more, click here. Bev and Jerry |
Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: RichM Date: 04 Jun 01 - 02:38 PM For a long time, I had the idea of photographing interesting old doors...of which there are many in Ottawa. Finally, on Saturday, I volunteered my wife (who is a camera bug) to come with me ...after breakfast at the Glebe Café-the bribe!- We spent a couple of hours taking photos...and meeting some interesting people, who wanted to know *why?* I'm not sure why---i just like interesting doors, and it seems that every renovation simply discards some really nice ones....so I thought I would start making a picture record of the ones that are left,before they disappear! We met an interesting Scot lady who was part of a volunteer gardening crew at a Church building. She told us something of the history of the building, when she found out what we were doing. And we talked to an Egyptian man who coincidentally, likes to photograph doors. He said when he was last in Cairo for a visit, he was doing just that. People were offering him their beautiful carved old front doors, for the equivalent of 10$us! It seems in modern Egypt they all want brand new (boring)doors.
Other interesting hobbies: I seem to collect squirrels. They hang around my birdfeeders, and I have fed them peanuts for years. If I leave the screen door open, they come in, reminding me it's feeding time... Rich McCarthy
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Clinton Hammond Date: 04 Jun 01 - 02:36 PM hobbies eh... Well, my living is made from music, but I still think of that as my first and foremost hobbie... I also make chainmaille inspired jewlery... that's sorta a hobbie that keeps my in pint money... what else do I do as hobbies... ummm... the net, computers in general I guess... trying to make Windoze into a decent O.S. is a hobbie I guess... A couple of times a year, I brew mead... I collect Green Man effigies... and lately skulls as well...
More info and more specifics can be found How's THAT for subtil eh?!?! Embedded objects from other sites are prohibited, so I deleted the image Clinton posted. click here to see the image. |
Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: GUEST,Static Chaos Date: 04 Jun 01 - 02:22 PM I make ridiculous short films and post them on the Internet so my friends and family can tell me how much I'm wasting my life away. You may join them by viewing my "work" at www.StaticChaos.com Brock
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Robby Date: 04 Jun 01 - 02:14 PM Hi john in hull I have tried taking some landscape pictures, as well. However, the only one that ever came out well was when I tried to take one of our cherry tree in bloom. I slipped on the wet grass as I clicked the shutter. It came out looking like an impressionist painting. Aside from scanning Mudcat and occasinally comenting in a thread, my principal hobby is model railroading, HO Scale, paticularly the railroads that were active in Northeastern Pennsylvania in the 1950s and 60s. A seconday hobby of mine is tracing our family history. So far I have identified three of my paternal great grandparents' birth years and arrivals in the USA, the fourth was born here. Have also traced some of my maternal family and my wife's family, with lesser degrees of success. Robby |
Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Dave (the ancient mariner) Date: 04 Jun 01 - 01:58 PM I dont have any photo's but maybe I'll make one this winter and auction it for Max/Mudcat Yours, Aye. Dave (who is in drydock for a few weeks recovering) |
Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Peg Date: 04 Jun 01 - 01:52 PM oh, lots. Aromatherapy (that is an expensive one); I make custom perfumes, too. Herbal magic and medicine. Photography (just got a "new" Pentax 1964 Spotmatic to replace my camera stolen four years ago) Baking (campfire, that is great that you decorate cakes! I used to do that for a living. My oven the last four years is not good for cakes but my new place might allow me to get back into decorating, too) Calligraphy (taught it for a while, too) Gardening Thrift shop scouring and junk picking
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Metchosin Date: 04 Jun 01 - 01:38 PM Hey Dave, Neato! I used to do knots and splices too, but that was many years ago, when I wanted to be a seagull and had this unrequited dream that someday I was going to own a sailboat. But after 25 years without much leisure time, the idea sort of faded. Can't even remember the names of all of them now. What is the splice called that has the big lump on the end? One thing I do remember is that there is a knot called a Catspaw.
Do you have any photos you can post? I took a course in biological illustration a few years ago and have a good stereo microscope on order finally (it was an ebay thing, so hopefully I'm not getting screwed). If everything turns out OK, I'll finally be able to proceed with my hobby and continue to do stuff like this |
Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Kim C Date: 04 Jun 01 - 01:29 PM I sew, knit, paint a little, do some calligraphy, spin, read, write... lotsa things. I am also learning to belly dance. |
Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: mousethief Date: 04 Jun 01 - 01:18 PM Hey, campfire, I used to do cross-stitch too! I only made one design of my own that was any good: a Calvin and Hobbes thing. It was very challenging, and came out looking pretty good if I say so myself. Nowadays I read a lot, and work in the garden, and work re-landscaping the front yard. And mudcat, of course. Alex |
Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Jenny the T Date: 04 Jun 01 - 01:17 PM I like to make whiskey, and usually have at least one fiddle near completion at any given time. If I can get the land, I'd like to be raising livestock, too. I wouldn't mind if any of these hobbies (except for the whiskey, which is only for meself) were to turn into a full-time occupation. JtT |
Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Dave (the ancient mariner) Date: 04 Jun 01 - 12:55 PM I make sailors knot boards.. Sometimes I frame them like a picture. I use quarter inch diameter white cotton rope (hawser laid) and I put splices and knots into displays. Yours, Aye. Dave |
Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Little Hawk Date: 03 Jun 01 - 05:10 PM Mudcat seems to be one of them. Built many plastic models over the years, but not much lately cos my eyesight isn't so good for close work, and I guess I just got burnt out on it after awhile anyway. Have been sailing radio controlled sailboats. Very nice way to spend a couple of hours, especially if you've got some companions out there to sail there boats along with yours. Impromptu races are great fun. Music for me was a passion for many years, but not something I expected to earn a living from...so maybe you could call that a hobby too...I don't know. Yakking about World War II is also a hobby of mine. Don't ask me why. I'm very antiwar by nature. - LH |
Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: campfire Date: 03 Jun 01 - 04:34 PM I decorate cakes. Somehow, they often have a musical theme. I've done a guitar with licorice strings and a piano (well, four octaves -full size- of a keyboard, anyhow, with Kit Kat bars for the black keys and white chocolate for the white keys). Since I work at the Zoo, Ive also done cakes shaped like most of the animals. My cakes are raffled off at our annual fund-raiser, but since I don't get the money, I guess that means it's still a hobby. I used to do counted-cross stitch, usually my own designs, but don't seem to make much time for that anymore. Now my "fabric art" is limited to applique, mostly to cover stains on my sweatshirts and make them wearable again. campfire |
Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: death by whisky Date: 03 Jun 01 - 04:23 PM Music.Brewing (coffee.spiced tea,ribena,kit beers)Drinking them on warm summer Daaazzeee...... |
Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Justa Picker Date: 03 Jun 01 - 04:12 PM Other than fingerpicking, flat-picking and a little bit of piano... - photography - computers - golf |
Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Rick Fielding Date: 03 Jun 01 - 04:06 PM After my depressing (pre-music) job history (see "What do you do" thread) I discovered that my hobbies were mostly the only things I was willing to do to earn a living. So, leather carving....free lance cartooning and music. Those I get payed for. Non-paying hobbies: Inventing prototypes (too lazy to follow through on them). Lifetime fascination with bizzare and miniscule human behavioural traits.(mine, as well as others) Both give me HUGE enjoyment! Jeez, over the last three years...MUDCAT as well! Rick |
Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 03 Jun 01 - 03:29 PM Megan thank you for replying,I thougt nobody would! I like animals as well,I live near a cemetry and like to take pictures of the squirrels that live there.I read somewhere that there is too many of them,and the council is going to kill them.I think this is a bit cruel.john |
Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Megan L Date: 03 Jun 01 - 02:51 PM It is a new governament scheme to earn money, thinking about it 50pence, actually being bothered to do it £1 and being stupid enough to get caught £XXXXX. Sorry guess I am still tired. Hobbies spent 20 years standing in cold wet fields looking at the back ends of horses as first aid duty officer, they think I am getting on a bit now so they let me do nice inside duties. Other than that I do a variety of craft projects, just do not ask me to do sewing. |
Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 03 Jun 01 - 12:45 PM murray tell me what im doing wrong,if you dont tell me how will i know? whats a syntax? |
Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Murray MacLeod Date: 03 Jun 01 - 12:40 PM Sorry John, I guess we posted simultaneously there ...... Murray |
Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Murray MacLeod Date: 03 Jun 01 - 12:38 PM My hobby is scanning Mudcat posts for continued glaring misuse of spelling and syntax. Not that I would ever dream of commenting on same. Murray |
Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 03 Jun 01 - 12:36 PM sorry i spelt people wrong.i noticed some threads are started in capital letters and others not, is there any reason for this? if i start another thread should i use big letters or small? please explain im still a bit new around here.john:-) |
Subject: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 03 Jun 01 - 12:29 PM DOES anybody have interesting hobbies? bill d makes things from wood,and they are realy good.sorry i dont know how to make links maybe someone else does.i know its not about music but i think its iteresting to see what other peple do. i like to take photos of landscapes but im not very good at all.john. |