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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: fat B****rd Date: 13 Jul 01 - 03:05 PM I collect whenever and however financially possible old books on Boxing (up to about 1955/Rock Marciano) if there's a bloke with a fancy waistcoat and McGuinn glasses out there who has a choaotic secondhand bookshop in Southsea, did you find me the Max Baer book ?? It's only been about five years and I did give you my address.!! also Jazz and Blues, most recently "King of the Delta Blues" about Charlie Patton. |
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: JennieG Date: 12 Jul 01 - 11:45 PM I like sewing - I make most of my own clothes including the Scarlett O'Hara-style ball gowns I wear for colonial dancing - now that's real fantasy stuff. And patchwork and quilting too. Cutting up perfectly good fabric and sewing it back together again is probably no worse than cutting up perfectly good trees to make furniture or musical instruments, when you think of it! And playing guitar and singing too. Cheers JennieG |
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 12 Jul 01 - 03:10 AM I like going to craft fairs.
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Kjell Date: 11 Jul 01 - 04:52 AM I used to be a speed skater and a sky diver, but two broken legs, a broken arm and several cracked ribs have made me stop - especially the cracked ribs, they are most painful. Now I am making sculptures out of natural materials which is very safer. Kjell |
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Celtic Soul Date: 10 Jul 01 - 10:50 PM Where do you lot find the time??? Man, but I am impressed!!! :D In between being a Mom, singing (which takes up a lot of my weekends), holding down a "real" job, and household day to day stuff I am lucky to get 5 hours of sleep a night. I haven't watched TV in more than a year (which, as I see it, is one of the perks). I remember when though. I used to like to do caligraphy, sketch, horseback ride, skate, and go unusual places on the spur of the moment. Unusual for me these days is the grocery store! ;D |
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: RangerSteve Date: 10 Jul 01 - 09:47 PM I collect musical instruments that are beyond repair, but look interesting. I'd like to get a collection of playable but pointless instruments like the Ukelin, Hawaiian Tremeloa, or other zitheresque instruments, all of which seem to have been manufactured in New Jersey. I also collect illustrated Victorian adventure novels. My favorite thing to collect is postcards that say "Greetings From..." and then the name of the place in large letters with pictures of the place inside the letters. Especially towns that seem to be too insignificant to merit having postcards. |
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Hawker Date: 10 Jul 01 - 08:10 PM Here are my hobbies, some people may be bored doing them, but me? NOPE! Making Corn Dollies Pergamano (hand embossing parchment paper and pricking and cutting the edges, to create decorative cards which look like lace - sounds boring when yu put it like that!) Riding motorbikes Photography - nature and landscape and portraits - oh, and architecture! Local history Singing, songwriting and playing music anybody else make corn dollies? Lucy |
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 10 Jul 01 - 04:12 PM No, I think all the above hobbies are intersting, well maybe apart from Murrays(reply no.1) :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Hollowfox Date: 10 Jul 01 - 03:02 PM John in Hull, does anybody have boring hobbies? Walking Eagle, if you check http://www.LibraryVisit.org you'll be able to add a few more libraries to youe collection. Besides folk -music and -lore, I'm a bookaholic. Then there's cooking, needlework, visiting, hanging out with the (fourlegged) cats,..the list is a long one. |
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: GUEST,Walking Eagle Date: 10 Jul 01 - 02:29 PM I collect covered bridges. Via pictures of course. I also collect library buildings the same way. |
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Iguanaguy Date: 11 Jun 01 - 12:44 PM Hey All,
Hmmm, what're me interestin' pastimes? Well, there's the tortoises I adopt or find homes for; the green iguanas I raise; the orchids I try to keep alive
Paz everyone!
Mark V. 8:) |
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Peg Date: 10 Jun 01 - 10:42 PM Jeff; many of your hobbies are similar to mine! Except the mountain biking and canoeing and building musical instruments...but I do have friends who brew and am learning the craft from them... Peg
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 10 Jun 01 - 10:21 PM I just decided to have a go at Local/Family History through the net,but modt of the sites ive found so far seem to be american,has anybody else done this? especialy like to know how UK people got on,(good sites to try etc).One good site I found so far is the War Gaves Commision one.thanks.john |
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: JeZeBeL Date: 10 Jun 01 - 06:14 AM Whooops, forgot a few... Me and my dad make home made wine and beer and liquores(from kits so it isn't illegal, but the beer and wine are made fresh from the hops and fruits/flowers..)..... One more thing..... ...............GETTING COMPLETLY RATARSED AFTER I'VE BEEN WORKING....LIKE LAST NIGHT AND I HAVEN'T EVEN GOT A HANGOVER!!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: GUEST,Joe Date: 10 Jun 01 - 05:53 AM Hello The hobbies I have are miniature painting,role playing games,plastic models (have the Enterprise NCC-1701d with the lights),leathercarving(friend just got me started on it),The Society for Creative Anachronism or SCA for short (its a medevial reenactment group),Comic books(would like to get the whole lone wolf and cub set),collecting dice and a few more |
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Hyla Date: 09 Jun 01 - 08:34 AM Hmmmmm hobbies.... I like to forage for and cook with wild edible plants and mushrooms....photograph wildflowers....collect natural history facts and folklore....hike....backpack...canoe....mountain bike...skinny dip....make home brew....make dandelion wine....build musical instruments....and play music and sing. -Jeff |
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Billy the Bus Date: 09 Jun 01 - 07:57 AM John (in Sheffield) The COD defines Carboy and Demi-John so closely together, that the difference doesn't matter...;^) Large glass vessels - usually enclosed in wickerwork. Hosomever... I think of a Carboy as containing a noxious laboratory chemical, while a Demi-John is filled with .... Whisky... Alas I only have a Bottle of the latter to hand...;( Slainte - Sam
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Roger in Sheffield Date: 09 Jun 01 - 06:27 AM A demi-john sounds like a carboy |
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: GUEST Date: 07 Jun 01 - 10:28 PM to Matt R: the perfect "heavy rusted" whatever mix is... 1/3 red brown paint (matte finish) 1/3 thinner 1/3 baking soda try a brumbar with a full coat of zimmerit... there's a challenge |
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: wdyat12 Date: 07 Jun 01 - 07:00 PM I dig up lost dog bones much to the delight of Zero our geriatric Lab who shit on the backseat of Maggie's car last night. Bad Dog! I also spend my summers digging up other artifacts from the past which end up in the Maine State Museum. I am an obsesive compulsive type like my friends that also do this for a hobby or a real lowpaying thankless job. wdyat12 |
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Clinton Hammond Date: 07 Jun 01 - 01:15 PM unpasturised honey is the real runny stuff... like right out of the comb if you can get it... A carboy... ever seen an office water cooler? Know the big blue plastic 'bottle' that gets up ended into them? that's a carboy... get a glass one... I have no idea how much they might cost.. mine was free... keep in touch John... ;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 06 Jun 01 - 11:34 PM Nice site, Ill have to have a go at making mead sometime (should the honey be clear or set? Whats a carboy?john |
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Clinton Hammond Date: 06 Jun 01 - 11:22 PM Chip... Hit my banner and follow the links for myriad ways of keeping in touch with me... and you'll get a chance to check out some pics of my maille work... |
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Chip2447 Date: 06 Jun 01 - 11:00 PM Clinton, currently no pics available. I hope to have that remedied soon. The current suit under construction is 17 ga stainless on a 3/16 inch inside diamter, that is if I ever get the damn thing finished...Something about too many things to do and not enough time to do them in. |
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 06 Jun 01 - 09:57 AM SORRY wrong thread,its the "where were you born" thread thats too big.sorry again.john |
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 06 Jun 01 - 09:51 AM Can somebody split this thread up please? I am using cheapo internet tv,and cant read any threads whith more than 100 entries,I would do it but I dont know how to.Thanks.john |
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: kendall Date: 06 Jun 01 - 08:42 AM Up until recently, when I moved and had no garage, I was into antique automobiles. I just sold a 1950 Willys Jeepster touring car. Before that, I had a 1939 Packard. other than that, I have Mudcat, making music, flea markets and yard sales. I thought of chasing women, but, I'm afraid one of them might catch me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Clinton Hammond Date: 06 Jun 01 - 03:58 AM Hey Chip.. I'd like to see some of your maille... got any pics online anywhere? ;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Steve Parkes Date: 06 Jun 01 - 03:52 AM Rich, I thought I was the only one who photographs doors! Do your nearest and dearest think you are barmy too? It's actually doors and door cases I go for. I used to make ships in bottles till a couple of years ago; thae last one broke inside the bottle after I'd glued it all up, and it wouldn't come out again! I was truying to be too delicate, I suppose ... I did a leatherwork course years ago (my home town Walsall is the saddlery and lorinery centre of England; lost of folks in the US buy our Western saddles), but I never kept it up--shame, it's a great medium to work in. I spend most of my sare time practicing my instruments now, though you might not tink so to hear me play! Steve |
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Liz the Squeak Date: 06 Jun 01 - 01:17 AM I reckon it's a Government inspired rake-off on houses of ill-repute... There is a Tax inspector whose job it is to go and take those cards from the insides of phone boxes, ring them up and ask for a tax return... they can't deny they are working, but hey, what a job!!! My hobbies are numerous. I sew, embroider, garden, sing, collect dragons and green men, am learning to ride a motorbike, but at the moment my main one is smacking the terminal upside the screen because my Email server is playing up and I've had no mail for 3 days!!!! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Chip2447 Date: 06 Jun 01 - 01:10 AM Oops, I seem to have forgotten a few... Mead and cyser making, and Airplanes and air shows, History, writing and poetry, collecting wav files and Midis and mp3's. Thinking about learning Glass blowing and pottery throwing. |
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Chip2447 Date: 05 Jun 01 - 11:41 PM Too many hobbies, not enuff time. Mudcat, music, Ren faires, I make chainmail & and chainmail jewelry, Photography, biking, sketching, Role playing games, watching F1, making origami boulders, sitting in the shade of an old oak with a cold glass of lemonade is a lot of fun, making new friends, and generally making people think. Chip2447 |
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: GUEST,Bert Date: 05 Jun 01 - 07:07 PM Refresh - THREAD OF THE WEEK |
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: vectis Date: 05 Jun 01 - 03:51 PM I thought there would be more winemakers and brewers like me out there. My garden is getting a bit specialised. My motto is "if you can't ferment it there's no point in growing it. I don't run but can do several variations on the fallig and crawling theme. After all why walk when you can crawl? |
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: mytoycar Date: 05 Jun 01 - 03:39 PM Ahh but Emma can you bost that one of your Hobbies is getting drunk and falling over, like Mothers. mine are sorta interesting Im a thesbian and there my hobbies are Acting and for any one who care in 2 weeks I will be performing in my end of year performance called MDMA, the cemical formula for which drug? well wish me luck and hopefully I wont break a leg (this time) |
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: JeZeBeL Date: 05 Jun 01 - 01:49 PM Hmmm, don't know about interesting, but unusual maybe, mine are.... White Water Kayaking Ultimate Frisbee Ice Hockey Festivaling Ok, so maybe the last one isn't unusual. But they're all great fun..... Emma xxx |
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: GUEST,Melani Date: 05 Jun 01 - 01:40 PM I used to have interesting hobbies, but then I discovered Mudcat...I do leatherwork, costuming, marlinspike work, sailing and music, with a little gardening on the side when I have time. I also do Renaissance and Dickens Faires, and probably any other sort of re-enacting that comes my way. And of course music. I have just aquired a lute-backed guitar to use at Renaissance Faires, so there are two intersecting. |
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Billy the Bus Date: 05 Jun 01 - 01:33 PM Spaw, As well as an aged Pentax, I also own a matchbox.... Which you couldn't even look like filling...:) CYA - COBRA Sam |
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: John J Date: 05 Jun 01 - 01:18 PM Amateur radio (called Ham radio in USA), folk song and music, history, hill walking, cycling, camping, science and technology, drinking good beer, enjoying the company of good people, travelling, loads more too. These are not in any order. |
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: catspaw49 Date: 05 Jun 01 - 12:54 PM I collect gnat assholes. You can save thousands of them in a matchbox. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 05 Jun 01 - 12:14 PM Thanks Bill, one of those would be wasted on me! (it takes me ages to type) :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Bill D Date: 05 Jun 01 - 12:02 PM john...ICQ is a communications program where people can talk to each other much like in Mudcat, only faster and one to one...there is even a mode where you can watch the typed letters appearing- complete with backspacing...it also savems messages and delivers them later, like email...(too much to explain all in one post) |
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Billy the Bus Date: 05 Jun 01 - 12:01 PM Peg, I don't own a TV, so Steve Kroft is totally beyond my comprehension - howsomever Pentax cameras I can talk of. Expect a PM Sam |
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Auxiris Date: 05 Jun 01 - 11:31 AM Sorry, forgot to answer your question, Peg. irises all seem to have their own unique perfume, though a majority will have what we call "flowery/sweet" fragrance. However, here are some that smell like lily of the valley, vanilla, mandarine or even cocoa powder! cheers, Aux
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Auxiris Date: 05 Jun 01 - 11:26 AM Hi, Peg; until about eight years ago, I didn't know anything about hybridizing irises--in fact, I simply hadn't realised how all the new ones that come out in catalogs every year come into existence. I have always loved irises, but just had never thought about how new ones are created.
What happened was that I had gone to buy a few new varieties at a specialist horticultural place in central France (Cayeux) and, while I was there, saw a man walking around poking at different flowers with parts of other flowers and asked him what he was doing. He patiently explained that what he was doing was hybridizing and told me that anyone can have a go at it and showed me how to go about fertilising a flower. I am now into my fifth year of hybridizing and enjoyed the second major bloom of my new plants this year (takes three years from the time you fertilise the flower till you see the results of all your hard work). Believe me, there's a big thrill in seeing a unique new iris flower for the first time! cheers, Aux
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Peg Date: 05 Jun 01 - 10:25 AM Sam, I got the Spotmatic at a camera shop in Harvard Square Cambridge. Interesting story. I was looking at the model the salesperson gave me, after I said I wanted an older Pentax that was mostly if not entirely manual, and a guy was behind me in line listening politely to what she said and looking at the camera. I was aware he was there and turned and said "If you need her to help you go ahead, I am just looking at this." And he said "I have one of those, it's great," and then explained that one had to be careful about finding a supply for batteries as they did not make the old mercury batteries anymore and sometimes the new zinc ones made specially for old cameras were hard to find. By this time I was realizing this guy's face was very familiar. He also said he had actually come in there to get batteries for his Spotmatic! The saleswoman pointed to where he could get them in the next room. he was apparently not in too much of a hurry and we continued to chat about the camera. I explained that I had not owned a camera in several years and was replacing one that had been stolen and decided a vintage camera would be nice. He said his had also been stolen many years ago, but then he got another one just like it. Finally I had to ask "Hey you look so familiar, are you famous or something?" I expected him to say, "Yeah, I do the weather on Channel 5," or some such thing, and he said "Do you ever watch 60 MINUTES?" I looked right at him and said "Oh my gosh, you're Steve Kroft! I love your show, etc." I asked him what he was doing in Cambridge and he mentioned some meeting at Harvard. He then told me about he had bought his camera just before he went to Vietnam and used it over there. He went to get his batteries, at which point I decided I had to get this camera, the coincidence and significance of the encounter was just too much. The whole outfit cost about $300, more than I wanted to spend, but they threw in a $20 book on how to use vintage Pentax cameras for free. As Steve left the store he clapped me on the shoulder and said "Enjoy that camera! You'll love it." I said "Steve, you're the man!" He smiled and waved and left. :) It is a great camera. I do not fully know how to use it yet and my first experimental roll of film (shooting kittens in the sunlit porch) was not too successful, but the camera folk said they'd help me with it. There is no light reading instrument that is automatic (either that or the battery is not properly installed) so I need some help with that, too, as I am used to at least having something which offers what setting you should use with existing light conditions. Aux, I love irises (have some very old ones in my yard that I now leave behind; I think I shall dig some of them up and bring them to my new place) and never knew they could be hybridized. How interesting! Do they retain their fragarnce when this is done, or, like hybridized roses, do they lose most of that? Peg
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Billy the Bus Date: 05 Jun 01 - 07:54 AM Bron, Arthritis is a pain, but just you wait 'till "Arthur Leftus" strikes as well...:) Keep that garden going, lass - I'm having enough problrms keeping the fingers under control Cheers 0 Sam |
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Auxiris Date: 05 Jun 01 - 07:12 AM Hello, everyone. . . am just back home to my little town in Lorraine from a month and a half in central France. I don't know if any of you will consider hybridizing irises an interesting hobby or not, but that's what I do when I'm not doing other garden chores, translating French into English, playing music, singing and so on. If there are folks who would like to see some of the irises I've created, you can send me a personal message and I'll be more than happy to send them along, unless someone can tell me another way to send the photos so anyone can see them on the site. . . ? cheers, Aux
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Llanfair Date: 05 Jun 01 - 07:08 AM David- the arthritis is a bugger, isn't it? It;s mostly in my feet at the moment, which limits mobility until the painkillers kick in! John in Hull, a potager garden is one belonging to someone who doesn't like planting veg. in neat rows. Each raised bed has a mixture of herbs, veg, and the odd flower. I can go and pick what I need for meals as it is ready. Lettuce and mange-tout peas in the polytunnel at the moment. Stir-fry and salad for tea tonight! Cheers, Bron. |
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Billy the Bus Date: 05 Jun 01 - 04:08 AM David, "Gymkhana" is a word I haven't seen used since Adam was a cowboy,,, I alway associated the word with horse "trials" - a quick AV search shows it's tied up with car "racing". And, maybe general competetive sports... I see the origin of the term as in India ca mid-1800s - sort of a Horsey game to play when you didn't have enough riders for a couple of Polo teams. Like, you'd ride flat tack on your horse, round a tight course. Object - pick up "souvenirs" from the ground - punt balls through hoops etc,,, Is a motor gymkhana roughly the same? Cheers - Sam
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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.:-) |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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" |
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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. ;-) |
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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... |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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) |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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...... |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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? |
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Subject: RE: BS: INTERESTING HOBBIES From: Murray MacLeod Date: 03 Jun 01 - 12:40 PM Sorry John, I guess we posted simultaneously there ...... Murray |
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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 |
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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:-) |
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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. |
