BS: what are your hobbies?

Subject: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: jimmyt
Date: 10 Aug 03 - 12:49 PM

I have been hanging arounf here for about 1 year now, and it occurred to me that one way of knowing you mudcat folks better is to know about your hobbies. I can guess that most people here are deeply involved in folk music at some level or other, but other than that, what are your hobbies. interests? I am crazy about travel, and have at one time or other been interested in lots of collecting stuff, but I am fascinated with people who "take it up a notch" with hobbies. Just curious. Besides, seems like a thread that should not be too controversial!   grin

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: Ebbie
Date: 10 Aug 03 - 01:33 PM

I don't consider reading a hobby - it's an essential- but I write children's stories and the occasional adult one; write songs, sketch, minimally; paint, badly; still do massage on occasion (bad thumb these days); do research in early Alaska history; probably some other things... Like most of us, I think, I am up-to-eyeballs involved in music, regularly playing with a number of different people about 6 times a week.

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: jimmyt
Date: 10 Aug 03 - 01:51 PM

Ebbie, I would bet that folk musicians, are more "well rounded and diverse" in their interests than most groups. You certainly are!

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Aug 03 - 02:22 PM

Reading, musketry, computers, trumpet, archery, travel, digital and optical photography, theorectical woodworking, practical chemistry, folkloare, sometimes chess, fencing, historical reenacting, writing, tall tales, sleeping, art, the sciences, outdoor stuff, history -- right now and in no particular order.

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: Desdemona
Date: 10 Aug 03 - 02:29 PM

Hmmmm...hobbies. It seems most of my interests are more or less realted to my "real" interest, which is mediaeval/Renaissance history & culture (partially due to my English mother & the plethora of folk songs she was always singing, many of which turned out to be Child ballads!), but as a result I'm interested in morris dancing, historical swordplay, Elizabethan poetry & literature, and real ales!

D.

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 10 Aug 03 - 02:36 PM

Music, Beer, Science Fiction, Beer, Mathematics, Beer, Bowling (10 pin) & Real Ale

Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: mg
Date: 10 Aug 03 - 03:02 PM

I like to read Lands End catalogs and watch home decorating shows on TV...I don't like doing anything that makes a mess or costs money. I love getting in the car and driving aimlessly, although not in my present car. And I love tiny babies. mg

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: Sorcha
Date: 10 Aug 03 - 04:47 PM

Gardening, quilting, cooking, friends, and soon a grandbaby.

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 10 Aug 03 - 05:13 PM

Music....all types....Folk Festivals (I don't get to go to enough!),playing my fiddle and my drums, collecting instruments! travel, history, geography,cooking,drinking,gianting,painting, films,reading,socialising!......

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: Firecat
Date: 10 Aug 03 - 05:26 PM

Er, Mudcat, reading internet sites, reading books, writing poetry, watching telly, playing computer games, playing music, listening to music, singing, daydreaming, stargazing, sketching (but I don't do enough), sleeping (!), dancing, and that's about it.

Mind you, I fully intend startng kickboxing at some point in the next few months!!!

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: jimmyt
Date: 10 Aug 03 - 06:31 PM

what an interesting array of fascinating things, so far!

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: Oaklet
Date: 10 Aug 03 - 06:49 PM

Strangling owls with two demented sisters that I met in Norway last year. 9. Nearly forgot the 9.

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: Janie
Date: 10 Aug 03 - 06:53 PM

Gardening, gardening and more gardening. I'm actually more passionate about digging in the dirt than I am about music.
Also love to read, cook, explore ideas---but time is always a problem, what with working and taking care of a family, so the gardening and music get priority when I have free time.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: Ely
Date: 10 Aug 03 - 06:58 PM

Music (duh--but especially American mountain music, blues, and early C&W), history (I know that sounds vague but I'll research _anything_, just for fun), sewing & quilting, painting little wooden things, square-dancing when the opportunity arises. I've collected horse figurines for years and occasionally repaint them, make tiny saddles for them, photograph them, and enter them in shows (just like real horse shows but on a tabletop in a rented hall). I *love* road trips--I don't like flying because you can't see where you were in between point A and point B. My dad and I are antique car buffs. I used to do Civil War (American, that is) reenacting and would again if I had an excuse (I've got fabric for a new day dress . . . ).

Mostly, I think it all boils down to being an irrepressible history fanatic.

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 10 Aug 03 - 07:03 PM

Got twins - ain't got time for hobbies...
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: akenaton
Date: 10 Aug 03 - 07:09 PM

My hobby is training racing greyhounds...Travel all over Scotland to race them..Ake

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: mooman
Date: 10 Aug 03 - 07:13 PM

1. Inventing ever more bizarre and implausible stories to explain away my latest instrument purchases!

2. Mending all manner of impossibly broken things including musical instruments!

3. Archery (1 and 2 allowing).

Peace,

moo

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: Amos
Date: 10 Aug 03 - 07:13 PM

Carpentry, scuba diving, and music.

A

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 10 Aug 03 - 07:23 PM

I don't really have hobbies any more. Since I no longer have a "job" in the conventional sense of the word I no longer separate my activities into "things that I do for fun" and "things that I do because I have to". They're all just things that I do. It's sort of like those primitive cultures that use the same word to mean "work" and "play".

The primary things that I do are pottery, music, carpentry, reading, writing, gardening and hanging out at cyberplaces like the Mudcat.

The one "leisuretime activity" that I don't indulge in is watching television.

Bruce

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Aug 03 - 07:36 PM

hadn't thought about it in awhile...but I guess my major hobby, aside from folk music & woodworking, has become 'absorbing computers, the internet, and ways to make them do tricks'. I do NOT want to learn code or programming or the details of hardware... I just want to know how to get about in cyberspace (safely) and find useful and entertaining programs that will help me do that. (This goes beyond just 'surfing', which often means just following links and looking up stuff in Google... and implies exploring creatively, and using inductive logic to deduce what is, or might be, out there.

I think the internet/WWW has already transformed the way the world interacts with itself, and I'm sure it will become one of the major forces in life for a large part of humanity...and I want to be competent at dealing with it for as many years as I have left.

What can this mean? Well...everything from finding music files to collecting interesting fonts, to having computer games to play, to knowing all the different tricks for displaying/manipulating images, to knowing how to analyze webpages and find their sources & owners...etc..

The practical (IMpractical?) results of this 'hobby by default' is that I have WAY more programs than I 'need' to display images, unzip files, edit files, play music, record music, anaylze my PC, fight spam, search my files, list my files, hide my files, delete my files in several ways, balance my checkbook, check the weather report, make notes, etc...and oh, yes...to communicate with others.... by ICQ, IRC, AOL, chat rooms..and of course, email! I can check my email in about 12 places..and reply from most of them.

All that being said..I find 20-50% of my computer time (depending on what is happening) is spent at Mudcat, just because so much happens here. It is at once a source of friends, news, humor, music, ideas and a window into bits of life I never knew existed.

....and now, I am looking for the 'right' way to get into broadband..*grin*

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 10 Aug 03 - 08:00 PM

Akenaton:
you may enjoy racing greyhounds, but do you ever beat them?

Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: Midchuck
Date: 10 Aug 03 - 08:01 PM

Take Nigel's post (sixth from the top); substitute "fooling around on the internet" for "Mathmatics;" and substitute "skiing" for "Bowling," and that covers me as well.

Peter

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: akenaton
Date: 10 Aug 03 - 08:04 PM

Nigel some of my dogs are so slow YOU could beat them...Best wishes Alex..

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 10 Aug 03 - 08:30 PM

" stranglinfg owels, blar balr bar etc"=
i never strngled no owels, but i used to kill turkeys, [i'm a licensed slaughterrman, i think we a called slaughterrpeople nowadays!], anyeway, our record was 5,000, nbetween 4 of us during a 8 hour shift, great fun! we got a big bonus that week!, you can earn good money killing animuls, [one week i brought home £420 quid!, thats after tax and stuff], i have to do loads of ours, and kill loads of animals, but still is good money.
Oaklet-I think owels are a protected species, under the Wildlife Conservation Act [1980]?. anyway, [especiallyy, barn owles, [yoi not allowed to kiling them].
anyway-if you like to kill any animals you not licensed for, you welconme to borrow my licemse, [ just tell them you name is john from hull, then it will be sorted],,9 you can borrow it for free, just buy me a pint sometime]
anyway- if you killrd some owls already, dont tell anyome, [ you get into big shit from the wild life people}, [ and badgers as well, just se how much hassle it caused that archers bloke!.

anyway-my hobbies is eating, drinkibgf loads of bears, amnd lissuining to music,.john

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 10 Aug 03 - 08:31 PM

"The woman, The dog & the walnut tree,
The more you beat 'em the better they be!"

Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: Allan C.
Date: 10 Aug 03 - 08:35 PM

I like Rapaire's "theoretical woodworking" hobby. I am a theoretical woodcarver, among other things.

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Aug 03 - 08:43 PM

All my tools are in Kentucky, and I have no place here to do it. So...I think about doing it.

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 10 Aug 03 - 09:41 PM

Aside from music, which is a vocation boarding on occupation, I have a number of hobbies - cooking, homebrewing, model railroading, comic books, following soccer and baseball. I also make models with my son which is helping him learn a hobby and for me it is recapturing my youth. My wife and I collect First Day Covers, but that is a hobby that takes up little time.

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 10 Aug 03 - 09:45 PM

My hobby is trying to post the millionth message at Mudcat. I'm set for it. can I do it?
Bill Day did half a million. He must be sleeping today....
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Aug 03 - 09:47 PM

trying!

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: jimmyt
Date: 10 Aug 03 - 10:08 PM

Joh9n and Oakle9t, does everyone in Hul9l have a fixation on murdering fowl? just curious.   Owl, Oakley? the Harry Potter bunch would call that interfering with the Royal Mail!

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 10 Aug 03 - 10:12 PM

LISSSUN-Impotwnt, everybody shit up, till joe posted the millionth thtead, plesse dont posting nothing else till jow says so.john

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Aug 03 - 10:30 PM

he did it, John....27 posts ago.. (wouldn't it have been funny if YOUR post was the millionth, as you told everyone else to shut up?_

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: Bobert
Date: 10 Aug 03 - 11:03 PM

Playin' the blues.... Gardenin'.... Keepin' my '63 Karmann Ghia alive and happy.... A little pen and ink drawin'.... Wreslin' with DougR and Teribus... Yeah, that about covers it....

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: Ebbie
Date: 11 Aug 03 - 12:54 AM

But, Bill D, he didn't tell us to shut up.
John from Hull said: "everybody shit up"
:)


catsPHiddle, what is 'gianting'?

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: katlaughing
Date: 11 Aug 03 - 02:43 AM

reading, writing (vocation and fun), reading, following BillD's links to too many programs which do all of those things he listed **bg**, singing, reading, hanging out at Mudcat, visiting with friends on the telephone, playing dulcimer, reading:-), playing with our cats and taking rides with the SO and dawg, antiquing, jewelry making, genealogy and history, finding things on the Internet for people..., just starting on water colours...waiting to get a tabletop kiln so I can try some more enameling and eventually a bigger kiln to do some more bronze casting...

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 11 Aug 03 - 03:03 AM

Outside of music: Photography, drawing, baseball card collecting, political campaign badge collecting, cooking, reading (mostly history and biography), watching film noir and movies in general, doing occasional satirical writing, and massage.

Chanteyranger

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 11 Aug 03 - 03:49 AM

Sex and drugs and sausage rolls.

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 11 Aug 03 - 05:58 AM

Reading, collecting old boxing books, making wine etc, drinking wine etc, musicmusicmusic., being impressed by other peoples, hobbies....

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: Kim C
Date: 11 Aug 03 - 08:35 AM

Reading, writing, cooking, knitting, spinning, sewing, painting (although I'm not very good at it yet), beadwork, jewelry, pets, fitness, collecting Disney movies, 18th & 19th century reenacting, blackpowder shooting, belly dancing...

The answer is, no, I don't have kids and I don't do housework. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 11 Aug 03 - 10:11 AM

Kim - I gt a lot done & stay up till the early morning cos I don't have TV or kids, nor do I do housework, except on the rare occasion when I invite someone over. Otherwise I can't put out a chair for them.

I read, listen to CDs, run a folk club, serve on 2 folk committees, collect large numbers of interesting stuff, create things like mohair teddy bears & small felt toys, make lots of plans (I could have chosen Gunna as my Mudcat name cos I have zillions of unfinished crafty stuff & lots of plans for never-started crafty stuff). Oops, I forgot crosswords & jigsaw puzzles, & taking photos of concerts & festivals, spending time with a great bunch of singers & performers, & getting to every singing session & folk club I can.

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: jimmyt
Date: 11 Aug 03 - 10:14 AM

Bobert, so there ever was a Karmann Ghia that was happy???????

john, sorry you couldn't have posted the millionth one, but I would have guessed you for 900,999!

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: Oaklet
Date: 11 Aug 03 - 12:01 PM

We have specially bred "strangling owls" in Hull, that change hands for over £50 at the illegal owl mart in Cottingham. The stock is important - a good mix of tawny with just the right amount of torque wrench for the grip.

Ossonflags has a caravan full of beauties. But they are not for sale.

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: Phot
Date: 11 Aug 03 - 01:04 PM

Railways,[The GWR most of all!] canals,Industrial archeology, reading, history{1770-1968], Land Rovers, motercycles[apart from HD], campenology, photography, birds of prey, The Goon Show,.... Best stop now!
Chris.

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: Deda
Date: 11 Aug 03 - 04:45 PM

Latin is a sort of hobby, as well as what I teach, when I can. Reading, my vegetable garden, walks with my hubby, Roman history. Reading Cicero.

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: Bobert
Date: 11 Aug 03 - 08:08 PM

jimmyt:

Yeah, like all VeeDubs, Karmann Ghias are happy, when they're happy. They like dry places to hang out when not being driven. And 2.8 quarts of oil in their engines. They like cool moist days to be driven, but not raining, just moist. They're real happy when you take 'em to VeeDub shows so thay can hang out with their kind fir the day. And it makes 'em happy when you take the time to adjust thier valves. Oh, does that turn them on. Whew! Most of all, they love it when their owners install a great stereo in 'em and play Mississippi Fred McDowell while riding down some country road at dusk.

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: Ely
Date: 11 Aug 03 - 10:49 PM

Our 1974 Standard Beetle is happy on mild days at about 45 miles an hour, on gently winding roads without too much traffic (it's especially happy now that the floorpans, gas gauge, and fuel line are replaced, the brakes are fixed, and it has cute little glasspacks that set off the alarms on all the neighbors' overequipped modern cars).

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: Bobert
Date: 11 Aug 03 - 11:16 PM

Yeah, floor pans are real nice. My Ghia has solid floor pans. Makes Bugs real happy to have solid floor pans....

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 11 Aug 03 - 11:24 PM

Phot - Another Goon fan here! "I now promounce you man and wife.......and I leave it to you to tell which is which."

How could I forget - big time Giants baseball and 49ers football fan here. Maybe those should go under interests, and not hobbies, but I'll mention it anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: what are your hobbies?
From: beadie
Date: 12 Aug 03 - 02:46 PM

I put on black leather, fire up the bike, and go about terrorizing (can I say that?) small rural communities populated with white-haired old geezers and nubile young women.

I also enjoy travel, learning (damn near anything), and kicking back.

And then there's my own special brand of fishing. You take a length of string, tie it to your big toe (never, ever put a hook on it; some fish might get hurt), then curl up with a six-pack under a tree near a stream and watch the world go by.