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04-01-2008, 01:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Jez  and his reply was? | not suitable for the forum,,,,,
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04-01-2008, 01:07 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: 1 hanging basket spotted in Kiddy-could we be on to winner
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Originally Posted by Tornado Being a Fabricator/Welder does making stainless bird tables and feeders count???? ( this is a forced hobby btw !!!!!!!!! )
I also make and decorate celebration cakes and make my own cards. | Sounds interesting are your feeders bespoke made to order?
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04-01-2008, 01:38 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Kent
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I have several interests outside of wildlife...
Having Tattoo's and studying Tattoo websites, Watching football (am an addict), and collecting anything to do with ancient Egypt,
But My major passion and Interest is BOOKS, Especially Old Books, I always seem to manage to come home with one or two books everytime I go out.
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04-01-2008, 01:41 PM
| | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: North Yorkshire ( Gods Country )
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Originally Posted by Kymba But My major passion and Interest is BOOKS, Especially Old Books, I always seem to manage to come home with one or two books everytime I go out. |
Dont know how I forgot I collect pre1950 fly fishing books , So when I am not fishing I can read about it.....
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04-01-2008, 01:52 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: 1 hanging basket spotted in Kiddy-could we be on to winner
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Originally Posted by coasty not suitable for the forum,,,,, | My next door neighbour used to work For Martin Barres parents on the Stratford Road-Shirley! Her Husband sold Martin His First proper Guitar...Thought I'd share that with you.
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04-01-2008, 03:18 PM
| | Frozen | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Buxton Spa, Derbyshire
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Originally Posted by hedgehog whisperer I enjoy being on a narrow boat cursing along the canal, we do it as much as we can. | Ah, so it's you I've heard swearing as I walked along the tow path |
04-01-2008, 03:27 PM
| | Frozen | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Buxton Spa, Derbyshire
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I spend a lot of time travelling around with my wife in our motorhome. Enjoy visiting churches for their architecture and stained glass. Woodworking - I'm building up a workshop in the cellar. Archaeology of course - surveying mostly. Reading, watching films. Canoeing - my wife and I have 15 ft open (Canadian) canoes, great for canoe camping. Walking, have to because of the dog, but particularly high level routes such as can be found in the Lakes. Used to be a mountain rescue team member and search dog handler, but I'm too old for that now. |
04-01-2008, 04:50 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Leicestershire
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My intrests outside of wildlife include,
Rock music & live gigs
Rugby union - Leicester Tigers
Football - Leicester City (god help me!!)
Metal detecting & archaeology
They are all brilliant fun but have increasingly been pushed well into the background by Wildlife photography in the last few years.
There's a warning in there somewhere, buy a DSLR and lenses at your own peril, its highly addictive and will consume you totally   
Steve. |
04-01-2008, 05:00 PM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Deepest Dorset
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I love food and drink also mountain biking, road cycling and try to fit in some running but is you saw me you would realise i dont do as much as i would like of the sport but too much of the food and drink !!! |
04-01-2008, 08:30 PM
| | Active Member | | Join Date: Jan 2008
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hi , tufftie , my interests outside wildlife are archaeology , geology , history , places of interest such as castles,churches etc , rugby ,football,writing my I-SPY Rangers club on our church website; www. stmatthewswalsall.co.uk, click on I-SPY ( new one for jan not on yet as i`m not too well at moment so havent given it to our webmaster ) but have a look later, reading and collecting enid blyton books , i-spy books , collecting rocks ,fossils and minerals, singing in walsall choral society and my church band , railways , aircraft ,car numbers ,coins,stamps,pens/pencils,keyrings,beermats,all things welsh and scottish and enjoy formula one .  |
04-01-2008, 11:20 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: South Oxfordshire
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Music.....A major interest and influence in my life. Led Zep being the major band, also anything from Metallica, Slayer, Tull, Wisbone Ash, Black Sabbath, Blues etc. I also play Bass guitar.
I also have an interest in Celtic mythology, some aspects of wicca and magiks and how the sun and moon can affect our lives.
Paul
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04-01-2008, 11:46 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Kenninghall, Norfolk
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That's a buddy list addition then Paul. Fantastic music selection |
04-01-2008, 11:55 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: South Oxfordshire
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Cheers Nick. I noticed you mentioned Slayer. Saw them a few years back at Donnington. They were awsome.
A good music selection yourself if I might add.
Paul
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05-01-2008, 12:11 AM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: SE Northumberland
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Another metaller here too although most of the stuff I listen to is a bit more extreme than Slayer I occasionally dabble with guitars but cant play for very long these days due to arthritic hands  Also occasionally mess about with recording tracks too. Photography takes up most of my free time though, its such a vast subject theres always new stuff to learn/discover
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05-01-2008, 12:47 AM
|  | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: ballachulish/duror/glen coe
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omg!!! where do i start!!!...rock climbing!! ...the safe"dangerous" sport ,i've came of a dozen times,still here!!...fly fishing !! getting a wild brownie on the end of a line !!! ...nothing like it!! ...solo camping ..quiet secret places, alone with my own thoughts !!....playing bhodran with the band of gypsies!!...my rats and my dogs..in other words .....life!!!  ...oh and glasgow celtic fc!!!
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05-01-2008, 05:16 AM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Hidden in the clover
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I wouldn't say I'm a metal head. More of a cheesy rocker.
ACDC, Aerosmith, Faces, Led Zep, Whitesnake, The Who, The (early) Stones, ZZ Top, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Zodiac Mindwarp - that sort of thing. Anything BUT Pink Floyd... 
I really enjoy gigs when I can go, not only dark, sweaty seedy rock gigs but also outdoor gigs and festivals. I've been to Glastonbury half a dozen times but not recently mind...
Trying to be a bit more er... grown up now, and learning about classical music, but rock is where my heart is.
Also dig the blues (why dya think I like the early Stones and early Led Zep?!), but as well as more famous names such as John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy and BB King, I like the more recent stuff like Joe Bonamassa.
Also have a soft spot for Soul and Funk, especially things like Rufus Thomas, Lou Rawls and Jackie Wilson.
I also love quite a lot of Scottish folk music, (I should do I suppose!) - Reels especially.
Other interests - massive supporter of Bristol Rugby Club, (go and see as many games as I can - not enough as far as I'm concerned, but am often in my Kilt at Twickenham or Murrayfield at the Calcutta cup if nothing else), enjoy running, swimming (in the sea as often as I can, or rivers) and cycling to keep fit, drawing and painting with acrylics, visiting art galleries small and large, ancient history, especially Egypt (but not "pyramidiology"), visiting lighthouses (I find them inspirational for some unknown reason), and trying to learn and speak foreign languages when abroad.
Love standup comedy also. Bill Bailey, Ross Noble, Ardal O Hanlon, The Big Yin - pretty mainstream I suppose, but really enjoy finding new live acts also.
Used to be heavily into golf too, (wasn't half bad), but haven't really picked up a club since getting with my girlfriend (now fiancee).
I have a sneaky suspicion that many of my (and her) interests will be taking a back seat this year, for wedding planning..... (not really my idea of fun)!
Above ALL those though is just getting outdoors as often, and for as long as I can. Cooking, eating and sleeping outside. Camping, walking, and now, a little photography...
Thats me.
ps. Tigers???!!! Fourwings? Tut tut tut...
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05-01-2008, 07:42 AM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: In a tranquil valley with a stream in garden
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I don't know what type of music I'd paired you up with Paul but it wasn't metal!! Well if we're talking music I'm very eclectic... folk various but more singer songwriter than trad (though I do like Christy Moore) Vin Garbutt, Steve Tilston, early Fernhill and early Gjallahorn, Jim Page (not Jimmy Page) and John Gorka etc. Then Jethro Tull, Pentangle, Steelyeye Span, Sandy Denny etc - and... Stevie Ray Vaughn, Hendrix, Pogues, 70's punk bands, Neil Young....New Model Army (early stuff, lost track over the years)...on the quieter notes John Renbourn, Pierre Bensoussan and some classical. Back to loud I used to like Theatre of Hate etc and there was also a band that used to support them called Einsturzende Neubauten (something like that anyway!) - not sure how to describe then extreme metal x punk? and on the first gig i went to made the mistake of being under the front left speaker (the pneumatic drill came through it) and nearly got decapitated by the axe that the lead singer was wizzing over heads at the front! I used to go to a pub in London called the Intrepid Fox (with best friend Vicky) it was (think it closed down) a great pub, lots of skull, cobwebs and candles etc (but not done in a tacky way ) and they played mostly various kinds of metal - we used to get cheap tickets to alternative music nightclubs from there too!
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05-01-2008, 09:47 AM
|  | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Lancashire (Rossendale Valley)
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Originally Posted by Jez Sounds interesting are your feeders bespoke made to order? | Sorry Jez, but I'm afraid it would cost the earth now as the price of steel has shot through the roof. I also woudn't like to say how much postage would be as some items can be quite heavy. I thought I had a photo of the s/s bird table ( easy clean coz it dismantles so you can scrub the base ) but it has gone missing, that was a triumph as it is effortless to put back together too!!!
The list also includes nesting material cages, ground feeders, offset squirrel baffles oh, and I also make the old fashioned flower baskets that look like hay baskets for horses. (these are aluminium as they require no painting or maintainance)
It's a shame I have to work full time coz if I had a quid for the amount of times someones asked that I,d be a rich lady!!!!
Tornado.
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05-01-2008, 11:06 AM
|  | Wild Member | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: South Coast Hampshire
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At my age I can only bang on about the lapsed catagory :-
1960s = Playing senior football, motocross racing 125cc, ferreting, also in an awful band, but we had a good drummer.
1970s = Dont remember an awfull lot about the 70s I drank alot, fell over alot and the band stopped asking me to turn up. Seem to remember taking up photography.
1980s = Spent most of my time racing, falling off (2 strokes you see) and rebuilding several motor cycles at various track venues over the country. Started water sking. (didnt fall off so much)
1990s = Class 2 off shore power boat racing, won some cups. O.C.R racing won some cups. and a bit of sea fishing (no cups) Lots of water sking, must have taught over 100 pepole to ski.
2000 = Started off o.k. done alot of m/cycle touring bought an old 30ft. fishing boat. Then unfortunatley had a year of chemotherepy and had to listened to eveybody telling me to give up everything exept for short walks, so I bought a camera and do short walks, well, sometimes short. (still sneak out on the bike when everyones at work)
Hobbies come and go but wildlife was allways a big interest, even more so now.
Regards
Rob
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05-01-2008, 03:00 PM
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Other than wildlife my biggest passion is popular music + over the years collected a mortgage load of CD's + before that records (remember them?). Stuff from 1940's to current stuff like Amy Winehouse, the Feeling. Love all sorts from likes of Ella Fitzgerald/ Sinatra, et al to soul/blues, some reggae, some country, jazz, latin, many AOR stuff like Springsteen/Eagles/Petty/Jackson Browne, singer-songwriters such as Paul Simon, Carole King, Joni Mitchell + some good old rockers from ZZ Top, Whitesnake,Deep Purple+ good general pop from Buddy Holly-Beatles-Eurythmics- Madness, etc.
Probably all time favourite singers include Bonnie Raitt, Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye, Aretha + too many to mention.
Enjoy crime dramas on TV + comedy series like Father Ted, Frasier + not many currently.
Gardening- though always with wildlife in mind!
Travel as much as possible, although again always to see lots of wildlife, so possibly doesn't count. |
05-01-2008, 03:28 PM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: SE Kent
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I used to fence,
Up to the age of 59, I was treasurer and a co-founder of Deal Fencing Club, I designed the club badge and had it sanctioned by the town council because it consisted in part ,of the Deal Town Coat of Arms, I fenced in competition in France , Holland and some county matches, Mostly Foil and Epee never did like Sabre much altough I did when needed, all in all about 7 or 8 years
I damaged my wrists using a Quadrant type wire rope cutter, the pawl didn't drop in correctly and I came down with straight arms on the handle of the machine, Didn't break anything but for weeks I could hardly pick up a cup of tea never mind a foil, so, I kind of slid backwards , not attending meetings or club nights, until I stopped going altogether.
Sold all my gear, bought walking gear and the wife and I headed off to the hills , Hellvellyn , Kinder Scout, Red Pike, Hadrians wall ect, getting older now and down on the flat stuff, Nature Reserves, RSPB sites You know what I mean, and now I'm into WAB and enjoying your company I look forward to meeting some of you at wherever , meets , or nature reserves,
I better stop waffling now and see you soon.
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05-01-2008, 05:06 PM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Shropshire
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Another Tull fan here - this is getting spooky! And I like female vocalists.
My hobby is also my job, so I'm very lucky: I write fiction and have had three novels out over the past three years. I'm a member of two writing forums and I go to a lot of writing-related events. I'm a big reader!
- I also go to a women's gym three times a week, and thoroughly enjoy that.
- Next month I'm going to start helping out with my local Beaver group (the kids, not the animals).
- I collect vintage Ladybird books and vintage dolls' house furniture.
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05-01-2008, 05:27 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: In a tranquil valley with a stream in garden
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What do you read?
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05-01-2008, 06:03 PM
| | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Lancashire (Rossendale Valley)
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[quote=aeshna5;216908]Other than wildlife my biggest passion is popular music + over the years collected a mortgage load of CD's + before that records (remember them?). Stuff from 1940's to current stuff like Amy Winehouse, the Feeling. Love all sorts from likes of Ella Fitzgerald/ Sinatra, e | |
