Non wildlife interests? - Page 4

PMG · #76 (**permalink**) 07-01-2008, 09:54 AM

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Originally Posted by vole-woman

Pauline, I like classical too, (and also folk).

Hooray! But I think we are in a minority???

and I'm still thinking WOT? re hannapanda's list

Pauline

NickCantle · #77 (**permalink**) 07-01-2008, 10:06 AM

I'm still thinking 'YEEAHHHHHHHHHHH' to Hannah's list

tufftie · #78 (**permalink**) 07-01-2008, 10:56 AM

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Originally Posted by PMG

Hooray! But I think we are in a minority???

and I'm still thinking WOT? re hannapanda's list

Pauline

Her large list is a mystery to me too!

and I'm another one that likes classical, mostly choral works but my mother was a ballet dancer (Rambert) before she had me so I was brought up with it really. Used to sing in a choir in my twenties - then something happened to my voice and I couldn't sing in tune for toffee and still can't!

I guess my favourite is folk music anything from Gjallahorn and klezmatics to Steve Tilston and Fernhill (early stuff) to Jethro Tull (I like folk rock) and I really love the atmosphere in folk clubs and pub sessions - so friendly and warm

epops · #79 (**permalink**) 07-01-2008, 05:47 PM

I used to do a bit of banger racing and was gonna start again till i actually went to watch recentley with me boy urm think i'll give it a miss im older and wiser now pluss a bit more brittle lol

forevergreen · #80 (**permalink**) 07-01-2008, 07:30 PM

swimming,surfing,guitar,walking, reading especailly the redwall series by brian jaques really good them!, indie music,

ChrisJB · #81 (**permalink**) 07-01-2008, 07:39 PM

Collecting (and reading), old and usually locally written books, watching sport (boxing cricket and darts), love watching telly, family history, just rediscovered fishing, drawing and painting, supping ale (home and in the boozer), Lancashire dialect and reading poetry (especially John Clare and Ted Hughes).

Regards, Chris

hedgehog whisperer · #82 (**permalink**) 07-01-2008, 08:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Adam Cheeseman

Have you ever been reported for your cursing?

Once or twice but we don’t talk about that LOL

hannahpanda · #83 (**permalink**) 07-01-2008, 09:21 PM

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Originally Posted by NickCantle

Well isn't this thread turning into a moshpit

Some excellent metal bands listed in posts up there! I'm glad there's a good metal based community here too. You can imagine the looks I get when coming home on the train with a basket full of mushrooms and flowers and there's Cannibal Corpse banging out of my iPod

Hahaha!! I bet your laughing to yourself in your head when you see the looks you get! Do you get many good gigs down there? Theres hardly any decent gigs in Manchester anymore, bands keep playing Leeds instead. Or just London! There seems to be mainly black metal & thrash gigs on at the moment

And whilst the word mushroom is mentioned... i love mushrooms! Wouldnt even try to pick & identify any myself though haha!

paulchandler6 · #84 (**permalink**) 07-01-2008, 10:19 PM

Thats a pretty good list you have there hannah.

Metal rules!!!

Paul

Garden Carpet · #85 (**permalink**) 07-01-2008, 10:55 PM

I like classical music too... hate modern music!!!!! Hannah is talking another language to my mind

Used to make and teach needle made lace.. but not anymore.. hands dont like it. Woodturning.. given that up as my back complained! So am left with my lovely little laptop.. wouldnt go back to a pc. Reading, pretty much anything but biogs. Hate em! Also used to do glass painting,drawing and watercolours.. oh yes.. and quilling.. before it became popular.

I make copper jewellery from recycled household cables.. strip the wire, wind the links, cut em and make up the bracelet or earrings. It is threaputic and uses up something that would be thrown out otherwise. Doing my bit for the environment hehe.

Best of all WABbing... lots of lovely people, things to learn.. and the piece de resistance.. met my lovely henry through it!

jaki

galanthus · #86 (**permalink**) 10-01-2008, 12:18 PM

Aside from all that moves and grows, my main interests are

music (have over 600 cds, everything from nick drake, doors, pogues and early pink floyd to super furries, gorkys zygotic mynci and rem).
I play guitar, very badly.

but enjoy the attempts.
I''m addicted to photography and aquiring new lenses to attach to my canon 400d.

...and I too am of wiccan faith, fair few around here it seems

Marshall Stax · #87 (**permalink**) 10-01-2008, 12:51 PM

To name just a few; music, guitars, martial arts, reading and the occasional online game (Guild Wars at the moment) and after seeing some of the photographs on here, photography could be next on the list.

David

NickCantle · #88 (**permalink**) 10-01-2008, 02:24 PM

Oh yes, I forgot to mention I'm a big gamer too

NINTENDO FANBOY!

I rub a Wii site too

hannahpanda · #89 (**permalink**) 10-01-2008, 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Marshall Stax

martial arts

David

Which martial arts do you do?
I dont do martial arts, but i LOVE the movies!

Meta menardi · #90 (**permalink**) 10-01-2008, 04:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Paul mabbott

Well, it's horses for courses, I've still got twenty-year old Levis and tracksuits so I'm not going to start making my own skirts yet ...

I do admire people who can make clothes but can one really make trousers, especially jeans?

When I was farm working, my Missus made all my jeans and Shirts etc.

Give her a sow's ear, and she will make a silk purse, a set of bagpipes and some soup

Marshall Stax · #91 (**permalink**) 10-01-2008, 04:04 PM

I’ve done a few over the years including Jeet Kune Do, Escrima and Ju-Jitsu but have not trained properly for awhile now, although I am looking into some Muay Thai and probably more Ju-Jitsu for this year.

David

hannahpanda · #92 (**permalink**) 10-01-2008, 04:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Marshall Stax

I’ve done a few over the years including Jeet Kune Do, Escrima and Ju-Jitsu but have not trained properly for awhile now, although I am looking into some Muay Thai and probably more Ju-Jitsu for this year.

David

I have afew friends who do Muay Thai and Chinese Kickboxing.
I'd love to give it a go, maybe I will one day, but for now I will just watch

Fritillary · #93 (**permalink**) 10-01-2008, 04:29 PM

I like walking, cycling in paths and little towns. As well I love watching birds and mammals and promenade by cemeteries

. The old stones with names and years make me to think about the people in old times.

Nunhead cemetery in London, I like a lot.

A compulsion to collect all sort of little things from nature: pebbles, seeds, feathers, etc etc and take them home to watch, and think about it. I think I had lived quite happy in Darwin time because it was more observation of nature than do statistics like today.
I visited once Charles Darwin home and I laught of seeing his office (mine and his quite similar just taking out the great book of course

).

What I love of UK it is english people have a long tradition of being naturalists and have compasion for animals. A thing that most of other countries did not have (maybe french have something of this as well)

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ChrisJB · #94 (**permalink**) 10-01-2008, 08:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Fritillary

I like walking, cycling in paths and little towns. As well I love watching birds and mammals and promenade by cemeteries

. The old stones with names and years make me to think about the people in old times.

Nunhead cemetery in London, I like a lot.

I know what you mean. I too have a fixation with churchyards and love reading the gravestones. I hope this doesn't sound too daft, but I like to think the people of old, who's names I read, live on just a tiny bit as I wonder about them.

Regards, Chris

wyevilla · #95 (**permalink**) 10-01-2008, 09:26 PM

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Originally Posted by ChrisJB

I know what you mean. I too have a fixation with churchyards and love reading the gravestones. I hope this doesn't sound too daft, but I like to think the people of old, who's names I read, live on just a tiny bit as I wonder about them.

Regards, Chris

This is how I got into Family History. Another all-consuming hobby.

Fritillary · #96 (**permalink**) 12-01-2008, 10:38 AM

Well I see that is a "commun hobby" in UK Chris.

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One day in Nunhead I saw a gravestone (1800-1900) with the names of a father and later 5 hildren (ages months to 20 years) and finally the mother.

It made me to think how strong people was 100 years ago. They had to live with illness and death all the time and be ready to see their loved ones die and go on living. Things that today are quite rare. In spite all bad things, we live in a golden period

stripee · #97 (**permalink**) 12-01-2008, 03:48 PM

Me too for family history research. A long time obsession, and have found many 2nd and 3rd cousins, sooner or later I think we must all be related. The best thing about it is discovering all the social history around people that lived in the past. The worst thing about it is not keeping in touch with all the extra family, and then the guilt

Also I like yoga, I go to a nice class where we lie on the floor most of the time and it's lovely and warm, with not too much energetic stuff

ChrisJB · #98 (**permalink**) 12-01-2008, 06:26 PM

I'm currently trying to get my dear old aunt to lend me her vast collection of old family photos, so I can copy them. However, she guards them like a mother hen and won't let them leave the house! I need to learn about the people on them before she pops her clogs as no-one else in the family is interested.

I think I am going to have to cart my not so portable scanner/printer to her house and copy them there, it's the only way! Saying that, she's very distrustful of modern gadgets and she'll probably think the photos will get vapourised in the process.

Regards, Chris

WildJanet · #99 (**permalink**) 13-01-2008, 02:48 PM

I like to walk.Love music. ( Rock/Blues,Country & chill-out stuff) Reading; reference & fiction.Photography, Arty stuff.just learned how to use 'Publisher' so now everyone gets Hand-made Cards.& of course; I love Socilalising.