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03-01-2008, 06:26 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: In a tranquil valley with a stream in garden
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Oh dear and i'm being nosy yet again!  Just wondered what peoples interests were outside of wildlife and environmental ones? Either recent ones, lapsed ones or ones you'd like to do if time allowed.
Anything to do with playing about in water for me and I'd love to learn to parasurf - saw them doing it when i went back to Cornwall last summer and it looked great fun! I used to belong to a reenactment group, Regia Anglorum,but was more on the living history side than the fighting side. I like board games i.e The Gothic Game. I read and have an eclectic taste in music. Guess gardening and walking count as wildlife / environment?
There that's me - what about you?
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03-01-2008, 06:30 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Grimsby, Lincs
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Does fishing count as a non-wildlife interest, suppose it doesn't really. But apart from me bird watching, Butterfly, Bats etc it's what I do most the time, just spent £350 on a new set of rods  |
03-01-2008, 08:29 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Sheffield, FPRSY
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"Sex and drugs and rock and roll" that sort of thing? (I. Dury BBC - London - Entertainment - Music - Reviews - Recommended rock reading, Liz Jaynes on a new book that asks us to rethink the myth of Ian Dury - ) I don't remember 
Yes, I like music, theatre, reading, football ... but I manage to do them mainly in the hours of darkness: much prefer walking the woods, dales, moors, cemeteries, supermarkets (  ) Nobody with any sense plays about with water in Yorkshire! Quote:
Originally Posted by tufftie  Oh dear and i'm being nosy yet again! Just wondered what peoples interests were outside of wildlife and environmental ones? Either recent ones, lapsed ones or ones you'd like to do if time allowed.
Anything to do with playing about in water for me and I'd love to learn to parasurf - saw them doing it when i went back to Cornwall last summer and it looked great fun! I used to belong to a reenactment group, Regia Anglorum,but was more on the living history side than the fighting side. I like board games i.e The Gothic Game. I read and have an eclectic taste in music. Guess gardening and walking count as wildlife / environment?
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03-01-2008, 08:36 PM
|  | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Corfe Mullen, Dorset
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What? There's other stuff? other than wildlife? why didn't anyone tell me...? |
03-01-2008, 08:48 PM
| | Frozen | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: march, cambridgeshire
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i do art sometimes as you know,make alot of my own gypsy skirts,make silk flower displays also for weddings,love d.i.y,my soaps only three corri,emmerdale,and my favourite eastenders,avery of course,indoor plants big ones,computer,reading, i think thats about it. |
03-01-2008, 08:56 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Sheffield, FPRSY
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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? Quote:
Originally Posted by naturelover ..... make a lot of my own gypsy skirts,make | |
03-01-2008, 08:58 PM
|  | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: High Wycombe
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I enjoy being on a narrow boat cursing along the canal, we do it as much as we can. Oh and the Archers (radio 4 in general).
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03-01-2008, 10:31 PM
|  | Knight Grand Cross of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Nottingham
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Originally Posted by tigger What? There's other stuff? other than wildlife? why didn't anyone tell me...? | Me too! |
03-01-2008, 10:52 PM
| | Wild Member | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Saddleworth, West Yorkshire
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listening to music, going to gigs, cooking, eating , socialising (pub haha), my pets, watching dvds, computer games, reading, trying to learn guitar, trying to speak better french, travelling |
04-01-2008, 07:31 AM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Kenninghall, Norfolk
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Mushroo.....No, still wildlife
Birdwa....Uhhh noo
I say that, I do actually have loads going on...Maybe too much. Well, I play electric guitar (Been playing about 10 years), Photography in general is an important one as most of you will know that I'm a Photography Degree student. I love gaming and run my own gaming forum which has been open since Feb '07. I'm partial to the odd pint of decent ale as I've been brought up to appreciate good beer. My Dad writes for the CAMRA Norfolk Branch. I love music; many varieties. From Slayer to Aphex Twin and from Jethro Tull to Cannibal Corpse.
I'm such a big kid! But I'd have it no other way 
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04-01-2008, 07:44 AM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: North Yorkshire ( Gods Country )
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Fly fishing for me, and tying the flies to catch them on,,,,
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04-01-2008, 08:44 AM
| | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Lincoln
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Natural History, Hiistory, Photography of course, Gardening (orchids - Cymbidiums), caravanning to get around these beautiful, green and sceptred isles and the most important, my family which is growing all the time. |
04-01-2008, 09:35 AM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Little village called Chedworth
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hmmm....
Cooking I suppose is a big one especially big stews and curries at the weekend - like to make my own curry pasts and spice mixes - I find it theraputic though its frequently difficult to replicate the mixes I end up with!!
I like growing things that don't need much attention especially stange herbs and chillis.
I love music I have a big cd collection but I am the worlds worst music geek because I can never remember the names of tracks and frequently even bands and don't get to enough gigs.....
I like going to the pub, especially if theres a stroll through the countryside and ham, egg and chips involved.
I like walking but not when I have to walk to someone elses pace - don't they understand I NEED to know what all the birds / butterflies / plants are and increasingly I NEED a good photo .... I just can't hurry.....
I like reading and still do plenty, I like drawing and painting but haven't done anything in over a couple of years.......
oh and photography but I need more money for this.......
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04-01-2008, 09:52 AM
|  | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Glasgow
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For me it's mostly photography and SCUBA diving... The attraction of both those is the wildlife for me mind you! I do a wee bit of climbing every so often, bit of wandering the countryside and I love being at sea! On murky days I'll usually be inside playing games on my PC or watching tv
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04-01-2008, 10:09 AM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Hertfordshire..
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Well with a great interest in nature ..Iv had many different other interests over the yrs.. ..
Watercolor painting of course..photography ..keeping fit.practicing yoga..
Reading.. learning about the moon and its infulence on our daily lifes..wicca and its magic..The celts..Growing herbs..horse riding ..long walks.. visiting museums .but with two children still at home at the moment theres not much time for anything else...
Julie
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04-01-2008, 10:35 AM
| | Wild Member | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Saddleworth, West Yorkshire
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Originally Posted by NickCantle I'm partial to the odd pint of decent ale.... I love music; many varieties. From Slayer to Aphex Twin and from Jethro Tull to Cannibal Corpse.
Nick |
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04-01-2008, 11:22 AM
|  | Wild Member | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: bridgwater somerset
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I read and write poetry, love reading Agatha Christies, I have been studying and practising Wicca for nearly a year new (Witchy stuff as my kids call it); walking loads and cooking. Fi. X X X X
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04-01-2008, 11:56 AM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: In a tranquil valley with a stream in garden
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Since others have mentioned it i might's as well too! You have another wiccan amongst you! and I also used to do lots of riding - had a naughty part bred arab!
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04-01-2008, 12:29 PM
| | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: North Yorkshire ( Gods Country )
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Originally Posted by NickCantle Mushroo.....No, still wildlife
Birdwa....Uhhh noo
I say that, I do actually have loads going on...Maybe too much. Well, I play electric guitar (Been playing about 10 years), Photography in general is an important one as most of you will know that I'm a Photography Degree student. I love gaming and run my own gaming forum which has been open since Feb '07. I'm partial to the odd pint of decent ale as I've been brought up to appreciate good beer. My Dad writes for the CAMRA Norfolk Branch. I love music; many varieties. From Slayer to Aphex Twin and from Jethro Tull to Cannibal Corpse.
I'm such a big kid! But I'd have it no other way
Nick | Aah Jethro Tull wonder if he still wears the green pixie boots???
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04-01-2008, 12:38 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Bewdley
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Originally Posted by coasty Aah Jethro Tull wonder if he still wears the green pixie boots??? | Thats one big pair of pixie boots as Jethro Tull is the band! I think you are refering to lead singer with the flute Ian Anderson
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04-01-2008, 12:44 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Kenninghall, Norfolk
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Originally Posted by hannahpanda Ale and metal, two of my favourite things I have very varied music taste too | Will you marry me?
...and Coasty, not all sure about Ian Anderson's boots but I'd bet that they aren't what you'd see in the streets in recent times |
04-01-2008, 12:47 PM
|  | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Lancashire (Rossendale Valley)
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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.
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04-01-2008, 12:52 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: West Molesey, Surrey
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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. Oh and the Archers (radio 4 in general). | Have you ever been reported for your cursing? |
04-01-2008, 12:58 PM
| | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: North Yorkshire ( Gods Country )
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Originally Posted by Jez Thats one big pair of pixie boots as Jethro Tull is the band! I think you are refering to lead singer with the flute Ian Anderson | I know that you fool....
I have seen them twice in concert and met the guy once . I actually asked him where his boots were. 
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04-01-2008, 01:05 PM
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