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Post by Kath on Oct 22, 2024 15:17:12 GMT
A recent conversation with a friend about their all encompassing knowledge of edible wild plants in the UK got me thinking about my lack of hobbies/interests/in-depth knowledge. I have what I'd call scant knowledge of a fairly wide variety of topics but very little I could confidently talk about for more than ten minutes. What's your thing and how did you get into it? (I'm not really considering photography as an option here!)
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Post by kate on Oct 22, 2024 16:05:31 GMT
I used to be seriously into researching my genealogy.
It started early 1970s after I got married (late 60s). By that time my mother was dead and I knew little about her background since I was 10 years old when she died and my dad didn't want to talk about her.
David and I spent quite a few times taking holidays in Scotland travelling around and eventually finding where both my mum and my dad had originated. Sometimes it was just too late to talk to relevant people but other times we found out some of the stories.
Genealogy became easier to research online and I made good use of it, getting back to about 1680(ish) and making contact with relatives on the way. It made me feel better knowing my roots. Just made me sad that from the mid 1970s onwards I had no-one immediate to hear the tales from. Such is life!
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Post by John Farrell on Oct 22, 2024 18:14:15 GMT
Genealogy here, too. After my mother's funeral in 2013, her brother showed me a rudimentary family tree he'd done. We decided to flesh it out, a little. We've followed people to Australia, Canada, USA, Norway, Fiji...and all over the British Isles.
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Post by MJB on Oct 22, 2024 18:31:37 GMT
Saltwater flyfishing in the UK. Now the world and his wife have monitised the hobby and overfishing has killed off all my hotspots, but 25 years ago myself and some friends were being highly successful at it, despite the piss taking from other anglers.  P1010002 by Martin Bone, on Flickr  P1010006 by Martin Bone, on Flickr |
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Post by Kath on Oct 22, 2024 19:44:06 GMT
Cant' see myself taking up fishing any time soon but I am loving the waders!
Genealogy is an interesting one. I was adopted as a baby and know very little about my birth family. I could start a search using my adoptive family - there are still a few of the older generation kicking about. In fact next month I'm visiting an uncle for his 80th birthday. I may start there!
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Post by gray1720 on Oct 22, 2024 20:22:43 GMT
I was recently described by a friend as "probably the person with the most hobbies I've ever met"!
Im no particular order, collecting cameras (much more a collector than a photographer), bellringing, cricket (possibly more an obsession...), gardening, old machinery, yet another genealogist, cooking, appreciating real ale, hillwalking, reading... probably missed a few!
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Post by steveandthedogs on Oct 22, 2024 20:49:49 GMT
Motorcycles - more riding than fettling, although I keep getting the urge to get another older machine as well as the modern one. Working at SWMBO's on the farm, these days mostly cutting logs for firewood.
Used to be Morris dancing but the team died some time ago. We still met up annually until a couple of years ago when age finally caught up with some of the learned gentlemen.
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Post by gray1720 on Oct 23, 2024 8:45:00 GMT
Copying back in the posts I've moved out to the Lithops thread
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Growing succulents, mainly lithops and conophytums.
Also, cycling, both leisure and competitive, though I haven’t done much of the latter in the last year or so.
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Growing succulents, mainly lithops and conophytums.
Also, cycling, both leisure and competitive, though I haven’t done much of the latter in the last year or so.
Another succulent fan here, I was fortunate that my dad kept my childhood collection of mostly cacti when I moved away to collage. When it was all getting a bit much for him in the early 2000's I bought a second hand aluminium greenhouse and moved two van loads of plants down from Yorkshire.
Since then I have got more interested in succulents getting to grips with amongst others lithops which I was never successful with before.
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Post by gray1720 on Oct 23, 2024 8:46:29 GMT
Right, hobbies back on line (!) hopefully, if anyone can let me know whether I can *copy* posts between threads rather than moving them I'll tody up, cos it's a bit messy.
Did I mention that finding the most awkward way possible to do things is one of my hobbies too?
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Post by spinno on Oct 23, 2024 9:13:51 GMT
Right, hobbies back on line (!) hopefully, if anyone can let me know whether I can *copy* posts between threads rather than moving them I'll tody up, cos it's a bit messy. Did I mention that finding the most awkward way possible to do things is one of my hobbies too? I thought I was alone in this...a dirty secret... |
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Post by Kath on Oct 23, 2024 9:53:50 GMT
I was recently described by a friend as "probably the person with the most hobbies I've ever met"! Im no particular order, collecting cameras (much more a collector than a photographer), bellringing, cricket (possibly more an obsession...), gardening, old machinery, yet another genealogist, cooking, appreciating real ale, hillwalking, reading... probably missed a few! You do sometimes remind me (in a good way) of a (much younger) version of my dad. He was a bellringer, loved gardening, fiddled about with old bits of machinery, appreciated real ale, hillwalking etc. He didn't play cricket (he was a rower) but he married into a Yorkshire cricketing family and enjoyed watching the game. (I just enjoyed the sandwiches.) Our photowalk at the weekend included me not being able to identify a couple of trees off the top of my head. I'd have been able to at one point but I've forgotten so much. I'm going to start re-learning some of that information and maybe digging out the paints as part of it. |
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Post by gray1720 on Oct 23, 2024 10:01:24 GMT
It was the day my first attempt at showing veg at the village flower show tesulted in an armful if trophies that I realised I had turned into my dad!
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Post by dans on Oct 23, 2024 10:24:08 GMT
I was recently described by a friend as "probably the person with the most hobbies I've ever met"! Im no particular order, collecting cameras (much more a collector than a photographer), bellringing, cricket (possibly more an obsession...), gardening, old machinery, yet another genealogist, cooking, appreciating real ale, hillwalking, reading... probably missed a few! Your a busy fella! |
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Post by gray1720 on Oct 23, 2024 11:40:37 GMT
I was recently described by a friend as "probably the person with the most hobbies I've ever met"! Im no particular order, collecting cameras (much more a collector than a photographer), bellringing, cricket (possibly more an obsession...), gardening, old machinery, yet another genealogist, cooking, appreciating real ale, hillwalking, reading... probably missed a few! Your a busy fella! How orher people have time to have families and jobs is beyond me! |
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Post by spinno on Oct 23, 2024 12:06:08 GMT
How orher people have time to have families and jobs is beyond me! It's the family that stops me having outside interests...but don't tell them that or they'll stop me having time to think... |
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