What do you love......

[micmak]

Not talking about people here.

I love looking at maps and reading dictionary's.

I have Oxford, Chambers, Collins plus several more.

Maps, I have old maps and modern maps and I love studying them.

[MarkRae]

I love dictionaries too.

[micmak]

Are you correcting my spelling Mark?

[shaneystar2]

Yes I like a good dictionary .Bradfords Crossword Dictionary is my favourite .
I rely on it far more than the BRB .

[nungate]

I love phone books, yellow pages, old maps and travel guides, and old pictures of places I know.

[Ann]

I love keeping a daily diary MM, I have written daily in one for 25 years now, its great to sit down and read about world events - sad or happy, family events - births marriages and deaths - first baby words spoken, age that they walked etc etc, the weather - when it snowed, the hottest days of the year, holidays taken - when and where in the world and the many rainy ones we suffered here in the uk! the garden when we picked the first runner beans or tomatoes, mowed the lawn for the first cut of the year, saw the first snowdrop, garden birds etc etc..... my diaries are all part of life's great tapestry, I sit and read them sometimes and the memories come flooding back.

[HowardKennitby]

I rely on dictionaries a lot. If I have nothing better to do I have been known to pick up a dictionary, flick it open, and start reading. I prefer Chambers for this.

[Buenchico]

We'll have to start a club!

I usually consult a dictionary at least once every day (and frequently end up reading lots of information totally unrelated to my original enquiry!)

I love maps too! (Christopher Saxton is one of my heroes but I enjoy looking at modern maps as well).

[micmak]

Having checked I see that you are correct Mark. You smug .....Person.

[Buenchico]

What else do I love?
Art Deco architecture and contemporary architecture based upon Art Deco.

[DaisyNonna]

Books.Photographs.

[Ann]

I love tracing people's family history including my own. I'm absolutely fascinated by the old census information and would love to travel back in time and see all my ancestors and how they lived in the 1800s and before.

[HowardKennitby]

Chris

Sign me up for the Portolano club.

[Ann]

I love all old photographs in albums, it's not quite the same now they are stored on the computer. I used to make up scrapbook photo albums, with photos, maps, tourist info, travel tickets even a few grains of pure white sand off the beach and currency and stamps of the country I visited.

[micmak]

Chris, have just checked in my 'library' I have 18 books relating to dictionaries, proverbs and quotations. I look at them regularly. Not regular enough to know how to spell dictionaries though.

[Ann]

I love looking at Google Street view on the computer. I find where an ancestor lived, google the town and street where they lived in the 1800s from the census of the time, see if the street is still there, if so, I try to find the actual house by "walking" down the street on screen - its just fascinating! I have found lots of houses for friends' ancestors, they are thrilled.

[micmak]

Haven't done that Ann, must try it.

[Buenchico]

Micmak:
I've just got one (ordinary) dictionary on my bookshelves above my desk (the Concise Oxford) and one on my PC (TheSage. Excellent and free. Downloadable from here: http://www.sequencepu.../download.cgi?TheSage )

But I've got 3 books on English usage, a rhyming dictionary, a book of spelling rules, several books of quotations, various books on writing and publishing, etc, etc.

[HowardKennitby]

18! amateur :-)

[micmak]

Howard. You ain't seen my 'Library'

[trt]

Im like to look at old churches/castles and buildings that are 300/500 years old and wonder how they built them without the technology and equipment that they have today!