when is a hobby not a hobby?

this year in addition to his usual celebration of the paris commune horsemouth will also be celebrating the mokrani revolt in algeria which entered its decisive phase two days before the declaration of the commune on the 16th of march 1871. here is an edited segment of the wikipedia entry. 

'the mokrani revolt...  broke out on march 16, 1871, with the uprising of more than 250 tribes, around a third of the population of the country. It was led by the kabyles of the biban mountains commanded by cheikh mokrani and his brother bou-mezrag el-mokrani [ar]...

a number of causes have been suggested for the mokrani revolt... ordinary people were concerned about the imposition of civilian rule on march 9, 1870, which they interpreted as imposing domination by the settlers, with encroachments on their land and loss of autonomy.... news of the insurrectionary paris commune also played a part....'

it was in the end defeated and prisoners from the conflict lived and died in the same new caledonian prison camps as prisoners from the paris commune. 

horsemouth is feeling slightly under the weather having missed a meet up he was supposed to attend (he thought it was tonight) and having gone out with_____ for a few earlyish beers in homerton. he had thought that today was going to be the great diary clash (but it turned out to be yesterday).

they met up at 4pm at homerton railway station and probably by 4.15 they were sat down drinking - horsemouth drank about 3 and a half pints of beer (__________ four). regretably horsemouth purchased some over strength pale ale for the first two pints (very tasty though they must admit) so they ended up a bit drunker than they intended a bit earlier. roughly half way through ________ paused for some fries and some flatbread and humous. wisely they called a halt earlyish and horsemouth was back home with plenty of time to spare. (not that he made good use of it). 

when is a hobby not a hobby?

this was one of the topics under discussion. horsemouth firmly expects not to make any money out of his music or to be made famous by it. it's a hobby (it may as well be a train set). there was  a discussion of art and craft. and of the early new school hip-hop (eric b and rakim, gangstarr etc.) the bar were playing. 

howard's plan is to do some playing and recording over the summer holiday. 

horsemouth's plan is to have a shower and then get some bread for toast for breakfast. he's had his coffee (very fine it is).