05-11-20 10:20 PM - Post#897905    

Anyone discover or revisit any hobbies while on lockdown? I wondered after reading recently about a sudden and big interest in baking bread. Apparently baking supplies are hard to come by. Vegetable gardening has also taken off, and seed companies are sold out. Fortunately, we bought our seeds before the crisis, but starting from scratch with raised beds has been tricky getting materials.

I think I want to learn how to grow bonsai trees.

05-12-20 04:16 AM - Post#897908    

Randomly on YouTube I started watching videos about Sudoku and lockpicking. So I've started playing regular Sudoku again and have ordered a lock picking kit! (totally legal where I am)

05-12-20 06:38 AM - Post#897910    

Playing cribbage on the weekend with my wife. Doing yoga every day, I wouldn't call it a hobby more of a chore but works.

Finally I was playing the piano a lot but haven't done it in a fortnight. Need to get back to that.

05-12-20 10:44 AM - Post#897916    

Me and my boy have been doing some Lego Technic. I've ordered Lego Boost for his birthday, where you make and code different robots.

Owen Brown, a Biomedical Scientist from Pontyclun, Wales.

05-12-20 11:21 AM - Post#897918    

I've gotten really good at hand wringing. Oh, and moaning too!

05-12-20 12:41 PM - Post#897920    

I’ve taken up piano again (on an electric keyboard my daughter plays). It’s been probably 20 years since i last “tickled the ivories” and I’m getting back to the basics

05-12-20 12:50 PM - Post#897922    

I’ve seen in a few articles about brain health for the aging the value of activities that require and develop manual dexterity. In addition to the various intellectual pursuits that keep stimulating the brain, adding actual physical tinkering takes it up a notch. So, musical instruments are a natural. I haven’t played guitar in years and no longer have one, so I should find something else. I’ve always been an egghead nerd, so I should learn to do something new. I’d like to learn to build my own balsa gliders to launch off the balcony. Or maybe sailboats. Kites? Origami? And a terrarium, though that would just look like the view out the windows here.

05-12-20 01:06 PM - Post#897923    

More time to play my usual online poker and chess (and more people online to play them with!).

I keep saying I want to try to learn guitar, but that hasn't happened yet...

05-12-20 04:17 PM - Post#897929    

While I'm still working, my electric guitar practice is paying off big time. I'm now ready to move up a level and start some more advanced instruction..trying to figure out which online teacher is best.

05-12-20 05:02 PM - Post#897932    

Gardening! Never been one for gardening beyond mowing and hedge trimming. I’ve always found it to be an itchy, hay fever inducing and wasp infested affair but I’m really loving it now and we’ve just bought a greenhouse. Rock and roll!

'You can throw in the towel or use it to wipe the sweat off your face and keep going' 'Well ain't this place a geographical oddity? Two weeks from everywhere.' Ulysses Everett McGill

05-12-20 07:04 PM - Post#897939    

I would love to have time for a hobby. I was running a business managing track and field federations and competitions, had the option to just "put my feet up" for the duration, and stupidly we opted instead to try to organise virtual team competitions while people train solo. So now, I'm working crazier hours than ever for very little money (but hopefully helping a lot of people stay connected with their clubmates, stay motivated and have fun).

Found time for a run and 500 swings most days, I hope that counts. The latter is a really perverse hobby and I am counting down to quitting ;-)

05-12-20 07:06 PM - Post#897940    

• Volumiza Said:

That's my wife's hobby. I am just the slave that does the heavy and boring parts. I, too, have always found it to be an itchy, hay fever inducing and wasp infested affair. But I pride myself on rationality, and am scheming to downsize to a nice serviced apartment with a communal garden in about 20 years time ...

05-13-20 02:41 AM - Post#897950    

• Pontyclun Said:

Snap...kind of...my eldest just read the Hobbit so we are building stuff out of that, Bricklink has had a fortune out of me.

05-13-20 11:17 AM - Post#897973    

Dusted off my bass guitar and am taking online lessons. Lots of fun and progressing well. Just practicing "little and often over the long haul.."

Just my 2¢

05-18-20 09:45 PM - Post#898214    

No time for hobbies.

But the blessing is the amount of time I've been able to spend with my two preschoolers. I was gone for work the months preceding the quarantine, and I've really been able to spend a lot of quality time with them that I wouldn't have if times were normal. We hike, throw water balloons, I watch them ride their bikes and just be active little boys. I'm loving it.

That said, they are driving my wife crazy. She doesn't handle stress well and is juggling the kids and teleworking and endless and pointless zoom meetings. It's a real strain on our marriage. She would much rather be at work.

05-19-20 05:20 PM - Post#898242    

Back in the early late 70's/early 80's i played dungeons and dragons when it first got popular as a kid. We would play all weekend/barely sleep. I thought "hey this will be great to get back into with my kids now" So i bought the Essentials kit, started reading online...and man oh man..it's giving me old brain a headache trying to re-familiarize myself with all of it. Just got Dungeon masters for Dummies, hopefully that will help. I may have to try to join as a player somewhere to help get up to speed. Anywho...it is an awesome game as it's almost all imagination and played in the "theater of the mind" They have all these electronic aides now but they aren't necessary.....i think )

05-19-20 05:58 PM - Post#898246    

• padddleperson Said:

RuneQuest and Call of Cthulhu were way cooler ;-)

05-19-20 06:45 PM - Post#898247    

• Old Miler Said:

Thems fighting words! Roll your twenty-sided die

05-19-20 07:57 PM - Post#898248    

I spent many a weekend playing D&D and then AD&D. Usually started around 7:00pm or so and quite often never got home till about 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning. Got totally immersed.

These past two months I've tried to sharpen my photography skills and we've fired up the Wii and have been playing Tiger Woods Golf.

Still Lots to Learn ------------------------- ----------------- Life's short, take lots of pictures. ------------------------- ----------------- It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. - Neil Armstrong

Coronavirus Hobbies?
05-19-20 10:37 PM - Post#898255    

Along with learning more about the history of silent films I have stepped up both my masturbation game and my increasing knowledge of humankind's supposed distance from the animal kingdom!

It's win win with this Covid thing.

To say nothing of an increased interest in the foundations of humor too!

Okay . . . something funny here already please . . .

Jesus wept?
More like yawned
all things human considered.

An in depth study of crocodile tears might very well follow,
seeing as I found out I'm unemployed until at the earliest here January now.

Anyhow, twice a day lifting, two days on one day off, with limited amounts of available food and income should set the record straight.

You wanna kill me, Covid?
I can beat you to it, buster!

Yes, that humor thing should never die, no matter what.

Life's too short to worry about longevity.

Edited by Neander on 05-19-20 10:53 PM. Reason for edit: No reason given.