What’s your hobby?

[RubyFakeLips]

My main hobby has always been unspecific socialising, have tried a few things in lockdown but nothing has stuck, I’m half being nosey half looking for inspiration.

Do you run, knit, bell ring, fund raise?

Do you truly love it or is there another motivation?

Alone or (previously) part of a group?

Curious as to what other people are doing? The more niche the better!

Thanks, feel like I would enjoy combination of outdoors with animals. Wasn’t sure if lessons was a thing, will look into this.

I’m a London kid and still live here so not many horsey opportunities! Will look for stables, I can be in outskirts/Essex or Hertfordshire in half hour and as it’s all green belt I’m sure must be stables.

Punch needle embroidery
Making pom pom garlands to decorate the house with
Yoga

Pottery and drawing.

Family history, history in general! I love looking at old maps, and reading about the history of buildings. I’ve done lots of genealogical research for friends and family and get really absorbed by it all.

@RubyFakeLips
For a while I've been interested in what goes into toiletries & cosmetics as I've found various ones make my skin react, as well as my DCs.
I then went on a soap making course a couple of years ago & realised it was actually very easy with the right ingredients (mostly store cupboard stuff but some more advanced like Lye & essentials oils) plus I'd know what was in it.
Then last year I did another course focusing on home & body products (bath oil, laundry detergent, multi-purpose cleaner, candles etc) & have bought a few books about it all too.
I've now made 4 batches of soap at home, bath oil, facial oil, bath salts, & body scrub.
I'm going to do an aromatherapy course next month (online) with Neal's Yard to learning a bit more about essential oil properties & blending & then hoping I can make most of our household toiletries going forward.
It's nice being able to choose & mix my own scents & know exactly what is going into the products.

Pre-covid I played netball twice per week. I would also coach kids netball twice per week.
I'm a Chair of Governors over a couple of schools. Not a hobby as such but takes up a lot of my time.
I run and exercise regularly.
I read when I can, has been more during locked but I find I don't have the energy when normal life takes over (too much running around after DC).
As a family we walk, canoe and bike quite a lot.

My main hobbies, which I do regularly are:
Art - painting, linocut printing, pen and ink, digital art
Running
Walking and mountain hiking
Surfing

I also love horseriding, snorkelling and cycling, but only get to go occasionally.

And I love cooking, baking, travelling, going to art exhibitions and reading but I don't think of them as hobbies as such.

I normally don’t have time for any hobbies as work full time and have 3 kids. Apart from a few runs a week and lots of watching crap tv. But now they’re getting older (youngest is 13) I’m getting a little more spare time. I need to use it constructively so watching....

Postcrossing is my favourite for ratio of time and effort to enjoyment.

Volunteering - though I’ve ended up running the thing and getting paid for it with all the stress that brings, so that’s gone rather badly really.

Gardening.

@APurpleSquirrel fascinating! That’s a really interesting an useful hobby. Neals Yard are great. I will be suggesting to my sister, think she would love this.

@HankMarvinjg

Fishing

Ooh, what kind? I used to coarse fish, (pike mainly) but I don't have the stomach for unhooking the poor little buggers anymore. Would probably still do it if I ate what I caught as I miss getting immersed in it.

Pilates is my jam now.

Coarse & sea fishing , although I haven't been sea fishing in a long old time. Would love to catch some fish to eat, if we weren't currently locked down I'd be trying to catch a few bristol channel cod I reckon!

There are various places you can do courses - the ones I attended were with The Dartmoor Soap Company but I know other places run them too (pre-Covid).
You can also just watch YouTube, read books etc as all the information & recipes are available but I wanted to be taught/shown!
It's a very nice creative outlet for me - closest thing to potion-making, I guess, that I did as a child.

I rescue and try and rehabilitate bats
I enjoy cooking and baking
We enjoy wine tasting and did WSET2 and 3 in the last 2 years and di our Sake level 1 last October
I love camping / hiking / walking and doing anything in nature
I was half way through a bee keeping course last year before Covid meant it had to be cancelled

I also enjoy doing anything 'weird'. Sewer tours, sausage making, alpaca trekking.... before lockdown I'd booked a day of 'pig husbandry' which sadly was cancelled so I'm looking forward to it being back on

(we don't have children, so hobbies are a big part of our lives!)

Reading.. and eating, I don't really have any hobbies, I want to get some though

Post crossing and Pig Husbandry you say, this is the kind of niche stuff I was hoping for. Something I’ve never truly considered...

Have always knitted, for a long while I did cross stitch, a couple of years ago I taught myself to crochet, which I had long wanted to master. I now always have something on the hook. I absolutely love it and am hopeless at sitting doing nothing of an evening - cannot just watch TV.
I play an online game
and DH and I have started Paint by Numbers. Some fabulous grown up ones available.

I play as much tennis as I can when allowed. It’s really fun, good exercise and has helped me make new local friends who I wouldn’t have met otherwise. During lockdown I have been writing. Started writing a memoir in November and have written 50,000 words already. Not sure I will ever do anything with it, am just enjoying the challenge of making my life story into something readable.

gypsiology, family history, our racial history, Tarot, Palmistry, and reading tea leaves.
Personal study, and gaining knowledge.

I’ve got a pony, but I’m a bit of a fair weather rider, so I’m not riding much at the moment
I enjoy dabbling in crafts (latest thing is pyrography!)

Make cards, not for actively selling, but pleasure. I give a batch to Cats Protection every so often so they can sell in their shops (when they are open).

Vegetable gardening, going to start that shortly.

I also (this may be slightly embarrassing) have a bit of an addiction to watching youtubers (mainly American) who promote pioneer / vintage hoe lives with a religous bent. So sort of Amish-inspired. Not sure why. i am not Christian, and have been a bit focused on my career for 2 decades. But I am deeply attracted to a simpler life where you make your own butter and keep your own bees.

So, to sum up ;

I like horses
bats
falconry
travel
cottage core

I reckon having my own smallholding that I can escape regularly for European city breaks would be my perfect life.

that was 'vintage home lives'

Geocaching, crochet and generally making stuff.

Plus sitting on the sofa doing nothing but that's a fairly recent hobby 🤔

ironing while watching the Crown is a fairly new hobby also.