To wonder what on earth all these myserious hobbies on MN are?

[Abbinob]

I see so many posts with things like "when i'm doing my hobby" "DH spends 2 hours a week doing his hobby" "a friend from my hobby"

WHAT ARE ALL THESE HOBBIES?

I've never heard anyone say this in RL
"so what you doing tonight?"
"oh you know, i'm going to do my hobby"

It makes me all nosey and agitated trying to work out what these hobbies are

colsgirl my dp (dry 345 days) says he is going to his club when he attends AA meetings.

There are a few hobbies that I'd rather tell people I was at an aa meeting :o

For run of the mill hobby's like golf, gym, cycling etc I really don't get it!

I agree with Dellarobia, that it's the accumulation of information. The hobby might be one factor and on other threads you could have posted about your children, and eventually may have posted enough to be identified.

DH paints and puts together little Warhammer figurines etc. Calling it vaguely a hobby sounds much better, really. I might call my artsy group activities "a hobby" if I want to be vague and not give too much information about myself.

It sounds such a 1950s/60s word, doesn't it? I suppose before that most ordinary people didn't have time. Or the light. And many things that people now think of as hobbies were essentials- knitting, sewing, woodwork- if you needed a jumper or a shelf or a loaf of bread you had to make it.

It's all about leisure.

I've just had another thought. Jane Austen women are always showing off their accomplishments and making shell boxes and so on- but the only man I can remember doing anything but gardening is the disabled ex sailor in Sense and Sensibility who made made wooden things and nets. The posh boys never do anything.

I know someone who's DH collected and played alone with action men dolls as a hobby, He'd make aarrgghh noises when they 'fell off the bed cliffs' and everything.

whose

I have a hobby I do twice a week - think tennis but with a higher net and instead of a ball a weighted 'cone' of feathers.

This just gave me the giggles, thank you casual

I once went on wikipedias list of hobbies to try find a new hobby.
Scrolled up and down with my eyes closed, whatever my pointer landed on was going to be my new hobby:
Web surfing.
So here I am. (Jk, it was already the only thing I ever do.)

Hobbies over the years

Pottery classes for 3 years
Watercolours class 1 year
Salsa class 2 years
Belly dancing 2 years
Karate 2 years
Running many years
Gaming many years
Hockey many years
Cycling many years
Lots of voluntary work

DH hobby is his beloved rowing machine and golf but no time for golf currently.

They do spend time riding, driving carriages, and putting on theatrical entertainments Bertrand, all of which would count as hobbies today. Also painting pictures and writing riddles if I recall correctly (Emma).

Actually no, not painting - getting pictures framed - sorry, that is different.

Also singing, dancing, hunting, and (very important) playing cards.

I always think the hobby is some slightly obscure, really lame martial arts class.

I always think the home business is selling stuff on eBay you imported from China.

I haven't done anything resembling a hobby for over a year, and I do miss it tbh.

I always think the "expensive and time consuming hobbies" are triathlon ... maybe it's just where I work but most of the 35+ previously very unfit men in the office have decided to take up triathlon and spend ££££s+ on carbon fibre bikes and wetsuits, not to mention trips abroad for the competitions and the weeknight training sessions, weekend events etc.

But I like the idea that they are getting dressed in lycra shortsvto go off and built matchstick models of the Empire State Building much better

My sister says the cheapest part of horse ownership is buying the horse.

DH's hobby seems to be falling asleep on the sofa- it's time consuming (about an hour and a half today) and inconvenient (snores too loudly). There's another woman involved too (the dog snoozes on his feet).

this may also be my hobby, but without the snoring

I have to say I find the term 'hobby' a bit odd. Was really taken aback recently to find it used for learning an instrument.

Bertrand, my ahem hobby takes me out regularly - I sing in a chamber choir, rather well (as in it's not just footling around once a week and for some reason I feel I need to make that point ) and DP does a martial art and also teaches it.

But I would not for instance call the novel I'm writing a 'hobby'.

Hobby ?
Pulling motorbike engines to bits and rebuilding them.
Taking my grandson train-spotting.

I've always imagined it was potholing.

"Real" Golf is so shit and boring compared to Crazy Golf. Now that is a sport of kings.

My hobby is crochet. It's quiet, cheap, portable, doesn't take up much space and I can pick it up or out it down as required.

barbarossa or do you just drag DGS along for cover?

Church bell ringing?

(used to do that)