To ask you what your “hobbies” are?

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I’m looking for some inspiration!

Out of the house:

I’m wardrobe mistress at our local am dram theatre so I end up there a lot especially when we have shows coming up and running. Always sewing or putting costumes together before a show but there’s a variety of roles I help with during a show depending on what’s needed.

I joined a ladies winter league darts team a few months ago so I’ve been enjoying that each week. I was pretty useless at playing before but I think I’m getting slowly better. And I quite like having the excuse to go to the pub with new friends each week.

Pilates at a physio-led class once a week. More for my own mobility but before lockdown I did multiple Pilates classes a week and also pole fitness once a week and I’m trying to get my weight/fitness/mobility back to where it was before I go back to pole.

I have a season ticket for our local football team so I try to get to every home match and the occasional away one.

I like attending gigs and musicals, don’t get to as many as I would like but have 3 gigs and 1 musical planned for next year so far.

At home:

Gaming (a few different types of game depending on my mood, my laptop is broken so I only have my phone and Switch at the moment). I also play Pokemon Go which helps me get out the house a bit more when I can.

I used to craft a lot so trying to get back into that. I’ve been crocheting myself a granny square cardigan but the dog decided my wool looked like an amazing bed so I have to get all the fur off it before I continue.

TV/movies. I keep meaning to get back to going to the cinema regularly but again my mobility is affecting that so I’ve been watching things at home.

I also like watching sports on TV (football, motorsports, rugby, golf are my main ones).

I’m trying to get back into reading too. I love books but I burnt myself out a bit as I finished a Literature and Creative Writing degree last year and had to read and study so many books for that I need to relearn how to just read for fun.

ETA: I’m also learning Romanian on Duolingo. It’s a harder language than I realised but I’m enjoying it.

Play tennis a couple of times a week
Reading - aim for 26 books a year
Crosswords and sudoku

Mine change a lot, I get really fixated on something then move on, but old favourites:
Crosswords
Cooking and Baking
Mycology
Poetry-writing and reading
Reading -usually classics
Music
History, particularly tudor england/ regency/ Louis XIV France
Quizzes
Board and card games

Probably loads of othwrs over the years. I remember a particularly painful jigsaw phase, ended painfully slowly by a many pieced London underground jobby

Running
Swimming
DIY
Painting
Soft upholstery

I have the “obsession that wears off” / “spend lots of money then consign it to the back of the cupboard” habit. I wiiiiish I wasn’t like that!

Football and horse racing are my top 2 followed closely by cricket.

I think a —better— equally good question is, if you have hobbies, what do you do for a living, how many hours per week do you work, how old are any kids you have, is your husband an actual feminist who genuinely splits it all down the middle including the mental load or a pretend one who wants to wing Christmas and ‘doesn’t see mess’

Using, restoring, and occasionally selling vintage (pre-1945) Singer treadle and handcrank sewing machines. It's a hobby that takes a lot of strength... 😄

Knitting
Crochet
Cross-stitch
Sewing
Yarn dyeing (would love to make a business out of it)
Shopping for all the above 😁
Watching YouTube podcasts and tutorials for the above.
(I love crafts but don't have an artistic bone in my body btw)

Ancestry but only DH's family as his has some interesting stuff (prisoners, mental asylums, 17th century prostitutes, all the good stuff. My side is tricky with various adoptions/Irish records missing and we can't find a reliable paper trail pre 1900.

Also, researching whatever is interesting me at that moment. It could be something random like the history of Harris Tweed weaving or The Battle of Culloden or Norman Castles - the list is endless really. Currently down a Ed Gein rabbit hole but next week it could be the mating rituals of Balugas 😆.

Have also previously had a go with the following:-
Candlemaking (very messy)
Tapestry
Glass painting (no skills, didn't progress beyond geometric shapes)
Entering competitions - won loads over the years but the hobby was ruined with social media like and shares in last 10 years or so.
Airfix models (retro racing cars e.g Jim Clark stuff, total dust collectors though)
Reading - used to be a total bookworm, not sure what happened. Maybe when the Internet became a thing 😳.

Board games (not Scrabble etc, nerdy board games)
DnD
Video games
Crochet
Painting

Singing
Yoga
Swimming
Theatre

Online classes in loads of different things, many of which you can do free with EdX etc.
Cooking
Going to the gym 4 x a week (x2 with my PT)
Reading
Watching films
Travel and planning travel (I do two solo city breaks a year plus a family holiday
Colouring books
Just getting into hand embroidery

Baking
Reading
Walking
Growing veggies

Nothing glam or exciting but find all of them calming which is great for a single parent with a pressurised full time job!

Things I enjoy out of the house
Running
Hiking
Paddleboarding
Concerts/theatre/cinema
I used to play a team sport as well but gave that up a few years ago.

At home:
Fostering animals
Playing piano and guitar
Cooking
Drawing
Reading
Online Scrabble
Wordle/connections/waffle
Listening to music
Watching TV

Adult colouring
Swimming
Reading
Pub quizzes
Rock Choir
Diamond Painting

Entering competitions - won several things in the past including big prizes like a holiday & a lovely weekend break at The Ickworth with spa treatments.
Hoping to join a musical theatre singing group.
Playing the piano which I absolutely love but don’t do enough of.
Yoga & Pilates at various times & I really want to take up both again, especially Pilates
Would love to take sculpture classes but can only ever find pottery
Used to be a total bookworm & still love getting lost in a good novel

Yabu

• Sewing: I particularly like making clothes for other people.
• Allotment gardening.
• Brewing cider using apples & pears grown on the allotment - part of our allotment holding is an orchard.
• Jam making

Comping (Entering competitions)
Greek language and history studies
Cooking and baking
Gardening
Rug making
Writing

Silversmithing
Rambling with friends

Walking group - ladies only. Lovely group that has 3 walks a week plus drinks / pub lunches

Other than that, not a lot. Doom scrolling! When youngest goes to uni next year and I relocate 250 miles looking to get some more hobbies so interested in seeing what other people do. As a long time single parent working full time and 3 DC (with their father working overseas for a huge chunk of that) I never had time for hobbies. Surviving was key! But now they’ve grown up I do have time for me again, which is nice.

I don't consider them "hobbies" as such - just "activities that keep me busy and which I enjoy".

Mine are:

• Cross fit
• Strength training
• Hiking
• Doing my own gel nails
• Jigsaws
• Watching films
• Batch cooking
• Planning my next interior project at home and then doing it (painting and decorating, creating a gallery wall etc)
• Gardening (in the spring and summer)

Adult coloring
Crime podcasts
Astrology
Travel

Knitting
Wild swimming
Rugby

Reading
Swimming 2x weekly
Hiking - more in the Summer months.

Dog agility... that's were all the spare cash goes!