New Hobby Gifts

'Step one: take a good stiff drink.'

'Dude, you can go for that new diving gear if you want, but if you ask me, I think it's a trap.'

'What's the hardest thing about playing bowls?'

'Tommy is in the other room playing with the triangle we bought him in Bermuda.'

"River well stocked this year."

"Getting the hang of it?"

"O.K., go long, and then go about a hundred feet to your left or your right - who knows?"

'Aside from your plastic canvas projects, what else have you been doing since you retired?'

'I don't know what he gets up to in there, but it keeps him busy.' (Noises are recorded, man reads paper, has beer.)

"Our Rupert has swopped his gaming console for bagpipes...it gets us out of the house more often."

"My husband makes this wine."

Model Building

"I'm glad you've taken an interest in forestry. But couldn't you have grown this outside?"

"Wow, three strikes in a row. . . too bad it wasn't in your lane."

Bitchbark Canoe

"I would like a tube of lemon yellow, cadmium red, cobalt blue, ivory, black, and zinc white, a sixteen-by-twenty canvas, a couple of brushes, and that book 'Painting in Oils'."

The Hobby Store

"He built his own airplane from a kit."

"Is this the first time you've been fishing?"

"Trail mix?"

'First of all, relax.'

"Oh we're fine, my husbands just learning to cook during the quarantine."

'My first camera'

"You do have your own way of enjoying the garden, don't you?"

"We cancelled Netfix for this?"

Patey's in a band! He's so cool!

'Would you like some of our house wine? I just made it.'

"What do you mean, it's not an educational toy? I'd have to learn to ride it!"

I love Harmonica

I bake my own bread.

"Ooh, another unsuspecting victim."

'I don't actually want to learn so much that I become a wine buff - just a wine snob!'

She found baking helped enormously.

Pam collected ceramic pigs. Just one so far, but even that seemed like too many.

"You may not know this, but I've become quite the wine expert."