New Hobby Adoption Pillows

"He took up birdwatching during lockdown."

The Hobby Store

"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'."

"He built his own airplane from a kit."

"River well stocked this year."

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

'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."

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

'My first camera'

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

'First of all, relax.'

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

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

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

Model Building

"We cancelled Netfix for this?"

'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 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!'

"Frankly, I don't really want him to improve: he scares the predators away..."

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

She found baking helped enormously.

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

'Hello, please take care of my ship in a bottle.'

'Women cook to feed the soul...men cook to feed the ego.'

I would love to learn Karate, but Dad insists I do Boxing instead: He says I have natural disposition for it...

'First time spear fishing, Son?'

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

Mr Tom Noddy's First Day With the Hounds Pt. 2

"My husband makes this wine."

Water Gardening: And you will find yourself thinking over many garden problems at the waterside.

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