New Hobby Embrace Gifts

"He initially resolved to be less of a pushover, but then we decided to take up knitting."

"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."

"River well stocked this year."

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

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

"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.'

"Getting the hang of it?"

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

'My first camera'

'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!

Model Building

"We cancelled Netfix for this?"

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

'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!'

She found baking helped enormously.

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

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

"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.'

'First time spear fishing, Son?'

"By the time I was supposed to resume my hockey career, I had discovered ice dancing."

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

"My husband makes this wine."

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

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