Starting A Hobby Prints

"I can't stand reality. What makes you think I'll enjoy it virtually?"

Bitchbark Canoe

"First time pruning?"

"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?"

"Trail mix?"

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

Gardening Calendar: January - The Snow will be deep now...get out into the garden...

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

'First of all, relax.'

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

'My first camera'

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

'You were a band geek?! Maybe Max will play an instrument!'

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

Model Building

"We cancelled Netfix for this?"

"We should get out to the country more often."

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 bake my own bread.

"Ooh, another unsuspecting victim."

The Gardener's Calendar: Get Your Mower Out of The Shed.

'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.

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

She found baking helped enormously.

"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?'