Starting A New Hobby Gifts

"He built his own airplane from a kit."

"I'm sorry-this is literally my first rodeo."

'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!"

The Horse Whisperer: The Early Years.

'Since you're new to rock climbing I thought I'd start you out slowly. Climb that boulder.'

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

'So how are the pottery classes going hon?'

"I just read it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert on a given subject. Janet, start the clock and bring me a glass."

'She gave me the tools and said 'Enjoy yourself.' Then, when I started building stuff, she left me.'

'Isn't that cute. She's writing her first novel.'

"Please, Daddy. I don't want to learn to use a computer. I want to learn to play the violin."

"I've got to admit, this landscape painting is much easier than I thought."

Wine tasting for beginners

'How'm I doin'?'

'Actually I have just one bee at the moment...'

"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'."

I bake my own bread.

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

Mountain climbing classes has a small rock for beginners.

'You're going to start home brewing, aren't you?'

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

Bob is installing privacy screens: we've had a surge of bird-watcher activity in the neighbourhood...

Home Wine-Making Kit...

"Since starting my own podcast, I no longer have to heave the house to cop a gob-full of abuse."

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

The Hobby Store

"I've been learning how to fly hot-air balloons!"

She found baking helped enormously.

'Just a few more lessons on the training skis, and you'll be ready for a solo run, Mrs. Trimble.'

'My first camera'

'You have endured a plastic bag, a motorbike, two cars, a group of cyclists and a small happy dog. You are certified 'bombproof'. Congratulations.'

People said that it was beginner's luck that Robert caught two fish the very first time he went fishing.

'After that, Ron would always open books about new hobbies before buying the equipment.'

"Ooh, another unsuspecting victim."