What are your favourite hobbies?

Sam_Alumni

LizzyKitten said:

I like to make cards and go out for a wonder in my wheelchair. I am learning how to swim so that I can kayak again, which I loved to do before I fell ill.

Oh how exciting! I would love to learn to kayak!!!

iza

Hi @LizzyKitten and @Sam_Scope, 

I think you can add me to your kayaking plans too. Nice lake or quite river along  beautiful nature views and I am kayaking with you too. 

therase

I like a good word puzzle or a good documentary....have been known to like a good colouring book too ...

Liam_Alumni

Oh, I love me a good word puzzle, @Therase, although I haven't done one in years! I think it's time to have a look around the house and see if there's a puzzle book lying around.

Do you have a favourite type of word puzzle? I tend to prefer crosswords and arrow words over wordsearches, personally!

1BentSpine

I have several hobbies too.  I enjoy reading, crossword puzzles, word games like Scrabble. I am currently taking guitar lessons which i really enjoy, and find playing the guitar relaxing.  I enjoy doing crafts, and my latest adventure is quilting.

Sam_Alumni

I love Scrabble @1BentSpine I am thinking about starting a scrabble/board games night! 

I also just got myself a jigsaw, I do love a good jigsaw!

thespiceman

Hello I start in the morning with an arrowword it is like a crossword.  With Classic FM on till lunch time.  Well any time I have just some quiet time I will do word puzzles.  Main reason it helps to relieve the stress and I can relax a little bit .  Been told good for my brain and remembering things.  Have some days what I call senior moments and forget stuff.  I enjoy any thing that can strengthen my brain power whether quizzes on tv or just simple wordsearches.  It feels great when you can complete a puzzle.  Few times I feel elated and good  Does anybody feel the same.

LynneR

Hi I'm new today, Liam I loved your writing.  That has become my new hobby but in  a different way and through sad circumstances.  My Dad died last year and he had suffered greatly for 15 months.  He had an abestos related Cancer and it only happened because his employers broke the law.  That left me in a bit of a state to say the least and eventually my GP diagnosed PTSD and wanted me to see a Psychiatrist.  I said I would think about it but somehow browsing the net I found a bereavement group and that was better for me than therapy,  Its a closed group so I could speak freely.  Eventually a reading group was set up and we were lucky enough to have  some of the authors speak to our group.  In one of the books there were a few lines that meant a lot to me.  I wrote about it in the group and the author, who is a creative writing tutor, came back to me and asked if I would like so of her teaching notes.  So my "hobby" for the moment is not creative writing but its keeping a journal and writing absolutely honestly about how Im feeling, I have several health problems and am still devastated by the loss of my Dad and the way that it happened. So that's me.  On days when my hands will work with me instead of against me I scribble in my journal.  I hope to go onto  writing somehting else but for the moment this is therapy and a hobby at the same time. 

Boychris

Hi, My name is Boychris, now 63, i have two hobbies that stop me climbing these walls, i love flower gardening, but i am a green fingered gardener because i collect seeds etc and grow them my self, I take cuttings as well and grow and nurture the young plants on until they are ready to go into baskets and containers for a good display. I am not a miser but i rarely get out to garden centers i find no pleasure in buying plants ready grown to plant out, to Dam expensive, i get my specialist compost and i will sit for many hours in my greenhouse growing my own.This year seams to be a great year for growing, i have done 20 baskets 10 huge tubs, gave away several to my neighbors. But living in Scotland we have our challenges with the weather, to day a bank holiday one would expect a good sunny day no not for us ,its hot 20 degrees and you guest it its pouring down .
So i am indoors .
My other hobby which i have taken up only the past to months is drawing , and water color my carer says i am  good but i don't know but its been years since i left school, but it passes the time, and keeps me awake, during my down days.
  My Doctor has said its a good therapy keeps the mind active and stops the depression i can get into, well that's my hobbies .

iza

Hi @LynneR, sorry to hear about your father. 
I am glad you are getting yourself into habit of writing and keeping it on regular basis. Keep going as you may develop your writing skills and publish your journal at lather stage. 

iza

Hi @Boychris, 

Gardening is really beautiful hobby and very relaxing at the same time. 
I assume all your life you been probably very busy and never had time to do much of other hobby activities. Painting, drawing are very focus orientated activities were you can really spend lots of time creating magnificent piece of art. Art therapy becomes one of the leading method to helping people recovery from medical condition, loneliness even trauma. 

CockneyRebel

I find when the ground is right ie. just damp enough i get great pleasure from pulling up stinging nettles I don a long pair of leather welders gauntlets and away I go. It is so theaputic I lose touch with time and for a little while all my cares are gone

cslater

If anyone has any interest in physical activity leisure based activities try looking at your local County Sport Partnership website they have lots of activities on offer. There is also an officer at most CSPs that lead on inclusive activity - so give them a ring for help and signposting, 

paisleybud

Hi
My hobbies are I like to knit and crochet, going to cinema, out for meals, 

NicolaH

I love reading and making jewellery or painting.
I love cooking when the pain permits me ro create in the kitchen.

Xx

AuraTodd1

Photography.  See my work at  http://louisetopp.weebly.com/

kward

reading and managing to do housework slowly around the flat my mobility is not good i have lymphodema in my feet and legs so its a real acheivement when i manage to do things. its a struggle so reading or watching films is good for me

Judomandean

My sport /  hobbie is judo - I am BRITISH SN Bronze medalist from 2009 - love a roll about on a JUDO MAT

Geniedebs

My new favourite hobby is genealogy. Anybody out there who enjoys family history? I have been tracing my tree for 2 and a half years.

Otherwise, I love history, reading and travelling.

Alex

@Geniedebs found any famous ancestors? 

I helped my mum do some research on our family tree, and found it quite addictive! She got in touch with a few relatives that she didn't know about before, which was really great. Unfortunately we've not found anyone famous yet!