I’ve always fancied learning the guitar but I’m musically inept.
Then you, sir, are ideally suited for the bass guitar. 😉
Model making > upgrade to RC cars
Archery > upgrade to playing with guns
HTH
Get a Drone.. there's no end to the number of STWers you could annoy the shit out of
I used to play the triangle in a reggae band.
I ended up quitting because it was just one ting after another.
I think you'll find you 'just stand at the back an ting' 😂
The wife works from home now so I never get the house to myself!
Danger **** in the local woods?
Figure skating ?. Get yourself a nice little tutu.
I'd pay to watch that. Entertainment value would be off the scale.
I used to play the triangle in a reggae band.
I ended up quitting because it was just one ting after another.
I think you’ll find you ‘just stand at the back an ting’
Ha ha ha - that's hilarious! 🙂
Great thing about the triangle is that 'you can move about an ting'
I'm similarly bored. I'm thinking wheel building. Anyone got any suggestions for good starting guides?
I’ve always fancied learning the guitar but I’m musically inept. Best I managed was Smoke on the Water riff when at school 35 years ago! And at Primary I was always the first to be handed the triangle.
Can you learn rhythm and a musical ear?
My mate learnt to play guitar over the course of a year.
No ear, no rhythm. I've never seen anyone with no rhythm before. It was very confusing to try to explain rhythm! He kept going and has an ear and rhythm! Mostly self taught from YouTube.
My mate learnt to play guitar over the course of a year.
No ear, no rhythm. I’ve never seen anyone with no rhythm before. It was very confusing to try to explain rhythm! He kept going and has an ear and rhythm! Mostly self taught from YouTube.
There’s a condition known as ‘sortoftriedatschoolandfailed’. It dogged me for decades before I figured out by myself that learning was fun and I could learn hobbies at my own pace. And that the few hours of unfocused semi-practice at school all of those decades ago is best simply ignored/disregarded. It doesn’t define you. It took me about 3 months daily practice to learn basic decent limb independence on drums for instance last summer. I never would have had that chance at home or school as a kid
Having an active interest helps. If you don’t ‘actively’ listen to music (active listening) then you’re already on a back foot.
We are too often our own worse enemies? I told myself I can’t learn languages, and have always struggled. So with maths foreign languages I get stressed and annoyed at rate of progress, and do give up more quickly. Am facing a similar problem with drums. I get 4/4 and can play in time now, but odd time signatures and actual sheet music I’m still shy of. Need to do small attainable chunks every day. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. You can actually feel and observe the progress of your mind I suppose ‘re-learning how to learn’ as new/old neural pathways are connected and built. I kept a daily drum diary and the findings were really interesting even after a few months.
Here's a hobby for those who trained themselves to not believe that they can learn music:
https://www.masterclass.com/articles/how-to-build-music-listening-skills
A nice pair of midrange reference quality over-ear headphones would be a good start. Then a darkened room.
Bird watching? Think of it as a good excuse to get out and explore new areas around where you live, combine with photography or drawing if that interests you.
Other then biking the only other hobby that "stuck" was metal detecting. If you have patience, love history, the outdoors and treasure hunting (duh!) it might be for you.
Can't do it under lock down that said as it would be a leisure activity rather than exercise I would say.
En plein air painting/sketching?
James Gurney demonstrates with gouache from a parked car and small sketchbook
Baking is good and makes for extra brownie points on the WFH snacks.
Could start with these to ensure living up to your forum name 😉
https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/blueberrymuffins_67846
metal detecting. If you have patience, love history, the outdoors and treasure hunting (duh!) it might be for you.
Can’t do it under lock down that said as it would be a leisure activity rather than exercise I would say
Got to be closer to exercise than fishing, and I've seen loads of maggot drowners out recently. 🤔
Got to be closer to exercise than fishing, and I’ve seen loads of maggot drowners out recently
Helps with mental health.
I imagine so. Still not really exercise though is it? 😉
Got to be closer to exercise than fishing, and I’ve seen loads of maggot drowners out recently
Helps with mental health.
When I am old and unable to run/cycle any distance (and when I am free of child/work commitments TBF) I fully intend on taking fishing up again – I spent my childhood fishing (going so far as taking a poaching rod to school so I could nip out at lunchtime). Every birthday and Christmas was simply fishing equipment, fishing-themed cards, fishing books etc. Unfortunately being an adult happened and I just don't have the time but it is such a wonderful experience - just sitting by a riverbank, flask of milky coffee in hand, eagerly awaiting that elusive bite (imagine that 'twich' Roy Shieder experienced when the water rippled with Jaws first tug on the bait - just like that but with a 14oz tench). It's amazing and so utterly mind-emptying.
Baking is good and makes for extra brownie points
Please tell me that gag was intentional, because it's glorious.
Rock-climbing / bouldering once the centres open up again? The latter you can do solo, the former semi-social if you can bring a friend or sign up to a course.
Helps with mental health.
100%. People (often men) in our culture do better with a focus/locus and/or ‘excuse’ to be outdoors, near water, with some peace and quiet for a day.
śamatha meditation for the British may involve tea, beer, pastried goods, fags (delete as applicable) and sticking things in other creatures, but at least it’s not that hippytrippy nonsense! 😉
Some of my fondest memories are of fishing. Eel fishing by the full moon especially.
Eel fishing by the full moon especially.
I used to go lamprey fishing (ie, stand downstream of a clutch of them with a keep net open, then just poke them off their perches). I could fill a net pretty quickly sometimes.
Helps with mental health.
All the people I know who fish regularly are caning tinnies and spliffs the whole time, which might counteract the mental health benefits.
Painting is quite relaxing and can be fun/frustrating. Pour painting is about as simple as it gets or as complex as you want to make it. If you want to start really cheaply then use floor tiles instead of canvas as these can be reused indefinitely if you don't like the picture and although you want to use acrylic paints for proper pictures, kids poster paint works just fine for playing / practicing. If you end up with a tile you want to keep then either resin or spray lacquer and it is fine. These two have been in the garden Cabin for about 3-4 years I think.
Alternatively what about a bit of decorative bowl making?
Cleaning cat litter seems to be my hobby - bloody five cats... aka man servant
I'm going to get flamed for this but..golf..at least if you are in scotland and courses are open
Use to be quite good, gave up for 10 years but took it up again during first lockdown and after playing 4 times a week finally broke par just before Christmas
Can be quite expensive, just bought myself new bats costing about 2k, but second hand a quality set can be had for 200 bucks
Its bloody addictive as well, if slightly frustrating.
Stocks and shares.
Would love to get back into fly fishing. Just not gonna happen at the mo. Summer evenings on the tarns, fishing the rise. Ahhhhhh.
Magic the gathering, especially if you have any 8-13yo child around to play with.
Maybe something like lock picking could be a random shout. Look up the lock picking lawyer on YouTube.
Get a VPN or the Old Bill may pay attention to you! 😀
A lot of detectorists are either current or past anglers etc actually.
There is a big cross over, a very relaxing, calming hobby that requires patience and also gets you in to the most beautiful scenery and wild life locations.👍
