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Write a novel.
Leatherwork? it's fairly cheap and easy to get started, there's a lot of additional skills to learn depending on which direction you want to go if you like it and want to take it further, tooling, dyeing patternmaking etc, I made a load of bags and stuff and only slowed down once I had more bags than I knew what to do with. If you sell them or give them as gifts than thats less if a problem. There's a guy called on DieselpunkRo on youtube who makes really excellent patterns to follow and does some excellent tutorials too, loads of people make stuff from his patterns and sell it for decent money - https://www.youtube.com/c/DieselpunkRo
Some actual good ideas - ta folks
I have been in contact with Via Velo before but injured myself and could not ride th etandem for a year.
I think tho that will be back on the list of stuff to do.
Cooking.
Learn to do it properly; make butter, bread, cure ham, learn to make a decent soufflé that sort of thing. It's very satisfyingly, you genuinely learn a skill, plus then of course, it's a great excuse to invite folk around and have a party with the results. Cooking from ingredients is (or can be ) relatively cheap, and there's always something new to try.
What about sewing?
If you can face looking out your partner's old machine you could give it a go. Start with something simple like pajama bottoms or boxer shorts and if you take to it continue the ultimate cycle short project that there was a long thread on a while ago.
Plenty of sewing groups to go along for advice, chat, and company or you can work in your flat with you tube if you prefer the solo approach.
Plenty of sewing groups to go along for advice, chat, and company
Aye, and about the same age, all grey haired auld grannies.
Who knows, you might even get a lumber 😉
Sewing, or the more manly version of knot tying/splicing etc is actually a useful skill.
I recently got a metal detector, but that's not very winter-friendly.
learn to weld and build a bike
Its coming up to tree planting season.
You could join a woodland/nature group. Many volunteers are needed as there is mass tree (sapling) planting going on at the moment.
My bathroom needs a refit.....
I quite enjoy bird watching. Gets me outside and gives me something to focus on.
I mean who doesn't enjoy watching Tits....😮
Keeping warm, fed and illuminated.
Lolz @ dynati!
I live in an attic flat so no garden
That would be a project for me in your situation, sell attic flat (IIRC you have other properties too, flog them) while the markets mental, and buy a wee doer upper bungalow in the stix. You have an obvious love of the outdoors, which is an odd juxtaposition with living in a city flat.
Start a podcast/ blog.
Learn to juggle.
Buy a pair of baseball mitts with softball, and practice your pitch with a partner.
Build a novelty barbecue. Something simple, no pressurised gas!
I wouldn't recommend anything tech related, tbh. It's going to have to be something traditional 50s style dad type hobby like steam engines or something, isn't it? What about RC planes?
What about joining clubs like photography, art, literature etc? Bridge?
That would be a project for me in your situation, sell attic flat (IIRC you have other properties too, flog them) while the markets mental, and buy a wee doer upper bungalow in the stix.
That's not bad but it reduces your opportunities for social contact with clubs and that.
Not if you combine it with dogging it doesn't.
What about joining the SNP and doing a bit of canvassing? Get round the doors, you love an argumemt! 🙂
Archery or shooting? My dad in his 70s took up shooting after retirement and loves it.
OP, I invested in a (electonic) drum kit come first lockdown (also no downstairs neighbours)
Cautiously bought a cheap used (Alesis mesh) kit and a practice pad just in case it turned out I’d made a bad choice in drumming. Promised to upgrade if kept at it for a year. Set it up next to the freezer in utility room and got lost in youtube tutorials, 20 minutes every morn and night. Rudiments. Practice, practice, practice, learn from drummers. Watch drum videos. Learn from watching Buddy Rich footage, Joe Morello, Bozzio, Bonzo, Neil Peart, JoJo Mayer, Keith Moon, Christian Vander, Jaki Liebezeit, Tony Allen (insert your favourites) Spend a week on the Moeller method. Spend a month on paradiddles. Mini-projects: learning/reading drum music. 5/4, jazz, fusion, funk, hip hop, punk, speed- metal
I look forward to those scheduled 2 x 20 minutes every day. The evening sessions can stretch out to an hour sometimes. I’ll choose an album of music and challenge self to play the whole thing.
Much less than a year later I was literally gagging to upgrade and do more, so bagged a very decent Yamaha kit from Ebay for the same price I sold the original one.
Advice. Get the best minty/used Yamaha (or Roland) kit you can afford. Have loads of fun learning and playing and besting yourself forever.
Subscribe to Drumeo and Rob Beatdown Brown to get going. Start easy. Clean/dust your kit regularly. Get a little LED orange/dimmable bendy-light to clamp on there. Invest in some studio reference headphones. I get totally lost. Sorry not sorry for enthusing, but I xxxxxxxx love eeeeeet