Abandoned Hobbies

I expect most people have started a new hobby, full of enthusiasm, only to lose interest after a while or decide it was not for you

I tried and failed at watercolours as I have no talent whatsoever for drawing or painting pictures :( Picture-framing was okay for a while except that the frames made by special picture-framing shops are much, much sturdier with invisible joints, not like mine which either wobbled or the glue came unstuck or the picture slipped behind the mounting board which had raggedy edges etc. etc. :skp: There was a brief episode of interior decor to include ragged walls, distressed furniture and suchlike things. However, it was hard work and the most distressed thing was me!

What hobbies have you tried and failed at? I'd love to know! :wink:
T.

 

Loads and loads lol.

The only one that has stuck has been gardening-and that is because it has kept me on my toes learning new things all the time. Boredom kills all my hobbies.

 

Art, my best subject at school. Not done anything for thirty years.

 

wow, thats a great pic!

i planned to have a go at oil painting. but to this day the paints are still unopened!

in my wardrobe there is a blag binbag with a latchook rug in it. only about 1/6th done. it's been in the for years! I may finish it one day when I'm old and grey

 

Going by that painting it's high time you took it up again. Ones like that sell!

 

Here's my list -
Rock climbing (got married so that got stuffed as OH didn't have a head for heights)
Fishing (moved away from fishable rivers and couldn't pop down for an evening's fishing anymore)
Lapidary (had to sell my saw,lap, tumbler etc when the babies arrived to buy stuff for them - and didn't have time for it anymore anyway)
Motor cycling (couldn't afford bike AND car too once kids arrived)
Wood working (son has now lost, broke or comandeered most of my tools and I can't move in MY shed for HIS stuff which is a hell of a lot better stuff than I could afford at his age!)
Painting (became too time-consuming, besides which, son is far better at it than I was and I don't like to be beat :flag
Ham Radio (was once world class in the competitive side of the hobby, but the arrival of internet comms has made worldwide communications available to anyone and it's no longer a challenge)

Still going -

Photography - (40 years on and it gets better. No longer any need to spend hours in a darkroom and it's cheaper!)
Gardening (growing veg was a major money saving occupation when the kids were young. It was really hard work trying to fit it in with the demands of work. But now we've retired it's so much easier)
Ecology, and a few other 'ologies too (son is now in 3rd year of Hons degree and mum and dad could just about qualify for one too on account of all the proof reading they've done and dad's help with interpretation of stats and development of number-crunching spreadsheets. Nice to know that a couple of old fossils still have value though!)

 

Thanks for that, the ship is the "RSS Discovery" the one that took Scott and Shackleton to the Antarctic, it was moved to Dundee in the eighties. This is from when it was moored on the Thames Embankment in the Seventies. I based it on a photograph I saw in a magazine.

 

I used to do alot of folk art painting, and sold quite a bit of my stuff, but i just got tired of it and havent picked up my brushes in about 2 years now.

 

I don't know about that, surely it is just as challenging as ever before, as long as other people still do it (it wouldn't be much fun trying to contact people who aren't there).

I took a vague interesting in HAM radio when I was studying electronics (with emphasis on the radio aspect) when I was younger, but I never followed it through. I liked the idea of building your own equipment, and experimenting with different antenna designs, RF filters, RF pre-amps etc in order to overcome different obstacles (weather, curvature of earth etc). There's no way the internet can ever prove to be that much of a challenge, where you're bound by someone else's protocols, someone else's infrastructure etc.

One of the techniques I really wanted to try (but didn't have the money to buy the kit and components) was 'moon bounce'. It involved overcoming earth's curvature and atmospheric conditions by pointing your antenna at the moon and transmitting morse code. While the moon's surface would absorb most of the signal, some would be reflected back so people half way round the world could receive it. Even with all the technology we have today, that still sounds fascinating to me. No satellites, no optical fibres, no IP packets, DNS's or routers, just old and basic analogue radio and ingenuity.

 

Hi Tiarella, I would say I still do all the hobbies I started as they are things I really enjoy. I am always out to learn new things too

Keep fit has gone by the wayside [except for swimmimg and walking ] but I never really enjoyed keep fit. I used to go to step classes and bought the board and the clothes too!

I feel if I pay upfront for classes to learn something new it encourages me to attend :hehe: