Hobbies
Hobby: An activity done mainly for pleasure and in one’s free time.
Below is a selection of hobbies that people in the UK like to do in their spare time.
Art:
Most colleges in the UK run evening classes for people interested in art. Drawing is one of the more common courses offered and indeed I have even done a 10 week course on drawing myself. Unfortunately my ability did not equal my interest and so I wasn’t very good at it, ok I was rubbish. Colleges in the UK also offer classes in oil and watercolour painting.
Astrology:
Astrology is the study of how objects in the cosmos (stars, planets, moon etc) influence our everyday lives. I had a friend who told me that when he was younger he would not leave home until he had read his horoscope. He also told me that is fascination with his horoscope got a little bit out of hand so he stopped reading it. I used to read the horoscope page of my daily paper but now that I have stopped buying a newspaper I no longer bother. My star sign is Virgo and my Chinese birth sign is The Rabbit.
Bird Watching:
I have never really understood the interest in bird watching but there again a lot of my friends have never understood my interest in fishing. Bird watching involves looking at birds (usually through a pair of binoculars) in their natural environment. Most bird watchers like to record (write down) the various species of bird they observe and some will go to a lot of trouble to find and record rare species.
Calligraphy:
I saw a lot of Calligraphy in China and on a couple of occasions I was even asked by my students to have a go and write something for them. I think that Calligraphy can be best described as artistic handwriting. For example;
Calligraphy
Fishing:
Ah fishing one of the real passions in my life. Yes I have enjoyed fishing for as long as I can remember. In the UK there are many places one can fish, for instance, lakes, rivers, canals and of course the sea. The most unusual fishing I have ever done was in Sweden where I fished through a small hole in the ice on a frozen lake. There are several million people that like to fish in the UK making it a multi million pound business. People that like to fish are also called anglers.
Gardening:
Gardening is spending time working in a garden. I’ve never been a gardener and to be honest I’ve never wanted to. I could blame my hay fever for keeping me out of the garden but that wouldn’t be the real reason. It’s the worms and beetles, well anything that has more than two legs will keep me out of the garden. When I was 24 I had a really big spider in my house and it frightened the life out of me. I had to drive round to my mother’s house and get her to come home with me and throw it out of the house because I was too scared to touch it. I don’t like creepy crawlies, never have, never will. Still gardening is huge in the UK and lots of people take great pride in their gardens. Some like to landscape their gardens and concentrate mainly on flowers, shrubs and perhaps a patio or water fountain. While others like to grow their own vegetables. It used to be said that you can’t beat growing your own vegetables. Which means you can’t beat the taste of home grown vegetables and I must admit the best potatoes I have ever eaten were grown by my father. For those gardeners that really like to grow their own vegetables it is possible to rent a piece of land (which is called an allotment) from the local council. Unfortunately the amount of people wishing to have an allotment actually exceeds the amount of allotments available and as a result there is usually long waiting lists for this extra piece of land. Like fishing gardening is a multi million pound business in the UK. We have something called garden centres and these centres sell everything you need for the garden.
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