Hobbies for the middle aged man

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Music - Actually 'listening' to music.

 

[bigstanhibbert]

Whittling

 

[idahoblues]

Pheasant plucking

 

[Delphinho]

Fishing or disc golf

 

[The Northern Baptist]

Japanese joinery and bonsai

 

[KS55]

Study something quite challenging such as quantum theory, philosophy, or Chaucer.
Will keep the brain agile which is half the battle.

 

[117 M34]

Some pretty cool lego sets for adults.
Might be a bit geeky but it's what I envisage myself doing when I retire in 30 years.

 

[mosssideblue]

I needed a hobby so took up drawing 12 months ago, mainly doing animal portraits (or trying to) in coloured pencils Very enjoyable and not weather dependent.

 

[mancityvstoke]

Hunting down cunts from the match day thread

 

[Bluemanc100]

Recommendations would be most helpful..things to do inside?

And no weird shit!

Cycling.. great for losing the timber and for improving your mental health (out in the fresh air and not looking at social media for a couple of hours)

Recumbents have made cycling a pleasure for me with zero of the aches and pains that a diamond framed bike used to cause

 

[DrBlueBob]

I have just built 2 airfix planes, painted them and all that jazz (First models in maybe 55 years. I got these from Lidl for £7 each but these are the 1:72 models, you can get 1:12 that cost a fortune considering it's moulded plastic.

A recent guilty pleasure of mine is watching YT vids of people making Airfix models. The levels of detail is off the charts.

 

[staffsblue]

Depends what you enjoy doing with your time. I enjoy swimming, running & walking for fitness. Also love listening to music (either my own collection or 6Music) and reading.
Sometimes like giving myself a cooking challenge. Ended up trying to put together a new curry each weekend during lockdown, but haven't tried that for a while.
Definitely not into gaming. Must have missed the boat with that when I was a kid & don't see the appeal.
Would love to learn some new languages but don't have the self discipline to do it myself from an online course or book. May consider language evening classes at some point.

 

[DrBlueBob]

I'm trying to learn Spanish at the moment. The duo app is free and very good.

Burro means donkey. I only learned that in the last couple of days. Good luck with all the other words.

 

[staffsblue]

Burro means donkey. I only learned that in the last couple of days. Good luck with all the other words.

And burrito is "little donkey'.

 

[mexico1970]

A recent guilty pleasure of mine is watching YT vids of people making Airfix models. The levels of detail is off the charts.

Therapeutic mate, like those renovation videos or watchmakers servicing watches.

 

[DrBlueBob]

And burrito is "little donkey'.

I confess that I am not very good with foreign languages but I was watching a YT vid in Italian about mother sauces (Escoffier) and burro is butter in Italian and my mother said she thought it was donkey, which it is in Spanish. Oh how we all laughed.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Cerveza - beer
Otro - another

Lesson 1 over.

 

[DrBlueBob]

Therapeutic mate, like those renovation videos or watchmakers servicing watches.

Engineering too.

 

[117 M34]

I'm trying to learn Spanish at the moment. The duo app is free and very good.

I want to learn spanish again but not sure if I should bother.
I did it at school 20 years ago but have forgotten 90% of it.
Think if I learn it again, I will just forget it all again as I won't be using it regularly so not much point.

 

[RadcliffeRick]

Fisting... But be prepared, once hooked (sorry) it gets bloody expensive.

I thought the OP said no weird shit :-)