General Chat

Stick with it Sharron, you know we all enjoy your writing others do too

I've inherited a couple of stamp collections over the years. Can't say I had hobbies as such as a child, just outside playing and wandering the forest. Always loved reading so have a library of books these days!

I used to make things from Balsa wood,dad woud buy me loads of the stuff and I loved the airfix kits and did loads.


Dad would draw a pattern out and I would stick the soft Balsa to it with cement glue.

Later in life I have a large collection of fountain pens, and CH sliver thimbles.and some silver nurses buckles.which started when I got my own.

Books that guide me to the English language & how to use it imaginatively.

'The English language becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts'. {George Orwell - 'Politics and the English Language'.}

Have you got a large set of book shelves for those Dermot? given they are usually heavy hardbacks.

When I was a child, we moved a lot, and could only take a limited amount of 'stuff' with us, so I never 'collected'.
However, once I settled.... :-S

My gran was a great hoarder. When she died, mum took a lot of her stuff, and when mum died, a lot came my way.

Gran kept ration books, HP agreements, letters between her and granddad, birthday and Christmas cards, postcards, even coal 'allowance' forms from the war.
I'm occasionally trying to put these in some semblance of order.
I've managed to put gran's and mum's 'dolls' teasets into a display cabinet, and some interesting birthday/Christmas cards, wartime stuff etc into frames

Personally, I used to collect tin toys - I picked up half a dozen old ones for 10p each when I lived in Shetland.
Then it was old bottles.
For years it has been old books - that I'm going through with a view to selling.
Oh - and I have a few dolls houses that I haven't done much to for a while :-(

Maggie

Have you disposed of your 'naff' religious items now ?

Oh no!
Still have those. :-D
I have a display box for them, but haven't decided where to put it.
I don't want it too visible to casual visitors - they may get the wrong idea :-S
Though my grotesques are plainly visible. (that sounds a bit rude :-D)

I did think of putting the religious stuff in the second bedroom, but the grandchildren sleep there, and Jago is already 'spooked' by the old railway posters of Swanage.

Grotesques - fine - 1920's posters - not fine.

I must clear out the 3rd bedroom (with dolls houses in), and put them in there. :-D

I rarely look in here these days but saw your thread today Ann and thought I'd comment.

Ann, of course children and adults have hobbies and interests outside of IT.
I've always been interested in art and crafts and do something creative most days - made a good career out of my 'hobbies'.

You don't learn to draw by saying 'I wish I could draw' - pick up a marker of choice and a sketch pad and start doodling.

Your post re 68 views and subsequent posts (or lack of) is very telling LOL

I can remember there being a bit of a craze at school and I joined in collecting bottle tops, the ones you prised off with a bottle opener. I think some children managed to wear them as badges by pushing something like a button in the backs with their jacket cloth inbetween.

I also collected the Robertson's jams badges and still have some as well as a set of the 'Tetley Tea Folk'.

I also collected different chocolate bar wrappers for a while, but a house move meant they had to go. Another collection was pretty pebbles.

As Ann says, most things we collected were free and we would enjoy swaps with our friends.

There was a bit of cork inside the crown bottle tops and you took that out to use when you put your jumper in the top.

That must have been what they did Sharron.........no wonder I never got the hang of it!! lol.

Phyll, in the 50's as a boy I used to stand at the garden gate writing car registration numbers and in doing so became familiar with the makes and modles of cars.

There used to be trams passed our house, before trolley buses.

In more recent times I joined a writing circle to critique short stories.

Thanks for all your replies. Good to see you are still around Island. And yes I have tried drawing and painting, I managed to paint a picture from a photograph but I am really not that good so decided to stay with the craft hobbies I have.

I think my postw as re 16 views and nobody posted not 68.

Yes, I vaguely recognise the bottle top craze AnnX, not that I collected them. I believe they can be used in other crafts too such as scrap booking when the tops are flattened.

Through 3 generations.....sport lolol

I collect affordable antiques, letters, books, ledgers from defunct retailers for uniforms, formal dress orders for the shooting, hunting and fishing set. Have stamps and coins too.

Grandkids collect anything that takes their fancy. Sea shells of course but all sorts of things they view as 'treasure'.

Grandson also sketches, paints, plays guitar and recorder, he is 7, granddaughters who are younger seem to like copying their brother..lol

Hubby has just taken up art for when he cannot run and he draws in the evening when I'm glued to laptop.

Maggie, your old railway posters, if in good condition, could be very valuable.

In the 1960's OH had to give a lecture on the history of transport and, because we lived in London at the time, he bought several posters from a shop which sold that sort of thing. Total cost was 19/6 (97½p). After the lecture they were rolled up in a tube and forgotten, until we saw an item on The Antiques Road Show about their value.

OH dug them out, we sent them to a specialist sale of railway memorabilia at Christies, and ended up with just under £2000, after paying commission. Not a bad return. :-)

Re collecting things - my 13 year-old granddaughter collects dolphins and both she and her sister have lots of hobbies, with IT way down the list.

Great Sue that the grandchildren collect things and 'do' things.Daughters boys always did outdoor things when young, not football or rugby but water polo, squash, badminton. Her youngest is a Viking re-enactor and very serious about it, he actually won an award for it (he is 26 now), the other two are busy with their little ones. Son's children have always had hobbies, Grandson with his football and rugby both of which he excelled at and his guitar playing, Granddaughter with her horse riding (she has stopped that now), and her piano and guitar playing and until she had to study for her GCSEs she was well into craft, all sorts. OH's interests lean towards electronic things which he fixes, he also has a few helicopters (mostly small one larger) that he bought and fixed and mobile phones as well. He has never been a collector though

Somebody mentioned the Tetley Tea folk. Oh yes, I forgot I have some of those. :-D

Andy'smum - unfortunately, the posters are copies :-(

Having just 'attacked' the spare bedroom, I have an array of interesting old items of cutlery, and I've found yet more old books.

Funny nobody has thought to mention peeping round the net curtains to see what the neighbours are up to which can be a truly addictive and engrossing hobby.