My husband bought me a present, he knows me so well! Combining my love of birds and Lego. Does anyone else have things that combine two of their interests?
My husband bought me a present, he knows me so well! Combining my love of birds and Lego. Does anyone else have things that combine two of their interests?
My husband gets freaked out when I birdspot while driving, apparently paying attention to the road is more important than the red kite I see circling overhead. Try telling that to my overactive internal motion sensor and bird radar.
Love the Lego, I miss (assisting) my son with Lego. I like the challenge.
In answer to your actual question I like gardening and enjoy watching and listening to birds. I love the moments when they are singing whilst I am gardening or if I am planting or weeding and see a bird nearby. It's the same if I am walking as I will stop and watch if a bird is feeding on the path.
Oh boy, those have staying power fur sure.
Nah, if music is your thing don't sacrifice that, just like birds are mine so music in those circumstances doesn't work for me. On the other hand, make me drive anywhere or go where there's lots of people, and I have to have music!
I guess as cool as that is, I'm not sure I could sacrifice my best music listening time for that. Aside from maybe 10-15 minutes between albums I might take off my headphones. Maybe next time I go I'll give your way a go for an hour.
I have zero ability to get either the Poddington Peas or Gummi Bears theme tunes out of my head once they resurface. I can be doing something entirely unrelated, and Bam! "Down at the bottom of the garden..." And that's it for the rest of the day.
Trying to learn bits of soundtrack music by ear on the piano would count I suppose? Plus the occasional forgotten theme tune from back in the day. The more obscure the more privately amusing/satisfying. What shall I try and learn today? Mozart? Handel? Nah, theme tune from Cockleshell Bay, innit
If I'm somewhere where there are less people and more nature I like to listen to the sounds around me, I love identifying the birds and listening to the wind in the trees, or the sound of water.
The Lego birds are great.
I love listening to music, so that's any easy thing to combine. Going for a 4-5 hour walk through fields and woods and whatever is really nice, but with my headphones on and music I love playing it's 10 times better. And the fact that part of my brain is occupied with moving around makes it easier to really get into the music compared to if I'm just sitting down.
Oh good call on audiobooks, the perfect match of voice and writing can be such a good way to experience a book, especially if going through an 'inertia' period of not quite beginning to begin with something in print.
I listened to Treasure island recently in that format, and it was really brought to life with lots of background atmospheres and swashbuckling music etc.
He's great, and completely gets me and accepts me as I am. I'm very lucky!
Considering it's so simple I thought it was very effective. I've got another kayak one to do next which is quite a bit bigger and involves a lot of grey, white and cream, I've been putting it off because I really need to be able to focus and count stitches, and I've not been in the right mindset for that recently.
I'd love to see your Discworld one if you have a photo.
That's lovely- the colours are beautiful!
My father in law loves all books football related, so he'll probably have read a few that you. It's not football but I've read Penguins Stopped Play by Harry Thompson, it's about 11 village cricketers taking on the world, it describes the author's experiences forming and travelling with the Captain Scott XI, an English amateur cricket team, around Britain and abroad. It's a really good read.
Another Pratchett fan! And cross-stitch as well! I've recently done a cross-stitch of one of my other interests, kayaking, let me see if I can find a picture.
