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What's your special interest/escape from the quagmire.

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I'm stressed, it's end of term, and I've got so many job applications on my desk I can't breathe. So, I'm looking for a distraction as I repeat the silly mantra: Work does not exist. Work is a lie. The only thing matters is BatmanBatmanBatmanBatman—

My special interests are: animals, Batman, and dinosaurs. Can you get any more cliché? However unfortunate, I'm a firm believer in special interests pick you, you don't pick them, and I've truly been picked by every stereotype.

What are your special interests? Let me know so I can hide from responsibilities.

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  • Plants are always good. Seeding, growing, potting up, planting, weeding, spraying, pruning, chopping, watering, digging up, changing, planning, acquiring, cuttings, propagating, etc, Always something to do, if you have a garden and have some house plants to do.

    Which leads into recording the weather and making charts of temps and rainfall.

    And watching geology vids online and reading (history, SF and other random stuff that takes my fancy).

  • in reply to Stuart333

    How do you all find the time to do all this stuff? I'm envious, I never have enough time, I'm always running around doing stuf and when I stop I'm mostly to tired to do anything meaningful.

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    I don't watch any TV and live on my own. So I have the evenings and weekends and am not physically tired from sitting at a desk all day.

    Plants are mostly about doing the right thing at the right time. You can then neglect them for the rest of the time.
    It minimises effort.
    Like many things it comes down to careful observation, a bit of knowledge and trial and error (and a good memory).

    I should be working this morning, but kind of set my own schedule, plus work know I am having an issue at the moment and they need my knowledge, so I have some leeway.

  • in reply to Stuart333

    I do watch tv, but only in the evenings, I love gardening and I used to grow so much. But since moving to this house nearer the coast it's much harder as we get so many gales and strong salt winds that it's getting harder to find stuff that will grow. I've turned my veg gaden over to fruit as that seems to do well, I've not been able to grow peas or beans here at all, the leaves get stripped off by salt wind and the plants shrivel up, they don't even like my greenhouse!

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  • in reply to Stuart333

    I do watch tv, but only in the evenings, I love gardening and I used to grow so much. But since moving to this house nearer the coast it's much harder as we get so many gales and strong salt winds that it's getting harder to find stuff that will grow. I've turned my veg gaden over to fruit as that seems to do well, I've not been able to grow peas or beans here at all, the leaves get stripped off by salt wind and the plants shrivel up, they don't even like my greenhouse!

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