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'old age' crisis - taking up new hobbies. Your experiences & ideas welcome

Marianne72

I can't call this a, 'mid life crisis' because I'm in old age! Others among you might be experiencing similar things. I've finished a gruelling campaign after 20 years and want new interests/hobbies completely different to my late career [mental health]. I still write but find typing painful so can't type for long periods as I used to do. 

I still love gardening and seed collecting and started reading botany. But I'd like something practical to do indoors. Decades ago, I tried simple models - plastic kits of classic historic ships like the Bounty and tea clippers but [don't laugh!] these were lost when my narrowboat sank Rolling eyes. I thought about the more complex wooden kits but don't know if I would have that much patience. Your experiences and ideas are very welcome and perhaps this might help others at a loose end and wanting ideas.

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  • I tend to let myself go "monotropic" and that seems to resolve the have I got enough patience bit in respect of hobbies  

    So on that basis I suspect the answer is already there - you've said you're really into making boats so give it another go maybe?

    Plastic kits have been a big pastime for me and when I got back into them again as a pretty stressed out adult I started with (ironically making lots of the same "trainer" jet kit - in different paint schemes - and then when I'd got my eye and fingers in moved on to other stuff - but still often make lots of the same one.  Patience doesn't seem to come into it for me when I'm "monotropic" in fact it's the opposite and I suspect you might relate to that?

    Maybe have a read on the internet or similar of someone's own builds - I bet some are out there and that might get your mind to thinking "I could do it that way or similar - it works for me if i've "lost my mojo".

    My fingers are a bit clumsy if I haven't done any modelling for a while - but I dip in and out of fiddly stuff with the less fiddly stuff depending on how I'm at at the time - kindof organically.  And I also forget for a while the arthritis in my wrists/thumbs and fingers (tho' a few exercises to "unwind" them a bit after a modelling session are necessary I find)

    So, if boats are you're thing go for it would be my suggestion - be they wood, plastic, paper - or maybe even renovating a full size one maybe!

    Best Wishes

  • in reply to Phased

    Brilliant.

    What is the collective noun for a group of model planes?

  • in reply to B

    The un-built ones generally are referred to as a "stash", built as "collection" among similarly afflicted people  .  

    Hehe "why on earth?" by some others and an "Ah, that's where all that time went!" by myself sometimes.  :-)

    Thanks

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