Hobby Corner is a place to write about the things you make, grow, fix and practise. Every post belongs to one hobby, and posts can be part of a project: a titled series of entries that reads like a…
Most hobby posts do not fail because the hobby is dull. They fail in the first two lines, or because the one useful detail is buried in the ninth paragraph. A few habits fix almost all of it.
A good picture in a post shows the thing, not the room around it. You do not need special equipment: daylight and a plain background do most of the work.
It started as an accident. A second copy turned up at a market for the price of a sandwich, and it would have been rude to leave it there. By the third, I had stopped calling it an accident and…
A good morning of birdwatching: two flasks, a pair of binoculars and a sense of purpose. The result is one bird, and I am about 80% sure what it was. It was small, brown and in a hurry, which…
Every game group has one. They read the whole rule book, twice, and they have read the one sentence on page 14 that nobody else noticed. Last Saturday it finally happened: a rule dispute that…
A batch of seven mugs came out of the kiln this week. Every one is different, which is the polite way of saying that I did not plan it that way. Here they are, from best to a very nice pencil holder.
Three tomatoes. The first was eaten standing in the garden, which is the correct way. The second went to a neighbour, as evidence. The third is still being photographed.
Twelve seeds, one balcony and a great deal of confidence. Three entries from sowing to the harvest.
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