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I am SO enjoying seeing all your posts; what a clever bunch of humans you all are ☺️

A Procreate illustration of pale pink peonies, delicate, frilly and creamy against a black background

Lo standing in a church holding her bass guitar. She’s wearing a dress with a paint stripe design on it and the bass is a sunburst colour on black, which goes with the dress rather well. She has a happy and slightly goofy expression on her face

Three women on a small stage in a marquee. They are singing into microphones and have slightly silly looks on their faces because they are singing a slightly silly song

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Well, I draw things and I play stuff and I used to sing silly songs with wonderful people 🥰

Jazz Band

Cat ornaments

Some fridge magnets.

I did collect fridge magnets from around the world.

And collect cat ornaments. I love my Beswick sets. Jazz Band is on eBay for a lot more that what I paid years ago. 😄

The hobbies are paused at the moment because #oldhousewoes

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A screenshot of a series of images of a sweet tuxedo kitty, lovingly playing with a favorite toy, which happens to be a book sticker

Screenshot of a series of headshots of a tuxedo kitty. Some are in color, some are black and white; she is either looking towards the camera or just off to the side.

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I think I can say taking photos of my cat, Pidgeon, is a hobby of mine; here are 2 small examples from the many saved on my camera roll. 😺😻

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My veg garden and shed.

A herbaceous border.

Colourful plants in pots and tubs

Two Passionflowers.

My new garden last year. #SundayPix #SundayPixHobbies

Silver birches demonstrating crown shyness, where the tops of trees (the crowns) meet but do not overlap).

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I like going for walks, especially under trees.

#trees

#SundayPixHobbies love travelling, home and abroad. Guatemala and Bogotá, Bath and a Buckingham Palace garden party.

#SundayPixHobbies recent attempts at working with clay.

Plate of lobster with salad

Plate of three oysters

A pie of puff pastry, content unknown, probably chicken and leek

Cocktails. A gin martini and a honey coloured, frothy topped delight of some sort…

#SundayPixHobbies eating and drinking figures large in my photo reel…

Very uneven wobbly pots

Almost uniform circular pots with patterns inside

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I’ve been doing pottery evening classes since January. These are the first pots I threw and the most recent ones.

A pink magnolia tree with lots of flower buds about to open. Behind it is an evergreen spruce tree, and the bed underneath has spring flowers - tulips, violets & grape hyacinths.

#SundayPixHobbies My pretty Magnolia I planted about 4-5 years ago. The most flowers it's had so far. Can't wait to they open.

View across a garden, an area under a tree where some hyacinths are in bloom and seedlings are breaking through. The tree trunk of a weeping willow on the left and in the background a small greenhouse against a garage.

View of a flower bed in the front garden, with primulas, & hyacinths, under a lilac tree with a yellow forsythia just behind it.

View of a flower bed in the front garden, with primulas, violets & hyacinths, under a lilac tree and a yellow forsythia. Spring sunshine dapples.

View of a flower bed in the front garden, with giant primulas, grape hyacinths& tulips coming through. A small lavender hedge in the background and the trunk of a tree on the left.

Been busy doing my hobby so not had time to post. Here is what I'm busy with. #SundayPixHobbies

A completed Jigsaw puzzle of a seaside scene on a table

A jigsaw puzzle of various national trust places I GB

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Jigsaw 🧩 puzzles

Watercolour painting of twisty trees in shades of grey and purple, with green undergrowth.

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I like painting naff little watercolours too.

cream silk cushion cover with two irises embroidered on it in shades of lavender and white

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Also, embroidery.

my foot in a hand-knitted sock in shades of grey, pink and purple

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I *may* have mentioned that I knit a bit.

Here's a sock what I knitted.

Yellow and orange flower with a bottom lip and an expression. It's shaped a bit like a snapdragon, which probably isn't much help. I should have chosen a different one as it's very hard to describe.

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In spring and summer I like photographing wild flowers so here's a flower. Common toadflax.

Theatre tickets for plays that I didn’t get to see The Welkin (Lyttleton) The Southbury Child (Bridge) Poison, Passion and Petrification (Greenwich) Orfeus (Young Vic) All of Us (Dorfman)

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I love the theatre. I used to go at least a couple of times a month and would book seats months and months in advance, but I don’t do that so much any more. These were all plays that were cancelled because of Covid

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My favorite past time-gardening.
From May 2020. These two poppies just starting to open.
It feels like the are off to a fancy event together, herself with a jaunty fascinator hat on her head.💚🐾🌻

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The box said 1000 pieces, and it had 1000 pieces, but the jigsaw puzzle only needed 999 (27 by 37)

A mandala style picture partially coloured in. Violet and blue pens have been used so far.

I do love colouring, preferably intricate so that colour choice and staying within the lines quietens my mind #SundayPixHobbies

A beagle snuggled up in a striped jumper insides of green, brown, and tan.

A two in one dogs and knitting #SundayPixHobbies

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Travel is definitely my hobby. Not everywhere I’ve been is shown since many places were pre-digital.

It’s definitely a privilege to be able to travel and realising that there’s a diverse and amazing world to explore means so much.

Fine cotton scarf, using a 1mm hook and black yarn (I will never do this again)

Throw “granny” blanket in shades of green, using a bamboo hook, which is comfy to hold, but not quite as easy to work with as a steel hook

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Crochet

Catalogue of a Lucien Freud exhibition at Abbot Hall in Kendal, Cumbria

Catalogue of a Lucien Freud exhibition at the Garden Museum in Lambeth, London

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Going to art galleries. I mostly like abstract stuff, but Lucien Freud is a favourite figurative artist

My late husband, sitting in the sunshine, surrounded by greenery, in the garden, with a glass of wine in his hand, and looking towards the camera

#SundayPixHobbies Remembering.

A yellow side table with books piled on and under it

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Reading, of course. Part of my tsundoku

Portrait of a sleeping woman. Not creepy. Permission was given. Photo of a sketch pad with a drawing being copied from a photo on an iPad

During lockdown there was a series of art masterclasses given by famous people. This drawing incorporates elements from three of the programmes Photo shows a sketchbook with a grid of small drawings and a tin of coloured pencils

A photo of a slatted view from a kitchen window with a Venetian blind Drawing of the view between the slats of a Venetian blind

Photo of a church on an iPad, next to a drawing of the same church, using the photo as a reference

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I started drawing during lockdown. Dont claim any great talent, but I enjoy the feel of a pencil on paper

Top left: Saint-Seans’ Samson et Dalila at the Royal Opera House Top centre: Placido Domingo in Verdi’s Nabucco broadcast live from ROH to the big screen in General Gordon Square, Woolwich Top right: Anthony Roth Constanzo in Glass Handel, a BBC Prom concert at Printworks Centre left: athe Merry Opera Company perform Mozart’s Magic Flute at the Scoop, next to the old City Hall building in London Centre: WOW present Diamonds in the Snow, a selection of operatic items. My first live music after the Covid lockdowns. Social distancing was enforced in this local church by red ropes and roses Centre right: The Passion of Scrooge by Jon Deak, streamed to my iPad. This has become a regular yearly watch at Christmas Bottom left: Benjamin Britten’s Turn of the Screw on TV during lockdown Bottom Centre: Gilbert & Sullivan’s Yeomen of the Guard presented by ENO at the London Coliseum Bottom Right: Matthew Wilder’s Stiletto, a new opera set in Venice, performed at Charing Cross Theatre

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I love watching/listening to a bit of opera, on a tiny or grand scale, in any sort of venue