We are very blessed in the 21st century West to have so much free time that we can ask what our FAVOURITE hobby or pastime it. I think of my Grandparents who got to work early, worked, returned home and then went out again to study at the local college. In my own world I wake up, am out of the door for seven, do an easy job and then am home for four where I entertain myself until I go to bed.
My favourite pastime is reading and writing. I read a lot and have a huge collection of physical books, audiobooks and kindle books. I mostly read Tolien and Lewis but dabble in philosophy and history. The benefit of reading so much is that it gives me things to say. My blogging and writing is better when I have had a book to read that has stimulated my creative juices.
Alongside writing I collect Warhammer 40K models. Warhammer has been going since the middle of the 1980s and I became interested in 1989. They say that the hobbies and interests you develop at age eleven are the ones that stick with you and here I am at forty six still entranced and moved by the Space Marines.
Further to all this I am engaged by culture and civilisation. I love Churchcrawling, visiting the theatre and engaging with the community through activities where I can just be with people. Culture and civilisation are pretext whereby we can be together and not atomised. Being together is fundamental to the human condition, didn’t we miss it when the pandemic took it away from us?