Edited to be more inclusive.
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But seriously - Fam C_S has taken up researching family history (ancestry.com and others).
On my side weāve got back to 1490 on my mumās side (largely Hampshire, City of London and Australia) and early 1700ās on my Dadās side (largely Ireland and Australia as well). The Australia link means they were all probably deported criminals 
Have just started on Mrs C_Sā side, largely full of flat cap and clog wearing Northerners, but an intriguing link to Russia via the USA and alien status in the UK of her great grandfatherā¦
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I have a mate who has been buying and selling lego on ebay for a few years. He makes decent money.
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Iāve been working from home since last March so I havenāt got time for hobbiesā¦
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Are you on-call 24 hours/day?
I did this some years ago - I stopped when I found out my parents were related
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What is work?
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Photography is something you can work at every day if you have a dog to walk in the countryside. Itās been a hobby for nearly 50 years and I still take pictures every day, well not today itās raining so nearly every day.
I used to do it competitively when I was a member of our works Photographic Society, we were a very good club with several very talented photographers. Today I take pictures as an artistic outlet but for myself. I never sell pictures, if someone wants one of them, I let them have one freeā¦just pleased if someone other than myself likes it.
Aircooled VWs is another hobby and it takes up a lot of my time as I moderate on a dedicated online forumā¦in fact the largest online Vintage VW Forum on the web. Always been keen on cars after passing my test in 1966. I came late to VWs in the 1990s when I bought a nice '59 Beetle which had a rare period supercharger on it. I ended up making an information website on these superchargers and ran it for 15 years. I gave up the website when there was nothing else to find out about themā¦my job was done.
Iāve had lots of hobbies over the years but Iāve rarely made any money out of them, Iām not really money orientated. Once you ask for money from a hobby itās no longer a hobby.
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Iāve been printing off the pics you post on here for ages and flogging them for Ā£100ās - have made a mint - 
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Not reallyā¦
I did find one of my pictures of my Karmann Ghia for sale on EBay. It was one Iād done in black and white but it was described as āOffical VW Publicity Picture - 1950sā so I emailed the seller and asked him to take it down as it was my intellectual property. TBF he was apologetic and removed it, said it was in a job-lot of pictures heād bought and knew nothing about it.
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Iām also a member of a āsingle nameā genealogy society but mostly because my dad and his cousin started it in the mid '80s. Back in pre-internet days it was a hugely time consuming exercise which involved personally visiting records offices all over the country. Only a hobby for retired folks really but my dad loved it. Networking family connections across the world with no Internet was an astonishing feat of dogged dedication.
My family tree has been done for many years by my predecessors, my GG Grandfather was a notable Victorian Publisher so had a biography written by an American in the 1930s. I collect books published by my GG Grandfatherā¦thatās another hobby. 
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Surprising how it builds upā¦
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I see where youāre coming from, and for the most part I agree with you. For me the hobby part in what Iām doing is taking something incomplete, and making it whole, I can then appreciate the finished product but I have no emotional attachment and happy to see it go out the door to someone that will enjoy it. The problem is this hobby can be quite expensive, and I donāt want it to negatively impact my enjoyment of my main hobbies of golfing and pubbing, plus I will never get my own Chambers if I donāt hustle
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For me it all came together quite naturallyā¦
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Iād be shittingā¦
Can you do this sort of shit with it though (posted on another thread yesterday)
I may as well get this out there, and steel myself for all the ridicule, jokes, insults, laughter and banter you lot can muster.
During lockdown I have been able to increase output on my main hobby.
Gulp! - here we go. I arrange baroque and renaissance (and sometimes modern) music for recorder consorts (trios, quartets, etc all the way through to septets). During lockdown I have been concentrating on William Boyce, John Loeillet of London, Charles Avison, Striggio, Verdelot and Schickhard. The first three are all English, and you may not have heard of them. To be fair, you may not have heard of the others either!
Anyone showing the slightest interest will be treated to the story of the works I have arranged by the French composer Verdelot from the times of Henry VIII.
So, I have plenty of new material ready for when the recorder consorts I play in start up again. Both Mrs and me play all sizes of recorders (her much better than me it must be said). We both play all sizes of recorder, and own a Yamaha great bass, which when put together is taller than Mrs TB! We donāt play the descant much (the one you may have played at school) because itās too high (needs to be drowned by lower instruments in an orchestra). Nearly all my arrangements use combinations of alto, tenor, bass, great bass.
And just to confirm how OCD I am about all this - we have over 500 pieces of music in the house for these recorder consorts.
What started me off? Having to pay large sums of money for other peopleās arrangements.
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