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Originally Posted by Christine
Thanks,Chris and Polly.
Chris,strange you should make the comment re crosswords.Before I was hooked on photography and spending all my leisure hours hooked up to this infernal machine ,I was a Scrabble addict,and I did a newspaper crossword every day,and read the paper.I now have not read a daily rag for several years,and have not completed a crossword,and I have not played Scrabble against the pc.Sad,sad.
Have any other members found that being involved with photography(and in my case birdwatching as well),that previous hobbies and interests havebeen put on hold as it were.In fact I used to be an avid reader.My reading is now confined to half a book at bedtime.
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I don't bother so much with hard copy newspapers these days but I do like to
keep up with some Nationals and Regionals via the web. A lot of online
news sources are ahead of the hard copy anyway so a lot of the newspapers carry 'yesterday's old news'.
As for reading - I like audiobooks more than print these days, more relaxing
and it means I can listen to them at night and contemplate the universe in
the dark - instead of having to turn pages, wear reading glasses and have to
bother about turning the light on/off.
My husband was always a keen photographer and his older brother was a
birder. He'd kept piles and piles of notes and beautiful drawings and, when
he died a few years ago aged just 45, his notes, bird recordings
and books came to us - so we decided to spend more time concentrating on
photography and learning more about birds and nature in general. My husband
had to take early retirement after a Stroke 4 years ago so that's when I
started to get more seriously involved in Photography too - since he bought
me kit to get me started properly and encouraged and helped me learn to use
it.
We rarely watch our ancient TV - prefer to be doing things in the garden,
away down to the Marshes or along the coast watching wildlife or
taking shots. We also spend a fair amount of time sorting out the garden,
which we have organised to attract birds and other wildlife .... all aimed
at photography as well as the wildlife.
I must confess I do still like to play the occasional word game on Yahoo
games though. 'Keyword' is my current favourite.
Pol