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Having hobbies and interests is great for health and wellbeing. Finding activities that we enjoy keeps us occupied, stimulated, entertained and challenged, and gives us a sense of purpose and satisfaction, particularly if we improve at something over time. At the Virtual Village Hall, you’ll find a wide range of activities to try, most of them designed for complete beginners, including regular courses.

 

 

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Easy Hot Glue Gun Prints Rachel Moore IMAGES

Easy Hot Glue Gun Prints

Make Beautiful Flower Brooches From Fabric Scraps With Kate Nisbet IMAGE

Make Beautiful Flower Brooches from Fabric Scraps

Main image, a DIY wall hanging flower basket, made from a round table placemat! The basket is pale green, with an assortment of pink flowers on a white wooden background.

Make a DIY Wall Hanging Flower Basket

Main image: a woman holding a handful of healthy soil, with a little green seedling sticking out the top.

Allotment Diaries Part 24 – How to Test Your Soil Health

The Allotment Diaries Episode 24

Main image: "Small Feather," a hand block-printed cotton designed by Phyllis Barron and Dorothy Larcher in England around 1930. White feather like pattern over a blue background.

Artist in Focus: Dorothy Larcher

Main image: Japanese woodblock print titled "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai, featuring a large cresting wave over boats and Mount Fuji. In various blues and, with a pale yellow background.

Artist in Focus: Katsushika Hokusai

Main image: artwork by Mary Moser (British 1744-1819), Study of flowers; roses, marigolds and stocks, circa 1769-1793. Watercolour.

Artist in Focus: Mary Moser

Main image: A painting titled Stilleben mit Krügen (Still Life with Jugs), created around 1908 by the German Expressionist artist Max Pechstein.

Artist in Focus: Max Pechstein

Main image: "The Lion at Home" by French 19th century artist Rosa Bonheur, completed in 1881. A mother and father lion, lay with their three cubs.

Artist in Focus: Rosa Bonheur

Main image: a Beatrix Potter illustration of a mother rabbit handing picnic baskets to her young rabbit children.

Artist in Focus: Exploring the Art of Beatrix Potter

Main image: Snow at Argenteuil" 1875. By Claude Monet. A winter snow scene, with trees, houses in the background and a snowy road with a person walking along.

Artist in Focus: How to Paint Winter Snow Scenes

Main image: "Among the Firs" by Canadian artist Emily Carr - an expressive painting of fir tress, with greens, browns and blues.

Artist in Focus: Emily Carr

Main image: 'Composition', painted by Piet Mondrian in 1921. A variety of blue red and yellow rectangles, with bold black lines.

Artist in Focus: Piet Mondrian

Main image: Sea Anemones, Actiniae by Ernst Haeckel, in his book 'Art Forms in Nature, 1899'.

Artist in Focus: Ernst Haeckel

Main image: The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16th October, 1834 by JMW Turner, a depiction of the fire see from afar, with blues and bright oranges for the flames.

Artist in Focus: J.M.W Turner