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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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Main image: group of green young seedlings pushing up through the soil.

Allotment Diaries Part 21 – How to Sow Seeds and Grow Strong Seedlings

The Allotment Diaries Episode 21

Main image: handmade enamel jewellery pendants, greens and pinks, with various patterns.

How to Enamel on Copper - Jewellery Pendant Tutorial

Main image: author Elle McNicoll in a frilly, floor length, light pink dress, sat in front of a dark turquoise wall in bar or café.

Q&A with Elle McNicoll Award Winning Scottish Author

Listening books Q&A

Main image: a mini altar, or DIY cardboard shrine painted in purple, with a photo in the middle and decorations.

How to Make a Mini Altar - DIY Cardboard Shrine

Main image: a peg doll, in a beautiful white vintage fabric dress with embroidered flowers.

How to Make a Peg Doll

Main image: a vintage fabric collage in pastel greens, blues and light browns, with embroidered flower details in dark pink and green.

Vintage Fabric Collage

Main image: handmade air dry clay decorations, with a textured clay using teabags. Painted with blue designs of a bird and a horse.

Air Dry Clay Decorations - Textured Clay Craft

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