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Hobbies

July 2024

  • doubles pickleball

    Despite not involving eating pickles, pickleball proves to be a joyful surprise

    Nova Weetman
    While playing decent tennis requires a certain degree of skill, this feels like a simpler game to master
  • Yvette Cooper, Rachel Reeves and Angela Rayner in a supermarket in April

    Crossword blog
    Crossword roundup: which cabinet members will crosswords favour?

    Roll out the Cooper – or will it be the Reeves’ tale? Our pick of the best of the broadsheets’ cryptic clues
  • A stack of jellies.

    Cryptic crosswords for beginners
    Cryptic crosswords for beginners: one thing on top of another

    Crosswords meet Jenga in the latest instalment in our guide for the cryptic-curious

June 2024

  • Top L-r Natalie, Adelaid, Khloe, Lily Front L-R Asha, Jasmine Oakes and Jasmine Francis pose for a picture at a training session for an up and coming hobby horse competition in Eumundi, Queensland, Australia. Photo: Paul Hilton / Guardian

    ‘You don’t have to clean up after it’: young Australians are getting on their hobby horses

  • Gabriel Nzaji teaches internally displaced Congolese children the rules of chess rules as part of the Chess in the City initiative at Focus Congo site in Kibati

    Goma games: how chess offers DRC’s displaced children respite from conflict – in pictures

  • Brian Hanson-Harding

    Why I quit
    After years of obsessive learning, my piano sits silent – and I’m happy with that

    Brian Hanson-Harding
  • Elon Musk Rebranding Twitter Logo From Bird To "X"<br>SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - JULY 24: A worker removes letters from the Twitter sign that is posted on the exterior of Twitter headquarters on July 24, 2023 in San Francisco, California. Workers began removing the letters from the sign outside Twitter headquarters less than 24 hours after CEO Elon Musk officially rebranded Twitter as "X" and has changed its iconic bird logo, the biggest change he has made since taking over the social media platform. San Francisco police halted the sign removal shortly after it began. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

    Crossword blog
    Crossword roundup: goodbye Rishi and the meaning of ‘X’

  • Brief letters
    Get mad about the continuing use of oil, not harmless orange powder paint

  • Slugs got your beans? Don’t despair – it’s not too late to sow again

  • Men should heed female hillwalkers’ safety concerns, says climbing expert

  • Crossword blog
    ‘Better to escape than delete’ – Guardian crossword setter Sphinx returns

  • Bagging a Munro gets easier as volunteers fund repairs to mountain paths

  • Cats, rants and envy scrolling: 27 time-sucking online rabbit holes – and how to avoid them

  • It may be a load of boules, but you won’t be able to avoid pétanque this summer

    Lauren O'Neill

  • Crossword blog
    Crossword roundup: what word can mean ‘game’, ‘set’ and ‘match’?

May 2024

  • Two hens in a woodland garden with bluebells

    My chickens are in fine feather – and so is my compost bin

    As well as a steady supply of eggs, the birds create fantastic compost, and pick away at weed seeds and aphids
  • John Belgrove examines two parts of the sword he discovered. The objects have been bought by Dorset Museum.

    Detectorist unearths bronze age hoard after getting lost on treasure hunt

    John Belgrove, 60, uncovered rare sword, axe head and bangle in Dorset after becoming separated from group

    • Crossword blog
      Crosswords: what to do when a puzzle looks harder than it actually is

    • Cryptic crosswords for beginners
      Cryptic crosswords: all on a plate – how often is the solution word in the clue itself?

    • Young pigeon fanciers: meet the new kids on the flock

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