DO YOU HAVE AN UNUSUAL HOBBY?

04 Nov 2019       ILC Fátima

Most people have hobbies. It can be doing things, making things, collecting things or learning things. Here are some pretty unusual ones:

1. Owling: 
It consists of crouching down on various objects in unusual situations and staring into the distance, just like an owl. 
 
2. Extreme ironing:
Extreme ironing is both an extreme sport in which people iron items of clothing in unusual locations. 
Some locations where such performances have taken place include a mountainside, a forest, in a canoe, while skiing or snowboarding, on top of statues, in the middle of a street and underwater! 
 
3. Taphophilia:
Taphophilia describes an individual who has a keen interest in cemeteries. This hobby includes researching, writing and reading epitaphs, making gravestone rubbings, cemetery photography and other art and reading up on cemetery history and famous deaths. 
 
4. Tree shaping:
It’s a very cool hobby in which you train living trees and other woody plants into artistic shapes or useful objects. 
 
5.  Soap Carving:
Soap carving transforms standard bars of soap into intricate works of art using specialist tools and techniques.