A negative balance shows an unhealthy business and I could not support a gallery just for a hobby at the age of 26".
Farmers had a vested interest in killing foxes, which preyed on their livestock; a hobby rider out for an enjoyable day's riding in the autumn sunshine doesn't really care what is being pursued, a fox or a scented rag.
Wiry and with short-cropped hair flecked with grey, Murphy had worked on building sites most of his adult life, never realising his birdwatching hobby could be a career.
Enmity that was genuine in the middle of the 18th century had become a joke and a hobby, brought into play at football and rugby matches, long before the middle of the 20th.
3. Get a hobby A good distraction will stop you from going mad at the country's nightmarish spiral into crypto-fascism.
His own character played a part; never one to manage a concerted campaign, to push and cajole friends to a cause that many cabinet colleagues regarded indulgently as "Frank's hobby", he was too much the individualist, too fond of argument for argument's sake - an effect of his 1930s time as an Oxford politics don - and, ultimately, too lightweight in Whitehall to carry the day.
It is both a job and a hobby.
His family said his only real hobby was UFOs.
Over the course of the past week I made it a bit of a hobby.
They insist there can be no question of opening up European treaties for reform, as Cameron demands, nor of any fundamental change to EU migration rules – Ukip's main hobby horse.
"When I play Starcraft 2 it is more as a hobby or a sport than relaxation.
