Trying Something New: Hobbies, Confidence and Future Dreams

In today’s episode, we return to the topic of hobbies, creativity, and the little things that make life interesting.

We had so much to talk about that we had to make two episodes, so today we discuss the hobbies we’d like to try in the future.

We also hear part two of Alistair’s new series, “Pavement Guest”, in which his discusses whether being positive is recommendable, in his own unique style!

Project Managers: Andrea Rai & Phil Powell.

Editor: Phil Powell

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Theme Music: Rastko Rasic & the students of Community FocusOther Music: Jazzy Frenchy by ⁠⁠⁠Benjamin Tissot

Transcript

Phillip R 0:05

Community Focus. Community Focus. We're here for you. Our point of view.

Speaker 10 0:17

In Friary Park. North London.

Speaker 11 0:22

A weekend in review. We're here for you! Yay! Hooray!

Speaker 2 0:30

Hooray!

unknown 0:32

Hooray!

Jonathan 0:40

Community Focus is an art centre for children and adults with disabilities. We are based in the borough of Barnet, North London and offer a selection of creative and well-being activities for all ages.

Carol 0:54

In the room we have Amir, Carol, Jonathan, Havva, Gila, and Phillip. In

Intro

Carol 1:14

today's episode we return to the topic of hobbies and the little things that make life interesting. We had so much to talk about that we had to make two episodes. So today we discuss the hobbies we'd like to try in the future. We also hear part two of Alistair's new series, Pavement Guest, in which he discusses whether being positive is recommendable in his own unique style.

Phillip R 1:50

The good news

Good News

Phillip R 1:53

has anyone got any good news this week?

Gila 1:59

No, it was just boring um unsettling week. Um for also for weather was really nice. Um Havva, do you want to speak more about the weather this week?

Havva 2:18

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to podcast I'm the I'm the studio on the live television. I'm doing the pod cast. It's gonna be sunny, rain and thunder, and a bit snow and a bit windy. And you can wash your clothes away on the washing line and flew away. Good night from me and good night everybody. Um I'd a had a nice weekend. I look after my mum.

Phillip R 2:52

Carol, what is your good news?

Carol 2:57

Uh last Friday I decided to draw a Keith Haring figure. Who is Keith Haring? Um Keith Haring is a artist in the 1980s to 1990s who did like a movement um with moving figures like like dancing people in a kind of like abstract way. Um and he's pretty well known at it.

Gila 3:33

That sounds interesting, Carol. Is there any artwork that you like of Keith Haring?

Carol 3:42

Um I like his dancing figures. Uh I think it's very inspirational. Uh Phillip, what's your good news?

Phillip R 3:55

Well um me and Karen, Karen and I are are wanting to get live together. And we we ha I'm have having meetings about this, you know. We're organising meetings because we want to be together. Because I live in the house in Whetstone and Karen lives in Hendon. And we're a couple now. We we got engaged last year. And we just want to be together, you know. And I love I love her so much, you know. She's she's very special to me. And I'm special to her. And we're very happy together. We're both Arsenal supporters as well.

Gila 4:47

Phil, when when did you meet Karen?

Phillip R 4:54

I met Karen three three years ago. I went to a food hub in Edgware called Flash Musicals in Edgware. And we several people got us together and the moment I saw her face and her face just lit up and I just I just m I just loved her, you know. And she's one Karen's one year older than me she is, so we're very c very close in age, you know. But I I just love her so much, you know. I went out yes. I went out yes on Wednesday. I went to comedy evening. And uh and we had went to the fire where we're the Queen's Arms pub in Barnet. We had a food up there and and we had c had comedy comedies, you know, comedy evening. It was very nice it was, you know. And it's got we go there once a month on a f on a Wednesday, every Wednesday, you know. And the and people just love me up there, you know, the staff up there want love me up there, you know. And I really enjoy it, you know. It's a night out, meet people, you know, have a good laugh, you know. And and I re I really enjoyed it, you know, had a good time. Have you had a good week?

Amir 6:12

Yes, I see my friends, uh mem cap friends. I went to working group group friends.

Gila 6:22

How many friends in Mancap do you have?

Amir 6:27

Many friends I have, yes. You have a good week Havva?

Havva 6:34

I had a nice weekend. I had a nice weekend. Um what I was doing the other day. Oh, I was doing I was doing something for my kit my new cat, um princess, oh um I put her through that and I cleaned the cat litter and I put a new cat litter and I took the old one away. And I washed the what do you call it, a basket, the cat litter basket. Now she's at home in the ranter. And then I come out and I come home I let her out. She got too many furs, eh, too many fur all coming out and have to hover it. Every day I have to hover it. How perfect. How perfect, yeah I know. It's up to me to do her and clean it and empty the bag, empty the bag, and empty again and start again.

Speaker 9 7:33

A what 'cat'egory is she in?

Speaker 6 7:36

Oh she's a lovely she's a lovely cat. She's a persian cat. She got too many like lassie collie in the front.

Pavement Guest by Alistair Scriven

Alistair 7:51

Pavement Guest by Alistair Scriven. Episode two Positiveness is not always recommendable. If you are positive, that is commendable, but may not be satisfactory to the onlooker of demarcation. They may want to talk to you about your irregularities of delinquencies. Come up and not necessary and not tangibly inclined, but rather offset to the bewarded and confused. The diligent would be impartial to such an endeavour. Evidence of dismissal is certainly not far fetched. If you consider the carnivorous, negative is better than positive. Being negative about certain situations is plausibly acceptable and understandable. Being positive can be dangerous when insincere and forceful. People who strive to be positive set themselves up for failure. Breaking the mould is plausible and decisive. Dealing with it is not straightforward by any means. Facilitating all requirements is heartbreaking but well worth the intention. Contentment is rather facile. Not surprising, therefore some delicacies need to be exercised. It is commendable not to be positive when it's not recommendable. If it isn't commendable, it is certainly fortuitous. Being fortuitous is more plausible than commendable. If you're positive, then commendable may be plausible. As sometimes it is recommendable, even though it may not be illustrated. Contentment issues are always available unrecommendably to the outgoing and far fetched. You can't recommend the far fetched or even the outgoing for justification purposes. Making sense of what you've done is commendable and certainly plausible. Being plausible is a common feat and well sought after and commonplace to anyone with who so desires it. If it isn't plausible, then you may need to reevaluate your status of demise and focus your attributes more formidably. Focusing your attentions in this manner is no cause for concern, but commendable as far as humility is concerned. Extra humidity is given for plausibility that is so much sought after by anyone who desires it. A lot of stuff is plausible but may not be recommendable. Commendable or anything else that can be perceived if it's one of contentment by this describing the end.

Creative Hobbies That Make Life More Fun: discussion

Phillip R 10:42

Today we're talking about hobbies, but what is a hobby?

Gila 10:47

A hobby is something you do for your pleasure. If you are bored and you are thinking, what do I do? Then you could do a mixture of hobbies.

Phillip R 11:02

A hobby is something that occupies your mind and makes you feel stronger, you know?

Carol 11:09

Um a hobby is something that you enjoy doing and something that like kinda boosts your confidence in a way because the more you become good at it, the more you enjoy doing it, and the more you want to do it more.

Jonathan 11:27

Hobbies are ways we can help ourselves feel more fulfilled in our lives, and we should try not to look at them too much as killing time as much as cherish it. If you could do a hobby in the future that you are not doing now, what would it be?

Phillip R 12:05

I wanted to do horse riding, because it means another horses. And do I? No, no. I used to do it as a child, I really enjoyed it, you know. Get some fresh air, get on a horse, and and I've enjoyed it, you know? And canter.

Havva 12:20

I'd like to ride the donkey. I'd like to I'd like to ride the donkey to learn to drive, because I did not pass my test on the driving sea. The donkey running up and down. I was coming on the saddle, someone was underneath his stomach. I'm bumping my head. I did not put the safe on. Because I've got to put the bell on, it turns to the it turns upside down. My head was bumping on the on the pavement, on the grass.

Gila 13:02

The hobby I want to do in the future is gone for zip-line again because I had so much fun. Carol, what is your what do you want to do in the future with your hobbies?

Carol 13:20

In the future I would like to learn a new language because I feel like it will make your brain smarter in a way because you're learning new what's it, new vocabulary of like different languages and also like learning the different types of um I like to learn I think it's quite interesting and there are some certain languages that I want to learn in the future.

Amir 13:50

What do you want to do, Havva? What for ho your hobby?

Havva 13:54

My hobby, I like to jump on the ceiling, jump on the chair like a rocket and go and hit the ceiling. I'd like to go into the moon see the monsters Jonathan, would you like to do your hobby?

Jonathan 14:18

Lots of things, really. I mean there's all kinds of things that I've always sort of had in mind that to just sort of try out. But a lot of them I just I wouldn't really be very um brave to try, you know, and I'd feel a bit silly doing some of them, you know. But you know Such as I'll just keep it simple. Um like rock climbing. I've tried that recently and that was quite fun.

Carol 15:01

For me, I think I would also like to learn sign language because I think it's it would be interesting to connect with other people who can't like who can't hear and like it could have that like a strong connection and you would understand each other.

Phillip R 15:21

I do I learn sign language and there's three different sign languages. There's Paget Gorman, there's Mackaton, and there's BSL. And the most popular one we use in London is BSL. B Bridge L BSL stands for Bridge Bridge Sign Language.

Carol 15:47

So for me, I like to watch ASMR as part of my hobby because it kind of recharges my body and it makes me feel relaxed, and afterwards I feel nice and and I and I like to listen to sounds in my ears and it just comforts my brain.

Gila 16:09

Some people that I know um are like listen to water when they are sleeping or listen to water fall, listen to um like cars go by or something like that. And I'm just wondering how does listening to water relax your body.

Carol 16:39

Honestly, I I don't un I I kinda don't understand either I've tried it, but it never really relaxes me. It has to be a certain sound that relaxes me, like roleplay, or like like if say you're going to the hairdressers, they do they do your head, they do your hair like through a mic f for a microphone and they relax you. If you've seen like roleplay ASMRs or like scratching sounds or like uh like things things in the ears that relax you. I mainly watch Jojo ASMR. He he does like um different types of ASMRs, he roleplays, he does sounds, he does like new ways of like introducing different sounds.

Phillip R 17:23

Carol, what is A S M R Um I don't know what it stands for exactly, but I know what it means.

Carol 17:32

It's like where they make sounds in your ears and it's meant to relax the viewer in a way that it it it kind of like engages them in the sounds. Um Jonathan, I see that you're responding to that in a very cringy way. Like, do you have any like thoughts on what I'm saying?

Jonathan 17:54

Um well ASMR when when it comes to stuff I've heard, it just it's so it just makes us feel really weird. It's like it that a weird kind of tingling sensation that people seem to like.

Carol 18:08

But you gotta find the right one, like because like there's a lot of like ASMR pe uh ASMR like entertainers who are like, you got the people who eat in chewing your ears, it's a bit weird. I don't like that one, but you just gotta find the right one and you've got to find the right headphones to wear it for. You can wear it without headphones and it works, but like you've got to find the right videos and good ASMRs. And like also maybe not have your volume all the way up, maybe have it down, and then your brain will relax more.

Jonathan 18:38

Yes, I shall take your advice into consideration.

Carol 18:46

That sounded so forced.

Jonathan 18:50

I'll take your advice into consideration.

Gila 18:55

Carol, I found out what ASMR stands for, and we did do a podcast on this. So I don't know why you forgot about it, but fine. It stands for autonomous sensory medi y median response. Um talking about macathon when I was little, which was really a long time ago, um I did macaton because I couldn't speak and my parents was like, come on, Gila, you need to speak my words and because of my disability I I couldn't say what I what I wanted. Um but my parents signed for me and I remember when I grow up my parents told me that I signed I want more cake or they used to sign to me do you want more cake? And now that sign that macathon um that I have in my head of do you want more cake is so powerful because when when I can't speak I try and go back to the macron sign and when when I'm at work I have to I had to do Macathon sign language um training and I they sat they someone came in and they like sign for how to say um sad or any words that they want like for children would want to sign and I just now when people sign to me I'm just like wow, okay, I understand but sometimes I don't and that is the hardest part, me not understanding what children or people saying. Also at my synagogue I do a surface from for definitely abled and it has accent it could be a be a hat ahead um that is basically inclusive for everyone who has a diff differently abled who is differently abled and it's only Saturday at 11 at my synagogue um and I always do for actions to the songs for example for Shema I every time when I hear the song Shema I tr I always sign it because it it was so close to me and I just love signing. Um yeah so signing is I think what I want to do maybe like as a hobby but I I don't know because signing signing is like so hard work and there's so marks that you have to learn. Like just BSL as Phil said BSL Macitone and I can't remember if I've had wrong but there's so like so marks in sign language that I have to learn and I don't think I could learn it as it will be. It's like a basic thing is amazing.

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Havva 24:30

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Final Thoughts

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