One in five Brits (21%) took up sewing or embroidery during lockdown, making it the nation’s favourite lockdown hobby.
According to the survey of 2,000 people conducted by Brother Sewing, more men aged 25-34 took up sewing than women in the same age group (23% compared to 21%).
One in three women aged 35 or over started sewing and/or embroidery during lockdown. While women...
For a lot of people, productivity hasn’t gone hand in hand with lockdown. But with New Year’s resolutions in full swing, searches for ‘productivity’ have gone up 150% in the last three weeks.
In light of this, Reboot Digital PR Company have conducted a survey of 2,456 Brits to find out which lockdown activities have cost them the most ‘wasted’ time. They asked people what they’d been...
With the UK in the midst of a second lockdown, new research reveals the hobbies women are turning to tackle boredom and develop new skills to pass the time.
The survey of 1,000 UK women, carried out by the UK’s leading independent online florist Serenata Flowers , reveals that half (50%) of British women have taken up a new hobby since the pandemic began, with 67% practicing their...
From Bjork and Bill Murray right through to Lady Gaga, everyone loves an eccentric celebrity. Maybe it’s an offbeat dress sense, a penchant for unusual humour, or a large catalogue of zany, possibly apocryphal anecdotes about ‘that time someone met them in a bar’.
Whatever the reason, they’re entertaining, but eccentricity doesn’t always have a public face. Here’s how the rich and...
With coronavirus shutdown, millions of us are looking for ways to stay entertained at home.
But if your life in isolation so far is revolving around binging TV shows and drinking wine, it might be time to try a new approach. Getting immersed in a new hobby can be really good for mental health and reducing stress, and with most of us spending our days cooped up inside, it’s never been...
