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Episode 7 – Geocaching Explained

January 29, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

A request for an explanation of Geocaching forms the basis of most of this episode. It’s a hobby we love – not only because it’s good fun, but also because it gets us, and the kids, out of the house, whatever the weather!

Penny looking startled next to a Magpie in a tree geocaching

Some might describe it as using multimillion pound satellites to find tupperwear, but honestly there’s so much more to it than that. And if you want to find out why Penny is posing next to a magpie then you’d better listen.

After a detour via pedestrian crossings we also ended up on the subject of tactile paving. Not something we’d ever paid that much attention to until Penny met someone at a WI festival who happened to have made an excellent film all about it for the BBC. Well worth a watch and I promise that you’ll learn something new.

Toy Fair 2020 Visitor Planner

Penny’s also had a busy week visiting the London Toy Fair. Board games seem to be a big thing at the moment as parents desperately try to get their kids away from screens, but how some of them are incorporating technology is fascinating too.

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Episode 6 – Shhhh! Top Secret

January 22, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

But just what sort of secrets are we talking about?

Once you’ve listened you can read on…

 

 

[spoiler space]

 

 

HandI podcast Top Secret game

The vintage board game that we’ve been playing this week is Top Secret by Jumbo Games. Look out for a full write up of it very soon over on Penny Plays. Until then we’ll just leave you to admire the way that the playing pieces fit together so beautifully!

HandI podcast Top Secret spy playing piece

If you’re a fellow vintage board game fan then don’t forget our Facebook group that’s worth joining.

Also for you to admire is the product of Penny’s WI session on needle felting. Who says the WI is all Jam and Jerusalem eh?

Hand podcast needle felting

And for those of you wondering what podcast Bonn had been listening to – EOS10 is the answer.

 

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Episode 5 – We’ve had a delivery…

January 15, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

HandDI Podcast Episode 5 RAF Museum Hendon place from tools

This week we’ve been out and about visiting the RAF Museum in Hendon (click through to read about it in full love Ron Penny Travels), learnt loads about Michael Hutchens of INXS fame, and also taken a delivery…

… of vintage board games. For those of you interested, this is what we were unpacking.

HandDI Podcast Episode 5 vintage board games

With a bit of a closer look at the three most of interest.

HandDI Podcast Episode 5 vintage board games

Detailed posts on all three of these will appear on Penny Plays just as soon as we’ve had chance to actually play them!

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Episode 4 – Rummikub snobs and Hobby Addicts

January 8, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

We’ve managed it. Two weeks in a row. That’s some kind of a record. Or certainly better than we did in 2019!

Hobbies and Interests Podcast HandIPod Rummikub

This week Penny and Bonn realise that they’re Rummikub snobs and talk about exactly what a hobby is. Seeing as we’re the Hobbies and Interests podcast we figured we ought to work that out. Even if we have already made it to episode 4 before doing so.

Enjoy the pod, and if there’s a particular hobby or interest that you’d like us to try out or give our opinions on then please let us know.

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That was a bit of a longer gap than planned between episodes

January 1, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

We never planned to vanish for 2019, but we accidentally did. It seems that having a newborn baby eats up rather a lot of time that we had planned to use for recording podcast and visiting places to podcast about. Who knew eh?

As we enter 2020 though we’re back on track and planning weekly episodes to keep you amused and informed. We can’t promise to visit places each week, but do plan to talk about what we’ve been up to and the various hobbies and interests that keep us busy. We figure that most things in life can be classed as either a hobby or an interest, so in that way we didn’t screw up too much when we chose our podcast name. And after all, we’ve bought the domain name so can’t be bothered to change it now!

Episode 1 of the relaunched HandI Pod has Penny and Bonn talking about Christmas, getting to grips with a new Alexa device, revealing the crack cocaine of tile games and discussing what’s changed on the high street over the last decade.

Technology permitting, we should be available on all podcast platforms, including whatever Apple are calling iTunes these days. Failing that we’ve included a helpful little embedded bit below. You’ve no excuse now…

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