Do you have any hobbies?

Do you have any hobbies , Mr.Miller?

This was a fine hobby and a sensible substitute for cricket, since you could play it all the year round.

I aspired to them partly because I was ambitious and partly because I now saw my hobby as an unsatisfactory thing if it went no further.

But all I could see was that this was a grand chance to test the accuracy of my work, of my hobby.