What began as a harmless hobby, feeding pigeons, turned into a full-time compulsion.

But because he couldn't, he researched Gregory Still-son and tried to tell himself it was only a harmless hobby and not a dangerous obsession.

"Seems like a harmless hobby."

Most people think of birding as either a science worthy of a word like "ornithology" or a harmless hobby pursued by rubber-faced old men in porkpie hats.

He had a harmless hobby of collecting skulls from the old Indian graveyard down at Big Friday Cove and ornamenting the fence of his potato plot with them.

It's a harmless hobby and shaving's a waste of time.

A harmless hobby.

It was just a harmless hobby.

The work is minor, but is a harmless and engaging hobby for a - poor cripple.

Superficially a harmless but expensive hobby, stardropping reins in a fanaticism resembling addiction, where some users assemble in semi-social communes and spend all of their money on increasingly improved equipment.