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My favourite pastime will come as no surprise. It is origami!
I've liked origami since I was about 14. I started folding because I was driving myself up the wall. I was sick with the flu - body aches, runny nose, headache and sore throat. I couldn't sleep any more, I couldn't eat, I couldn't focus long enough to read, I didn’t want to watch any more day time tv. If teenage misery needed a picture I was a perfect candidate.
We had one origami book which was black and white, second or third hand and mainly had diagrams of people and animals. It had a few simple diagrams and then it got, to me at the time at least, insanely complex. It also made you flip to the front to learn how to fold the base (i.e frog or bird or square base) and then flip through and find your model.
I didn't have printer paper or origami paper, but I did have lined notebook paper and a Cadbury chocolate paper sleeve in its distinctive deep blue.
I folded the piano and a nun and failed at a butterfly and then I folded the traditional box I have recently diagramed and fell in love. I folded it again out of the Cadbury paper and the word was perfectly centred and to my poor flu addled brain it was like magic.
I have been folding on and off ever since and still manage to find magic in the folds.
I hope through my tutorials you are also able to find something that speaks to you and makes you a little happier.
