Spotter for 37 years. Ignore the flak form others. One man's meat is another's poison etc.
What can be better than sitting on a summer's afternoon at a rather lovely Dorset airfield with a pint, the Sunday paper and jotting down the passing planes. Mind you in the past have been almost unable to write when standing at perimeter fence in the late 60s at Heathrow in January - huge block letters with pen gripped in fist.