What are your other hobbies?

[matcho]

Tropical fish, fishing (fly, estuary, bit of offshore, mainly lures and soft plastics).

[mattymeischke]

I read too much and grow lots of food: veggies, fruit, berries, currants, sheep, cows, chickens.
I love to make good, sweet soil out of things which are not soil (like cow sh*t, charcoal, pasture hay, green weeds & cetera).
I love playing music, which I do badly but with great gusto.
I love building useful things, like aviaries and more aviaries...

Would love to get a hive or two of bees, and would love to get a milking cow but my work is too erratic for that at present.
I'm going to Uni next year for the first time this century, to do a Graduate Diploma in Ornithology at CSU by distance education.

I have four small children who consitute a sort of habit; certainly I spend a lot of time with/on them and get more pleasure from them than I would have thought possible when I was a youngfella...

As you have no doubt already guessed, with so many things to do I often find it hard to get anything done.
Like many above, I love fishing and camping, but do it less frequently than I used to because of all of the above (oh, and work....).

[mattymeischke]

I knit hats for the premature and ill babies for the local hospital.

Sorry BB, but I must ask: what do the premature need hats for, and how do you knit an ill baby? (boom, tish)

[TheFinchMan101]

I'm going to Uni next year for the first time this century, to do a Graduate Diploma in Ornithology at CSU by distance education...).

Do you mean distance education like at home??

[amalan11]

I love aboriginal art,true crime ,fossils and gardening with bulbs. Got into growing clivias 3 years ago ..the price of some BB you need to grow from seed beautiful plant though esp the yellow.I went to buy one off a guy who had a huge yard full of them thousands and it was just magic

[desertbirds]

Catching Barra, bird watching and photography.

[mattymeischke]

Do you mean distance education like at home??

Yes, at home. I have to go to Albury for a week once a semester for lectures, and I have to show up to one of their campuses for exams. Otherwise, I can read in bed at night and call it a degree (cool, hey?).

It is postgrad, so you need a degree first, but I promise to put all the good/relevant bits on finch forum when I 'm meant to be studying.


What are you into with the fossils, Amalan? Finding them, reading about them, or something else?
I once spent a long weekend digging something out of a cliff near Bugong on the South Coast of NSW, only to be told by the Aust Museum that it was just calcium salts leaching through the sandstone. At least they admitted (perhaps out of pity) that it did resemble a large vertebra....

[VR1Ton]

There are other things aside from birds Who'd of guessed

Fishing (not that I get the time), Guitar Hero is about the closest I come to playing music, I'm afraid I can't knit, sow or quilt, one Degree was enough for me (started to do another one in block release, but a car accident & new job soon put an end to that), & camping is even less of a chance than fishing these days (I think the tent is still waterproof), although I do get a bit of a chance for a bit of target practice, especially on the neighbors cat .

[vettepilot_6]

Catching Barra, bird watching and photography.

Love catching Barra too...Caught my first 1.2mtr plus Barra beginning of this year!!

[biggerbills]

Deep Sea & Game Fishing every chance I get. Both the birds and the fishing can both be so relaxing at times and so full on (near stressful) other times, but always so much better than work!!