Aussie Finch Forum

I have a couple of tanks of cichlids, some cockatiels, a pomeranian and a husband. I have recently started drawing again but for some reason I can only draw horses and peacocks any good. I am the secretary of the local bird club and with work haven't had time for much else. Although just been informed that I am being made redundant so may well need some new hobbies soon. Oh and I love reading fantasy fiction books - they are my escape from reality.

Depends on my mindset.

Flying radio controlled planes, some electric and some glow motor. ( mostly 3D types )

Have spent a lot of time lately repairing and respraying a 1991 Mitsubishi GTO for my son, I am currently working on another one ( twin turbo ) which will become my toy.

Occasionally ride my bikes, but nowhere near often enough. I have a WR 250 and a YZ 250 ( 2 stroke).

I like fishing, but as we are about 300 KM's from the coast it also is'nt done often enough. My son and I are going to Norfolk Island for a weeks holiday later this month,
so hopefully we will get out on a few charters and manage to get connected to some Kingies or something similar.

No such thing as too much reading, go through anything from a book every 2 days to only 1 a fortnight. Too much time on the computor. Daughter got me into succulents, to replace the Toylibrary, Preschool, P&C, College Council, Presidencys and secretaryships that I did from the time my son was 2 till 2 years ago when daughter turned 18. I decided 21 years of that was enough. Now I need another hobby to get me off the computor according to hubby.
LML

mattymeischke wrote:

bluebutterfly213 wrote: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)

Any baby lose a lot of heat through the head but premature babies and babies that are ill really need to conserve this heat more than a normal size or healthy baby. I did start just making the really tiny hats for the prem babies but the staff asked if I could make some larger ones as well for the sick babies. So now I make a range of sizes, colours and patterns. When I go to the shopping centers its surprising how many of these hats Ive seen on babies in pushers after they come out of hospital too.

mattymeischke wrote: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).

Might need to pick your brain about the livestock (hopefully soon) as we are looking at a tree change lifestyle. Already been researching Dorper sheep and poddy calves. Got chickens already on suburban block but looking for lots of acres.

Birds are a big part of my life. Also I share a similar passion with my 1954 Pontiac which I bought as a project in 1986. Many house moves around Australia has seen the 54 travel in luxury on the back of trucks, still a project car. I am constantly searching for those elusive parts in Aus and US, some chev parts are compatible. Recent years I have had cichlid fish, currently for sale on Petlink, they again not the normal style of fish to find in shops. This is typical of myself in choosing a rare or unusual project. I find my hobbies challenging to establish due to the unusual selections or rarity of the species and yet a STRESS relieve valve on life. They keep me sane.

Well fishing is my life and i also work for Compleat angler. Fish a hell of alot. Anyhting from yellow fin tuna down to bass a bream. Love chasing kings tho mainly.

Also keep marine fish tanks. Been into reef tanks for a very long time. Also bred discus for some years in freshwater. My jack russell aswell keeps me busy.

Ben

i keep south american fish, especially apistogramma and sturisoma species, i keep bonsai and i love gardening.

BENSONSAN wrote:Well fishing is my life and i also work for Compleat angler. Fish a hell of alot. Anyhting from yellow fin tuna down to bass a bream. Love chasing kings tho mainly.

Also keep marine fish tanks. Been into reef tanks for a very long time. Also bred discus for some years in freshwater. My jack russell aswell keeps me busy.

Ben

Do you work at Compleat Angler Sydney or Villawood Ben? they're actually 2 of our customers

Mark

wow. its interesting how many people list fish (either keeping or catching) and gardening as a hobby.


unsurprisingly - yep i too have ALWAYS had a fishtank (though i think the novelty wore off about at least 8 years ago - the current inhabitants are over 10 years old!) and i really, really love gardening. i work in the animation biz and spend an awefully long hours at a computer so gardening is about the only time outdoors doing anything physical i get. in fact its largely what drew me to finches. being able to keep birds in a landscaped attractive environment is an integral factor in the fostering of my interest.

i also love to travel. a lot. mostly to see the natural world and wild animals. there really is nothing like seeing an animal in the wild. a zoo is simply no comparison. my favourite moments:

a mother and baby bornean orang-utan i quite literally stumbled across whilst wandering through the bornean rainforest.

a southern right whale that ever so silently surfaced its entire head but a meter away to stare me right in the eye whilst every other tourist was at the opposite end of the boat in patagonia.

finally finding a elusive armour plated indian rhinoceros whilst on elephant back in the terai of far northeast india.

swimming in a tributary of the amazon and suddenly being surrounded by bright pink dolphins (scary!)

leaping from a boat on the kinabatangan river into a herd of charging pygmy elephants in borneo.

Both zipman I'm at the two stores.