Anyone got any hobbies ?

Whoa the black beast ! That looks like one serious coffee bean roster ! I'm a tea drinker myself but I know that people can be very particular about their coffee.

Very nice!

The red tip is just painted on. These Red Tip razors typically date from the 1950's and were all metal construction. It is regarded as among the nicest looking standard production turn-to-open razors.

I can respect this
Keep at it Sam...writing is cathartic, a good stress reliever and a fine way to put your thoughts down in the written word
Im pretty awful at it but it helped me to write stuff down because it was a fun game to word things right and then REALLY figure out what i was trying to say
Good for you man!

Oh nice ! Do you collect old vinyl records or more modern music ? Display cases are a bit of a problem. To have something nice and the right size etc you have to make it yourself and that sort of work is beyond me. So I just bought some adjustable cheap clear plastic hardware boxes for storing little bits and pieces and use those.

Very cool collections. I like antiques too.

Once upon a time I decided to have a collection of some sort, because I'd never had one before and thought it'd be a new experience. For some reason I don't even remember and was probably pretty random, I decided on 🐰s. (Stratego will like this!) Any kind, except live.

Figureines, paintings, prints, antiques, vintage, whatever.

Oh, now I remember how it started. I found this very cool abstracted little clay handmade figure of a bunny in a thrift shop. I called it the icon of The Ancient Cult of the Bunnies. (It had that look, although I have no idea how old it is.) It grew from there.

Soon people in my life knew about it and gave me bunnies. Lots of them. For years. My collection fast outgrew the antique display case I had them in, and I didn't want my walls covered with bunny stuff either. Plus a lot of them were too twee and I didn't even like them.

One of my favourites though was a trio of cheap plastic bunnies I named The Mean Bunny Family. A mom, pop, and baby. Whoever did the handpainting on them went a bit heavy on their eyebrows, which all slanted down in the middle, making them all look like they'd had the worst day ever. I still have them, and the original Ancient Bunny Cult icon in storage.

What are your favourite books?

I'm surprised to see anyone mention cards and dominos. They're both great games, I just don't know anyone who plays them anymore.

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Bout three hours of walking per day I would imagine😉

Oh yes family history research is a very valuable thing to do. You can learn so much and it helps you to gain some understanding of the mindset of previous generations. It can be a very sad business at the same time of course.

Prior to doing my own Australian family history research I had been told that I had 50% English and 50% Scottish ancestry. But it turned out that I have around 70% Irish, 19% Scottish, 10% English and 1% Cree Indian ancestry. A very different picture that I had no idea about.

It kind of messed with my sense of who I was actually as I had always regarded myself as being Australian/English when I was really Australian/Irish which is quite different when you think about it.