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21-04-2007, 12:44 AM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Sheffield
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What would you do with your time if you if you weren’t a WAB member?
Has anyone calculated their time spent here?
I have    … and I reckon I have learnt so much from so many … time well spent in my opinion 
John |
21-04-2007, 01:55 AM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Lincolnshire/Cambs/Norfolk border right on The Wash
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Originally Posted by FungiJohn  What would you do with your time if you if you weren’t a WAB member?
Has anyone calculated their time spent here?
I have … and I reckon I have learnt so much from so many … time well spent in my opinion
John | Is there time to be spent away from WAB? I didnt know.!
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21-04-2007, 05:39 AM
|  | Dame Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: North Kent
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| | | Re: Now here’s a tricky question … maybe!
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Originally Posted by FungiJohn What would you do with your time if you if you weren’t a WAB member?
Has anyone calculated their time spent here?
I have … and I reckon I have learnt so much from so many … time well spent in my opinion
John | Well to be honest, I'd probably get more house-work done but I've always been interested in wildlife and nature so would probably be sitting here reading a book about it instead! It's much more fun sharing an interest with like-minded people and learning too.
WAB has encouraged me to venture forth with it as a career and I've met lots of people I perhaps wouldn't have before.
I think we've all been brought together for the greater good of wildlife. Stu being the leader.
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21-04-2007, 06:30 AM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: N.E.SOMERSET
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| | | Re: Now here’s a tricky question … maybe!
I wish I had never found this site
I stop and see things everywhere in my garden in hedgerows and verges a
lot of them I know their names now.I have bought books,binoculars,Piccolo-
scope,DSLR, tent.
I used to just observe and move on now I have got to know
(I still only know a little about a lot but hey thats what a grasshopper mind is for)
*amn you British Wildlife | Wildlife, Nature and Environment Information I write letters to MPs to DEFRA to Local and County Councils I accost strangers and mutter your name promising enrichment of the soul and a WAB Badge
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21-04-2007, 07:36 AM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Kent
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I Dont know what i did before WAB. I have learnt so much about so many things in the four months i have been a member, and become interested in many things I had never taken much notice of, they were just there. And made many friends that share my passion for wildlife
But the downside (if there is one) is that i come on the computor to do research and think just have a quick look on WAB, Next thing i know several hours have past 
I just get so caught up in the posts I lose all track of time.
I end up having to rush around doing domesticated thing before Steve gets in from work, so it looks like i have been really Busy!!!
But i wouldn't change it for anything.. WAB is the best website I have come across in the 10 years I have had the internet
Thanks Stu
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21-04-2007, 08:33 AM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Ijmuiden, Holland
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I only joined in Januuary and I hardly remember what spare time is now. Before reading was my preoccupation apart from the garden and working on the website. Now it's "I'll just check what's happening on WAB" for 5 minutes and become side tracked and before I know it it's not spare time any more but working time  . Our house isn't quite so tidy but there have been no complaints as yet! I, like Kymba rush around before everyone is due in and have a mad tidy up.
I have learn't so much thanks to WAB so replacing books with a computer has done no harm at all I have actually become less insular and not so caught up in mundane matters. It's so nice to be able to share views and information with others and have those little questions answered so readily and cheerfully and a bit of banter along the way.
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21-04-2007, 09:44 AM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Lincolnshire/Cambs/Norfolk border right on The Wash
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I reckon Stu should have a Medal.. make him Sir Stu! I have no idea what I did with my time before I found WAB. I live here.... sometimes if I cant sleep I come on here in the wee small hours.. and I have it all to myself... its a bit spooky down the dark corridors at that time of night you know...I hear strange rustlings of insects etc moving about... but I persevere!!
jaki
jaki
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21-04-2007, 10:02 AM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Little village called Chedworth
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yes its a brilliant site, a top spot for me to be learning about inverts and meeting lovely people!!
However since finding myself such a wonderful man, I am on here less, he is quite a distraction hee hee. However, he is in the RAF, so is away quite a bit so then I can resume my compulsion during those periods
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21-04-2007, 11:04 AM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Kent
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Originally Posted by Garden Carpet I reckon Stu should have a Medal.. make him Sir Stu! I have no idea what I did with my time before I found WAB. I live here.... sometimes if I cant sleep I come on here in the wee small hours.. and I have it all to myself... its a bit spooky down the dark corridors at that time of night you know...I hear strange rustlings of insects etc moving about... but I persevere!!
jaki
jaki | The Rustling isn't Insects.. bet its Eeyore and Boddie after they had a few medicinal Cans of Drinkage
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21-04-2007, 12:30 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Lincolnshire/Cambs/Norfolk border right on The Wash
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Originally Posted by Kymba The Rustling isn't Insects.. bet its Eeyore and Boddie after they had a few medicinal Cans of Drinkage | Goodness, now that IS scarey
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21-04-2007, 03:13 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Belvedere, Kent
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I only joined just over a week ago but I'm well and truly hooked already! Have twice found myself still up at nearly 2am |
21-04-2007, 04:23 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Letchworth Garden City
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I'd be doing all the things I said I was going to do when I retired, instead of spending my time either browsing here for lost hours or out with the binoculars and camera that I never used to carry everywhere with me before, looking at everything and anything that comes my way. I wouldn't be watching those of my friends who aren't wildlife crazy (still have a few, but the invitations are dwindling ) go glazed in the eyes as I wax lyrical about the solitary bees that are nesting in their gardens or the merits of log piles by the pond.
And as others have said, I wouldn't have learned so much and enjoyed so much interesting debate and conversation. So thanks everyone - especially Stu of course - for the fellowship. |
24-04-2007, 11:31 AM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Central Scotland
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I would probably spend more time with nature rather than talking about it, but I won't 
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29-04-2007, 09:28 PM
|  | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: North Anston, Sheffield, South Yorkshire
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Originally Posted by FungiJohn What would you do with your time if you if you weren’t a WAB member? | Before we found WAB we used to read, play scrabble and play online chess. We still do of course but a lot less for some strange reason! So we'd probably go back to doing more of these things.
Having said that WAB has made us appreciate nature a lot more though and our garden is becoming more and more wildlife friendly by the day It's a great source of inspiration for us. We're also taking loads of photographs that we might not have otherwise and it's great sharing ours and seeing other people's photos and identifying what we've found. We're always on the lookout for something new (well, new to us ). It seems strange now to think of there being no WAB!
Well I thought I had a chess move to make tonight but it appears I timed out this morning!! I'm sure when I looked last night that I'd got until tonight to make my move - must have been the vino playing tricks on me. Oops Anyone fancy a game?
Jenny
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29-04-2007, 10:57 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Leigh, Lancashire
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Goodness - is there a world outside of WAB??  I always hoped I was going to find a site that suited me and this is certainly it: the knowledge, expertise, offers of help, the chat and the fun are something I would not want to do without - so thanks Stu and all t'other members for making this one hell of a great site!!
Pauline
PS The phone bill quantifies how much time I spend on here - spend being the operative word - my husband - bless him just shakes his head
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07-05-2007, 11:04 AM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Chilterns
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Originally Posted by Kymba The Rustling isn't Insects.. bet its Eeyore and Boddie after they had a few medicinal Cans of Drinkage | obviously if i wasnt on wab I would have more time to spend on the medicinal drinkaging
Actually I'm going be on less through the summer as the longer evenings give me more chance to get out and actually see / photograph wildlife rather than just taking about it - also I am working 10 days on 4 off through the summer which gives me more scope to go away on the days i'm not working
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07-05-2007, 11:33 AM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Kent
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Originally Posted by eeyore obviously if i wasnt on wab I would have more time to spend on the medicinal drinkaging
Actually I'm going be on less through the summer as the longer evenings give me more chance to get out and actually see / photograph wildlife rather than just taking about it - also I am working 10 days on 4 off through the summer which gives me more scope to go away on the days i'm not working | You wont see much wildlife in a Pub pete!!!
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07-05-2007, 12:08 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Letchworth Garden City
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Originally Posted by Kymba You wont see much wildlife in a Pub pete!!! | Probably see quite a few WAB members, though |
07-05-2007, 12:11 PM
| | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Chilterns
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Originally Posted by Kymba You wont see much wildlife in a Pub pete!!! | no - but i can retire to the local hostelry for a jar or two (or 9 or 10) after a long days wildlifeage cant I - All I need now is roaming broadband so that I can share the experience with you all
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07-05-2007, 12:43 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Kent
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Originally Posted by eeyore no - but i can retire to the local hostelry for a jar or two (or 9 or 10) after a long days wildlifeage cant I - All I need now is roaming broadband so that I can share the experience with you all | You can come to kent and share your experiences (plus few jars) anytime you want to.. am sure Jules and a few others here would be up for it
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07-05-2007, 12:51 PM
| | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Chilterns
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Originally Posted by Kymba You can come to kent and share your experiences (plus few jars) anytime you want to.. am sure Jules and a few others here would be up for it | I'll hold you to that sometime Kym - I keep meaning to go to the wildwood centre so work permitting we might sort out a meet
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07-05-2007, 12:58 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Kent
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Originally Posted by eeyore I'll hold you to that sometime Kym - I keep meaning to go to the wildwood centre so work permitting we might sort out a meet | Okay then Your On...Just let us know when I Loved it at Wildwood its an amazing Place well worth a visit..
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