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How torrelant is your other half? (1 Viewer)

Pie Face

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I've been prompted by my other half to ask this question, "How torrelant is your other half"

I must have married an angel when it comes to this. A couple of recent examples include:- Whilst wandering around Meadowhall I had an advanced warning of the Dunge' Audouin's Gull. I ran into Sainsbury's, with my 5 year old daughter in tow, and recommended that Carolyn (my wife) might want to get a move on with the shopping as I was going A.S.A.P. Less than 4 hours later It was on the list. A couple of weeks later, having just had a week away with my mates in Extremadura, I was walking around my local patch when the mega alert went off "Black Lark at South Stack". I legged it back to the car and drove home. I would have just gone normally but had left my mobile at home. On arrival home my wife was hanging out of the bedroom window, laughing her head off at my premature return. She new why I had come home early as my mate had phoned me for a lift. I got there 2.5 hrs later and returned the following morning without a cross word. Also between April and the end of May I spend most of my evenings at my local patch (Rother Valley Country Park) providing I get back in time to read Bethany a bedtime story the wheels stay on the cart, although she does tend to go to bed later as the spring progresses.

I have loads more examples of Carolyn's amazing patience and very few if any where she's spit the dummy out.

So how does she compare with the rest?

Mark
 
She`s a saint - my other half hates birding - your post particularly reminds me that I missed the Audouins Gull at Dungeness precisely because my other half wouldn`t consent for me to go because i`d been for the Minsmere Alpine Swift the same weekend!
She rations me to less than one day a week and moans incessantly if I go for a quick before or after work session. TO go for a midweek bird I have to go to amazing lengths of subterfuge which usually consists of....telling her i`m doing a presentation/running a workshop somewhere alongway off - Glasgow or Bristol are two safe bets, then leaving the house in a suit and changing into birding gear en-route, changing back into a suit before arriving home!!
Now how does that compare?
 
I finally managed to drag my other half out on Sunday.

After a couple of hours, he didn't even need to say anything, the look said it all.

Needless to say, I shall continue alone in future....
 
My other half is quite good at coming with me on my days out. However, he walks at a sedentary pace and I get a bit frustrated when I have to "heel" to his pace (so to speak....:cool:) , not to mention that my legs hurt from walking so slow! He's a good sport though really and I am constantly trying to seduce him with cameras and moans of "why can't I get such good photos", etc, but I think he's got wise to that. :flowers:

In the end, I would just love that he was as enthusiastic as I am, but really I prefer going out by myself and not have to pretend to be his puppy dog... :bounce:

Heck, I even let him go for the occasional pint on his own!

Susan - woof woof!
 
I haven't been very lucky at many things, but I really was lucky to have my wife say yes to me 20 years ago. She not only tolerates my many hobbies, birding is one that she likes to participate in. We seem to be always together. Disgusting, isn't it?

Mike
 
I always remember coming home from work to find a plate of sandwiches. My wife said something along the lines of 'Maurice rang, there's a Little Bittern at Marton Mere, eat them and go and see it'. She is also letting me do a fortnight on Fair Isle this autumn, and she is a very competent bird artist who has done stuff for local bird reports and the Lancashire and Cumbrian Atlases.

Stephen.
 
As someone for whom birding was once cited as the reason for the 'irretrievable breakdown',this is a difficult question to answer!
 
My wife is very tolerant of my birding, though it helps that my son (now 15) was the one who really got me/us started in the hobby. When we go on vacation, (what you would call holiday I guess) Aaron and I will usually get up before dawn and go out for a few hours of undisturbed birding, returning to the motel about the time wife and daughter are getting ready to go do the tourist thing. Works out very well for all that way, other than a general lack of sleep for us. We did this at Cape May/Stone Harbor a few years back and it was one of the highlights of our birding experiences. I will have to admit that talking her into letting me buy the Ultravids this winter took some tall talking, and to this day she refuses to even look through them, but she'll get over it in the end (I hope)!
Paul
Sioux Falls SD
 
I wish I met Barbara 20 yrs ago!

I'll call her at work to tell her I'm heading out birding and she says "have fun, get some good pics, and don't worry about dinner, I'll bring something home"
She likes to go for a days birding on weekends, ending up at a nice restaurant.

Her co-workers alway say I bring her to the best dumps and swamps.

I do my best to keep her happy! ;O)
 
My girlfriend loves birding and birders and would like to meet and socialise with them as much as possible.

Unfortunately I won't be able to repeat the text message she'll send to me later today, after reading this ;)
 
Guess I am very lucky, my wife Christine is as enthusiastic as myself, she also owns a pair of Swaro's which " I borrow " when shes at work! ;)
 
Despite repeated efforts, my previous 2 better halfs didn't 'get' birding at all. So, I ditched them. It's better that way. Co-ordinating 2 busy schedules to go birding at the last minute was too stressful. And the words, 'right, I'm off to Norfolk for 4 days- make sure you feed the cat' really didn't go down very well.
 
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