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About Me

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So, now you find out a bit about me. My name is Mike and I'm a collator operator/guillotine operator from Sydney, Australia, who has returned to New Zealand, giving up my beloved Diamond python, for the woman I love. My interests are centered around computers, building, repairing and upgrading them. I also dabble in web site design.

I have two children, all grown now,  3 step-daughters (one an ex step daughter), three stepsons and eight grandchildren (including my step children's children), and another on the way.

My favourite colour is black, my favourite music is metal.

I kept snakes in Australia, but they are completely banned in New Zealand (pretty slack that). We also used to keep and breed Australian Parrots, and at one stage had more than 13 cats (some how all the strays seemed to end up at our place). At present we have two cats, and my step daughter has about a billion rabbits and as many mice (SNAKE FOOD).

I also collect Native American objects!

I've always been interested in snakes, perhaps because in my birth country, New Zealand, there isn't any. When I first migrated to Australia in the mid 1980's one of the first things I wanted to do was visit a zoo to see snakes.

While studying for my BSc, in Computer Studies (Before the various subjects became specialised), one of the extra subjects I took was zoology, at some stage this turned my interest in snakes into a passion. After achieving my BSc in 1994, I thought a lot about my future, and decided to study for my Masters degree in Zoology, which I achieved in 2000. Since then I have been studying and researching snakes, which contributed to me being awarded an honorary PhD in Zoology in 2008. It seems rather strange that I'd be working in a factory with these qualifications, but there aren't that many positions available for someone with a MSc in Zoology. And I had to earn a living while I was studying for these degrees, so I seem to have fallen into the printing industry.

 A couple of years back, I was lucky enough to receive two small estates in Scotland. Under Scottish law, any landowner has the title Laird (Lord). So I'm also the "Laird of Kingsdale" and the "Laird of Lochaber". Not that the titles mean a lot in Australia, but they do help get results, sometimes, with some things.

My other love is radio controlled cars, which I'm just getting back into after a six or seven year break. My son and I used to race on-road electric ones before he left home (and Australia). And I've started to get back into it. Not competitively, but just for fun.

Cheers, Mike

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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The only difference between people who hate and love reptiles is that those who hate them never tried to know them.
Those who did become addicts. 
 Stan Gielewski

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