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you crazy git, at this time of the year they are not mozzies, rather chinglese mini satellites with virus spreading capabilities, now your going to get it. :raisedeye

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congrats, it's beautiful.
have you hyperventilated about other people damaging it yet?

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Actually it was yesterday. Company told us we are going back to working 5 days a week effective immediately.

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Rust free silver bonnet on Foster Ute, tidied up and blown over by a back lane workshop in Homebush. Despite when you look hard there remain many small marks, it’s really lifted the appearance as a whole.

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Had ribs tonight - nice and tender.

But cut off the fat to crackle up separately.

Pictures mightn't show how crunchy and nice flavour (bit of oil, sea salt and vinegar brush) but worth the wait!!

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They look nicely done. Bet the dogs were pests until you gave them some.

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Been on leave due to no work. Got called into the office yesterday, i knew what that was about. Went in full customer service. So at 3pm I got laid off. 2pm today i get a call. I hadnt received termination papers. It was the company owner. Yep, still in a job. I used his technique. Adapted it a bit. He claims he can sell ice to an eskimo. I didnt know eskimos had drug issues. But i can sell salt to a slug. Slugs dont even like salt.
With no work on, what little there is im a tad bit too expensive. But, hey, still employed. Ive never lost a job, ive left jobs before, but this one ive been at for 14 years. So after the phone call i had a laugh.

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Had a good chuckle out of these.

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Modest reduction in aged care co-payment after review, $168 back from Centrelink. They’re definitely throwing money around. :-/

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Did my tax last Wed, have to love how it pre-fills it all exactly. Easy as ****. I only had to add my deductions for the fires donations.

Looking forward to when push returns become a thing.

I got 1100 back yesterday which makes up the majority of the 1500 excess claim I have to pay for me slightly rear ending a Rav4 a couple of months ago :lol

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Physical silver prices!

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I went to the new kebab shop down the street today to change things up today. I rate the other local kebab shop it the local shops highly, and i almost felt dirty deffering. But, i will say, the new joint has, on first kebab, an excellent sweaty meat to lettuce and onion ratio. And they put it in the flat press before bagging and sending out. The press i feel is important as i always get cheese and melted cheese is better on a kebab then un melted cheese. Im not sure which place has the better garlic sauce, they both are pretty garlicky. My go to for sauces on kebabs is garlic and bbq.

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Hi Guys,
like MITCHAY I did my tax last week and I married an Accountant and still had to do my own tax.

In August my cars rego due so the refund will come at a good time.

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Lost my real Dad after all these years and finally finding him, lost my job up north and wrote off the RIO we have had since NEW :)


Have a great week guys ...x...

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Not sure it made you smile haha, hope all are ok after the write off.

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Picked my kid up from school today, havent seen the young fella for a while, we do speak frequently, but havent seen him for a few weeks. He wanted to do garage stuff, so we did that, then we went to the local. I dont consider my choice of a feed to be a poor one, but the little bloke went to the specials menu, and his choice was pretty epic. $16 for a half rack of bbq pork ribs, you dont have high hopes for that. It was a solid more then half rack and the boy had meat sweats half way in. For perspective, my kid weighs more then myself, he is 5"4' and only 10. Im 6"2'. And i am older then him.
No he isnt a fat kid, i just have a preying mantis frame, with a bit of dad bod on top.
It was a good time.

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Havent done it just yet but it is happening soon. My kid is desparate to run a monitor off his laptop so he can go dual screen. Dont ask me why, he can hardly focus on 1 screen, so dual screen with 2 things open... anyhow. On tuesday i said he can have the 19 inch LED monitor i have kicking about. I had the monitor on hand, an hdmi cable, but couldnt find the power supply. So my kid was a bit bummed out. I wasnt going to gift something if it was missing bits and if i couldnt confirm it works. My kids laptop has vga and hdmi outputs. The monitor has vga and dvi inputs, no hdmi. I did find the power supply yesterday, but officeworks didnt sell dvi to hdmi adapters, but i did buy a vga cable. Tested it, yep it all is good. Told my kid shes apples, and asked him to ask his mum if i could pick him up from school and she pick him up from me as i live up the street from his school. She got back to me today saying nope. She knows how bummed out the kid was not comming home on tuesday with the monitor and the hype of finding out it all works etc, so she conceded. She will swing past after the school run on her way back to work so the boy can pick it up. I am giving the kid an hdmi cable also, so he can connect to a tv or so he has it if need be he gets a new monitor. Yeah i know come 830pm tonight im going to get yelled at because the young fella will complain about not wanting to go to bed and not shut up about having dual screen, but its worth it to me.

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In about an hour i am going to cop the biggest serving from my ex wife. Its worth it but. She swang by and i gave my kid the monitor he wants. I just said to my kid call me when you set it up, ill talk him through. Its easy. She knows the drive home he will rattle on, and i know i will cop it because i know he isnt going to want to change out of his school clothes, not going to want to do his homework, and just want to setup his monitor and play in his words, pooter. Its so worth it for the smile.

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Bought a 2nd hand Yamaha amp for my music room / now home office.
Set it up today with a disc player and the PC hooked up in there.
All sweet, everything works and sounds pretty damn good.

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Yamaha have their fingers in a lot of pies. My mum has a yamaha upright minigrand piano, it wasnt cheap, but it is sweet. I have a yamaha direct drive bass drum pedal on my drumkit. Its the best of both worlds. Ive had it for almost 20 years but it takes the smoothness of belt drive and the direct return of the more 'clunky' chain drive, and its fully adjustable, its a sweet action unit. Replacing a chain or belt with solid metal and chuck in a few bearings makes sense, but even designing things like cylinder heads for volvo V8s, and obviously the tight tolerances for everything motorcycle, throw in electronics, add musical instruments to the mix. They do a lot of good stuff.

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Agreed.

Dad's had a couple of Yamaha amps which have all been excellent

Its low end but my kit is a Yamaha (Red w/ Remo skins :)).
And close to a decision on buying my first Yamaha guitar, a bass.

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Covid free (at the mo) perks.https://i.postimg.cc/nzLQD8J7/20200730-092201.jpg[/url]

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My sister has a sweet yamaha bass guitar. Its red tiger stripe, and its up to personal opinion, but gold hardware and pickups . So yes styling is personal opinion, but its a another really nice peice of kit. The upright mini grand though, that is super nice. Realistically nobody has the space for a mini grand or grand piano, uprights are more space efficient, so yes they arent common but are a good comprimise. My parents traded an 1889 ivory keyed piano which had candle holders for that thing, dads dead, and mum is **** at piano, but its still a sick instrument.

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I know it's NZ south island but where abouts and I am guessing flying north/south

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Dropping down into Queenstown today, playing tourist for a couple of days.and put a few dollars in there economy...

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shoit only place in NZ I hate and will never go back. lived there as a kid then moved away for 20 years ... what the 'ell did they do to the place.

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Haha they made it expensive, still it beats being locked up at home they are close to opening up Cook Islands to us soon.

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Finished up dev work on a project with a deadline I thought we'd have no chance in hell of meeting.

I'm bushed as **** though. I worked my **** off to throw it over the line.

So it is always good to meet those sort of deadlines. I was bricking it earlier in the week :lol

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My sister, like me, is a workaholic.

Two years ago, she signed for up for an apartment, which was to start construction shortly after.

The last two years she has been working her guts out towards this goal. Today she collected the keys.

I'm so happy for her and wish I could be there to share the experience, Covid travel restrictions mean that isn't possible, but a short video Snap Chat tour is as good as it gets at the moment.

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Today is one year since my last cigarette. Probably saved $6,000 since that day.

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Noticed driving up the freeway this morning, Canola crops already starting to flower. First signs of spring.

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Keep an eye out for canola blossom honey later in the season. It tastes quite different and is worth a try.

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I'll have to ask the farmer who I'm working for about that.
Its a great crop for them as he can do a 1st cut high for the seed and a later 2nd cut low down for dairy farm feed lots. This effectively giving them 2 incomes from one crop.

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Lower Eyre Pen started 3 weeks ago. :notworthy

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Taking my FGX XR8 for a drive on Sunday afternoon with sunny 20 degree temp.

Was water blasting brickwork and decided after 2.5 wet hours I needed a break.

Not having driven my FGX XR8 for 3 weeks, decided to take it for a "country -ish" run.

Over the following 50 minutes I gave it a good Italian Tune and came with a grin like a cat that got the cream.

Yeah- may not handle on tight corners but on the right roads WOT it still has it....

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Yeah, at minus 3 mornings and heavy frosts around little London (Wang) atm I was surprised.

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Did the same thing this morning with the same effect. :D

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Two days in a row, online purchases I was a bit “iffy” about ever seeing, arrived. J’ai très heureux.

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Hi guys,
I had a fantastic day yesterday. As a lot of you will know I own an MC Ford Mondeo petrol engine Hatchback and its due for Rego in two weeks.

When my wife and I bought it back in 2012 we used to take it to a Mechanic and he would service it and really look after it and was just a very straight forward guy who did a great job.

Now because I lost my job due to the Corona Virus at the moment I don't have cash to spare. I went to the Ford Dealer and asked "how much a Rego Check and a Transmission service would cost'?

I was told "between 500 and 600 hundred dollars". I went back home and phoned our Mechanic who is in Sydney and he told me $310.00.
I drove up there yesterday got the job done. My Mondeo has just clicked over 339,000Km ( yes I know its a lot) and most of it is Highway Driving not stop start driving.

I picked it up and the Mechanic said to me " mate its got some ks on it now but I cant get over how good it still goes and its very smooth still".
He said " with that many ks on it you wouldn't get much for it so you might as well keep it"

Which I was going to do any way and why would I sell it. All these years ive had it ive put New Rotors and brake Pads, had Two Battery's, Engine mount and a water pump.

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6 weekly blood tests for docs, and my regular nurse was safe, though a little stressed. Little victories.

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Did some i suppose you could call wood working today. Measure and cut sort of stuff. The trusty old black and decker workmate 200 portable workbench, the 30 odd year old particle board bench tops were shot. My grandpa passed that down to me years ago and it sat in my car hold for years as i had no use. But i did find a use a few years back and it has been well used. So clamping firewood to cut it.
But the tops were shot. So the 20mm thick, 150mm wide, 900mm long particle board tops i replaced with 40mm thick, 200mm wide, 1200mm long boards of treated pine. I did need to cut out 2 150mm x 70mm notches for the clamp handles. And it does need a bit more of a sand as the paper on my electric sander i need more of. But deffinately got a new lease on life. And i only had to cut once. But i am pretty good at eyeing things off and then measuring. Its a bit heavier then before so maybe not as portable. But with both ends wound together it goes from a vice to a usable bench top 400 wide and 1200 long.

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Knocked another model off the shelf, so i decided to commence a quick 3 day turn around of a murdered out Peterbilt 359


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Hopefully the spiders liven the kit up somewhat ?


Just need to scratch build a bull bar and add some KEITH mudflaps ...

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Very cool. Always wondered why no-one made 1:24 scale plastic models of Aussie cars...

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Yeah I reckon I would be interested.Dunno about 1/24 might be a bit too fiddly,but 1/16 or thereabouts would be easier.At 1/16 would finish up with a model around 25-30cm with plenty of detail

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I was still sort of irritated/concerned about life stuff. So i dug around the car hold, yet found more sand paper in the spare room in my house. Sheets of 60 and 80 grit. But thats fine. Todays project of the working work bench, its function over form. So doesnt have to be pretty iff it works.
My sander is old as. Its not a belt sander or an orbital. Its one of the ones that vibrates and sands. Its not noisy, so i just cut the paper to size and got back to sanding. Its, atleast to myself, really relaxing. Making things even and stuff. Its never going to be great, but its a work bench. Its wood i had around the house, im not complaining about buying **** wood. I did give it a test run clamping fire wood and chopping it before round 2 of sanding. It does work well.

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Nice work on the Pete. A 359 would be a bit odd with Aussie bits on considering we never really imported them here, most landed here with Alcoa's and gullwing bumpers. Did you try Auslowe for Aussie custom bits.
https://www.auslowe.com.au/

That's not to say I haven't seen them around.

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So far, my extended Territory door seals are keeping the rain out. Win.

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Yerr probably right...


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It's Friday, 2 days off. No other reason :lol

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This is my foray into model building. '48 Ford F100

SWMBO has a newish laser cutter and this was my birthday present. over 200 pieces and around 400mm long when finished.
Still deciding as to leave raw or paint...if latter what colour.
When Christmas arrives I think a '56 F100 will join the ranks.