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@Jindy. You supply the cold beer and I'm there. I got sick of trimming my trees and carting it to the green waste. And buying mulch.

A bunch of books: bios of folk like Custer and Pickett. A great tome which is an archaeological analysis of the battlefield at Little Bighorn and 'Ishi in Two Worlds". A few DVDs like Kelly's Heroes, So I Married an Axe Murderer and other knick knacks. I bought myself a 7hp chipper/mulcher whic...

It is William with a 4kg carp that hammered a sinking rattling bass lure and Piggy with a 1.5kg yellowbelly from exactly the same spot exactly 24 hours later. Anyone know a plastic surgeon. There are some smiles that need wiping off faces. Pix in a coupla days with a tale to tell.

I am appalled at the young gels of today:

Check this stuff out:

apologies if you all have seen this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... zGnxeSbb3g

Cheers fellas - told you these instruments had some good things about 'em

What they all said Dave - I'll have a couple of ELBs that will need final tillering soon - will you help??????

Very nice! I'd love to do a banjo like that.

I posted this to the banjo version of every archery forum in the world (but all in the one place) The Banjohangout - I post there as 5wires - about a gig I did yesterday at a funeral:

http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/249801

And for the piece of resistance - a luthier mate of mine sent me the spreadsheet (knew there must have been an excel thing somewhere).

Welcome to the only looney bin run exclusively by the inmates.

No worries JEff

And for those that like to do things the old-ish fashioned way I took the liberty of creating a ready reckoner. OK - it is not an exel thang that calculates stuff, but you just read from left to right. I've printed one out and laminated it for the workshop wall.

Colleagues

Here is a link that some may find useful - I've tried a few converters but this one is about the simplest to use - and I am an interweb gumby and speak with great experience:

http://www.initium.demon.co.uk/converts/metimp.htm

OK - there is this lady, Mavis, rural type, and her husband George dies. Well into is 80s as is she. A young undertaker is talking to her at the Funeral Home (why do they call it a home?). He's discussing how George should be done up as Mavis had asked about an open lid and such. 'Well' said Mavis '...

THE QUEEN'S CORGIS Prince Charles was walking his mother’s corgis along the Mall when he stopped to speak to one of the men carrying out roadworks. Unfortunately he didn’t notice a steamroller was trundling along behind him. Nor did the corgis notice and the whole thing ended in quite a mess. When t...

What BigBob said. I take as much as I can out of this material too and turn wood into something. Works most of the time and all thanks to these blokes.

The knowledge you blokes have is scary. I can make a shooter. I can make arrows that the shooter will poke out with enough grunt to do the job. But this technical stuff leaves me feeling a bit like a chef in a house of ill repute. I am perfectly competent in my own right, but have nothing to do with...

Nah - the pawprints on the floorboards outside the room that was being painted were enough help. And while we are at it, Mrs Looseplucker has been banging on for weeks about how "I need to repaint the TV room". "I need to get onto that room". Well Pilgrims, I had a tentative arra...

Useful when prepping a room for re-painting- a kelpie that will sit and stay on command and move where you want to by pointing. And stay there. Great for pegging out drop sheets.

And I've heard tell that if you threw some members of the (archery) ABA into a barrel of boobies, they'd still come out sucking their thumbs.

LB rod 55 wrote:Your back yard needs a mow mate

Might put coupla goats in there eh?

I think he'll come on a hunt. He's been out with Billb and I and just with me - he was 7 and we were chasing goats up Micalago way. Heck he was noisy.

Yep - but this morning it was lousy with rabbits in a couple of spots and me and Ruby had a fat time with her snoofling them out and me drawing and aiming an imaginary bow. Couple of the punters I spoke to this morning said I should bring the for real one. I might just take William with his bow. He'...

Ssshhh. Nature reserve. There are a couple of spots with plenty of rabbits and no-one really minded until some nitwit started shooting at 'roos on Mt Ainslie and that was the end of that.

Well nearly - this is down in the Aranda bushland, Canberra.

Just got to make sure you feed em right, like the blokes who make violins with their violin trees:

Haz - you may be onto something there old son.

Actually the derned thing has been better ever since I got the referral to the surgeon. Doesn't that just rot yer undies?

Not eerie - just one of the charms of Canberra. I'm going to do a strengthening course for the whole leg (might do the other one too, just for consistency) and see if that holds it all together.

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A nice day. Made nicer by stage 2 of an order from AMSO arriving



Hope you have a nice one too - being North of the Tweed notwithstanding.