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Ask for fishing advice, provide fishing tips, discuss fishing bag limits ... and tell us about the one that got away
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Welcome to Crafts and Hobbies Corner
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Got an interesting craft to share? Looking for a new pattern for your next project? Share your crafty thoughts, questions, advice and pics here. If possible, try to label each new thread as descriptively as possible so people can search and find your valuable advice and info as the section gr...
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Any other mussos in here?
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Hi New member and about to go travelling. Just wondering if there are any mussos who have done busking and/or gigs during their travels. Done a lot of busking in Adelaide and have liability insurance and Police check etc and would love to hear of anyone's experience. Heading to Sapphire from Adelaide...
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For The Musos Among Us
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I've recently ''dug up'' a few more websites that give free lyrics & chords. Long gone are the days of buying expensive songbooks. Here are links to two excellent ones, both great resources for guitar or ukulele players. https://sites.google.com/site/guitarmusicchordsandlyrics/ http:/...
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Gemstone Fossicking, some final results.
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Gidday fellow Grey Nomads. The other day, I got back some cut and polished gemstones from Thailand. These are all stones I'd found in QLD and I believe the fished products are quite beautiful. There are polished sapphire as well as cut sapphires, topaz, a zircon and a spinel. I can't wait to get out and d...
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found at the xmas shop...
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I got dragged into one of those pop-up xmas shops that appear around this time every year, Well it wasn't a waste of time after all, found this Fire truck to add to my collection, last year's leftover so I got it real cheap, It's a diecast model and around 100 mm in length..... I think this makes it about No 3...
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Astronomy
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Hello everyone, Is anyone into astronomy? If so, what sort of telescope do you have/carry? I've seen one beginners' scope called a 707AZ2 - ok for the moon I believe (as is my bird spotting scope) but Mars, Venus, Jupiter & Saturn?? We saw a great scope at the Chillagoe Caravan Park a few years ago b...
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Bird watching, old (2014) post called Beautiful Bird
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Hello everyone, We've been up since 4am this (&; yesterday) morning to go on a survey of the endangered Southern form of the Black-throated Finch - see http://www.birdlife.org.au/bird-profile/black-throated-finch. It's last known stronghold is in the western parts within 30kms of Town...
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Vintage Dinky Cars
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Do any forumites collect antique Dinky, Micro Model etc cast metal cars? These toys of yesteryear are around 70 years old and were very popular with boys of that era. I have quite a large collection of cast metal Dinky cars from the early 1950's to the early 1960's. these cars were toys given to me as a ch...
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Continuing my droning..
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Gradually getting the hang of this P 3. Very steep learning curve for this old little black duck!!! Another interesting and frightening learning day. I had one flight after I removed the beginner mode that son Matt reckons is suitable for me!! I set the maximum distance at 300 meters, the max heigh...
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Kustom rods
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Hi I'm new here for the grey nomad people if tour around the yorke peninsula and you a lot fishing drop in my place I build Kustom fishin rods repair reel service tackle I don't know if this allowed or not but I have van to pick up ambassador as a reno
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1914 Dennis Fire Engine completed
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Mr D was recently presented with a 1:16 uncompleted Entex model of a 1914 Dennis fire engine. It was started about 40 years ago by our house host for or with one of his sons. Son was not interested, so daughter attempted part, with mistakes, but not irreparable. Passed on to his Brother in Law, who recent...
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Gemstone Fossicking
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Are any of you Grey Nomads gemstone fossickers? Everywhere I go, I like to have a poke around in streambeds and gravel deposit or around old or new mines. I have found quite a few reasonable sapphires and zircons, a few bits of topaz and smokey quartz and some interesting pieces of opal, I don't do much wi...
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Sunglasses while hunting
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Does anyone wear sunglasses while hunting? If so, which ones? Any experience in this field? They make non reflective camo ones for hunting, saw them in a hunting mag.
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Sailing Gold Coast
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This painting in Water Colour. This is closing in on South Stradbroke nearGold Coast. Recently sailed a yacht up from Palm Beach NSW to North Stradbroke Island. Definitely harder slog when u get older !! Took 7 weeks...bad weather all the way .(liked the yacht clubs hic!! -- Edited by bluemoon...
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Gone Fishin'
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Yep, we're off fishing with our boat, sleeping under canvas for a month. The caravan is locked & covered at home. We'll be targeting Dusky Flathead & Black Bream in East Gippsland VIC. Fishing has been one of our favorite hobbies for over 40 years. We do plenty of land based fishing too when we'...
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If You Hear Music
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Yep, if you're camped somewhere & you hear guitar, mandolin, ukulele & harmonica coming from the same direction (not at the same time) it's probably little ol' me. Rock, blues, jazz & country, love it all. The three middle instruments with cases are my travel arsenal. Call it a hobby if...
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Knitting
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I came across this on the over 60's site - It states it was Granny's Mistake - But I reckon it could be quite marketable as a Teenager's Sleeping Bag. https://startsat60.com/lifestyle/hobbies/grandma-shocks-internet-with-inappropriate-shark-blanket
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Signs for some happy kids
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Lastest project kids names to go on their bedroom door and to stand on the dresser.
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A few additions to my fleet of model Fire Trucks......
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"Yep" I've been hunting new model Fire trucks all over the world lately, I managed to score a few off Evil Bay, some as cheap as $0.05 and others cost around $50.00. Here are a few pictures of my finds............... My entire collection now covers two full shelves of the display cabinet...... there ar...
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