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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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Coronaboredom
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Thought I might finally get around to finishing off my model railway, it's been about 90% complete for a few decades!
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Another Tartan Rug
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As I have previously posted, as we travel, I crochet tartan rugs. On completion, I donate them to a nursing home closest to where the rug was finished. This year (actually December 2019) my latest rug was completed on Kangaroo Island. On one of the hottest days I have ever lived through, I deliver this t...
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Knitted Slippers
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I knitted up some slipper socks for spouse and a friend from Bendigo bloom, 100% 8ply wool in slow colour change. Wool was held double and the colour changes in each ball provided an interesting effect - I think "unique" describes these, lol.
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Bird photos
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A good time to capture birds is the hour or so after dawn and that suits my sleep patterns! Bird photography is hard - it takes technique, gear, patience and luck. I like to say a good bird shot isn't taken, it's given - but you have to be ready for the gift. We've just been in the south of WA for a month and the b...
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Fire Enging mobile home - for kiwijim
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Hi, while we were in the line up for the Longest Line of RVs in Barcaldine, we spotted this remodelled/restyled/revamped fire engine - formerly from Caboolture, Queensland
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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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https://sites.google.com/site/guitarmusicchordsandlyrics/
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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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http://www.birdlife.org.au/bird-profile/black-throated-finch.
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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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