Cupie wrote:

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readysetgo wrote:

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Hi Cupie

Great info and thanks for sharing. It is certainly a complex proposition and I strongly believe the lifestyle can be fabulous yet that needs to be weighed up against the costs and expenses as you found out. I have heard some people make the comment that it wont matter as that will be their last home so it wont be there problem to sort out however the reality is that unexpected health circumstances can happen that force a decision people may not have otherwise made as was the case for my parents and then the sorting will become their problem. 

Take away message...absolutely do your research and make an informed decision 

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 Co-incidence or what?  I see that this is the subject of a "Special edition' of the GN Times.

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 Its an absolute minefield.  And one i do not want to think about Just now. 

What did I do to day? Nothing. It rained all day so I couldn't even go for a walk.

Rocket I am so glad you had a good day. I just want to get out there.

I think I'm allowed to go over to Batemans Bay, but I have to wait and make sure daughter and son in law come home safely. They had to go to Melbourne for him to have an op. I compared Melbourne to Mordor and the kids like Frodo and Samwise. lol. Bit scary.   

Then I hear that there has been a landslide on Pooh's corner blocking the highway so no Batemans bay. 

And.. as its 12:12am it is my daughter's 40th Birthday and she's stuck in a hotel in Mordor all by herself and himself in hospital. She can't see anyone or do anything because shes in quarantine.    And I'm whinging? 

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-- Edited by msg on Tuesday 28th of July 2020 12:18:27 AM

Had a cup of coffee, did the edges and mowed the front lawn, having another coffee while I wait like a expectant father for the phone call to came and get our caravan from the service guy.

Yes, Rocket, spent some more money with Jacks Caravan Repairs.

Ps, not a good photo but I thing you will get the idea, we don't have much lawn, 4 runs with the electric one.

-- Edited by Radar on Tuesday 28th of July 2020 11:46:38 AM

The work is never done with a 40 year old home!

We (that's me) need to replace an original toilet suite in the guest/family bathroom.

Off to Reece to get one that fits (tap position is an issue) on the Son's trade account.  Can't believe how cheap they are & full porcelain too.

Then ..

I thought that I'd remove the old unit while I await delivery & the Son to do the install. 

I will probably get impatient & install it myself.  Can't be too hard.  What could go wrong?

 

Oops .. I decided to remove a section of very old paisley pattern wallpaper behind the old cistern. 

 

 

Buggar, I thought that the wall was fibro & so I soaked it well with hot water & set to with vigour, too much as it turned out because the sheeting was plaster board. 

Another job when the wall dries .. patching the scrape through the brown paper surface of the plaster board. 

I suppose that I could just leave it there behind the new cistern ... but the Son &  the director SWMBO, would give me heaps.  Son won't know after I paint the wall, if he ever turns up.

Oh well, what can I stuff up tomorrow.

 

LOL  Nothing, 'cause we are off to the Goldie to have lunch at Northclife Lifesavers with old friends

 

Time now to pick some beans & peas for dinner and sit down to my daily limit of two measured glasses of red.

 

ps.  Just sliced up a full prime Rib Fillet to freeze for the next van trip.   ($17/kg at Drakes at the moment & good steak too)

Hi Rocket.

If I write on here, this will disturb my peace out Central Queensland.

We are all good, having the day off.

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Watching it snow in my back yard. Glad I'm inside in the warm though. Not all that pretty, mixed with rain.

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 What?  Not Pretty.

At almost 80 years of age, I have never witnessed snow falling.

We once took the kids to the Au Alps & played in the snow and built a snowman.

I took lots of photos with my 35mm camera only to find out later that I hadn't loaded any film.

When in USA and on a previous trip to NZ  we saw some snow on the distant peaks but that was about it. The idiot proof Digital camera worked on those occasions.

 

Slush or not, I envy you ... just a little bit.

Well, with spring just around the corner, I thought I might fiddle in the garden a bit.

So for something different, we got the honeycomb up and bees attached!

 

sorry, same as above. 

N i like your bees relax n
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Radar wrote:

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We are staying safe at home for a few more weeks hopefully we can go out enjoy the countryside.

While at home for last 2 weeks been sorting and scanning our paper photographs, what a nightmare.

My first paper photographs are from about 1920 then my own started in 1965 mostly black and white  at first then slides.

Lots and lots of great memories now becoming digitalised our computers, tripple saved.

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 Ho radar, good job. I did this 6 years ago and now regretting it. Then i had a computer n could see photos anytime but since then i have bought an ipad n hard drive does not work on it..have not seen photos for many years. Shame. Rocket

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I not going to get in an argument but I find myself android or Microsoft systems work better overall specially with cameras. i do have a I phone and when i add those photos to my system its not always good.

I can get I phone to my My windows but unable to get photos back to I phone which annoys me a bit, I try not to use I phone camera.

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 I find getting photos ... especially those that save as videos (what do Apple all them 'ive' or something) and actual videos ... to copy to my PC a real PITA.  iTunes is a joke so I just try to copy them manually one at a time.  Copying whole folders doesn't work too well.  Much easier from my camera.

 

ps.  What did I do today  ...  Monday is house cleaning day for me while SWMBO does the ironing.

After that I sat down to watch a bit of cricket but the rain intervened so I read a book. The latest by Peter Cosgrove.

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Radar, did you work 30 hour days?, what system and hardware do you use please?

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 Sorry, I did not grow up in your world, mine only has 24 hour days.

It probably took 6 weeks of mucking about to do the slides back in April, June packed that away 1965 to 1982 away, approx 40 boxes of 38 slide boxes plus 600 slides of a working holiday overseas. Really got stuck in to it.

900 files x 3 photos, I started scanning back  mid December and still got some to go. Some days about 10 hours, short ones, longer ones and it stops me from drinking which is good.

Its interesting I was talking with my wiz bang son overseas tonight and I was saying that I am just a little disappointed with some of the reproduction, guess what I should of thrown the 2005 model scanner in the bin and brought a new one as they have much higher dots per inch, bugger.

And there is more, I did get rid of a lot.

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Bigger files, slower time, so maybe originals were not so flash?

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 My old 2005 Canon scanner only works with my 2003 Xp system unfortunately.

I then transfer them by usb to my lastest 2000 windows 10 laptop to name and date.

2000 and counting photos I am going to keep, no ifs or butts, there staying.

I probably still have a 1000 photos in albums, our wedding, 3 big trip ones etc.

I might just out and buy a new scanner.

My laptop doing a back up at the moment, I will stick up a couple of family snaps which look ok at post card size but when stretched to my 15 inch laptop they look a bit ordinary.

All fun.

Well ,here in little ole NZ the sun`s shining and that means keeping up with the gardening ,wifey still works full time and so on me own, free to bugger up whatever i care too !!
Spent an hour on the bloody phone with my cell provider about lack of reception in our house ,same ole crap answer ,maybe a tree has grown in the way sir (politely told them to find it and chop the bugger down then as the repeater tower`s only 1.5 km away .Currently have to put the phone in a car cradle suckered at the very top of a window,and put the phone on speaker . Picked last of beans ,now going to seed ,and finally heard from our local Jayco dealer that our next new c/vn will now likely b May before delivery .
Now the important bit , i was fully alive and kicking to all the above .

Radar, only a Canon Printer Scanner TS6160, about 18 months old and sounds like similar speed to yours, 1200 dpi can be counter productive I reckon, but only you can decide each time. No good for slides or negatives either. I have half looked at the Epson range but I reckon a minimum of V700 at $950 is a big chew . Have lots of 1920 and 30's b & w negatives from my Dad.