like a chat? what did you do today?

Radar · Guru

RE: like a chat? what did you do today?

Relax-n · Guru

Brighton Jetty Classic Sculptures on this week. Nice weather today so went down for a look see. Some great sculptures, and I appreciate there is a lot of work gone into a lot of them, but some are just hellishly overpriced, into the thousands of dollars. But it was a nice day.

The Travelling Dillberries · Guru

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How much for the suit of armour, thought I might get it for Yobarrrrrr... biggrin biggrin

Relax-n · Guru

The Travelling Dillberries wrote:
How much for the suit of armour, thought I might get it for Yobarrrrrr...

From memory, around the $22 k.

Could be wrong there was quite a few this year over the $20k mark.

Mere pocket money.... He is worth it, isnt he ?

The Travelling Dillberries · Guru

Ive been getting ready for the next drought.

Finished installing 2 x 2000 litre Underfloor tanks, for the gardens. Have 30k for the house.

Drink time!! Oops.

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The Travelling Dillberries · Guru

Relax-n wrote:
The Travelling Dillberries wrote:
How much for the suit of armour, thought I might get it for Yobarrrrrr...
From memory, around the $22 k.
Could be wrong there was quite a few this year over the $20k mark.

Mere pocket money.... He is worth it, isnt he ?

Yes, we'll have 2......freekin hell.

Radar · Guru

Took a drive to the Sunshine Coast to visit friends, enjoy the visit then decided we would book into accommodation near the ocean, just so I could hear and smell the ocean.

Had a Chinese dinner at the local bowling club which was delicious.

Cupie · Guru

We were looking for an opportunity to visit one of our favourite CPs - Noosa River CP - so I made a call on spec & asked for a site for a min of 1 week & max two weeks during Feb. Imagine my surprise when the Lass replied ' Have just had a cancellation for in 3rd & out 12th Feb"! Even better, the site is one of our preferred ones, with water views and to top it off a good mate has just set up for 3 weeks on a site 3 away from ours. All we need now is for the weather to play the game.

So a rush now to list all that needs to be done (only 2 pages so far) to get the van out from under cover , off blocks & ready to leave next Wednesday, and then get it all done. This includes re equipping the van from a western Qld touring set up to one suitable for a seaside holiday including recovering my fishing kayak from my grandson who lives bayside.

So it's not what did I do today but what am I going to do for the next few days.

Radar · Guru

my day started with breakie talking about possibles when I get told we have a window of 10 days we could take the caravan away. So that to me is pretty exciting. Where to Cotton trees maybe or Stuarts Point sounds good..

When down to the lake to sail my model boat, best Saturday for a very long time, a beautiful breeze sharing it with 9 other saiboats and 6 motorised boats.

A ver warm day here in Brisbane.

Radar · Guru

mad scramble on getting ready for the "mini escape". Lawn mowed, last minute things around home done.

Taken the caravan down and had new tyres put on, frig cooling down.

Today a quick run around the supermarket to get a few things.

Getting very excited.

The Travelling Dillberries · Guru

Radar wrote:
mad scramble on getting ready for the "mini escape". Lawn mowed, last minute things around home done.
Taken the caravan down and had new tyres put on, frig cooling down.
Today a quick run around the supermarket to get a few things.
Getting very excited.

Valium, try valium.....

Radar · Guru

The Travelling Dillberries wrote:
Radar wrote:
mad scramble on getting ready for the "mini escape". Lawn mowed, last minute things around home done.
Taken the caravan down and had new tyres put on, frig cooling down.
Today a quick run around the supermarket to get a few things.
Getting very excited.
Valium, try valium.....

is there a alternative medicine.

AndyCap100 · Senior Member

Hi to all ,day started well ,i woke up ! ,thats` allways pleasing on a sunny morning here in gods own NZ .Got an e-mail from the lawnmower muffler supplier that part ordered is `on its way`and should arrive today . .An achievement in itself considering i bought the mower in 1997 . All went well with fitting until the very thin gasket fell into . 3 pieces . luckily local hardware shop had a tube of instant gasket, so job no.1 all completed satisfactory.
2. Gave the caravan a de-cobweb and a wash down inc solar panels on roof .,checked tyre pressures etc ,etc . 3. Toms .in tunnelhouse going gangbusters so picked and froze loads more ready for the winter stews .
4. Annoyed the **** out of next doors cat for a while by dangling and pulling a bit of string over the fence .
5 .Well earned rest with a beer ,waiting for the missus to come home, reflecting on another beaut day .

Take it easy people . .

Tony Bev · Guru

Day 4 of a 5 day lockdown, in sunny but a bit windy, south west of Western Australia

I have well and truly adapted to this lockdown

I feel like royalty, and if I ever get knighted, they can call me Sir Cumfrence, as I have been expanding my horizons, outwards

AndyCap100 · Senior Member

Well ,oh joy ,blood test day today ,and despite our local med centre being only 5 mins up the road ,i`ve had much pain and slight nerve damage from them in the past so a trip to a more skilled operative was required .
Left home at 7.30 am, arrived /signed in on the Covid sheet at 8.45am at the main blood /lab services reception . .Waiting at 9.15! waiting at 9.30 !! Waiting at 9.45 am !!!(Bloomin Ellen d`generes on the tele doin my head in ) Seen at 9.55 am .Out at 10.05am. Home by 11.15am . But NO PAIN .
Why oh why do waiting rooms show all this mind numbing rubbish on the teles`s .Oh yeh, also shown was a short few minutes clip on Vaginal health .Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh .!!
Have a great and safe day people .
Andy NZ.

Cupie · Guru

AndyCap100 wrote:
Well ,oh joy ,blood test day today ,and despite our local med centre being only 5 mins up the road ,i`ve had much pain and slight nerve damage from them in the past so a trip to a more skilled operative was required .
Left home at 7.30 am, arrived /signed in on the Covid sheet at 8.45am at the main blood /lab services reception . .Waiting at 9.15! waiting at 9.30 !! Waiting at 9.45 am !!!(Bloomin Ellen d`generes on the tele doin my head in ) Seen at 9.55 am .Out at 10.05am. Home by 11.15am . But NO PAIN .
Why oh why do waiting rooms show all this mind numbing rubbish on the teles`s .Oh yeh, also shown was a short few minutes clip on Vaginal health .Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh .!!
Have a great and safe day people .
Andy NZ.

Whenever I go to a medical appointment I always take a good book The hours just fly by.

For a diversion I play with the internet browser on my iPhone.

What did I do today .. Well the plan is ...

Breakfast over by about 10am

Being Monday & at home .. clean the house while SWMBO does the ironing.

Then, begin the job of replacing the railings & bottom rail on the back deck. H3 timber rotted out after 22 years.

When the sun goes down, mow the grass. Needs doing every week in this weather.

Relax with a nice red at about 5.30 followed no doubt by a short snooze after dinner. To bed by midnight

Aus-Kiwi · Guru

I cut the front hedge at home the other day . Stood on a sharp cutting . Didnt think much about it . Now it seems to be sore . So Ive bandaged it with some iodine type ointment . Possibly go check the water injection on Motorhome ? Re wire so I can manually turn it on . Now I have sorted the fault code issues !! 6.5 GM Detroit .

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Cupie · Guru

Aus-Kiwi wrote:
I cut the front hedge at home the other day . Stood on a sharp cutting . Didnt think much about it . Now it seems to be sore . So Ive bandaged it with some iodine type ointment . Possibly go check the water injection on Motorhome ? Re wire so I can manually turn it on . Now I have sorted the fault code issues !! 6.5 GM Detroit .

-- Edited by Aus-Kiwi on Monday 8th of March 2021 10:17:17 AM

Best treatment for the foot is bathing each morning in very salty hot water. Keep it up for a week or so. Betadine after bathing if you wish. Keeping it dry between salt bathing essential.

cheers .... Dr Cupie

Edit ..

If using a power hedge trimmer, be sure to clean blades & lubricate with Lanolin spray after use. For petrol engines empty out (unleaded 91) fuel after use & let it idle until remaining fuel used up.

My bill is in the mail.

-- Edited by Cupie on Monday 8th of March 2021 10:49:13 AM

the rocket · Guru

Hello cupie, i hope your foot is getting better.

today i am playing the coles n woolies game. Whoever i get the best weekly deal from i shop there. Coles offered spend $30 week 1, $30week 2, $30 week 3 and get 10,000 points = $50. Ho, ho, its off to coles i go. I have got a couple of hundred dollars so far off groceries. Keeps my mind active and i get paid.

the rocket · Guru

Its raining, its pouring, the caravan park is emptying out, easter is over. Its a day inside for us watching dvds. I am watching mr selfridge and have all 4 seasons. highly recomnend.

AndyCap100 · Senior Member

Hi all, hope you are saving up to come see this great little of country of ours now we are soon to be in the same `bubble` . Yeh ,i know, safer to stay home a bit longer eh .
Anyway ,today started ok but had to head out earlier than i would have liked ,missus usually brings me coffee in bed before going to work ,as her work mate who lives just up the road couldn`t start her car ,and so kindly left me the keys to sort .
Flat battery ,but took 30mins to push the bloody thing backwards out of the very narrow junk filled garage(why oh why do people drive forward into the garage which then leaves absolutely no room to even lift the bonnet) before i could get to jump start it from my van .Took for a wee run to charge up .That sorted ,i reversed car into her garage and will have words as to why this is a better proposition in case it happens again .Clutch seems about buggered too so i will become a bearer of more doom later on today .!
A good breakfast was thus earned .
Sun is hot again so put up a bit more shade in the tunnel house to stop my seedlings withering .
Looked through my list of `to do` jobs ,can`t function without a list, and decided that tomorrow would be a better day to complete a few .,so will sit on the deck and have a beer before teatime and the missus gets home .
On the tele watching front i`ve lately been through all the available dvd`s of Morse ,Endeavor and now on Lewis .,and of course `Only fools and horses ` Magic .
Missus currently on binge mode in the weekends catching up with `ER` .
Cheers ,Andy NZ.

Mobi Condo · Guru

I, me, myself, M.U.I.T.S (My Ugly Identical Twin Sister) & Moi which is my committee for decision making, found our heavy duty (2mm dia S.S.) crab pot bait clips with the also lost crab pots which in turn caused me to spend a few $$$$ at Port Hughes buying two new crab pots coz I wanted to catch crabs 2 weeks ago when on a trip to Port Hughes for a week!

Bar humbug to Murphy!

the rocket · Guru

Hi mobi condo, hope you get to go crabbing.

regards rocket

Craig1 · Guru

Saw mud crabs for sale in Albury, " on the hoof " for $59.99 per kg. At least claws tied with synthetic string. Not like in my days of taking them from Maryborough to Brisbane Fish markets. Rotten string, rotten spud bags, had to often do a round up at 5am once the truck was untarped.

Mobi Condo · Guru

the rocket wrote:
Hi mobi condo, hope you get to go crabbing.
regards rocket

Why - thank you Rocket, we did go crabbing at Pt Hughes, got one legal sized Bluey,

Been once more since at the outer Harbour platforms and got two legals.

Nice new pots work well, will end up with five pots when the three old ones are renovated with wire mesh bottom rings.

the rocket · Guru

Craig1 wrote:
Saw mud crabs for sale in Albury, " on the hoof " for $59.99 per kg. At least claws tied with synthetic string. Not like in my days of taking them from Maryborough to Brisbane Fish markets. Rotten string, rotten spud bags, had to often do a round up at 5am once the truck was untarped.

Thats funny. Would have liked to seeyou untarp the truck.

mobi condo, good to seea few of you on here enjoying crabbing

regards rocket

Craig1 · Guru

Stopped one morning at Gympie for a 4am cuppa, did my walk around the truck, and there was one hanging on the back gate, out from under side/back curtain tarp.

Corndoggy · Senior Member

Pulled out all the old lettuce plants, planted some garlic bulbs, pulled out most of the tomato plants, still had plenty off tomatoes on the plants, new growth and flowers, threw in some weeding, took the picked tomatoes over to the neighbours, finish off the rest tomorrow.

Wannabe nomad · Senior Member

Did a meals on wheels shift, came back to my car to find a woolf spider on the drivers seat, nice hunky guys (young enough to be my grandsons) tried to catch it but it ran under the seat, they said they could see it but couldn't get to it so left me to my own devices. Had to walk to the shops and buy some spray and get a taxi back (supposed to be staying off my right foot) . Sprayed half the can and eventually it crawled out slowly and I squashed it.
This might not sound that eventful unless you know me, just ask my son or my husband; I've been know to jump out of a moving car. So there was no way I going to get in the car with a spider and drive the 30min drive home at 100km speed limit. Sooo glad I found it or I might still be in the car park. At least only my arm pits got wet lol

Mobi Condo · Guru

I, me, myself, moi and MUITS sat down for a morning coffee and chat with my partner in crime and other adventures (commonly called my wife) and I re-established contact with this beautiful forum/website on my "new" laptop - read redeemed juiced and broken touch screen device.

Was juiced (a small cup of fruit juice spilt on key board & screen cracked when dropped) and therefore judged useless. A good friend told us that he makes a lot of similar devices workable again and so has done so.

it is nice to be back on line.