What has made you Happy today??

[10G]

Just keep rubbing it in mate. ;-)

Watched the video. He said, I didn't have much money so I rang up my mate and said I need an island!

[Cuppa]

Just keep rubbing it in mate. ;-)

Watched the video. He said, I didn't have much money so I rang up my mate and said I need an island!

There's some history there! He bought a part share in the island, not freehold, a 50 something year lease. Cost was 1.2 million, but his share was a 'small' share. The other person who has the larger share wanted to sell the Island a few years ago & Dave took it all the way to the high court , representing himself. The High Court chucked the case out & admonished him for wasting the court's time. He has sold his share to the local aboriginal community (Lockhart River) for one dollar, ("but they haven't paid me yet"). Prior to that during the first dozen or so years he was there the local aboriginal people hated him & didn't think he should be there. There were court cases which what money Dave did have all went to lawyers. He claims he now lives on the pension which we didn't really have reason to doubt. There was certainly no evidence of wealth whatsoever. The relationship with the aboriginal community has since turned around & 'the strange man on the island' is tolerated. The two partners in the lease continue to have a love/hate relationship. Colin helps out Dave - gave him an old GQ to get around in when he goes to the mainland for example, but they still bicker. (Colin was visiting whilst we there - he's lives in Ballarat & flies his light plane up to Lockhart now & then, & Dave goes to pick him up). No doubt far more to the story. Dave wrote a book which was published last year. He gave us a copy which I've yet to read. A few locals reckon it's a good yarn but mostly bullshit. . However we always just take people as we find them, & the time we had with Dave on the island yesterday was priceless. The whole experience of being up here has been great, & the island visit was a great way to round it off, & we'll happily return.

https://www.bookdepository.com/The-M...yABEgJtLfD_BwE

I Just read through some of the book reviews online at 'Goodreads'. The following has a description of the book which absolutely nailed the experience we had with Dave face to face yesterday!

The key to enjoying this book is possibly understanding what it's actually about. I figured it was going to be a book that could really get you thinking about life choices, and what he went through to turn is back on regular life etc and although there's a pinch of that in there, it's mostly not about that at all. Instead it's pretty much like sitting around a fire while a bloke who's possibly had one too many tells you all his stories, often in no particular order. Wasn't at all what I was expecting.

[AB]

My daughter's smile

Priceless sometimes isn’t it


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[PeeBee]

Manufacturer of the Interchiller rang to say they were shipping it earlier than projected, so it will be in Melb when I get off roster. Getting excited now as I have everything else bar the final a/c hoses and the gas, and the power wire to the a/c pump???? - knew that was going to rear its ugly head some time..

[rusty_nail]

Got a fair bit of work done on a new retaining wall for home. I'd say it's about 50% complete at this stage. Still need to conc the posts etc and add the remainder of the wall slats. I just ran outta puff today. Next weekend's job!







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[PeeBee]

Looks great Nic, big effort, high standard of workmanship as always, what a brilliant area you are creating.

[rusty_nail]

Looks great Nic, big effort, high standard of workmanship as always, what a brilliant area you are creating.

Cheers mate, I need somewhere flat for this mate I will most likely put it on a slab





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[mudnut]

Now I'm part of the madness! Got to Woolies to get stuff and was able to buy 1 packet of bog roll. There was a delivery overnight,but there was only 10 packs left. Crazzzzzy.

[Hodge]

Now I'm part of the madness! Got to Woolies to get stuff and was able to buy 1 packet of bog roll. There was a delivery overnight,but there was only 10 packs left. Crazzzzzy.

I was at Aldi Saturday morning just after opening , to scour some camping and tools specials they had.
Nearly all registers were cogged up with lines of people all the way into the aisles ... Any other Saturday , you're lucky to see one registers worth of people .
Their store room door was open , and the guy was literally handing packs of shit rolls straight off the pallet ... Between the time when I noticed this , to the time when I paid , I counted 4 pallets of shit rolls gone. This was maybe half an hour's worth max !
I don't get it ...

[mudski]

Got a fair bit of work done on a new retaining wall for home. I'd say it's about 50% complete at this stage. Still need to conc the posts etc and add the remainder of the wall slats. I just ran outta puff today. Next weekend's job!

Always top work from you Nicco! Looks bloody good!