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!
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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.Quote:
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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. :)
Priceless sometimes isn’t it ;)Quote:
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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..
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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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 [emoji3][emoji3] I will most likely put it on a slabQuote:
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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.Quote:
Originally Posted by mudnut
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 ...
Always top work from you Nicco! Looks bloody good!Quote:
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Bought myself one of those robot vacuum cleaners. Seems to work well, and fun to play with, but it scares the crap out of my dog.
Wait until your cat realises the potential of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf9wHkkNGUU
I don't understand either. It's nationwide, why?Quote:
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I'm hoping in my rural community, once the 1000 households each get their 80 rolls, that people will become normal once more.
Crikey I hope they never announce an asteroid is going to hit earth, people will be killed within minutes of the announcement.
Yep the next Mass Extinction Event threatening humanity won't be an actual Event itself... it will be all the dumbarse morons killed in the hysteria thinking an Event might happen 'cause they saw a post on Social Media.Quote:
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...which works for me as anyone with a CDF index low enough to believe that rubbish on Twitter/Facebook/Snapchat/Instagram doesn't deserve the oxygen required to support life
Found out the dunny roll epidemic has hit the US of A.
A local planned burn has gone ahead today. And here's to many more!
we got mail saying much the same for our area. its good they have seen some sense from the recent fires!Quote:
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Yet the greenies have still got the balls to have a stand at the local markets promoting their idiotic beliefs and wanting people to pay for memberships. My sister was stopped by one not long ago at her local market and she nearly ripped his head off and shat down his neck. She was furious.Quote:
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Interchiller arrived today in Melb. Just have to survive the interrogation tonight and the Corona Virus incubation flights on friday then its straight into it.
Ordered a genuine belt tensioner via Patrolapart. Glad I rang, the one I got was $100 cheaper than listed on the website.
Got my blood test results back for prostate and due for another blood test in a years time..[emoji106][emoji106]
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Finally picked up the new crapper/shower in readiness for urgently needed renos forthcoming.
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Might leave it out in the paddock, not a bad view from the throne :-)
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Finally had two builders come out today in preparations to quote for the extension. One more to come on Monday evening. Then we wait, again, for their quotes to come through. 13 months (mainly thanks to council being arseholes) and around 10k in the making so far and we haven't even dug a hole yet.
Sad thing is, when this is finished. My Patrol still doesn't get an undercover parking space, even though there will be a 5.5m x 10m'ish garage added. She's too tall.
Can't you fix up the old carport that used to be at the end of your drive mate? I recall it being all overgrown when you moved in? Can't you just rebuild that too accommodate the patrol?Quote:
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Yeah bugger she doesn't fit in, deserves to be undercover she's too nice. . What about carport to side of house as another option or that going to be extension?
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The ground under the carpet has a fall of maybe 300mm, even more, from right to left. The frame of the carport is rusted, badly, the only thing holding it together is the corrugated sheets. It really needs to be demolished.Quote:
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What I want to do there is concrete that whole are and put a nice big shed there. But I need to level it out first, but, the council have refused to let me put a retaining wall in where I need to so I can build the are up so its level. Carnts!
So I'm waiting until the extension is done and dusted then I will just do the retaining wall without telling the council.
No chance of growing the new garage a foot or two higher??
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Nope as it’s under the house. I can get the Patrol in with the roof rack off but it’s a right PIA to take the rack off.Quote:
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Instead of going up why can't you go down? Have the extension an extra foot deeper?Quote:
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Then it won’t be level with the rest of the, ground level. Costs involved in digging lower than what we already are at is stupid. It’s not only the excavation cost, it the engineering into it and the extra work to build lower. I’m up to my neck in costs already. LolQuote:
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Besides. All the permits and plans are done. It’s taken long enough and cost more than enough just to get this far.
I’m not really concerned. Having it this way means I can build a nice big man shed. Can’t wait for that.
Just need to wait a while in the hope the council forgets about me originally wanting to put a 1.8m high retaining wall on the boundary, where they said no too. Lol
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planning my canning stock route trip :-) :-)
Headed down to Avo' s play ground over the weekend for a belated birthday bash. Caught up with Evo and MonkeyBucket aka MB TD42 (I think)
Feckin cracking weekend and would have loved to have stayed longer but I thought I'd be missing out if I didn't get back to Perth and catch a virus.
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Bummer I couldn’t make it but avo has promised me he will take me down the Donnelly and give me cuddles, I’m looking forward to that, well the trip not the cuddles
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We're all ere coz we ain't all there.
Don`t you just hate it when you don`t get an invite. Thanks mates.
Glad you blokes had a ripper time.
Well not often Im on this thread eh, anyway had my second set of injections for my back.
glad to say Im feeling a lot better. still sore after a while but no where near what it used
to be. Not much joy bike is awesome therapy, Davids birthday tomorrow still bloody hard
I owe a heap to Rob and forum in general . What a great bunch of guys thanks you mean a lot
to me
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So ordered the extra sheeting and flashing needed to finally close in the original shed. This it right behind the New shed. I wrapped this open bay shed with builders plastic temporarily 10 years ago!!!! Did OK!
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Stoked with how it came together!!
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This is a Life Changer Gents!!! Very big deal!
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I’ve seen more burns in the last few weeks than I have in years - about bloody time , but yes the greens etc are still pedalling the ‘no burning off’ message 😤
Just read Vic is in lockdown, excellent news for me as I will HAVE to stay home and work on the truck, separated from the wife who MUST stay in a different room, which I take is other than the garage - HAPPY DAYS!!!!! Only negative is my eldest daughter is due to give birth any day, so we will have to wait a bit to see the new earthling.