Nick Jones Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 Prefer my spaghetti white and with Parmesan cheese…… I’ve no doubt you’ll get it sorted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT6MK3 Posted February 7, 2022 Author Share Posted February 7, 2022 Day 38 Lot of crimping Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamish Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 You’ll never get that connector block down that conduit tube ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT6MK3 Posted February 8, 2022 Author Share Posted February 8, 2022 Day 39 40 minutes up and down hills on the bike, then a 45 minute walk each way to a local cafe for dinner. This fitness crap has hairs on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamish Posted February 8, 2022 Share Posted February 8, 2022 50 minutes ago, GT6MK3 said: Day 39 40 minutes up and down hills on the bike, then a 45 minute walk each way to a local cafe for dinner. This fitness crap has hairs on it. There is a man that takes long strides (and I don’t mean trousers) and walks in his heels . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT6MK3 Posted February 8, 2022 Author Share Posted February 8, 2022 44 minutes ago, Hamish said: There is a man that takes long strides (and I don’t mean trousers) and walks in his heels . Ha ha. Short steps are for the meek. Go boldly, or not at all. My gait is pretty weird, I wear out the heels of all my shoes. Funny story - Last week while we were walking up to the same cafe, SM noticed that I (un)naturally adjust my gait so I never step on the lines or cracks in the footpath (Yep - I'm that far on the spectrum...). 20+ years and she'd never noticed, and I've done it since I was a kid, so it's completely unnoticeable to me. She's now taken to walking behind me to observe the phenomenon. Apparently I'm "weird". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Jones Posted February 8, 2022 Share Posted February 8, 2022 48 minutes ago, GT6MK3 said: Apparently I'm "weird". The ladies appear to like to think their menfolk are weird….. Apparently I have many peculiarities….. After 30+ years she ought to be used to me by now! We both agree the “kids” are weird though and presumably we’re to blame! Hopefully all this exercise is having the desired effect and not just wearing out your heels??! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamish Posted February 8, 2022 Share Posted February 8, 2022 hey i am sure that we are all "weirdly" on the spectrum........... i fear that my experience suggests it gets worse with age tho............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT6MK3 Posted February 9, 2022 Author Share Posted February 9, 2022 Day 40 Enroute to a sneaky afternoon skydive into the CBD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamish Posted February 10, 2022 Share Posted February 10, 2022 Can you sneakily skydive into the city !!!! tell us more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT6MK3 Posted February 10, 2022 Author Share Posted February 10, 2022 A mate has jumped through all the paperwork hoops to get a permit to jump into a couple of the parks in the CBD. No mean task, but then you need clearance from Air Traffic Control to squeeze in between jets on approach to Tullamarine, Melbourne’s international airport, in a window when the wind and cloud are favorable. All tricky to line up, as well as finding qualified jumpers, and an available jump plane. Fun thing about this jump was that the GPS went U/S just after takeoff, so as loadmaster I had to use old school done in the head maths to calculate exit point according to the winds aloft, and rely on the Mk1 eyeball and 30+ years of looking out doors to judge the run in to that point. As for the sneaky? When I got home SM said “How was work today? Before you answer, I saw on Facebook that you went jumping…”. Dho. ;-) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT6MK3 Posted February 10, 2022 Author Share Posted February 10, 2022 Day 41 Headed down the coast for a few days. Dinner out tonight to celebrate SM’s last day in her 40’s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamish Posted February 10, 2022 Share Posted February 10, 2022 3 minutes ago, GT6MK3 said: Day 41 Headed down the coast for a few days. Dinner out tonight to celebrate SM’s last day in her 40’s. That’s clearly a typo that will get you into trouble. Obviously must be last day in her 30’s 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT6MK3 Posted February 11, 2022 Author Share Posted February 11, 2022 Day 42 Spidey senses tingling… 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamish Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 Eastern Brown ??? alive or road kill ? not a fan of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Jones Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 He wouldn’t be that close if it were still working…… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT6MK3 Posted February 11, 2022 Author Share Posted February 11, 2022 2 hours ago, Nick Jones said: He wouldn’t be that close if it were still working…… Mrs Trimble didn’t raise a stoopid son. Poor little bugger lost a race across the road to a 4wd 100 yards ahead of me, then the next 4wd swerved round him and Sideways nearly needed a new nerd. So I used a very long stick to move him off the road. Grandpa Trimble taught me that no matter how dead they may seem, assume they’re still alive till sundown. Sage advice from a wise man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zetecspit Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 Australia is a fantastic place, but the sheer variety of things there that are capable of killing you does make me twitchy. I suppose I really ought around to another visit one day.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT6MK3 Posted February 11, 2022 Author Share Posted February 11, 2022 I reckon I’ve seen less than 25 live snakes in the wild in 56 years, and that includes probably 15 in the 7 years I went to high school in the middle of a forrest. I’ve only ever seen one that made me jump, and that was a monstrous red belly black snake that a mate and I stumbled across as teenagers hiking up a rocky track high on a mountain. It was basking on a rock in the sun in the middle of the path, we were in its territory, it raised its head and let us know if displeasure in no uncertain terms, and we detoured wide around it. The whole “everything will kill you” myth is completely overblown. In 56 years, exactly no one I know has died from a snake or spider bite. I don’t know anyone who’s been bitten by a snake, and I haven’t met anyone who’s advertised knowing one.. I know one person who’s had a bad spider bite, but it wasn’t from one of the usual suspect spiders, but something quite exotic back in the 90’s I do know someone who got shot in the thigh, but that was on a farm, and he and is brother are idiots with no respect for firearms. The rule back at school was that if you see a snake, don’t disturb it, walk quietly, calmly, and quickly away. Works well. Scary Australia is a lot less scary that a soccer crowd, similarly you just need to not be a dickhead. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John I Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 In my three years in Australia during the early 80’s the most dangerous breathing thing I came across was “refreshed” Aussie rugby players who objected to us pomes chatting up any half decent looking girl that they thought should be theirs. Thankfully we had guardians onboard in the form of six NSW waterfront police. They were about as forgiving as a pair of 4x4s, kinda of felt sorry for the rugby guys if they got too out of line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnD Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 Hasn't Steve Irwin to take some of the blame for that? I recall in one of his films, he was chasing - chasing! - a taipan, that went down a hole. And he pulled it back by the tail! Mad, bad or just dangerous to know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT6MK3 Posted February 12, 2022 Author Share Posted February 12, 2022 Day 43 Vit D top up 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogerguzzi Posted February 12, 2022 Share Posted February 12, 2022 40 minutes ago, GT6MK3 said: Day 43 Vit D top up Lucky bugger we have to get ours out of a bottle!!!! Roll on June! Roger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnD Posted February 12, 2022 Share Posted February 12, 2022 Oz is the Lucky Country in Vit D terms. Except for the south coast of Victoria and Tasmania, it's ALL north of 37 degrees south, above which latitude humans should get enough sunshine to supply their own needs. In contrast, ALL of Europe, save the south of Spain is North of 37 North, and we almost never get enough, without fish, meat and eggs in our diet. Or pills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterC Posted February 12, 2022 Share Posted February 12, 2022 Oz is better still re UVB because of the 15 deg tilt of earth's axis wrt sun. 37deg latitude in northern hemisphere gets same angle of sun as 37+7.5 = 44 south. However our ancestors in sub-Saharan Africa got much better sun, year-round. So its pills for me, year round,I haven't evolved to live in Wales. Not sure if the OZone hole messes with careful sunbathing.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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