So yesterday was a little complicated.
Spent a couple hours in the morning making sawdust, then took off for the pub at lunchtime, intending to knock back a quick soda water whilst catching up friends. Unusually, my friends weren't there. But my favourite bartender was.
"Are you busy?" she asked.
"Flat out like a lizard drinking, why's that darlin' ?" says I.
"You know how when you buy a house, if it only has battery smoke alarms you are supposed to upgrade to hardwired ones?"
"Yesssss'" says I with a sinking feeling.
"Well Ian (boyfriend) was supposed to catch up with your son and find out what I need to do to get up to code. That was last year and he hasn't done it."
"Beginning to think you need a new boyfriend," says I.
"Yeah. Anyway, it's worrying me, if we have a fire I'd have no insurance. And I have no idea what's the right one to buy."
"I'll call the lad and see what he recommends," I said.
Long story short, my boy tells me what smoke alarms to buy (can get ones with long life lithium that aren't required to be hardwired and you can link them via wifi), and I take off for the wholesaler's with her credit card and my boy's permission buy them through the business. (She's been a good customer.)
Handed her back the credit card and two of the smoke alarms my boy recommended. DIY install just like the dodgy cheap ones from the supermarket, just hang them in the right place, but good for ten years and up to code.
So that killed two hours, but banked a dozen brownie points with my favourite bartender.
Then the lad came around to do some work on his trailer, more storage bins, big standalone battery pack and a fridge, first aid kit, etc.
Then while we were doing that, Goose turns up and says come over, Marcus (Electrical Trades lecturer at the local college) is coming over for Friday arvo drinks.
So a couple hours later, comfortably wrapped around a few bevvies, I rock home, to find a text message from my son.
Come up the shed for lamb on the barbie and a few drinks.
He needed a little time away from the girl friend last night, She's a sweetheart, but every now and then......
So I went up to the workshop, where I imbibed only zero alcohol beers. Still managed to be absolutely knackered when I got home at 2am.
Coulda been the three kilometre walk afte the extra long day, I suppose.
So, it is somewhat of a miracle that I had a surprisingly productive day today.
Have installed the rear shelf for the cabin, framed up for the galley bench, and started framing the rear end. I'm doing it the same way as Ol' #1.
I am tying the walls together with every element of the galley so they can't flop in and out, and reinforcing the curved section with the same sort of ribs I will use for the hatch. Using two ribs each side, off-setting one by 5mm to create a groove for the hatch seal to sit in.
Looking OK, I think.
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Speaking of fine looking arse ends, this was my view for much of the evening.
Aussies will know this is a very, very special and increasingly rare sight:
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by swoody126 » Tue Feb 15, 2022 8:27 am 
It was dawn, there was no one there, and I fully intended to retreat back to bed to drink it.
Hated the left start as much as my foot did.
