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[MickinOz]

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[MickinOz]

5mg Oxycodone, 1800mg paracetamol.

Shelf in , lights tested, night time photography with phone one-handed:

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[Staryder61]

5mg Oxycodone, 1800mg paracetamol.

Shelf in , lights tested, night time photography with phone one-handed:

Was going to ask about the back mick, but the first sentence you typed said enough. Hope it gets better soon.
Lights do a good job for as small as they are.

[MickinOz]

Trailer is back at mum's under the carport. The blazing summer sun is doing my head in.
Haven't had a lot of time to work on it.
Contractor son keeps sending paying work my way!

On Saturday he turned up with what we call a "tradie's trailer"
Imagine a standard box trailer with a box on top with lockable doors all round. Pretty generic for around here. Plumbers, painters and electricians fall into two camps - you either get a huge cargo van and fit it out, or get a tradie trailer and fit that out. My son was leaning toward option one, but when the old Toyota van died, he decided to give teh trailer setup a go.

The box is home built and a bit ordinary, but the trailer has load share suspension, brakes and an Aggregate Trailer Mass of 1999kg.
There's an aluminium rack on top for long stuff, etc.
Its nowhere near as flash as the first one he bought, but it can gross 2 metric tonnes, compared to the 750 kg of the first one.
It needed a bit of a fit out. We installed a dividing wall, a rack of 36 tubs for assorted fittings, a rack for rolls of flexible conduit and cable, ripped out the terrible lining and insulation job, and rewired the trailer lights to suit our tow vehicles.
All done with scrap from the various projects he and I have been pursuing over the last couple of years.

Today was sourcing and bending "armour" for a shed feed job.
Where cables come out of the ground, they must be armoured - protected by 3mm thick steel.
So I picked up a few bucks sourcing some 40mmm nominal bore pipe and bending it to follow the slab and the house wall.

Worked OK, and I came home with a couple of extra red backs in the hip whippy.

[edgeau]

Trailer is back at mum's under the carport. The blazing summer sun is doing my head in.
Haven't had a lot of time to work on it.
Contractor son keeps sending paying work my way!

On Saturday he turned up with what we call a "tradie's trailer"
Imagine a standard box trailer with a box on top with lockable doors all round. Pretty generic for around here. Plumbers, painters and electricians fall into two camps - you either get a huge cargo van and fit it out, or get a tradie trailer and fit that out. My son was leaning toward option one, but when the old Toyota van died, he decided to give teh trailer setup a go.

The box is home built and a bit ordinary, but the trailer has load share suspension, brakes and an Aggregate Trailer Mass of 1999kg.
There's an aluminium rack on top for long stuff, etc.
Its nowhere near as flash as the first one he bought, but it can gross 2 metric tonnes, compared to the 750 kg of the first one.
It needed a bit of a fit out. We installed a dividing wall, a rack of 36 tubs for assorted fittings, a rack for rolls of flexible conduit and cable, ripped out the terrible lining and insulation job, and rewired the trailer lights to suit our tow vehicles.
All done with scrap from the various projects he and I have been pursuing over the last couple of years.

Today was sourcing and bending "armour" for a shed feed job.
Where cables come out of the ground, they must be armoured - protected by 3mm thick steel.
So I picked up a few bucks sourcing some 40mmm nominal bore pipe and bending it to follow the slab and the house wall.

Worked OK, and I came home with a couple of extra red backs in the hip whippy.

For those that would like to see one. https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=ht ... h%2Fx%2Fim

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[TimC]

...I came home with a couple of extra red backs in the hip whippy.

Even when I don't have a stinkin clue what that means Mick is still pushing my imagination's limits!

[twisted lines]

Red back’s sound better then a red ass,

[MickinOz]

Redback:

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Pineapple:

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Dame Nellie:

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[MickinOz]

I spent my early years on a farm rented from another farmer.
He used to hire travelling families to pick the pea crop. These were fresh garden peas, had to be done by hand.
One year, the crop was in and they moved on. Except they left Old Bill behind. Too old to work, no one to look after him, they just left him behind.
So the farmer, our land lord, set up a bedroom for the old bloke in a shed close to the house, and cared for him for the rest of his days.
Old Bill would tell us stories of growing up in the early 1900's, reading the newspaper by the light of Halley's Comet in 1910, etc.
I believe it was from him that I first heard a wallet (billfold) referred to as a hip whippy. I've seen it mentioned in the writings of A B Patterson or H Lawson, can't remember which.
Archaic slang, never hear it used anymore. Except by me, in my efforts to keep you entertained.

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[MickinOz]

So to translate, I went and bent some pipe to armour a cable for my son.
The hours work netted me $40.
Right now, I have two redbacks and a pineapple in the hip whippy.
$90 in my wallet.

[TimC]

Love it! Our Canadian neighbors have their Loonies and Toonies.

[Tom&Shelly]

Archaic slang, never hear it used anymore. Except by me, in my efforts to keep you entertained.

Entertained us.

Just read the exchange to Shelly.

Tom

[rjgimp]

I presumed "redback" must have referred to one of your banknotes printed in red as ours, being printed mostly in green, are often called greenbacks.

I did a bit of searching on Australian banknotes. Interesting that they are not made of paper, but a polymer. In fact, Australia was the first in the world to do such a thing. The US might take a lesson. I also found it very interesting (and fantastic!) that the latest version of your notes will contain a tactile feature for blind individuals. The US might take ANOTHER lesson! We are one of the few nations in the world to have all banknotes of the exact same dimensions, making it impossible for the blind to know what they have without assistance. At least different sized notes would offer a clue. Adding braille information to notes is an awesome idea!

[rjgimp]

By the way... "hip whippy" is a term completely unknown to both wikipedia and the urban dictionary.

[MickinOz]

By the way... "hip whippy" is a term completely unknown to both wikipedia and the urban dictionary.

Yep. And they said the internet knows everything........

So much important stuff gets missed.
For example, until a couple of years ago, the only OOK OOK recipe on the web was mine.
I'm third down the list now when you google it.
Note that the second recipe that google lists isn't authentic OOK OOK.
And the first recipe describes it as a "tomato and herb focaccia."
Do not use the word focaccia in the same sentence as OOK OOK when speaking to a Molfettese from my home town.