faFFing around - The Tour de SEQ - photo & fun heavy

[Xanthorrhoeas]

Is that the mobile conferencing where several people get together and text each other from four paces or the type that you hang from the ceiling? .

Regards
Paul

HaHa. [warning serious response here] The English language allows many interpretations doesn't it? I'm no language expert but I think the word mobile once just meant able to move or be moved, then some bright spark invented a children's toy that moved so the word broadened. And, in the US they wouldn't understand your first reference because they are 'cell phones' not mobile phones!

And, what you call it may depend on how many bottles of red you have had!

Regards

david

[Enfield Guy]

And Hand Phones in many parts of the world. As long as we are all talking under the influence of said bottles of red, it should be OK.

[FenceFurniture]

And Hand Phones in many parts of the world.

Ummm, so in those parts of the world....what do they hold a landline phone with, I wonder? Just asking....

[IanW]

So youse blokes have got me a bit confused - are you somewhere btw. Sinny & Millmerran as we speak, or are you still tying down the load preparing to set out for the Great North?

If you are still on the schedule we discussed last week, I've got a couple more days to finish walling up the cellar (with luck, the paint should be dry & you'll never notice), lay in a bit of extra tucker, and maybe even tidy the shed a bit. Don't expect it to look like somewhere you'd assemble a satellite, but I will need to shuffle a few things around so three people can actually stand inside if it rains.

If you are here Sunday 13th as planned, perhaps anyone close by my place who wants to catch up could drop by Sunday arvo? We'll keep it loose & informal, that way it doesn't matter if you suddenly find you have other commitments & can't make it. Coffee & tea available on request. Quite a few local Forumites have been to my place before, but if you haven't & would like to call in, PM me for instructions...

Cheers,

[ozhunter]

I'd say they're at F1's place ensuring the vin rouge intake methods are up to scratch before launch tomorrow.

[fletty]

STOP PRESS
FF is currently at F’s place forming the FaFF team which involves sorting and loading vin rouge and F trying to fathom FF’s detailed spreadsheet. Line 27, cell 5, says we leave early tomorrow. Lines 28, 29 and 30 note visiting 62woolybugger, picking up some left wine at Hunter Valley and dropping a log splitter at Boambee.
In case anyone thinks it is ALL about red wine, I have also packed 6 rum and coke for a promised dinner by an open fire in Southern QLD!
fletty

[Bushmiller]

STOP PRESS
FF is currently at F’s place forming the FaFF team which involves sorting and loading vin rouge and F trying to fathom FF’s detailed spreadsheet. Line 27, cell 5, says we leave early tomorrow. Lines 28, 29 and 30 note visiting 62woolybugger, picking up some left wine at Hunter Valley and dropping a log splitter at Boambee.
In case anyone thinks it is ALL about red wine, I have also packed 6 rum and coke for a promised dinner by an open fire in Southern QLD!
fletty

Aw heck! A rum drinker. That means I may have to introduce you formally to spiced rum (Rebellion Bay) and ginger beer (Bundaberg). We may be able to put to rest the long held fallacy that the rum corps ceased in 1818 and in fact two hundred years later is alive and very well thank you in the Queensland hinterland.

Cheers
Paul

PS: Actually, a gentle squeeze from a thin slice of fresh lime added to the aforementioned brew enhances the flavour: A heavy handed squeeze and it just tastes of Lime . We have a tree especially for this purpose. I suppose you could say that we pluck this out of the woodwork .

[Bushmiller]

The grape vine (very appropriate I thought) has released more information that Fletty might already be indoctrinated in the hall of spiced rum fame. Humph! I think a sibling stole my thunder. Have you noticed how worldly these young folks are?

So now I am thinking laterally and will go to plan "B." Plan "B" never fails: I will introduce these intrepid travellers to.......HARVEY.

Cheers
Paul

[Simplicity]

So youse blokes have got me a bit confused - are you somewhere btw. Sinny & Millmerran as we speak, or are you still tying down the load preparing to set out for the Great North?

If you are still on the schedule we discussed last week, I've got a couple more days to finish walling up the cellar (with luck, the paint should be dry & you'll never notice), lay in a bit of extra tucker, and maybe even tidy the shed a bit. Don't expect it to look like somewhere you'd assemble a satellite, but I will need to shuffle a few things around so three people can actually stand inside if it rains.

If you are here Sunday 13th as planned, perhaps anyone close by my place who wants to catch up could drop by Sunday arvo? We'll keep it loose & informal, that way it doesn't matter if you suddenly find you have other commitments & can't make it. Coffee & tea available on request. Quite a few local Forumites have been to my place before, but if you haven't & would like to call in, PM me for instructions...

Cheers,

Anybody need a quote near Ian's shed.
You don't need to hire us just a quote.
So I can write the Sunday flights off on tax.

Cheers Matt,

[FenceFurniture]

I think a sibling stole my thunder.

More a subling than a sibling.

[FenceFurniture]

faFF = pay attention earlier
TOD = Time of Day

Back in the days, fletty and his dear old Dad Don were both keen photographers, and they went on many road trips together. Don would say on any and every given day "12:14" or "10:29" etc, which meant that at 12:14 they would stop the car (or whatever device they were travelling in) and take a photograph of wherever they were.

So a couple of weeks ago, when Al told me about this I thought it might be fun to reinstate this excellent tradition in a current form. Discussed it with the chap and yes, here we are.

This morning I said "12:14" which found us in Karuah in search of Oysters and Prawns for early evening consumption. Now the pics have to be virtually time stamped 12:14 so no fudging pics at 12:41 of the STU-BLOODY-PENDOUS King Prawns and Oysters that followed. (previously the best prawns I have ever had were 20 years ago at Narooma, but these never been frozen Yamba prawns have seriously damaged that reputation.

At 12:14 we hadn't quite made it to the Oyster selling precinct, which was visually no more, or less, interesting than the main drag, aka The Olde Pacific Highway.

So, long story even slightly longer, here is my offering for the very first faFF de TOD Photo reviving a ~45+ year old tradition. Pics have to be taken in a very short window (perhaps 5 mins)

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Contestants are allowed 3 images each.

Actually I just made that up on the run, as I happen to have 3 images of the only semi-interesting building in sight at 12:14 today. However, 3 is a good number and we may stay with that, pending flett-meister's approval.

[ian]

Anybody need a quote near Ian's shed.
You don't need to hire us just a quote.

I need a quote @ Ian's shed.

Please quote to supply similar -- building and basic fit-out at a location to be determined.

Might be f&FF's trailer

[NCArcher]

Having seen photos of Ian's shed I am also suitably impressed. Matt I would like a quote for an exact replica of the shed and fitout. Could I also get a quote for a lifesize, cardboard cutout of Ian so that it will look like there is at least one person in my new shed who knows what they are doing.

[Bushmiller]

Back in the days, fletty and his dear old Dad Don were both keen photographers, and they went on many road trips together. Don would say on any and every given day "12:14" or "10:29" etc, which meant that at 12:14 they would stop the car (or whatever device they were travelling in) and take a photograph of wherever they were.

Contestants are allowed 3 images each.

That is a wonderful concept, although you may have to up the strike rate to increase the chances of obtaining an interesting shot, particularly if travelling through the wide open spaces of the Australian interior. Probably not so much of a problem with the road you are travelling today.

Regards
Paul

[FenceFurniture]

Today's time set by f is 13:17.

Standby.