Underoos, Doodyheads and their Dogs, April

[techie]

Underoos, Doodyheads and their Dogs, April

tawnyfrog;1294319 wrote: Morning Undies and Technical Advisors, especially young Kate,

Well I'm glad to see that there's been some overnight activity on the new dedicated Antipodean forum.

My job here is done.

Hi Froggy. I think Saph will need a logon and password for your exclusive site. I just hacked in !

[Guitarista]

Underoos, Doodyheads and their Dogs, April

Morning TF, Kate, Techie, and Doodyheads and their drugs, i mean dogs,

Well you know, the weather, the weather........i could talk about it all day. Expected top of bloody 17c today. Might have to don the chesty bonds under me shirt.

In other, far more important news, geez, it's damn great to be sober ain't it? If i have that, then any other 'percieved embuggerance' is just that, a perception. It totally and very simply depends on MY state of mind, and what i choose to think, feel, and allow into me brick head. My attitude and reality is that once the embuggerance of grog addiction and hell is overcome, the mother of all embuggerances, then everything else is a bloody breeze in comparison. I cannot complain about nuthin, nuthin i tell's ya's. I just have this big smile from ear to fuckin ear.

Ok, off to meet 1D at the airport.

A maarvellous day to all. Live for the moment, and take nothing for granted.

[byebyebridgetjones]

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Here you all are!
I'm going to try some of the recipes posted on the Antipodean Forum today...amazing.....
I think we better get onto the moderators about the photo that was posted there over night though Froglette......very poor taste indeed......
Must have slept like the speshul member last night. Have the biggest bedhead I've had since a child this am......

Bloody gorgeous cool clear crisp morning here, and I couldn't agree more about above sentiments re: being sober Mr G.......

[Miss Behaving]

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Yes, G ..... it is good to be sober!! Otherwise the scaffolders outside my house preparing for the painters would be driving me completely mental!!!

sunshinetoday;1294011 wrote:
Have also decided to only work 3 more weeks as opposed to 4 or 5. Stuff it. Just want to enjoy it all.
Good job Sunny!! I am competing with Mr G as to whether he gets his song done or whether I get my knitting finished before baby-Sunny arrives :-)

Rags;1294062 wrote: Missy, The Teddies asked me to ask you not to throw out any more odd earrings. Did you notice that some of them have earrings? They are the odd ones from ones I?ve lost. The Teddies love bling.

Rags - all bling recovered from the rubbish Save the 22ct gold earring for my favorite teddie - Fin Unfortunately I couldn't find the opal .... but you have enough of those in Australia anyway!!

Over It!;1294083 wrote: BBBJ

Is this the place fo Aussies to hang out?

Absolutely

Undies, I am sort of using humor as a defense today. I have been tidying and de-cluttering the house and as part of that, cleaning out a pile of stuff that I brought down to my place when my brother died. It includes all his diaries when he was in a 3-month residential rehab programme. (And I'm not invading his privacy - he asked me to keep them safe and pass them on to his daughters). I am struck with how all his most private comments resonate with mine .... about feeling "not good enough", not being able to mix with people, being sent to my room when there were family arguments etc etc. And how making music, and reading books was the way out of that. And our faults (being right, over-intellectualising things, pontificating) are exactly the same.

In amongst all of those comments are the fact that his recovery was totally about wanting to make up to his daughters for having not being the father they deserved and I weep when I read that. Because, at heart, he was a warm and loving man. When his first daughter was born, I stayed with him and his (then) wife for 3 months to help them out because they were broke and both working odd hours.... always the first thing he did when he got home from work was to pick up the baby and then put a record on (because that was in the days when vinyl was supreme!).... and it was always Stevie Wonder singing "Isn't she lovely". That daughter (and one of my favorite nieces) is now pregnant, just at 12 weeks. We had a wee weep a few weeks back about how my brother/her father would have been a fabulous grand-dad. And he would have been because he finally managed to get himself sober after a very long struggle. I have kept a few things for her - I won't give them to her just yet because she has more important things to focus on, but I know that at some point she will be ready to deal with some of the contradictions in her dad's life.

Hope I haven't ruined the mood .... but just to say that it is never too late to change

[tawnyfrog]

Underoos, Doodyheads and their Dogs, April

Missy - that's a beautiful post. Thank you. And don't we all have to deal with the contradictions in our lives ... a sobering reminder.

[myhappyplace]

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Second what the Frog says Missy. Just a lovely post to see.

[techie]

Underoos, Doodyheads and their Dogs, April

Miss Behaving;1294356 wrote: Yes, G ..... it is good to be sober!! Otherwise the scaffolders outside my house preparing for the painters would be driving me completely mental!!!



Good job Sunny!! I am competing with Mr G as to whether he gets his song done or whether I get my knitting finished before baby-Sunny arrives :-)



Rags - all bling recovered from the rubbish Save the 22ct gold earring for my favorite teddie - Fin Unfortunately I couldn't find the opal .... but you have enough of those in Australia anyway!!



Absolutely

Undies, I am sort of using humor as a defense today. I have been tidying and de-cluttering the house and as part of that, cleaning out a pile of stuff that I brought down to my place when my brother died. It includes all his diaries when he was in a 3-month residential rehab programme. (And I'm not invading his privacy - he asked me to keep them safe and pass them on to his daughters). I am struck with how all his most private comments resonate with mine .... about feeling "not good enough", not being able to mix with people, being sent to my room when there were family arguments etc etc. And how making music, and reading books was the way out of that. And our faults (being right, over-intellectualising things, pontificating) are exactly the same.

In amongst all of those comments are the fact that his recovery was totally about wanting to make up to his daughters for having not being the father they deserved and I weep when I read that. Because, at heart, he was a warm and loving man. When his first daughter was born, I stayed with him and his (then) wife for 3 months to help them out because they were broke and both working odd hours.... always the first thing he did when he got home from work was to pick up the baby and then put a record on (because that was in the days when vinyl was supreme!).... and it was always Stevie Wonder singing "Isn't she lovely". That daughter (and one of my favorite nieces) is now pregnant, just at 12 weeks. We had a wee weep a few weeks back about how my brother/her father would have been a fabulous grand-dad. And he would have been because he finally managed to get himself sober after a very long struggle. I have kept a few things for her - I won't give them to her just yet because she has more important things to focus on, but I know that at some point she will be ready to deal with some of the contradictions in her dad's life.

Hope I haven't ruined the mood .... but just to say that it is never too late to change

:h

[Rags]

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myhappyplace;1294074 wrote: Ummm.....Raggsey? what attributes do you require to be a condom tester?

Err, is this a trick question?

[Rags]

Underoos, Doodyheads and their Dogs, April

techie;1294253 wrote: Rags. I spoke with my niece Kate. She is a photography student at New York University. She recommends sending it to Canon. She just checked with one of her professors there at Tisch as well. He told her that he has not heard of one good outcome when someone disassembles a canon lens on their own. She also added that most camera shops would send out out for repair to canon anyway. So I would contact canon support directly !

Damn, that's sort of what I thought. The camera shop sent it to a technician, but whether he was a canon guy I don't know. I'll give canon a phone call. Yep all those micro motors would be a trick and a bit to handle and put back together. Thanks Techie for finding out for me so fast. Hug hug.

[Rags]

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Missy, first, the Teddies say thankyou for digging out bling for them. Finn says thankyou Aunt Missy, he will wear his with pride, but he wants to know will it match his neck ribbon, and should he wear it on his antler or ear?.






Second, what a lovely and sobering post about your brother.

[techie]

Underoos, Doodyheads and their Dogs, April

Rags. What's up with the camera lens????

[Rags]

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techie;1294408 wrote: Rags. What's up with the camera lens????

It has fungus in it.
Due to the weather we've been having, plus my study doesn't get any sun and even though I have windows open there isn't a lot of circulation downstairs, plus that's where the bathroom and laundry are so there's often warm moist air circulating... perfect conditions for the dreaded spider web type fungus. The guys at the camera shop were quite surprised that fungus got into the lens as they are top quality precision made, and it shouldn't happen.

[Rags]

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Over It!;1294083 wrote: BBBJ

Is this the place fo Aussies to hang out?

Yep, mostly..... except for the honorary Antipodeans like Missy, Techie, Zen, Tiptronic, and a few others who pop in here from time to time.
Welcome to the Undies drawer. :welcome:

[techie]

Underoos, Doodyheads and their Dogs, April

Waiting to hear back from my niece. She told me earlier via text that dust and moisture can intrude into a telephoto lens. She was going to check with the tech at B&H photo in NYC. They are one of the largest and have the best tech support in the U.S.

[Rags]

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And for Undies who don't know them, here are a couple more Teddies.

Muffy, who came to me via a wedding. At the reception all the women got a teddy and all the men got a little bottle of whisky or jim beam. Mr Rags went round the WHOLE reception asking if anyone would swap a teddy for his bottle of grog. No one did, so Muffy came home alone with us. She was named Muffy by a very close friend in Qld. in an inspired moment whilst having brekkie at a cafe at Currumbin beach.
(Note opal earring which she got at Andamooka, the necklace she got when visiting NZ, and the bracelet that is actually a hair ponytail thingy)




And bathtub, who came in a bathtub Christmas before last. Penguin commandeered the bathtub, but as he is somewhere in the South Pacific ( another story), Muffy has taken it over and regularly bathes using Blue Earth Lavish Lavender soap.

Introducing Bathtub.