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  • CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

    By: Roothy  |  November 19th, 2010

    :) :) :bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile:

  • Helping a mate!

    By: Roothy  |  November 15th, 2010

    You might remember my mate Glen Hodgkinson who bails me out when it comes to upholstery and stuff? He's the bloke who made MIlo and Red's seat bumworthy and in this pic we're fitting some door seals to Red. Gleno's about the fittest bloke on the mudflats and he's off on a 200km bicycle ride to raise money for cancer research. Me and the kids donated the Handbrake's bingo win - she doesn't know about that yet, ouch! - and it's such a good cause I figured I'd let the world know about it too.

  • Oi Roothy 2

    By: Roothy  |  November 4th, 2010

    Just dropped Milo out to Ben at APT Fabrications in Tingalpa - why? Because I reckon it's time we got a bit or protection in the old girl. I built a square tube 'body support' into it years ago but as the trips get tougher and Milo's body gets looser - like her driver, the Brake reckons - the old girl needs a whole lot more. The little roll in the High Country didn't have much to do with it, she only fell over that time. But there's been enough scary moments to get me thinking! Anyway, we've got some big plans so I'll keep you posted - cheers, beers and no fears, Roothy

  • Oi, Roothy!!!

    By: Roothy  |  November 2nd, 2010

    G'day folks, welcome to my first crack at doing a blog. I did do something similar once, although the lads in the office tell me that you don't cover this one up with a shovel full of sand afterwards.
    Now Dave Luke and Phil the Sparky have helped me learnerate this blogging thing, this is where I hope to let people know roughly where and what I'm doing. It'll have to be rough for two reasons - 1) don't want the Handbrake to know too much, that's dangerous, and 2) I don't know where I am half the time anyway.

  • Skinned Knuckles

    By: Brendan  |  October 13th, 2010

    Last night I spent half an hour searching for my good 12mm combination spanner. It wasn't in the case with the others, and call me pedantic, but it bugged the hell of out me. Not so much that I couldn't find it, but the fact it was the 12mm combo!

  • Skinned knuckles

    By: Brendan  |  October 4th, 2010

    Right now I'm trying to knock back a quiet one, and I've gotta be honest with you - I'm struggling. It's not because it's the latest in a long line of liquid refreshments, though. I'm struggling because my hands are sore and cut to pieces!

  • Shorty and Me - 5

    By: Graham Cahill  |  September 27th, 2010

    Call me old fashioned but I still believe in roll models. Folk to whom we can aspire to emulate both by way of their actions and philosophies. Australia has some cracking men and women who fit this category and this week we lost one of my most influential, Malcolm Douglas.

  • Why I love Camping - 4

    By: Brendan Batty  |  September 22nd, 2010

    I love camping – I think that point is fairly obvious. What I don’t love is coming home from camping. Packing up camp is okay, the drive home is usually bearable – even if it is at the end of a long weekend into public holiday traffic and the thought of turning up to work the next day isn’t so bad either. What I hate is unpacking and cleaning everything up, especially after a wet trip.

  • Skinned Knuckles

    By: Brendan  |  September 17th, 2010

    Friday nights are 'me' time - and by 'me', I mean 'down in the shed, either with mates or alone, doing my best not to shear more bolts.' The missus knows not to book me into any relatives' birthday parties or cheesy movies on a Friday, because after a week at work I like to rewind by playing spanners on my various own rusting buckets of junk.