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clearing out my mail history since yahoo decided they want to charge for storage now. kind of fun seeing all the places I bought stuff form that are no longer with us or ship here - cell, crc, wiggle, reid, torpedo7, then just how many orders for riding shirts, tools, bikes etc

other bits of nostalgia in there - receipts form the DVD vending machines that were in supermarkets for a while. i guess that alone tells me the cleanout is overdue. and ordering the kids fidget spinners.
 
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Had a view of this from my office window of being loaded up.

www.abc.net.au

Transporter vessel arrives in Hobart ahead of 'complex' ship lift operation

One of the world's largest heavy-lift ships has made anchor in Hobart's River Derwent, as it awaits its role in "one of the most complex maritime events" in Tasmania's history.
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Although I lamented the absence of my driving glasses or some binoculars…

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Haven't done anything crafty for ages, so ordered some bits online and tried my hand at linocut yesterday. I hadn't done it since school, so wasn't sure how it'd go. Ended up making a few designs, but was most pleased with my interpretation of this little lion statue I own:

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I'd left everything setup overnight, so chucked some Tour de France replays on for background noise and had another crack today:
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Feel like I need to learn metal casting and make it into a head tube badge now! (Though realistically that's impossible unless the headtube was the size of a 5L paint tin! 😂).
 
beeb said:
Haven't done anything crafty for ages, so ordered some bits online and tried my hand at linocut yesterday. I hadn't done it since school, so wasn't sure how it'd go. Ended up making a few designs, but was most pleased with my interpretation of this little lion statue I own:

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I'd left everything setup overnight, so chucked some Tour de France replays on for background noise and had another crack today:
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Feel like I need to learn metal casting and make it into a head tube badge now! (Though realistically that's impossible unless the headtube was the size of a 5L paint tin! 😂).
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If you didn't stab yourself with the carving tool did you even linocut?
 
Cardy George said:
If you didn't stab yourself with the carving tool did you even linocut?
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Haha, I was 100% expecting to do this - but the 'lino' I bought is a softer synthetic material so it didn't require the extreme force I remembered from doing it school (although from memory, I think I did it at primary school which seems wild with hindsight. A few kids did skewer themselves though!). I was careful to (mostly) cut away from myself however!
 
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It is a rather large E-Boat. Was good to see this thing take shape. The battery stacks on this thing are huge. Hopefully one of many to come out of Tassie


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We saw it from the bridge starting it's sea trials.

It was a brief highlight on an otherwise shitty day of putting Mrs George on a plane home early.
 
beeb said:
Haha, I was 100% expecting to do this - but the 'lino' I bought is a softer synthetic material so it didn't require the extreme force I remembered from doing it school (although from memory, I think I did it at primary school which seems wild with hindsight. A few kids did skewer themselves though!). I was careful to (mostly) cut away from myself however!
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we did it at Primary school too. I guess they figured in the 80s that primary school kids stab themselves, secondary school might stab each other.
 
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