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You get twice the buck for your bang then.
GPM.

Yes the tall gene does pop up from time to time. Dad and his brother were little chaps. James son Bert was tall like his dad. My son and I are (or was in my case) over 6 feet but my grandson towers...

Greetings bumblefoot,
I thought you might enjoy this picture.
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The gentleman on the left is my great grandfather James, aged in his early seventies. He was retired and looked after the...

Greetings,
3 days a week! Mate you've cracked it. That's what I did for my last three years working. Plenty of time left for other stuff.
Regards and congrats Grandpamac.

Greetings,
That didn't take long. Best of luck.
Regards Grandpamac.

Ah, one of those skills that doesn't rely on a cell phone app. I do like those rolled goat shoulders, they look delicious. Best of luck with the employment. There is demand for mature workers with...

Greetings bumblefoot,
Going hungry is clearly the least of your worries. That stationary chook tractor of yours seems to be working a treat. Makes my miserable little effort look modest in the...

A magnificent edifice. That is a stationary version of the old chook tractor is it not?
Grandpamac.

Thanks XR500,
These are very good notes to help me with a decision. In our 70's and with declining mobility our time here is likely to be limited so a non asset solution needs to be considered as...

Greetings vulcannz and all,
The Councils are not always complicit in bad subdivision decisions, sometimes their hand is forced by the Environmental Court. It has also struck me that although Napier...

Thanks bumblefoot,
We have been exceptionally lucky. Hastings, where we go to shop, has also come through well but Napier has been smashed. Other than the hill most of Napier is built on low land...

Greetings All,

Some notes on surviving Gabriel.

It has been an interesting week. We were without power for almost a week but have survived the cyclone without loss or significant deprivation....

Greetings bumblefoot,
Eons ago I made the same transition in thinking. Any goat that passed the smell test went in the freezer. Any that did not were bypassed. To me the billies had more flavour...

The rifle remins me of my first one. It was a Parker Hale conversion of a No 1 about the same age as yours. The fore end was cut down but otherwise it was standard. In the late 1960's it cost me...

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$500.00 is by no means expensive for a .303 Lee Enfield in good condition with a minimal conversion to a sporter. With the right bits these can be converted back to original and command...

Greetings All,
Like many of my age I have been having a poke around in the ancestral cupboard and have discovered NZ ancestors or close relations who have served in conflicts from the Land Wars to...

You will get no arguments from me bumblefoot. I shot an awful lot of goats when the family was young and we lived in town and it was our staple meat. These days a grazing arangement keeps the freezer...

Greetings bumblefoot and All,
A nice little Vid which has reminded me to plant some fruit trees. While watching it I spotted your birthday hunt video and watched that as well. The second video...

Greetings Again bumblefoot,
Dad planted a hedge of Oldhamii across the back of our section. Oldhamii is a clump type with thick culms. Last time I looked it was still there. The modern cartridges...

Greetings bumblefoot.
Alphonse Karr was one of the bamboos my father planted at Taradale about 60 years ago. A nice bamboo and not too big. The only one that can hack the conditions here is Nigra, a...

Greetings Micky Duck,
Yes I can assure you that they were all goats. In fact as the farmer liked seeing the white goats we regarded them as honarary sheep. Early on I decided that the younger goats...

Yes we did. You can see it in the background. It took longer to break down the meat for freezing than it did to go out and shoot it. We seldom had to walk that far.
GPM.

Greetings All,
I was runnaging through my old photo's over the last few days and found the following.
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This was taken in the late 1980's probably by my daugher. At the time I used to shoot a...

Thank you for your wisdom Coote,
I had never considered that the colour of the pegs could also be a factor. As you say this adds a new rabbit hole (avenue of research) to consider.
Many thanks...

Greetings bumblefoot, Coote and all,
I noted with interest the colour of the pegs used to secure the shrouds on the respective carcases and would like to pick your brains on the matter. I have...