Ex-Hasbeen 7,453 Report post Posted October 23 2 minutes ago, A2K said: At my work the closest I come to a crocodile is on free dress Friday when I wear my Polo. Yeah, and we don't even have alligator clips any more now that we've gone paperless. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
oldschool69#2 370 Report post Posted October 24 Morning mist over the lake we will be here for a while . 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
roxii 6,470 Report post Posted October 24 23 hours ago, Paul Every said: At our work, we just share the same couple of crocodiles. It's not like we each have our own crocodile. I don't mind it either. What about if you work from home? Do you need to have your own croc at home? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mike Del 226 Report post Posted October 24 At least I have a view..... sort of 7A223016-E853-4C5B-B9E7-95F5738A6065.MOV Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Paul Every 1,126 Report post Posted October 25 (edited) 17 hours ago, roxii said: What about if you work from home? Do you need to have your own croc at home? Sometimes it's exhausting if you have to take your work home with you. (NB. Photo not from current employment.) Edited October 25 by Paul Every 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Katz 1,421 Report post Posted October 25 9 minutes ago, Paul Every said: Sometimes it's exhausting if you have to take your work with you. (NB. Photo not from current employment.) What kind of little person you got in there Paul? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ex-Hasbeen 7,453 Report post Posted October 25 55 minutes ago, Prince said: I used to sit behind that window you can see across the road Prince. I'm upstairs now & on the other side of the building. It was certainly an interesting couple of years when they knocked down the old law courts and dug that bloody big hole, then started building up from the bottom. My view now includes the old SGIO building, so I'm looking forward to eventually watching them bring that one down. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Paul Every 1,126 Report post Posted October 25 1 hour ago, Katz said: What kind of little person you got in there Paul? Swamp wallaby joey. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Prince 531 Report post Posted October 25 4 hours ago, Ex-Hasbeen said: I used to sit behind that window you can see across the road Prince. I'm upstairs now & on the other side of the building. It was certainly an interesting couple of years when they knocked down the old law courts and dug that bloody big hole, then started building up from the bottom. My view now includes the old SGIO building, so I'm looking forward to eventually watching them bring that one down. hey cool, yes, the company i work for owns the 300 george st block. We have just finished the commercial building and expect the resi apartments to be finished 2021. i am in there today doing some interviews without much success. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
goughy 3,627 Report post Posted November 5 Today it's looking like this 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Katz 1,421 Report post Posted November 5 That's lovely Goughy. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
goughy 3,627 Report post Posted November 5 Um, I haven't started it yet 😮 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Katz 1,421 Report post Posted November 5 3 minutes ago, goughy said: Um, I haven't started it yet 😮 LOL! Well, I still think it looks lovely. What is the plan for it? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
goughy 3,627 Report post Posted November 5 Full lounge suite of it, strip it back to the bones and start fresh. Will be like a new suite when finished, only better. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
goughy 3,627 Report post Posted November 5 This is what you find in grandma's old chairs! This part of the stuffing under the sides of the seat section is made up of scraps they would have swept up of the floor, then packed into the sides of the seat. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Surfer 439 Report post Posted November 5 Goughy - seen any of the traditional horse hair stuffing? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ex-Hasbeen 7,453 Report post Posted November 5 With the wind we have here, I've got a scared Golden Retriever under my desk hiding from the noise. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
goughy 3,627 Report post Posted November 5 1 hour ago, Surfer said: Goughy - seen any of the traditional horse hair stuffing? Used to keep it when I found it in a chair, but don't bother anymore. Don't come across it much these days. Mostly coconut fibre, which I still use. In traditional old chairs, I find a mix of the old and the new gives you the best high quality chair. I've done a few full coconut fibre seat pads with hand stitched edge rolls, and still hand stitch the edge rolls on chairs with sprung edges. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
goughy 3,627 Report post Posted November 5 These are a couple I finished recently. The floral one is a chair from Fantastic Furniture! The fabric they've put on it would cost about 3 times what the chair did new. Rebuilt the seat framework, tidied and braced it all up, added piping trims. The other suite is a 100+ year old club suite with sprung arms. A customer of mine who was going to get it upholstered anyway (I'd already priced it) when they had a water leak at their house and I've of the arm chairs ended up with a tiny bit of mould on the dust cover underneath it. The insurance company insisted that the entire thing needed to be redone! They were kinda happy about that! 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KieranR 1,747 Report post Posted November 5 Waiting for a train, so sussing some easy to get to dive spots from the little boat! Looks like a very blue bone ish area. Hopefully work don’t have (or don’t enforce) an exclusion zone from the water. I’ll find out on Friday if a boat comes over and asks me to leave 😂 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Paul Every 1,126 Report post Posted November 7 We had a training course for the last two days at work. Two days of fondling venomous snakes! OK, there was more to it than that. Theory covering venom toxicology, bite first aid, species behaviour, handling and restraint techniques, equipment, etc. Excellent presenter with a load of interesting critters.....eastern browns, gwardars, tiger snakes, death adder, red-bellies, pale-headed, mulga snake, curl snake..... I love my job. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ex-Hasbeen 7,453 Report post Posted November 7 On 17/10/2019 at 9:30 AM, Ex-Hasbeen said: My desk is a bit messy, but this is the view when I turn around. I just noticed this right outside as well. The photo isn't great, as it's just an old phone, though a flyscreen, and the glare is bad, but that nest wasn't there yesterday. I wondered why they were noisier than normal today. We've got babies. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mr Tinman 233 Report post Posted November 7 Final buff on a couple of townhouses Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
goughy 3,627 Report post Posted November 8 That polished concrete? My wife wishes we had that instead of tiles. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Surfer 439 Report post Posted November 8 Serious question- is there a benefit of one over the other or does it come down to personal choice? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mr Tinman 233 Report post Posted November 8 (edited) Yep polished concrete its how I earn a crust these days once you’ve got it, you will never go back to another floor again easiest floor to keep clean and the hardest wearing will last as long as the house and needs very little maintenance much harder than tiles so you can’t chip it and there is no grout lines to get dirty works out cheaper too Edited November 8 by Mr Tinman 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Surfer 439 Report post Posted November 8 15 hours ago, Paul Every said: We had a training course for the last two days at work. Two days of fondling venomous snakes! OK, there was more to it than that. Theory covering venom toxicology, bite first aid, species behaviour, handling and restraint techniques, equipment, etc. Excellent presenter with a load of interesting critters.....eastern browns, gwardars, tiger snakes, death adder, red-bellies, pale-headed, mulga snake, curl snake..... I love my job. Im more than a teeny weeny bit jealous of you doing that training course! Snakes fascinate me whereas spiders scare me me whitless! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ex-Hasbeen 7,453 Report post Posted November 8 Not these days, but this is what my workplace used to look like. Sometimes I miss it, but then I think about how my legs used to ache after a long ride, then a day up the tower. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Katz 1,421 Report post Posted November 8 18 minutes ago, Ex-Hasbeen said: Not these days, but this is what my workplace used to look like. Sometimes I miss it, but then I think about how my legs used to ache after a long ride, then a day up the tower. Just no. No. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ex-Hasbeen 7,453 Report post Posted November 8 28 minutes ago, Katz said: Just no. No. But it was fun. These days there is so much safety gear you can't get your job done. In my early days before I started working on the towers I used to climb them for exercise in my lunch break. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Katz 1,421 Report post Posted November 8 Still no. I struggle riding my bike over a freeway overpass on a windy day for fear of falling off. Climbing that thing, safety gear or not, would not understand any circumstances be what I would consider 'fun'. You people who aren't terrified of heights are a mystery to me. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bored@work 3,671 Report post Posted November 8 Got out the office this week Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ex-Hasbeen 7,453 Report post Posted November 8 34 minutes ago, Katz said: Still no. I struggle riding my bike over a freeway overpass on a windy day for fear of falling off. Climbing that thing, safety gear or not, would not understand any circumstances be what I would consider 'fun'. You people who aren't terrified of heights are a mystery to me. This one's for you Katz. A bigger bunch of rogues & misfits you'll never meet, but they were all great guys. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Katz 1,421 Report post Posted November 8 10 minutes ago, Ex-Hasbeen said: This one's for you Katz. A bigger bunch of rogues & misfits you'll never meet, but they were all great guys. Oh fark that. LOL That is making me feel nauseous just looking at it.🤢 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
goughy 3,627 Report post Posted November 8 You're not alone Katz 🤢 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
-- AJ -- 84 Report post Posted November 8 Considering that I resigned 3 weeks ago and I've had 0 work related emails into my inbox since Wednesday lunchtime, my biggest issue at the moment is "Where are my sunnies?😎" 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KieranR 1,747 Report post Posted November 8 Days off 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
trilobite 245 Report post Posted November 18 On 18/10/2019 at 8:22 PM, Fitness Buddy said: This is my workplaces. 2 gyms 1 spending time watching clients playing tennis 20191014_204309.mp4 InstaSaveUnavailable InstaSaveUnavailable Your tennis playing client could benefit from working with a coach on some stroke correction... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
-- AJ -- 84 Report post Posted November 18 On 08/11/2019 at 3:37 PM, -- AJ -- said: Considering that I resigned 3 weeks ago and I've had 0 work related emails into my inbox since Wednesday lunchtime, my biggest issue at the moment is "Where are my sunnies?😎" Gotta say that I could get used to being unemployed. AJ (10 years to retirement...and counting) 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
goughy 3,627 Report post Posted November 25 On 05/11/2019 at 10:23 AM, goughy said: Today it's looking like this On 05/11/2019 at 10:32 AM, Katz said: That's lovely Goughy. Looks a little different now @Katz The pattern matching nearly sent me insane. Another single and a 3 seater with it. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Katz 1,421 Report post Posted November 25 3 minutes ago, goughy said: Looks a little different now @Katz The pattern matching nearly sent me insane. Another single and a 3 seater with it. You do impressive work Goughy. That's gorgeous. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tyno 2,237 Report post Posted November 25 1 hour ago, Katz said: You do impressive work Goughy. You said that about the one he hadn’t started! 🤣 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Katz 1,421 Report post Posted November 25 5 minutes ago, Tyno said: You said that about the one he hadn’t started! 🤣 Well yes, that is true because I thought it looked good. But now I've seen his finished work, it's really really good! 1 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
goughy 3,627 Report post Posted Sunday at 12:59 AM On 05/11/2019 at 2:33 PM, Surfer said: Goughy - seen any of the traditional horse hair stuffing? @Surfer; you asked? 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
