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[JeffH]

Our tanks have been well up for a long time. Have had reasonably regular good falls.
Bad to have to buy water in and, if your area is like ours, the quality of water delivered can be rather poor.

[duggee27]

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Woohoo page 200 !!! Of off  blog stuff

[robbiegal]

my daughter gets anaphylaxis from paper wasp stings and has to have adrenaline and get chucked into the back of an ambulance when she gets stung
each time she was simply near their nest  

we have a few around so I need to get the flick guy around before she comes to visit

we have been spraying them in the evening but they just seem to build another nest near by so I think we have to pull out the big guns

yes, I see the good wasps eating caterpillars but we definitely have a lot of those UFO ones dotted all around the house this year

[autocoupler]

That must be a bit of a nightmare for you and the rest of the family RG. I knew a bloke who had the same reaction to bee stings.

[robbiegal]

yeah
it is a nightmare
when she was repping she carried two eppipens as they reckoned one would keep her going for 20 minutes so 2 might keep her going long enough for air-ambulance rescue if out on the highway

fingers crossed, as we haven't had to test the hypothesis

[trout]

yeah
it is a nightmare
when she was repping she carried two eppipens as they reckoned one would keep her going for 20 minutes so 2 might keep her going long enough for air-ambulance rescue if out on the highway

fingers crossed, as we haven't had to test the hypothesis

From what I have been told those eppipens have saved a lot of lives.
I have never had to administer one but at least I now know how to do this due to the training I received when I did my St Johns First aid course :good:

[robbiegal]

Yes they do save lives :heart:

[ausjack]

Here ya go GS, my little mate is back and I think it has a baby yay so hope fully it comes back, it mainly seems to come around when it cools off but they're here all the time. I feed them scarab beetles and worms and hope to get some more pic's later

[trout]

My Brother in law has been feeding a Mob of butcher birds and magpies for years now.
He has an old chopping block set up outside and buys packs of meat off cuts for them.
As soon as the birds hear him chopping up the meat there are a crowd of birds and their offspring assembled for a feed.
He has even put shade over the watering bowls for them so they can get a drink of cool water in summer.
I will have to get a couple of snaps of them and post the images up here.

[ausjack]

Cool :good: I have tried them on mince and they won't have a bar of it and there's heaps of scarabs and worms, fussy bastards :laugh2:

[trout]

I finally got the fridge in the caravan working on gas at long last.:yahoo:
I have absolutely NO idea how I got it to work but I fiddled with every gas connection and the AC/Gas switch and now it lights up.

This is a big win as it was quite a drain on my battery packs when I used the inverter when on AC and the genset not running.
These type of fridges work far better on Gas than AC anyway and now I won't have to stuff around changing power supply to it when I haven't got the genset running.
Most of the time on the last couple of trips I only needed to run the genset because of the fridge, as the solar panels and power packs we have provide  more than  enough power to run the 2 Waco/Primus fridges and all the lighting we use including the microwave.

[ausjack]

Just don't go blowin ya self up cobba :blink:

[robbiegal]

I finally got the fridge in the caravan working on gas at long last.:yahoo:
I have absolutely NO idea how I got it to work but I fiddled with every gas connection and the AC/Gas switch and now it lights up.

This is a big win as it was quite a drain on my battery packs when I used the inverter when on AC and the genset not running.
These type of fridges work far better on Gas than AC anyway and now I won't have to stuff around changing power supply to it when I haven't got the genset running.
Most of the time on the last couple of trips I only needed to run the genset because of the fridge, as the solar panels and power packs we have provide  more than  enough power to run the 2 Waco/Primus fridges and all the lighting we use including the microwave.

do be careful
I had a gas leak in the caravan that I lived in - didn't notice as I was inside and had just got up from a sleep-in after being woken a friend outside who wanted to visit, - anyways  he literally flung himself across at me as I was about to light up a ciggie at the table - because as he came through the annex he smelt the gas

thought he was being a bit friendly in the instant of the moment mind you!!

some friends are worth keeping!!

[trout]

I bought one of them car awnings and we tried it out on a overnight fishing trip on Thursday .
Easy to set up and does the job :good:

[JeffH]

Looks good as long as the weather is clement. Is there enough room in the Rangie if you do need to sleep in there? Or, is an overnight fishing trip actually fishing all night?