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at the north shore men's shed

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Geoff (right) is giving Constantin some help with building a 3D printer at the North Shore Men's Shed...see more pix at www.shedyarns.blogspot.co.nz

whangarei mens shed

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Last week I spent the day with the boys at the Whangarei Community Mens Shed. They have just bought the old railway goods station for one dollar from the local council, & are in the process of moving their equipment over from their old shared premises at the steam engine heritage centre. The station has been derelict for 15 years and has been knocked around by kids with nothing better to do. The shed members have some serious working bees ahead of them, & I will go up whenever I can to give a hand - so stay tuned for progress reports.... The chairman is Mike Mansell: mikeandrosie@clear.net.nz

roadkill recipie

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On my way up to Waipu last week I spotted a dead male pheasant at the side of the road. I stopped and went back to check him out - altho he was stiff, he had not been dead long, as he smelled fresh. The body was intact, tho his neck was broken. In the kitchen I gutted the bird, removed the tail feathers to give away, then poured boiling water over the bird as I plucked it - this way the feathers come out easily. My experience with pheasant is that the flesh can be a bit tough, so I mashed up 6 kiwi fruit & squeezed the juice out of a large grapefruit to make a marinade. I filled the body cavity with the mixture, placed the bird into a plastic bag & poured the rest of the mix in on top. This I placed in the refridgerator & left for four days. To roast the bird I placed it into a baking dish with some oil (still filled with fruit), covered the dish, & cooked it slowly for 80 minutes at 160-170 F. The juices and the rest of the marinade made a delicious gravy. The mea

guantanamo dreaming

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prism - we have an eye on you

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So now the word is spreading that the US government using code-name PRISM has been accessing all online content with the complicity of google, apple, facebook, etc etc....... and my truther contacts are shocked/outraged & blowing hard about it.....however this should come as no surprise, and I predict that there will be even more sensational revelations to come...... I have said for a long time that the internet is not a www (World Wide Web) as much as an sss (Secret Surveillance System) - and in fact the US government itself has made the fact clear for even longer..see the illustrations below......not so much the "eye of the tiger" but the "eye of big brother".....  Above - a prism Below -  the triangle/prism on the  reverse of an American dollar bill has told us the same thing for a very long time...the triangle at the top of the pyramid on the reverse side of the US dollar bill is a prism, and inside that prism is an eye - simple isn't it?

$200 of free groceries

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Last night was busy down at the skip - I hauled home some $200 worth of groceries, and had to make two trips....most of the packets were before their "buy by" date, and one of the 4 trays of eggs had been dumped because ONE egg was broken! I noticed that someone has taken up after-dark occupation in one of the paper cages nearby - under the eaves and so out of the winter rain...he was munching on a bagel from the skip as I went past....hopefully he  will not draw the attention of the supermarket jocks & lead to them putting a lock on the skip....

a full freegan meal

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Here's last night's find while out dumpsterdiving & trash trawling. A rounded meal, as my friend Laurie says: "Gotcha protein, gotcha carbs, gotcha greens" - & a piece of fruit for desert!