Easy. The two of us could lift and carry the heavy Huon Pine top and place it down on the table on the deck and the King Billy Pine base was extremely light so one person could lift and carry it.
It now has pride of place in the lounge room at our current residence where it sits directly on the tiled floor.
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Bespoke renovation, ecologically inspired, environmentally friendly and low carbon due to the inspired recycling.
Stump of a 25 year old slash pine (aka big weed), 4 years after it had it’s crowning glory permanently removed.
I’m waiting on an updated quote from the builder to finish off the renovations on the other 600 similar sized stumps. So far it’s been cheaper than a tracked stump grinder.
What do I really miss. Not the 1400 pine trees we used to have.
An interesting article regarding the soft drink industry in Australia.
When I was younger, there were 4 factories in Cairns and another one in nearby Gordonvale.
The main player was Hanush’s who have a wide range of delicious drinks until Coca Cola bought them out, got rid of the Hanush range, built a new factory, and then shut it down with drinks then supplied by their Townsville factory,
The other 3 Cairns businesses, who all had a relationship to each other, slowly disappeared along with the Gordonvale business.
That’s progress for you.
A background article on the industry from the 1960’s and beyond! That’s going further back in time not forward?
https://www.surplusvalue.org.au/McQueen/p_war_aus/Eco/pwar_aus_ec_softdrinks.htm
All I can add is that in the mid 60’s a cold bottle of Coke cost 6 pence or 5 cents after 14th Feb of that year. A small packet of hot chips from the local F&C was also 5c, although I seem to remember one that had a smaller packet for 3d or 2.5 cents in the new money. A hot meat pie, corner store pie warmer in all flavours, there was only one, would leave change from 20 cents. Milk was still in one pint (560ml approx) glass bottles 1/-6d or there abouts (15c give or take faded memory). The quart bottle was yet to be invented and the milk was pasteurised only. No skim or homogenised. You left the empties and some change in a can under the front stairs at night. Fresh milk replaced them in the wee small hours.
There was a refundable deposit on the recyclable bottle your coke came on.
So way back a bottle of soft drink cold and eco friendly was so much cheaper than a 500ml milk carton today, a hot meat pie, or a loaf of bread.
With some big Shopping centre food outlets charging up to $8.00 for a large take away cold coke. Should we all ask how a commodity that is mostly water, a few good spoonfuls of sugar and dash of flavour has gone from costing less than half that per litre of plain milk to many times more? I’m comparing the price of over the shop counter cold coke to home delivered milk if we’ve forgotten that point.
Taste the profits, they are yummier than the marketing, and worth much more than the benefits of actual consumption. 
“POST WAR AUSTRALIA - POP GOES THE BOTTLER!”?
More like Mom & Pop goes down the gurgler.
At least one independent Qld soft drink company is still going strong.
http://www.noosabeverages.com.au/wimmers-soft-drinks
And for persons with good taste, their Double Sarsaparilla is the best.
There is a few, Bundaberg drinks is one. Tru Blu Beverages is another…and there are another dozen or so scattered around the state.
For a touch of nostalgia rewatch ‘The Coca Cola Kid’… (Note the trailer is posted by umbrella entertainment that sells DVDs.)
Replace it with an iPhone SE v2 perhaps? I like the slightly larger screen.
I like any iPhone that will fit comfortably in a buttoned up shirt pocket.
The day they fail that test I’ll need to go elsewhere. Bigger is not always better. It’s how you use your mobile device that counts.
When I am at our local shopping centres, I see numerous, mainly younge,r women with their large screen mobiles tucked in the back pockets of their shorts, pants or jeans.
Not where I’d admit to looking. The wise one knows!
Yes it’s surprising what the youngest of our generation will do. I’d forget and sit on mine, assuming I’d not lost it in moving about. One of our grown young men chooses to never use a pocket. The phone and wallet are placed on the table, bar or anywhere nearby when stationary. The one failing of a low risk upbringing in regional Australia perhaps?
I have both the SE1 and the SE2. I prefer the size of the 1, but I needed an updated phone (got the 7 inbetween) for my freestyle libre sensors, for diabetes BGL measuring. The SE1 could not run the software, which was a real PITA.
Didn’t have them in 2018 
I’ll vouch for that. Our dining table is the same one that my great-grandmother “ate her wedding breakfast off” according to my late mother. It was used by my grandmother and then by my sister’s family with four kids and two dogs, so it’s an understatement to say it was a little worn when we took possession of it.
It has only sentimental value, not antique value, which is just as well, as yesterday I reinforced the wobbly legs with metal strapping and 64 wood screws. 
Hopefully, it will last a few more generations.
All the politicians speak ‘polly waffle’!
I really miss being able to buy the products I want, especially after visiting numerous stores such as yesterday when I went to 2 x Coles, Woollies, Supa IGA, Kmart and The Reject Shop in a vain attempt to buy a pack of flat bamboo skewers for cooking lamb and veggie kebabs last night.
Both Coles stores only had very short '“cocktail” skewers, and the others only had the very thin round skewers which are useless when cooking kebabs with small tomatoes and other items which refuse to turn over when the kebabs are turned over on the BBQ, followed by the cocktail tomatoes and other items starting to fall off the skewers.
The label on the last pack of the flat skewers that we previously bought is “K & C Bamboo Finger Food Picks” from Korbond which lists them as available from IGA stores. Not yesterday.
I see Bunnings have them listed on their website so I will go there today hoping that there are some in stock.
Extremely annoying.
There are twin prong metal skewers that are reusable that deal with this problem. Another solution is to pack the food fairly tightly so it sticks together and then turn the column of food (not the skewer) with your tongs.
Well. Well. Well. What a difference time makes as when I looked at the Coles “sneak peak” catalogue starting tomorrow, I saw this.
A search of the Coles website for “Inghams” showed this.
Whether Coles have found out the hard way that some consumers such as us are not going to be dictated to as to where we can buy our preferred products, or whether Coles have ridden rough shod over Inghams, we will not buy Inghams from Coles again unless the product we want is on special below Woolies and our local Supa IGA prices.
