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  1. A man goes to buy a Christmas tree.

     

    The salesman said, "Will you put it up yourself?"

     

    The man replied, "No, I'll put it up  in the loungeroom."

     

    --   Billy Brownless.

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  2. I've been called Howe, Hugh, Hoff, and I've worked with a chap who spelt his name the same way and called himself Hoff. We pronounce it Huff, as in rough, tough, enough?

     

    Dad's first name was Ivan. His joke on himself was, "When his father first saw him, he said I've enough", and it stuck. He was an only son, had a sister.

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  3. Not everyone is a handyman. I can't drive a nail in straight. But I don't do woodwork projects either. I rarely go into the workshop, unless they want a photo of something. My specialties are photography and computing. Finding stuff forpeople on the internet. And of course, funnies and funny pictures. Some guys are happy to just sit and chat, particularly widowers. Some live on their own and have few other contacts.

     

    There are qualified men there as volunteers, retired carpenters, tradies, mechanics, etc. Others who just enjoy being on the tools. Some have their own projects, and enjoy having access to tools they couldn't afford to have at home, or live in retirement estates where they wouldn't be permitted to use the noisier tools.  

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  4. We have had younger guys as members of the shed. But funding does have a lot to do with it. We used to be funded under NDIS, but when that was changed to pay the person, not the provider, this made things more difficult. Now our funding comes through My Aged Care, where you can only register once you are 65. Without funding, we couldn't operate. Also, our hours are during school time, 10 till 3. During school holidays, like now, the shed is closed.

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