From wells.carolyn at gmail.com  Mon Dec  7 09:49:00 2009
From: wells.carolyn at gmail.com (Carolyn Wells)
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 09:49:00 +1100
Subject: [tttplus] Opportunities at the Tilba Growers Market
Message-ID: <e0ee79ae0912061449p6afb5a74kae476e00bd2a1062@mail.gmail.com>

Dear TTT+ members

The Tilba Growers Market is going strong - see the item on p23 of the
current (2 Dec) Narooma News.

TTT+ has one or more tables at the market every week. Any member can bring
along things to sell, so long as they "make it, bake it, sew it or grow it"
locally. You will have to pay a contribution towards the table cost, but
your insurance cost is covered by the TTT+ membership of SCPA. (SCPA
membership and documents must be displayed on the table - we now have 2
sets).

The pre-Christams and School Holiday period is great for sales. Saturday 12
December will be the first anniversary celebration at the market, and
Saturday 19 December is the Christmas Market. Both will be held in the
garden behind the Drom Hotel.

The TTT+ table is useful for those who don't need a table of their own, but
you can also arrange a table of your own through Mardy Aye (0408 909 593)

If you wish to join the TTT+ table, please phone Ros Wood 4473 7434 or Jo
Lewis on 4473 7927.
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From geoffrey at austcom.org.au  Fri Dec 11 07:09:52 2009
From: geoffrey at austcom.org.au (Geoffrey Grigg)
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:09:52 +1100
Subject: [tttplus] Bega Eco-Neigbourhood - Good Stuff Supporters - Call for
	Asisstance
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From geoffrey at austcom.org.au  Fri Dec 11 16:20:06 2009
From: geoffrey at austcom.org.au (Geoffrey Grigg)
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:20:06 +1100
Subject: [tttplus] BEND Land For Sale - 1 Block only
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From carol.don at gmail.com  Sun Dec 20 21:50:10 2009
From: carol.don at gmail.com (Don Dornan & Carol Cockburn)
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:50:10 +1100
Subject: [tttplus] Bamboo
Message-ID: <712a54f70912200250r53f164f5w752e6bc86b8dfcf7@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all

Four winds is in need of some bamboo and I thought you may be a ble to help
re. supply or suggestions where it may be acquired.

The bamboo is to be used for making of props for the community concert on
the oval at Bermagui on Good Friday afternoon.

The bamboo needed has to be about 4 cm diameter (approx) at the base and at
least 3 meters long.

It you could help it would be much appreciated.  Leads received so far
include the nursery near Moruya and Surajo Frith and Sanjeet from Bermie.

Regards

Don

-- 
Carol Cockburn & Don Dornan
PO Box 558 (105 Lilyvale Place)
Narooma NSW 2546

Ph/Fax +61 2 4476 2005
(m) 0403 229 882
carol.don at gmail.com
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From rainbird at skymesh.com.au  Tue Dec 22 12:49:57 2009
From: rainbird at skymesh.com.au (Jo Lewis)
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:49:57 +1100
Subject: [tttplus] Fwd: [NSF] NYT: "Help Wanted: Boatbuilder"
References: <423984B6-4169-4990-84E0-BC7E5D198452@natsoc.org.au>
Message-ID: <6ADD3CE7-CF5D-4EA4-91AF-F0C35FDF74AC@skymesh.com.au>


Jo Lewis
rainbird at skymesh.com.au

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Nature and Society Forum <office at natsoc.org.au>
> Date: 21 December 2009 1:49:34 PM
> To: "Economics, society, culture, politics interest group - NSF"  
> <keith at evfit.com>, "Children, ageing, families interest group -  
> NSF" <subs at sustainability.org.au>, Community building & SEE-Change  
> interest group - NSF <anb at natsoc.org.au>
> Cc: Friends of - NSF <office at natsoc.org.au>
> Subject: [NSF] NYT: "Help Wanted: Boatbuilder"
>
> This piece, from Sunday's New York Times, is an allegory for the  
> loss of skills our civilization had painstakingly accumulated over  
> many generations from the long age that was pre-plastics, pre- 
> electricity, pre-globalization, pre-Bunnings - an age when people,  
> even 10 year old boys, knew so much that instructions to build a  
> model boat could confidently omit what are today essential  
> instructions. We think we are smart because we can buy a toy boat,  
> made in China, from Big W; but a 44-year old man is less competent  
> to build one than a ten year old boy would have been 3 generations  
> ago.
>
> All you 84 year olds out there, find someone to whom you can pass  
> on the practical skills you had in the 1930s depression. And all  
> you 44 year olds: Ask!
>
> Butter-making? Bread baking? Splitting firewood? Tying knots?  
> Making glue? Darning socks? Sharpening scissors? book binding?  
> Using a Coolgardie safe? Running the kitchen without electricity?  
> Learning and reciting poems? Playing a (non-electric) musical  
> instrument? Using hand tools? Nursing an elderly person?
>
> Transition Towns needs you - both of you!
> --------------------------------------------------
> Keith Thomas
> Office Manager
> Nature and Society Forum
> www.natsoc.org.au --- www.biosensitivefutures.org
> 02-6125 2526 (Mon & Wed mornings) Mobile: 0412 487 625
> --------------------------------------------------
>
>
> December 20, 2009
> Editorial Notebook
> Help Wanted: Boatbuilder
> By LAWRENCE DOWNES
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/opinion/20sun4.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
>
> Somewhere out there is a man who can help me build a model boat for  
> my little nephew. This man is between 82 and 84 years old, which  
> means he was a 10-, 11- or 12-year-old boy in 1937, when the book I  
> took the plans from was published.
>
> I have reason to believe he knows things I don?t.
>
> I am not a model builder. But for years I have enjoyed flipping  
> through my battered copy of the ?Amateur Craftsman?s Cyclopedia of  
> Things to Make,? a 342-page collection of model plans and workshop  
> projects from Popular Science magazine.
>
> I love this window on a lost world of shop-class artisans. Not that  
> I?ve made anything in it ? not the Gettysburg cannon, the bookcase  
> aquarium, the fishing waders, the sextant, the ?Small Portable Arc  
> Furnace Easily Built of Clay and Bricks.? The plans are daunting.  
> One of them ? ?How to Cut a New Entrance in Any Frame House? ?  
> frightens me.
>
> But the boat! ?A Speedy Racing Schooner,? it says. ?SIMPLIFIED FOR  
> BOYS TO BUILD.?
>
> With Christmas only months away, did I dare? ?The construction has  
> been so simplified that 10- or 12-year-old boys can undertake the  
> model. Very few tools are required.?
>
> I was a 10-year-old boy once. My big project then, an oceangoing  
> raft made from a screen door and Clorox bottles, failed. I could  
> find only three bottles, and I knew my parents would not have  
> allowed it near the beach.
>
> This year I decided to make my nephew Christopher the beneficiary  
> of my adult competence. I got the parts: plywood, dowels, screw  
> eyes, copper wire, #20 brass escutcheon pins, tiny enough for the  
> hinges on Barbie?s coffin.
>
> The book said to make my own glue by melting celluloid toothbrush  
> handles in acetone. I bought glue instead. I cut sides. I sawed  
> ribs. I followed simple instructions:
>
> ?Spring the sides apart and slip the lower ribs into place at their  
> proper stations. Set the ribs in so that the bevel begins at the  
> edge of the side. Drive an escutcheon pin into each rib from each  
> side. Make the inside keel from 1/4-in. square wood. Fit it inside  
> the inside stem in the notches of the lower ribs, and spring it  
> over to, and inside of, the stern, as shown.?
>
> My boat is getting there. The sides and bottom planks are fitted to  
> stem, ribs and deck beams. I planed the mainmast while watching a  
> Dolphins game, shavings piling at my feet.
>
> The wood part of the keel is cut but not planed. I have not yet  
> sewn the foresail. I still need to Google the words luff, leech,  
> bobstay, gaff, jib stay and peak halyard. I suppose I?ll be able to  
> do the rigging. But I am nearing the limits of my ability.
>
> Mr. Elderly Man, could you call or e-mail? At 44, I?m almost as  
> crafty as you were at 10: I can sharpen a plane blade and use a  
> sewing machine. I can transfer station lines to wood and calculate  
> a stem angle. I can sand, saw and varnish.
>
> But I have never cast a keel in molten lead.
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