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My wife is a cider nut (prefers dry styles). She'll drink genuine magners, won't touch their BUL stuff though.

I love my Note 3. Huge screen, battery lasts all day with heavy use, plus a stylus for when my fat fingers can't hit the right spot.

Yeap. I'm part of the Orange crowd now..... Although I haven't brewed ay home in ages, partly because my HLT is at work being used as a caustic soda boiler and partly because I am able to take home beer from work. Bribie, Old Bar hey? might have to stop by next time I go see the parents up...

Lucky bugger, I have to take my own kegs in........On the upside, they are 19L...

I haven't been on here in a while.....Has this place died right off or something? was there something I missed

I haven't been on here in a while.....Has this place died right off or something? was there something I missed

Congrata Steve. Hope you're fit and strong.....If not, you will be soon.

Bribie, you'll never work in a casino :p

3 months into healing my arm and I'm impressed thus far.... Pic 1 Pic2 Pic 3

Saved the school groundskeeper life yesterday (he had a cardiac arrest, I was second on scene and did CPR till the ambos showed), the P+C left a case of beer on my back porch as a thankyou, and it's Heineken.......

Really depends on how it goes healing wise, my current expectation is at least another 2-3 weeks of the vinegar/clingwrap..........In a few more days I'll be adding in scrubbing with a rough loofa in the shower to help clear out all the gunk that accrues in the lines. Then once the skin heals...

Just gave it the first vinegar bath.........Sat there going "ehhh, this ain't too bad, why didn't I do this last time". Then I heard the sizzle under the paper towel and the burn kicked in....Glad I had a beer in my left hand to help with that one.

Salt and Vaseline is often used, depends on the style of scarring you want. That technique leads to keloid scarring, which is often raised and pigmented, which is good, but also uneven, which in a complex piece like my arm can ruin the entire design. Rubbing in the peroxide is truly a horrid...

More along the lines of Followed by soaking in OR OR Throw in a daily wrapping in cling wrap and I'm on my way.

That it is, second one now (photos of the first piece are somewhere in this thread)....... What you can't see in these photos are the matching tat on my left arm.