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hmm seafood ? oysters FTW :P:rant::):(

oh yeh it's sooooooooooo good! It's like, lobster and bugs and oysters and fish and calamari and prawns and fresh fruit and a little hot plate with sizzling beef. Soooooooo worth the money! It's our fave meal from anywhere!

Oh well next time i guess

We will do another one for when you are here. I am planning my 'Christmas BBQ' already, You totally have to come to that!!!

oh yeh it's sooooooooooo good! It's like, lobster and bugs and oysters and fish and calamari and prawns and fresh fruit and a little hot plate with sizzling beef. Soooooooo worth the money! It's our fave meal from anywhere!

We will do another one for when you are here. I am planning my 'Christmas BBQ' already, You totally have to come to that!!!

Cant see why not....When you having that?

I don't know yet... I guess I should plan it for soon, eh :) It'll just be a bunch of people with drinks and food and music. We used to do BBQ's all the time, but then we started going to Sydney heaps, and didn't have time to organise anything. I wanna start doing them again :(

How interesting... what a mystery indeed!!!

Thanks for everything shane! Hey, did you get your plate yesterday? Was it the right fit?

Baaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahaha it's easy to put body parts in oil, isn't it :P

yes, what a mystery...i also forgot to put fuel in it, i had to put home when i took it for a lil test :)

no problemo, thanks for lending me the car :wave:

yes certainly is, i had to wash my hair like 6 times!!! :rant:

and yes picked the plate up, but no it was out (my fault which i knew) so have made changes and sent it off to get another sample cut.

Good work! :woot: So my suspicion about the rope was right! How much was in there?

Decks!

Drive to our house, leave the car there, come to the city with us on the train, stay at our house in one of our 5 spare beds, drive home in the morining! I am pretty sure Dave is doing that plan too

there was only like 5cm of it, but i cant see how that coulda made the noise, caus nothing 'moves' around there *shrugs*

TAKING DAY OFF TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*picks up phone, yes id like to speak to barry please* :(

picked the plate up, but it was out (my fault which i knew) so measured it up & have made changes and sent it off to get another sample cut

so, since it only took them a few hrs yesterday

u should get it back today then since it only takes a few hrs?

so, since it only took them a few hrs yesterday

u should get it back today then since it only takes a few hrs?

highly unlikely lol..nah it only takes a few hrs to cut it, but it takes longer to set the machine up & depends what job theyre curently cutting, he said ring back this arvo to get an idea when tis gonna be ready. they are aware of my time constraints and are doing everything they can to help :)

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