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A very welcome guest at Drouin Men’s Shed on
Tuesday 12th June was our local State MP, Gary
Blackwood (pictured right above ). This was his
first visit to our shed and he was clearly impressed
with how far we have come in just under six years
of operation.
Our President, Kevin Roberts (pictured left
above), met Gary on his arrival and conducted him
on a tour of our facilities before they joined the
members for morning tea.
In a brief address to the assembled members,
Gary remarked about the success of the men’s
shed movement in getting men to socialise
regularly with other men and to look after their
mates. He noted that this camaraderie appeared to
be well entrenched at the
Drouin Men’s Shed.
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Issue Vol 5 #5 June 2018
In This Issue:
More on Gary Blackwood Visit P. 2
Important Dates P. 3
Birthdays P. 3
Visit to Holden Museum P. 4
Galloping Gourmet @ Noojee P. 5
Brain Food Puzzles P. 6
Just For A Laugh P. 7
Organ Donation Project P. 8
Puzzle Answers P. 8
Computing Matters P. 9
Health Matters P. 10
More Pictures on P2
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Top: Gary Blackwood addresses members in the
tea room.
Above Left: Gary meets with Ron Walke in the
Train room.
Above Right: Gordon Shaw shows Gary the how
vinyl recordings are transcribed to CDs in the
Audio Laboratory.
Left: Tony Licari with Gary in the Computer
Room.
Articles and photos for future editions should
be passed to Mick Nicholls via email at
For larger items (like numerous photos) ring
Mick on 0408 682 704 to make arrangements
involving USB stick or Cloud transfers.
NB: The deadline for submissions is
6pm on the 9th of each month
Note: The articles and opinions expressed in this
newsletter do not necessarily reflect the opinion of
the Drouin Men’s Shed Management Committee
More Pictures of the Gary Blackwood MP Visit
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Important Dates
Left: Our morning tea sessions at DMS are
very popular, especially when scones with jam
and cream are available. Always willing to
help, Tony Licari (centre) usually volunteers to
be the official taste tester.
Members
1 Jul Terry GLOVER
1 Jul Keith STEVENS
2 Jul Robert STEWART
3 Jul Simon HOOD
6 Jul Arend LIGT
13 Jul Brian TRIPPETT
17 Jul Steven CRONAN
23 Jul Paul TURNER
24 Jul Keith PRITCHARD
25 Jul Ken LOWE
31 Jul Rex BAKER
Honorary Members
4 Jul Charlie HUNTER
If your May birthday isn’t listed here then
please contact Mick Nicholls to have the record
adjusted
Please also note that a number of birthdays
were not on the original list provided to the
editor. Hopefully this is now corrected.
Happy Birthday To .....
Late News Flash:
Our reporter, Jimbo “Scoop” Hunt, has discovered
the middle name of Barnaby Joyce & Vikki
Campion’s son Sebastion. It is Ikea - because one
screw in the wrong place and the whole cabinet
collapses.
Special Presentation
What: A short presentation on the
Organ Donation Register.
[This is a Major DMS Project for 2018]
When: 10 am Tue 19th June
Where: Drouin Men’s Shed Tea Room
(Please arrive early if you want to grab a
cuppa before the presentation starts)
June
19th Special presentation (see panel on the right )
July
7th Aldi Sausage Sizzle
27th Bunnings Sausage Sizzle (Friday)
August
4th Aldi Sausage Sizzle
4th Bunnings Sausage Sizzle (Saturday)
27th Cluster Meeting (Trafalgar)
September
1st Aldi Sausage Sizzle
12th Cluster Meeting (Cowes)
23rd Bunnings Sausage Sizzle (Sunday)
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Odds & Ends
On Thursday 31st May 38 shedders travelled to Trafalgar to visit
the Holden Museum. Apart from the 10 members from DMS, there
were 12 from Upper Beaconsfield Shed, 6 from Berwick
Woodworkers, 6 from Cranbourne-Casey Shed, 2 from Bunnerong
Shed and 2 from Trafalgar Shed.
Organised by Geoff Cole, the shedders met up with their hosts:
Pete, Anne & Mick. Then followed two hours of wandering around
this extraordinary display of Holden vehicles plus many other
makes and models.
Then it was off to lunch at the Criterion Hotel where they were
made very welcome by the hotel management. A bonus was the
10% discount organised by the museum management.
Many thanks to all who attended.
[Geoff Cole]
Trip To The Trafalgar Holden Museum
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Galloping Gourmet at Noojee Hotel
Organised by John Crosby (pictured above with
wife Norma and engrossed in conversation with
Harry Vyverberg), 19 members and wives/partners
from DMS enjoyed yet another in the “Galloping
Gourmet” series of treks to local pubs that serve
great food.
This time the “target” was the Noojee Pub
which lived up to its reputation of serving great
country food. As always on these trips, there was
much conviviality - helped along of course by the
odd glass of beer or wine.
As has been stated before, there’s nothing quite
like a two hour lunch.
Most people are satisfied to wear a single pair of
glasses at any one time. Others use bi-focal or
progressive lenses all the time. But for some
reason Dick Van Leeuwen chose to wear two pairs
of glasses at the same time during a morning
session at the shed.
As kids, we tagged people with glasses as “four
eyes”. Does this imply “six eyes” is now the
appropriate tag for Dick?
Odds & Ends
An Unusual Gravestone
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Crossword Puzzle
All answers are on page 8
Something is very odd in the picture
below. What is it?
Brain Food
Find The 10 Differences
This one is relatively simple. See
if you can do it in your head
without working on paper.
Maths Puzzle
Picture Puzzle
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Brilliant doctor A woman goes to the Doctor, worried about her
husband's temper and threatening manner. The
Doctor asks: "What's the problem?
The woman says: "Doctor, I don't know what
to do. Every time my husband comes home drunk,
he threatens to slap me around."
The Doctor says: "I have a real good cure for
that. When your husband comes home drunk, just
take a glass of water and start swishing it in your
mouth. Just swish and swish but don't swallow it
until he goes to bed and is asleep."
Two weeks later the woman comes back to the
doctor looking fresh and reborn..
The woman says: "Doctor that was a brilliant
idea! Every time my husband came home drunk, I
swished with water. I swished and swished, and he
didn't touch me! How does the water do that?"
The Doctor says: "The water does nothing. it's
keeping your mouth shut that does the trick...."
Tranny Surprise After a long night of making love, the guy notices
a photo of another man on the woman's nightstand
by the bed. He begins to worry.
'Is this your husband?' ... He nervously asks.
'No, silly,' ... She replies, snuggling up to him.
'Your boyfriend, then?' ... He continues.
'No, not at all,' ... She says, nibbling away at
his ear.
'Is it your dad or your brother?' ... He inquires,
hoping to be reassured.
'No, no, no! You are so hot when you're
jealous!' ... She answers.
'Well, who in the hell is he, then?' ... He
demands.
She whispers in his ear ... 'That's me before the
surgery.'
Just For A Laugh
Sex and Good English On his 74th birthday, a man got a gift certificate
from his wife. The certificate paid for a visit to a
medicine man living on a nearby reservation who
was rumoured to have a wonderful cure for erectile
dysfunction.
After being persuaded, he drove to the
reservation, handed his ticket to the medicine man,
and wondered what he was in for.
The old man slowly, methodically produced a
potion, handed it to him, and with a grip on his
shoulder, warned, 'This is a powerful medicine,
and it must be respected. You take only a
teaspoonful, and then say '1-2-3.' When you do
that, you will become more manly than you have
ever been in your life, and you can perform as long
as you want."
The man was encouraged. As he walked away,
he turned and asked, "How do I stop the medicine
from working?"
"Your partner must say '1-2-3-4,'" he
responded, "but when she does, the medicine will
not work again until the next full moon."
He was very eager to see if it worked so he
went home, showered, shaved, took a spoonful of
the medicine, and then invited his wife to join him
in the bedroom. When she came in, he took off his
clothes and said, "1-2-3!"
Immediately, he was the manliest of men. His
wife was excited and began throwing off her
clothes, and then she asked, "What was the 1-2-3
for?"
And that, boys and girls, is why we should
never end our sentences with a preposition,
because we could end up with a dangling
participle.
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Maths Puzzle If 3 kiwi fruit = 9 then each kiwi fruit = 3
Then if 3 + 2 oranges = 5
we get 2 oranges = 5 - 3 = 2 Hence a single orange =1
Then if 1 + 2 broccoli = 15
we get 2 broccoli = 15 - 1 = 14 Hence a single broccoli = 7
Therefore a kiwi fruit + an orange + a broccoli
= 3 + 1 + 7 = 11
Answers to puzzles on page 6
rather tight schedule to do a general
public presentation on an evening in
Organ Donation Week which occurs on the first
week of August. However, many of the
community groups won’t be ready in time, so the
presentation to the general public will now be held
on Wednesday 17th October at 7:30pm in the
Drouin Anglican Church Hall.
Prior to that event, we will also be conducting a
media campaign to raise a greater awareness
within the general public. Any DMS member
willing to help out with the various tasks involved
should contact Mick to advise their availability.
Having organised this campaign for Baw Baw
Shire, we have also contacted other key Men’s
Shed Organisations in other Shires comprising the
West and South Gippsland Men’s Shed Cluster,
inviting them to piggy-back on our project and
replicate the same within their Shire. The hope is
that some or all of them will be able to find the
resources to extend this very worthwhile project
beyond our limited boundaries.
A training session for DMS will be held on
Tuesday 19th June at 10am in the tea room at the
shed.
Shed Project Update
Organ Donation Project The Committee has accepted that
the Organ donation Project will be
a main project for the shed in 2018.
The aim is to increase the number
of residents from the Baw Baw
Shire on the Australian Organ
Donation Register by 20%. For
comparison, the increase in registrations for the
whole of Victoria in 2017 was only 4%.
The problem is that while 81% of the
population believes organ donation is a good thing,
only 33% are actually registered. We need to
engage with the other 48%. We also need to pick
up those who registered via their driver’s licence
some years ago because those state based
registrations no longer exist.
Co-ordinator for the project is Mick Nicholls,
who has already contacted 77 community groups
in Baw Baw Shire to ask them to come on-board
with us. A number have already responded and
asked for a presentation to their particular group.
Others are using the on-line resources of Donate
Life to conduct their own group training.
Initially, once most of the community groups
had received their training, we were planning on a
Picture Puzzle The girl has five fingers (plus a thumb)
Find The Mistake There is nothing wrong
with the numbers. The
mistake is that the word
“the” is repeated in the
question.
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Tablet Trials
Do you wonder what
tablets are all about?
Do you yearn for one?
NO! Not the Diazepam
or Valium kind! The
electronic ones.
Well, help is at hand. The Shed has two tablets
that are available for members to borrow. We have
an Apple iPad and a Samsung Galaxy Tab. To try
one out, just talk to one of the Geeks in the
Computer Room (Tony, Graeme or Andy) and one
of them will arrange to give you a quick tutorial.
Then you can take one home and experiment
with it for a while. A week is the normal loan
period though that may be extended if there is not
a waiting list. You may just like to sit and try one
out for an hour or so at the Shed.
Trolley Tokens Shedders who have been
at the last Tuesday
briefings will have seen
the 3D printed tokens
that Andy Dyka has
made. These are used for
unlocking the
supermarket trolleys that
require either a $1 or $2 coin.
Aldi in Warragul uses these as do many other
places in other towns. They are still available for
$2 a pair for anyone who would like one.
Depending on the printed stock on hand, there
may be up to three different colours to choose
from.
If you would like a personalised set, possibly
as a surprise gift to a friend or partner - with
initials or name printed- the cost will be $3. Profits
from the sales of the tokens go to the Shed.
Can You Help? We are in need of someone willing to assist in
maintaining our Shed Website. You don’t have to
be a guru to do this and help is available to ensure
you gain the skills necessary to do a good job of
this.
Computing Matters
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My Health
Record
The Australian Government’s digital “My Health
Record” (MHR) has been around for some years
now. To date however it has been an “opt in”
system where you have to tell them that you want
to be part of the programme. That will change on
16th July this year when the system becomes “opt
out”.
MHR records all your important health
information like allergies, medical conditions and
treatments, medicine details and test or scan
reports all digitally available in one place for
access anywhere in Australia.
Authorized doctors, specialists and hospital
staff can upload your treatment details as they
occur and also have access anywhere and anytime
they need to - as for an accident or emergency for
example.
There are strict rules, regulation and high
security encryption to protect your privacy. For
the most part, you determine who has access.
Health insurance companies and employers (actual
or prospective) have no access.
If you haven’t done so already, you should ask
your GP to upload a shared health summary and to
ensure he/she keeps it up to date.
You are also encouraged to update your records
with anything you deem relevant to your health.
Then you won’t need to worry about having to
remember or repeat your health history. This
includes your medicines (prescribed or over the
counter), their approved dosage rates, details of
chronic conditions, any allergies or adverse
reactions, immunisations and the details of recent
pathology or other tests as well as emergency
contact information.
To find out more about MHR or to register go
to myhealthrecord.gov.au or phone 1800 723 471.
[This information has been sourced from the
Australian Government Digital Health Agency
pamphlet titled “My Health Record—All You
Need To Know” and other fact sheets provided by
an agency rep at the recent VMSA Cluster
Meeting in Leongatha]
More On Stress
Following on from discussions
on depression and the role of stress in damaging
your health in the last two newsletters, the
symptoms of stress affecting your health as shown
here may help you to monitoring the issue:
Unusual weight changes (stress releases the
hormone cortisol which changes the way you
metabolise fat, protein and carbohydrates).
Breaking out in hives (stress can also
releases histamine into your system).
Difficulty concentrating (another problem
of too much cortisol).
Headaches (muscles tense up when you are
stressed, causing headaches or even
triggering a migraine).
Sore stomach (stress can cause the body to
produce more digestive acid, slow emptying
of the stomach and increase colon
contractions—all leading to heartburn,
bloating, cramping and/or diarrhoea)
Hair falling out (stress can trigger the hair
follicles to rest or cause the immune system
to attack the follicle)
A cold that won’t quit (stress suppresses
the immune system, making it difficult to
fight off bugs).
Health Matters