Famous Friday Raffles

joe6pack Uncategorized

images (28)Here we go again Patrons.

Time for THE PUBS FAMOUS FRIDAY NIGHT RAFFLES

14-celebrationSO LETS CELEBRATE

bubbler_e0

GET YOUR NUMBERS FROM CK WATT AND GOOD LUCK.

tumblr_mtlc7e90yG1s2sl3oo1_500

After we have seen how Bishop elder is going to run things

295Lets all chill out and relax

On a more serious note I think this place

http://www.sippycreek.com.au/

Sippy creek animal refuge could be be a worthy recipient of THE PUB’S $500 ( so far)

Raffle Kitty

They try and adopt out all they can, but if new owners can’t be found the animals are kept and looked after by them. None are put down.

If you want to put forward some other places please do.

Have a good night/weekend  and just remember

tumblr_lwfa68PxOE1r8vbfdo1_500

Xmas is only 5 weeks away

enjoy

386 thoughts on “Famous Friday Raffles”

  7. hmm, apparently millions have been paid out both Labor and Coalition gov’ts to workers of detention centres for mental trauma of seeing what was happening to asylum seeker.
    and now the guy from the SMH is backing Gillard to win the history wars re Gillard/Rudd. Rudd is not getting a good wrap up.

  9. A drink I once tried accidentally after reading that it was Bill Hayden’s favourite was Stone’s Green Ginger Wine with dry ginger ale. It was surprisingly good. Could I have that please.

  11. CK,
    Yes please, my usual lonelies at the end, and I will have a Cuba Libre ready for you as soon as possible when the raffle has been drawn.

  12. Chas from the Chasers saying it is Rudd was a wasted opportunity. Rudd could have done so much and did nothing. And said, wtte “he somewhat sabotaged the person who came after him” and Gillard after a rocky start did stuff.

  16. You want to have a Ring Tone, now would you?

    I would love a dial tone – phone and internet offline for three days now thanks to cruddy copper. 😦

  17. puffytmd

    Once you have had wild pork you will never want to have farmed pork again. We used to swap fish and eels for wild pork with a neighbour who was a keen hunter . As for Captain Cookers ( kiwi feral pigs) cooked in a hangi. Insert an hour of drooling emoticon.

  20. May I have three numbers too, please. Somewhere around 42 will do.
    And if it is not too much trouble, I’ll have an Old Stoney’s G&G too. I have fond memories of sharing a bottle or two with an ex-British guardsman and him not ‘holding his ginger liquor’ too well *evil grin of rememberance*

  21. I also watched that show with Lyndall Curtis earlier, the male guest was taking Hockey apart and did Lyndall not like it. She and whoever the other female guest tried to talk over, argue with and stop the guy from saying what a dope Hockey was, to no avail. Another must watch, Agenda or something I think it is called.

    Now Anthony Lowenstien is not giving Abbott a very good wrap for his speech to CHOGM.

  26. gorgeousdunny1

    Add whisky to Stones for a ” Whisky Mac” , very warming on “dark and stormy” nights

  29. The last time I mentioned my volunteer work I was feeling pretty good, thinking that we can make some difference and make life for some better than it might otherwise be. Today is not one of those days.
    For about seven years we had been trying to assist a guy (I’ll call him Al because that is not his name) and his family. Al had a lot of problems, mental health issues, anger issues and a hulking presence which exacerbated fears generated by his problems. An angry Al was a fearsome sight, and very hard to handle. He had a spouse, just as big and even angrier, nasty and belligerent, along with three kids. Al also had a bad back which didn’t help calm him down.
    Over the years we had gone to a lot of trouble to talk to Al whenever we could, get him used to the idea that we were non judgemental friends he could turn to when he felt under pressure, not just when he needed material assistance. We used to give him tickets to the movies we had cadged from various people so he could take his kids out, take him for a cup of coffee on occasions when we had a spare moment etc.
    It all seemed to be working. It’s been years since we had any physical problems with him, and very few verbal blowups in recent times. In fact he told me a few times we were the only people he had contact with who talked to rather than at him.
    Unfortunately, Al had trouble getting his kids to school on regular basis, either because of his ill health (mental and physical) and their hygiene problems. Recently Family Services have been closely monitoring his and their efforts and while there has been a marked improvement, threats had ben made that he was at risk of losing the kids. At the beginning of last week I rang him to see how he was going, and he was very upset, and told me the kids were being taken away. He said he didn’t think he could handle life with out them, and was having “bad thoughts”. I went and saw him and had a long yarn with him about all sorts of things, but eventually I had to leave to attend to other business. I told him that I had to leave town for several days on business, but that I would catch up with him as soon as I got back, and I extracted a promise that he wouldn’t do anything silly while I was away.
    While I was away I tried to ring his mobile several times, but first it went unanswered, then it was out of service. On return I went to his Govt flat, but there was no one home. Yesterday whilst visiting someone else in the same complex I noticed a stranger entering Als flat, I approached the guy who told me he had just been moved in to a vacant flat and knew nothing of the previous occupant. I then doorknocked all the neighbours but none of them knew the whereabouts or status of Al.
    Today I spoke to Govt Housing and the local Police, but they couldn’t/wouldn’t tell me anything because of privacy concerns. As I was getting into my car at the Police Station I was spoken to by a guy from there that told me Al died of an overdose a week ago.
    Life (and death) can be a bastard sometimes.

  30. Political Animal (@PolAnimalAus)

    All that stuff on the smoker ? Insert the drooling for two hours emoticon. What a shame Smell-O-Vision did not work develop further so that you could share your cooking aromas.

  33. Puffy,

    I also watched that show with Lyndall Curtis earlier, the male guest was taking Hockey apart and did Lyndall not like it.

    That was Capital Hill (I think) – the bloke was Simon Banks (Hawker Brittan) who was taking HoJo apart, and he was so bloody on the money as well. I liked his assessment that HoJo is on a lose/lose over the debt ceiling stunt. The woman is an abbott shill (can’t remember her name) but she never fails to whitewash the coalition and pour mud on labor.

  34. Kambah Mick

    A story as sad as your last one was uplifting. Not much comfort but I am sure you did all you could do.

  35. Kambah Mick

    Mental health issues are the most difficult to deal with. You did well to support Al during the time you knew his and most certainly he would have appreciated your friendship.

  38. Kaffee. Yeah, we probably were always just putting a finger in the dyke on this one.
    As disappointed as I feel, when I look back at the history of the case there is a sense of inevitability about it.
    People with mental health problems in Australia are just f##ked if they don’t have access to money.

  41. Kambah Mick,

    You did your best mate and far more than many of your local civic minded fellow citizens.

    Life can sure be a bitch for many of us and some just yearn for the torment they are experiencing to stop.

    Al had reached the end of what little tether he still had, his kids and the thought that they would be taken from him was the last straw.

    I reckon it would be for pretty well anybody else in his situation. You done well son and don’t you forget it.

  43. The community run shelters such as the one I nominated and Joe’s nomination, are the kind I support.

  45. How does anyone manage to pick winning horses? I have been looking at the races since you started giving tips Joe and this is the only time I guessed right.

  49. So sorry about that outcome, Mick. You are right that mental health is the hardest problem – simply not enough support, nor seemingly enough who care.

    I guess you have long learned that you can’t win them all. I knew this at the time of my work in that area. But it never stops you from feeling the pain of loss, nor of anger that so many are so indifferent. And neither should it. If we lost that, maybe we wouldn’t care so much, and then what would become of them? Like you, I still want to keep my humanity.

    As msadventure2 says, you can take something from relieving some of the stresses for a while.

  50. How is the winning animal charity going to be selected?
    What about on The Pub’s 1st anniversary all the nominations get numbered and put in a draw as per Friday Night Raffles? Just my suggestion.

Comments are closed.