Is the Shed building an ark?!

Submitted by Paul Blanksby on

No one would be surprised to hear that the Men’s Shed were building an ark to float
us all away from The Deluge of ’22. But no! The sounds emanating from the timber and
metal-working areas of your Men’s Shed were happy blokes making picnic wine caddy’s,
repairing rocking horses, making a Surprise for the Lions Mini Fair and so much more.
Even during the worst of the rain, the Shed’s friendship and laughter kept our spirits
up. Rosie’s Morning Brew warmed our tummies and our little vegetable garden went berserk
– cucumbers anyone?

Shed Arvo Tea

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Your local Men’s Shed in the Burgh has opened its doors to the community through
our usual Mondays and Tuesdays, our Saturday Sale and Open Days, working with different
charities and organisations around town, Bunnings BBQ’s and local fetes and fairs.
To add to these, we are starting ‘First Monday’ afternoon teas for men to come and
visit the Shed, meet some of the blokes, have some refreshments and tour the facilities for a
look at what we do.
You might see Wayne working on a postie bike, or a possum box being made by Rod.

The Thirteen 'R's

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The Helensburgh Men’s Shed motto is ‘Serving the 2508 Community.’ Sometimes we serve
just a little bit further.
One of our member’s, John ‘Carver’ Bucknell, now resides at Frank Vickery Village at
Sylvania. His Coffee and Chat Club asked the Men’s Shed if we could create a Tumbling
Tower game for them, with special numbering to keep score (not that the Chat Club members
are competitive or anything…)
We love to help out wherever we can, and with timber kindly donated by Patrick from

Volunteers are the BEST

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Bronzed aussies. Big blokes with red and yellow caps, standing tall whilst they thread
rope through calloused hands out to sea, where one of their mates is swimming towards a
bather in distress.
Bit like the blokes at your Men’s Shed. Australian society, church’s, volunteers and
governments offer many lifelines to people in distress, and so do Men’s Sheds. Help with a
family crisis, to get something done, a lawn mowed or a meal made; perhaps as simple and
profound as a cuppa and a chat, shoulder to shoulder through lives lived together.

The Telephone Table

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Here at the Men’s Shed we are happy to meet so many people from around our
community, and even happier when they bring in a treasured item for us to repair, restore or
resurrect. Sue brought in a little ‘op shop’ find from years ago for us to remove layers of
good old Mission Brown and reveal its simple beauty underneath.
She called it ‘the Telephone Table.’ Because hidden at the bottom of the drawer were
lots of names and phone numbers, scrawled in pencil, biro or fountain pen, covering decades
of this little table’s life.

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