Trophies, Medals, Awards

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  RHP User

  8 years ago

  I played the artful dodger in a school production of Oliver twist. The local paper described me as "the next be talant" 24 years on and I'm an electrician lol

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  RHP User

  8 years ago

  That's awesome Pommy, not the electrician part so much, maybe? Did you keep the story? Peachy

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  madotara69

  8 years ago

  Eight months climbing up onto a house being built, it was a two stories high with ten foot studs, forty five degree roof pitch, nailed 50 x 50mm timber batten with a 50mm spacing between each to the entire 2000 square metre roof area, 16 dormas and 25 valleys, all hidden copper and wedging my gumboots into the 50mm spacing between the battens, leaning over and down to copper nail a traditional English slate roof, finally a crane size cherry picker to fit the copper ridge capping. The house in which the roof was the overall feature won 'house of the year', The architect drew it up to be fitted with a metal tile roof and when the tiles hand carted up onto the roof and sets fitted into the 50mm spacings between the battons, the house racked over with the weight load that had not been considered when drawing with the colour in pencils looking all pretty and such, I'm the one who carted the things up and back down and back up again fitting the tonnes of slate tablets, mitre cutting each to meet and form a dead straight joint into each copper valley pan each copper hip, all bar the ridge cap of the apex and I'm not sure if anyone quite knows the entails with attention to detail and ultimately a roof that has the thickness of four 10mm slate tablets, 40mm thick slate stone and the average 3 bedroom home has about 250 square metres of roof with 22.5 degree pitch that is easily walked over, 45 degrees up two ten foot stud stories high is a little like wedging the old gumboots into a crack on the edge of a cliff, looking out at the very top of those big old pine trees. It's a good roof Peachy Mado Mado, Tara xx (I won Tara's heart too, 28 years ago:)

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  RHP User

  8 years ago

  Quoting 'madotara69' Eight months climbing up onto a house being built, it was a two stories high with ten foot studs, forty five degree roof pitch, nailed 50 x 50mm timber batten with a 50mm spacing between each to the entire 2000 square metre roof area, 16 dormas and 25 valleys, all hidden copper and wedging my gumboots into the 50mm spacing between the battens, leaning over and down to copper nail a traditional English slate roof, finally a crane size cherry picker to fit the copper ridge capping. The house in which the roof was the overall feature won 'house of the year', The architect drew it up to be fitted with a metal tile roof and when the tiles hand carted up onto the roof and sets fitted into the 50mm spacings between the battons, the house racked over with the weight load that had not been considered when drawing with the colour in pencils looking all pretty and such, I'm the one who carted the things up and back down and back up again fitting the tonnes of slate tablets, mitre cutting each to meet and form a dead straight joint into each copper valley pan each copper hip, all bar the ridge cap of the apex and I'm not sure if anyone quite knows the entails with attention to detail and ultimately a roof that has the thickness of four 10mm slate tablets, 40mm thick slate stone and the average 3 bedroom home has about 250 square metres of roof with 22.5 degree pitch that is easily walked over, 45 degrees up two ten foot stud stories high is a little like wedging the old gumboots into a crack on the edge of a cliff, looking out at the very top of those big old pine trees. It's a good roof Peachy Mado Mado, Tara xx (I won Tara's heart too, 28 years ago:) I bet it's a good roof Mado, and a good relationship. Peachy

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  RHP User

  8 years ago

  Oliver is an old favourite of mine by the way, and the artful dodger one of my favourite characters, Peachy

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  MsSuperFoxy

  8 years ago

  I was a contributing factor to my fathers OAM, for achievement and merit in services to Military and volunteer work towards defence families. Does that count? 🤔 Even tho he received the medals, my name is on several of applications that were submitted. I have since inheretied the medals. 🤔 Ms Foxy

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  RHP User

  8 years ago

  Hated sport as a child, got roped (almost literally - told I had no choice by the teachers) into a cricket match between all the different classes in my grade. Hard objects delivered at speed like cricket balls just scared the shit out of me, but out I went to bat last in the order. I actually won an award for scoring 100% of my team's runs. Our total score? 1. And that was not out too. Man, did it piss the sporting dudes (everybody knows the type) off. I also competed in high jump during our grade 6 sports carnival - fuck I hated those things - and was roped into competing in the high jump - again under sufferance. I won the day and it became quite the watched event - due to my reputation for avoiding sports like the plague. I was more amazed than anybody. I was picked to join our town's away team for our regional school sports carnival, but when it came time to practice I found I would just lock up, couldn't do it. and was eventually dropped from the team. I'm sure those of a psychological bent could dissect that quite easily - I definitely have my theory.

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  RHP User

  8 years ago

  What a wonderful effort for your dad, damn yes, that counts! But gotta say, it's a pity you haven't earned a specific award for flipping houses from what I have read in the forum of your efforts. Peachy

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  RHP User

  8 years ago

  I was what they called the quiet achiever at school. Certainly at things like mathematics, so had lots of awards or certificates. In a yearbook later in school one girl mentioned her greatest achievement was once beating me at a maths test. Go figure :) - Posted from rhpmobile

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  RHP User

  8 years ago

  Plenty of trophies in the cupboard from a youth spent playing tennis. A few also from my skiing talents. In grade 7 I was awarded “best floor polisher” at school camp. Apparently roller skating wasn’t my thing 🤣 - Posted from rhpmobile

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  RHP User

  8 years ago

  I am loving the replies, I hesitate between replying or not sometimes, I don't wanna bore y'all, so please excuse the delayed reply because I value that you shared your stories with me... and here we go. OkeyDoke, that is so great, those Are intriguing insights, you became the accidental hero so to speak? It's amazing what we can find within ourselves at unexpected moments. Countrytouch, I wonder if the girl's words weren't the highest praise in a way. It's always good to have a goal to aim for. DeepPassion, hey sexy pants hehe, your talents as a tennis pro/ski instructor should be on your RHP resume? Floor polisher? Naw, funny. Thank you, I do enjoy reading replies from all of you, getting to 'know' you that lil bit better. Peachy

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