Visit date: Wednesday 12th December 2018. Camden Park is a suburb of Adelaide. The Community Centre was set up in a redundant Primary School in the 1970s. The Shed does not have its own website, but the Community Centre website gave me the contact number of the Volunteers Administrator. The visit was arranged, and on …
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Visit date: Thursday 20th December 2018. Finding this Shed was a total surprise! Sorrento is a small seaside town situated near the entrance to the wide expanse of Port Phillip Bay. We went for an afternoon stroll along the low cliffs to look over the Bay, when I saw a single storey building on what …
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Visit date: Tuesday 8th January 2019. Another total surprise! Why? Our Air B&B hosts asked us what we intended to see in Coffs Harbour, and during the chat I mentioned that I am a member of Men in Sheds, and my intention during our tour was to visit any Sheds en route. To my surprise, …
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Visit date: Saturday 12th January 2019. Bangalow is a small rural town inland from the popular beach resort of Byron Bay. As with all things today, the popularity of resorts such as Byron Bay is unfortunately changing the rural ambience of Bangalow to its detriment by suffering an influx of ‘rich townies’. The Shed address …
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Visit date: Thursday 17th January 2019. The website for this Men’s Shed is amazing! Whoever put it together and manages it has to be applauded. I will not go into detail, but just pick out snippets from the site to whet your appetite to read more. I arranged my visit with Len Thompson (Secretary), but …
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