a bit about my life.
My OH is away working. He's about 400km away from me and in the middle of nowhere (ok, walgett, same thing)
The other week he was helping a mate locate a noise in his vehicle. My OH had his hand in the engine bay checking the fanbelt when the other bloke started the motor.
The outcome was not pretty.
The Walgett hospital couldn't deal with the injury so my OH had to drive himself the 300 km's to dubbo base hospital He underwent surgery the next morning. Due to dodgy phone reception all I knew was at at 8pm my husband had possibly lost a finger and was driving through the roos to get to a surgeon.
I have been travelling between here and walgett for the past fortnight to help OH. It's bad timing as he can't afford to miss any work as their is bugger all of it around this year.
I was due to start back at work but couldn't. I have lost my job.
While I was in Walgett a pipe under the house broke and I came home to find a lot of mud and an empty rainwater tank. I do not have town water, and god only knows when it is going to rain again. That was the weekend before last.
On Saturday we went to Lightning Ridge. It is the closest supermarket since the one in Walgett burnt down a fortnight ago. On the way back we encountered a fatal single car accident. Keith was still in the car, his head mashed. I don't know what has happened to his kelpie. Yes we knew this bloke.
So there ya go, that's just the last two weeks. The last two months have not been much better.
Now, on to the photo challenge.
According to some, I am having a big SULK.
Well maybe I am, but while you lot have been squabbling over who voted for what, who didn't vote for what, giving votes, taking votes, making new i'd's to ensure such and such gets more votes and using the thread as an opportunity to score hits and continue the fued that started years ago on another board I have been dealing with RL stuff. These threads were not a 'competition' they were a diversion for me and hopefully encouraged others to 'stop and smell the roses', take a fresh look at this amazing planet. I have tried to work out the fairest way of scoring a winner of rust. I thought about discounting any of the fake id's but I can't be certain who is fake.
I thought about counting votes only up until the thursday as the shenanigans started on the friday. But Roserobins pic recieved many bona fide votes after that time. I wish you could have just let things go and not started tampering with the voting process. There are enough legitimate posters voting to give a fair outcome.
To the poster accusing me of sulking - I hold you partly responsible for the deterioration of the rust thread. You did not have to bring the missing kudos to everyones attention. That was done just to 'dob' on posters you don't like. Most of us would not have been aware anything had gone on, and as I said, the legitimate voters would have made up the difference.
Flashie, your barge photo is beautiful. As is RoseRobins rusty statue. I loved Kateys little toy, top photo and lovely memories. Cosmosgrove, stunning pics, loved that last one. So many great pics, it really is a wonderful world.
Oh pimpy..hugs to you and your OH...i hope, I am SURE, that things will get better very soon, but you are both doing it tough right now
Good on you for starting the photo threads..as others have said, they are (usually) fun and entertaining and very interesting..
There is no accounting for some people, but it is lovely to see the vast majority of posters being friendly and supportive , and interested
You will continue to be strong ,and get through the tough stuff
Good on you for starting the photo threads..as others have said, they are (usually) fun and entertaining and very interesting..
There is no accounting for some people, but it is lovely to see the vast majority of posters being friendly and supportive , and interested
You will continue to be strong ,and get through the tough stuff
awww nuts, I didn't mean for you to feel sorry for me. I still have a roof over my head and not one but two indoor flushing toilets! (after 10 years of making like a bear I still get a thrill out of a proper flush toilet)
I was just trying to point out there are are bigger issues in life than who voted on a photo.
OH still has his finger at this stage, but he can't pick his nose with it. He has to wait another few weeks to get the wires taken out. Then decide whether it's going to work properly or will be better taken off.
I was not trying to use my situation to have a go at anyone. I do wish the post hadn't been made in the thread though, Instead, maybe the affected person message me, and I could have judged (as I have done) if I thought the outcome was influenced by the shananigans.
Really people, is it so hard to judge the photos on their merits rather than the poster?
๐ pimpy sorry you're having rough trot. I've been loving the photo thread and hope it can continue, it's been a great distraction from some **bleep**py stuff going on in my life at the moment.
Why cant one thread, just one thread be left alone and enjoyed.
I think the best thing is to ignore the horrible posts, just scroll past them, and enjoy the thread.
It has been the best thread in my eyes in ever!!!! And I'd hate to see it go away cause of a couple of bad apples.
Lets ignore and move on.
Now I have to take some pics 
Hope things pick up for you soon, Pimpy. Life can be a real you-know-what at times.
Please don't give up on the thread. - having just learnt how to post from photobucket, I've finally posted my first photo, and it was such fun I'd love to kep going.
Sorry to hear about your hubby 
Hang in there guys, things will get better, you'll see
Thinking of you xxx
