To maintain your Blue Dot Woodworking Accreditation you will need to, you will need to undertake a Verification of Competency (VOC) Assessment as follows. Woodworking members aged under 75 years will be assessed every 24 months Woodworking members aged 75 to 84 years will be assessed every 18 months Woodworking members older than 85 years  will be assessed every 12 months You will be assigned a simple task which shouldn’t take more than about 30 minutes. This is not a test of your craftsmanship; it is simply a demonstration that you can competently use the machinery unsupervised without endangering yourself or others.  You can book your VOC Assessment by clicking on your preferred VOC Assessment date below. The Rostered Supervisor for the day will oversee your assessment and he will either deem you "competent" or refer you to a Trainer for further assessment or training. If you choose not to do the VOC Assessment,  you will no longer be able to use the Machine Room equipment unsupervised.

Join everyone in our Autumn garden (or in the meeting room if its hot) for fresh baked scones, jam and cream with friendly companionship. All existing members as well as any prospective members are welcome. 

Hi Guys, On Thursday 27th March we will be holding the Fifth LRC training workshop. There are 3 places available at this workshop which will be allocated on a first come first served basis. If you miss out on this workshop then you will be first in the queue for the next workshop in February. I will notify those that are attending on 20th on or before Friday 14th March.   All tickets to attend this workshop are sold.   If you wish to put your hand up to attend a future workshop then take a ticket marked Future LRC Workshop and you will be at the front of the queue for future workshops.   Below is the compulsory pre-reading for the 27th March workshop. In this workshop we will be looking at how to curate your photos for ease of access in the future. This will be done using some of the features of LRC. There are 2 primary ways to curate your photos: 1. Organise them by date and then use collections and tagging in LRC to organise them further. Your file structure will be date based, eg by month or year. 2. Organise them by category and sub-category in your file structure then add them to LRC using this structure. For example, categories could be, travel, family, events, photography.... . You then use LRC to view by date or tag plus create collections of one or more categories/sub-categories for viewing a summary of your photos. Peter Buck and I use this strategy. Your decision could be influenced by your past file storage structures. Neither strategy is better, they are just different, both provide good outcomes. Perhaps the only real difference is that with 1. you always need LRC/LR to access categorised photos, whereas with 2 you have access to categorised unedited photos direct from the file structure. Please think this through before you arrive on Thursday so we can assist you to start curating your photos more effectively. Additionally, LRC collections can be synced to the cloud at no cost and viewed in LR on any device using the free access to LR. This is very handy for showing family, friends and colleges your photos. Secondly, we will look at the process to choose which photos to keep and then which ones to edit. Lastly, we will look at how LRC can assist you with editing photos. This part of the session will be personally customised to your present capability level and any areas of specific interest you have in editing. Please select several photos from your collection which you would like to work on during the workshop. To facilitiate this session you should bring your laptop with Lightroom Classic loaded and your photo collection either loaded to the laptop or on a portable drive of some description that can be attached to your laptop. If you don't have a laptop or you don't have a LRC subscription then you can use one of the Shed laptops with LRC loaded and bring you photos on a portable drive. If you take up the latter option (and I would recommend this if you don't have later model reasonably fast laptop) then you will be able to take your work home as a catalogue on a thumb drive and use it again in the future, either at the Shed or on your desktop machine at home. Please nominate which of the above options you will use and whether it is a Windows or Apple laptop prior to the meeting by return email to me. See you at 9am on Thursday 27th. Regards JB

For our March Sundowner, your Kitchen Team is ready to roll up their sleeves again and prepare a sumptous meal to be enjoyed 'under the stars' in our SCMS Garden area. Kitchen Team Lead Werner Ribul has decided to bring back one of our all-time favourite menus featuring Roast Porchetta, potatoes, corn cobs and cauliflower with a Firecracker sauce - all cooked in our famous Wood-fired oven and combined with a refreshing no-mayo Coleslaw. To finish off the meal, we will serve you another SCMS favourite, a Summer Fruit Pavlova. This surely is going to 'knock you out for 6'! For this event, spouses and partners are welcome to join so please register early to avoid the disappointment of missing out on this occasion as the venue capacity is strictly limited.   Cost for food for this special occasion will be $25 with beer and wine at standard prices.   As usual, we require pre-payment with your registration.  You will be able to get a credit towards a future event if you cancel at least 1 day before the event, please send an email to wernerribul@mac.com . No-shows on the day will forfeit their ticket fee. We hope you will be able to join us!  Best regards, Werner & Michael.

We are extremely lucky to have secured a very high level Golf enthusiast who has dedicated a large part of his life to the world of golf and happens to be a marvelous raconteur. So come along and join with your fellow Sheddies and friend whilst enjoying what should be a very entertaining evening. Our guest speaker this month is John Hopkins OAM. John received his Australian honours for services to the mineral and resources sector and Golf. As a past Chairman of Golfing Australia and with over 40 years involvement in the sport he brings a wealth of experience and knowledge on the topic to generously share with us all. John has been an International Golf Umpire for many years and was also on the International Rules Committee. Consequently, his bank of great golfing stories will ensure this will be a wide ranging and interesting talk on the world of golf. A brief summary of his intense life in golf follows; President Nedlands GC and Chairman Nedlands Masters 1988-1990. Executive Committee WA Golf 20 years Executive Committee Australian golf Union 1993-2000 President AGU 1997 R & A Rules of Golf  Committee 1996-2008 Referee The Open Championship 1997-2007 Referee President’s Cup 2011, 2019 Referee US Open 2012-2019 Referee Australian Open (including chief referee) 1992-2019 Captain & President Lake Karrinyup CC Chairman Golf Australia 2010-2019 2015 Golf Digest honouree for services to golf and OAM for services to golf and mineral resources industry. Don't forget to stay a while after the talk to share in some Shed fellowship with drinks and nibbles available and to participate in the 2025 inititive for a Door Prize for some lucky participant which will be drawn at approximately 5:45pm

All members are welcome to join our Art Group and explore their own artistic talents, try a new medium, have a go or just watch, chat and learn a little as other members experiment and create. No previous experience is necessary. We are a very informal group with a range of talents and abilities but just having a go - absolute beginners to "old" masters!

All Members who intend to be part of the Woodworking Group will need to complete this Power Tools Induction Training. There is a once off Cost of $10 for this Training Course, which can be paid when you purchase a ticket. Note: Members are required to complete the 'Yellow Dot' Shed Introduction session before taking part in a Red Dot training session. There will be a maximum of 3 persons for each Training Session.  If after booking, for some reason you cannot attend the training, please advise the Red Dot coordinator, Jeremy Wallace, on 0406927650 (SMS please), or email (jeremywallace5@outlook.com) as soon as possible, so we can arrange another session for you.  If you have trouble booking please contact Jeremy by SMS. The successful completion of the Red Dot Training is a pre-requisite to booking the Blue Dot Woodwork Machinery Course. Once you have completed this Training, your Membership Badge will updated to show a Red Dot and enable you to undertake any projects in the Main Workshop that utilise only Power Tools. 

Hello Cooking Class Sheddies I hope you will join me for the next cooking class on Tuesday 25 March at 9am. We will eat what we cook and lunch will be at about 12.30pm. This month the menu includes a main course of creamy chicken, bacon, mushroom, spinach and fetta served with rice followed by a dessert of a tangy lemon slice with vanilla ice cream. A fixed cost of $20 per person will apply to each class to cover ingredients. Beer and wine will be available for purchase on the day. Please purchase your ticket in advance. As always, I look forward to seeing you on the day. All the best Michael Henderson

To maintain your Blue Dot Woodworking Accreditation you will need to, you will need to undertake a Verification of Competency (VOC) Assessment as follows. Woodworking members aged under 75 years will be assessed every 24 months Woodworking members aged 75 to 84 years will be assessed every 18 months Woodworking members older than 85 years  will be assessed every 12 months You will be assigned a simple task which shouldn’t take more than about 30 minutes. This is not a test of your craftsmanship; it is simply a demonstration that you can competently use the machinery unsupervised without endangering yourself or others.  You can book your VOC Assessment by clicking on your preferred VOC Assessment date below. The Rostered Supervisor for the day will oversee your assessment and he will either deem you "competent" or refer you to a Trainer for further assessment or training. If you choose not to do the VOC Assessment,  you will no longer be able to use the Machine Room equipment unsupervised.

Caravan and Camping Show Bump Out ACCESS AVAILABLE, SITE RULES APPLY: HIGH VISIBILITY VESTS AND ENCLOSED SHOES MUST BE WORN. VEHICLES TO TRAVEL AT 8KM/HR (WALKING PACE). BE MINDFUL OF HEAVY EQUIPMENT/MACHINERY MOVING THROUGHOUT THE SITE. Access to the Shed through gates 8 and 10 (pedestrian) only.

Woodworking Machinery Induction (Blue Dot) – Phases 1 & 2 All Members who wish to use the woodworking machinery in the Machine Room will need to complete Phase 1 & Phase 2 of the Woodworking Machinery Induction Training. Please Note that Members must have completed the Red Dot course before enrolling in this Blue Dot course? This Course will be conducted in two Phases over two consecutive weeks (9am - 12pm) so you must be able to commit to both sessions before purchasing a ticket. Each Phase will be approximately a three hour duration. There will be a maximum of 3 persons for each Session. The Cost of this course (for both Phases) is $20.  If after booking, for some reason you cannot attend the training, please advise Michael Cahill on 0459062090 as soon as possible, so we can arrange another session for you.  If you cancel or are a “no show” on the day you will lose your $20 fee so please, only book if you can commit to the two consecutive weeks. Payments can be made online by secure credit card.  Once you have completed both phases of the Woodworking Machinery Induction your Membership Badge will be updated to replace the Red Dot with a Blue Dot.  This will reflect that you have completed all the necessary Woodworking Training and are ready to undertake any Woodworking projects in the Shed. 

PEDESTRIAN ACCESS ONLY (VIA GATE 8 OR GATE 10) TO THE MEN'S SHED.  VEHICLES CANNOT DRIVE INTO THE VENUE (ACCESS ON FOOT ONLY). MEN'S SHED TO BE OPEN TO MEMBERS ONLY (NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC). NO ON-SITE PARKING AVAILABLE (ALL VEHICLES MUST PARK OFF-SITE).