Our guest speaker this month is Jason Froud, Executive General Manager - Strategy and Corporate Affairs. Jason will be discussing the large battery instalaltions in Kwinana and Collie. Jason's talk will cover battery storage in the electricity system, from the big end of town (High Voltage) right down to domestic home batteries and mobile batteries (electric vehicles) and everything in between. Jason will also take answer your questions about anything electricity related e.g. coal, gas, nuclear, solar etc. As a side note, Jason is the person responsible for the very generous donation to the Shed of our 737 Flight Simulator. You may recall we had a presentation recently from Nick Bagshaw on the simulator. 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. The Wellbeing Leadership group endevours to bring you great speakers on topics pertinent to our Shed members and I believe we have hit it out of the park with yet another guest speaker. So don't miss out on what should be a fabulous talk, very relevent to today's power supply debate.

Vist the steamy streets of Singapore or Malaysia without leaving Perth ! For the April monthly lunch we will be preparing the classic Asian noodle dish Char Kway Teow. The Shed wok will be fired up and ready to go. This will be followed by a dessert of Lemon Tendercake with a Blueberry Compote (another saucy Nigella Lawson recipe - yum),  So sign up, come along and enjoy a meal with your mates ! Cost for food will be $20 with beer and wine at standard prices.   As usual, we need pre-payment with your registration.  You will be able to get a credit towards a future event if you cancel at least 24 hours before the event. Should you need to cancel, please send an email to wernerribul@mac.com. No-shows on the day will forfeit their ticket fee. Both of us hope you will be able to join us. Best regards, Werner and Michael

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. 

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. 

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 for fresh baked scones, jam and cream with friendly companionship. All existing members as well as any prospective members are welcome. 

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!

It may be April 1st but dont be fooled.  This month's event will be hosted by Curt McDonald assisted David Ellison and has serious intent as we are prising some good wines from a couple of presonal cellars.    The night's theme is to explore a range of wine characteristics / aspects (eg, vintage, region, varietal, etc.) using carefully-selected, high-quality cellared wines to “type-cast” or exemplify the characteristic in question.  A fun part of the event is a wine option game in a blind tasting format with the stakes raised by a fun quiz question or two on each wine before it is revealed and discussed.  The answers are multiple choice, so everyone has the right answer right in front of them!   The quiz winner gets a decent bottle to take home.  Bonus questions will be scattered in along the way, and a sudden-death round in case there is a tie at the end.  The wines are sure to test the skills you have honed during previous events. THIS IS SURE TO BE A POPULAR EVENT SO DONT HESITATE GET IN EARLY AND RESERVE YOU PLACE

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.