SORRY EVERYONE BUT THIS EVENT IS NOW FULL. Something different for this meeting.. A great story from a WA based Fishing Company David Carter is the CEO of the world’s first carbon-neutral commercial fishing company and has been recognised in a global award for ocean sustainability David has worked his entire career – from deckhand to CEO – at one of Australia’s largest commercial fishing companies. This year marks his 43rd anniversary with Austral Fisheries; a company he has continuously steered towards a cleaner and more sustainable future. His professional achievements include integrating sustainable sourcing and production, using environmentally responsible fishing practices, battling illegal fishing, and building globally recognised seafood brands such as Glacier 51 Toothfish and Skull Island Tiger Prawns. Austral Fisheries works to understand what’s happening in the ocean, how to engage with environmental NGOs and looks at the long-term outcome. “We are seeing governments slowly start to embrace science in a way that I think will be powerful. It offers us hope for some of our bigger climate challenges." As part of their advocacy for sustainable oceans, Austral Fisheries has partnered with Sea Shepherd to remove the seas of illegal fishing. “We share a common interest in bringing more climate action into the public policy debate and trying to do something together about marine ocean plastics,” David says. David was also the driving force behind Austral becoming the first seafood company to be certified as carbon neutral in 2016. One hundred per cent of Austral Fisheries’ carbon dioxide-equivalent emissions are offset each year through a native biodiverse revegetation project in the Yarra Yarra Biodiversity Corridor. This initiative has resulted in more than 200,000 native trees being planted each year. Having known David for close to 20 years I am in awe of his achievements and passion for his Industry.  Also an avid Cyclist, Photographer and Drone enthusiast and just a darn good guy. I'm sure everyone will enjoy his presentation. As always we'll have some light snacks (@$5/head) and drinks available from the Bar at around 5.30. Partners are welcome. BTW : Austral Fisheries is a" Friend of our Shed" having donated all the salmon trout for our Fundraising Ladies Luncheon held for the Friends of the Cancer Council In April this year.

2:00pm "Then and Now" Project - Team Presentations This Workshop is a presentation by our photography group teams to present their photos for our first team project, "Then and Now", a pictoral history of our local area. We have in teams of 2-3 members attempted to document some of the landscape, buildings and activities within our community by developing a pictorial timeline in our community over the last 100 years. We have received and used a set of historical photographs of the Claremont area thanks to the generous support of the Claremont Museum. We have also take a current photo from the same vantage point. Due to the age of many of the photos we have applied restoration techniques using Lightroom, Photoshop or other software packages to enhance the images.  We hope in partnership with the Claremont Museum to arrange a photo exhibition inviting community members to view our collection of photos illustrating the changing landscape in our community over the last 100 years. Our Photography Teams will present their historical and current photos in a digital presentation. as follows: Mike SB & David - Claremont CBD Les, Chris, Bill - Claremont CBD Mochtar, Mike H - Claremont CBD Peter B, Peter P - River Foreshore Tim, Owen - Claremont Streets Richard G, Stephen - Lake Claremont John, Jeff, Paul - Showgrounds 4:30pm Sundowner This Workshop will conclude with an opportunity to chat with our presenters over our usual wine and nibbles. Workshop Tickets I remind all members to please register prior to the event to assist with catering and ensure that we comply with the meeting room capacity requirements. I encourage you to attend this workshop and participate in this community project. Mike Somerville-Brown

So the first Sundowner went off very well indeed.  It presented a great opportunity for our Shed members to come together and swap stories whilst enjoying a beer or wine at extremely reasonable prices. Here is your chance to join with other like minded individuals to meet and get acquainted with your Shed buddies at our next Beer and Bullshit Sundowner. As per usual, minor nibbles will be available, but don't expect too much as I am not part of the Kitchen group. Drinks will remain at $3/beer or wine and $4 for any special "craft beers" available. Payment is made at the end of the night, so just keep your own tab and settle up before you go. Also any assistance to clean up will be greatly appreciated.

This month we have Guest Chef Kim Roberts who will lead the kitchen team in preparation of that Italian classic - "Spaghetti Marinara".  This is a very popular dish in restaurants from Sydney to Sorrento.  Cost for food will be $15 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 this luncheon. No-shows on the day will forfeit their ticket fee. Members who intend to use a credit carried over from a previous event, please reply to this email and we will book you in.  Please register early to avoid the disappointment of missing this jolly occasion as the room capacity is still limited 33 patrons.  We hope you will join us!

This workshop will be run in two parts: 2:00pm Creating Slideshows & Short Movies (Part 2) This workshop led by Mike Somerville-Brown builds on the last workshop on 24 June and will help participants in a hands-on session to to create interesting slideshows and short movies using your own photos/video clips to show family and friends. Therefore participants are asked to bring: A set of 20-30 photos/ and or some video clips to create a slideshow or short movie. For those members undertaking the Historical Photo Project you could bring your historical and current photos of Claremont to create a digital presentation. A laptop computer/tablet with either iMovie on an Apple Macbook or iPad; or laptop with Windows 10 Photo Editor. If you dont have a laptop computer/tablet we have three Apple computers and 6 PCs with Windows 10 Photo Editor to undertake this workshop session.  A facemask to comply with current COVID restrictions. 3:45pm Publishing Photos Owen Carpenter will present design tips, ideas and templates to consider in preparing professional looking photobooks or illustrated publications. Owen will cover layout, format, composition, etc that will best show off your photos. 4:30pm Sundowner This Workshop will conclude with an opportunity to chat with our presenters over our usual wine and nibbles.  Workshop Tickets I remind all members to please register prior to the event to assist with catering and ensure that we comply with the meeting room capacity requirements. Due to COVID restrictions we are limited to 30 persons. I hope you can attend this interesting Workshop. Mike Somerville-Brown

Our next wine meeting is on July 6th starting at 4:30PM.  It promises to be a excellent night with our resident Sth African experts showing us how to apply his "wolf" scale to a set of wines from around Cape Town.  Please remember to bring a pen to take notes and rate/score/judge the simple characteristics of the wines.... see above.  As usual please register your attendance and pay via the tidyHQ link.  Thanks and see you on Tuesday.   Stephen

This workshop will be run in two parts: 2:00pm Creating Slideshows & Short Movies Now that we have learnt how to take better photos and short videos, Mike Somerville-Brown will demonstrate with examples how to use these photos/videos to create interesting slideshows and short movies to better present and share your collections with family and friends. 3:30pm Sharing Photo Collections Les Gunn will review the various methods for sharing your photo collections including through Lightroom, Apple Photos, Google Photos and Dropbox. 4:30pm Sundowner This Workshop will conclude with an opportunity to chat with our presenters over our usual wine and nibbles.  Workshop Tickets I remind all members to please register prior to the event to assist with catering and ensure that we comply with the meeting room capacity requirements. I hope you can attend this interesting Workshop. Mike Somerville-Brown

This Beer and Bullshit Sundowner is a new initiative of your management committee to engage with our members during an afternoon of beer tasting and stimulating conversation. We hope that this event, if adequately supported by our members, will become a regular occurrence on our busy calendar and forms the start of a new social occasion for each of us to enjoy. We will have several varieties of “Craft Beers” to enjoy and for the non-beer drinkers we shall have wine available along with the usual bar nibbles to accompany the alcohol. This is a low-key event and to encourage you to attend the committee has agreed to subsidise the first few of these and so drinks will be made available at regular club prices less $2/unit. Hence, regular beers become $3 each, a glass of wine at $3 each and the cost of the Craft beers will be $4 each. Where else can you get a $3 beer and loads of companionship? Naturally, the Shed wants you to drink safely and so recommends you do not drink and drive.  If you need a lift home, we recommend you use Uber as a cheap method of getting home.  If you can’t organise one for yourself, we will organise an Uber for you but you will be required to reimburse the Shed for the cost of the Uber ride before you leave the Shed by making a payment using the Payment Square terminal to cover the total cost. I hope to see as many along as possible on Tuesday however, due to Covid restrictions, we are limited to 30 members so please apply for your free ticket and hence register and secure your place. Best regards Peter Panek Vice President

NOTE: YOU HAVE BEEN SELECTED TO ATTEND THE FIRST SCMS COOKING COURSE! The course will be delivered over 2 sessions where you will learn to prepare 2 dishes during each session. Each session will be open to six members and be delivered by two “trainers” from within the SCMS Kitchen Team.  A course fee of $20 will be payable to cover the cost of ingredients.  Course attendees will work in pairs to prepare two serves of each of two dishes which they will eat for morning tea during a break, or for lunch at the end of each session.   YOU NOW NEED TO PURCHASE YOUR TICKET TO ATTEND THIS COURSE.  Click "GET TICKET" to confirm your spot.  Confirmed attendants will be allocated to one of 2 Groups (A or B, refer to the schedule below). Please let us know by return email if you have a preferance for either Group A (Wed 16th + 30th June) or Group B (Wed 23rd + 7th July).  There is flexibility at this stage to allocate seats, if necessary. FURTHER INFORMATION: Weekly sessions will start at 9:00am and finish at about 1:00pm and be structured along the following lines: Introduction to the two dishes to be prepared on the day and the produce purchased. Demonstration of first dish by trainers. Trainees will work in pairs to prepare a serve each of the first dish. Morning tea break and eat first dish (trainee feedback). Demonstration of second dish by trainers. Trainees will work in pairs to prepare a serve each of the second dish. Lunch break and eat second dish (trainee feedback). Wash up and clean kitchen. REFUND POLICY. There will be no refunds of the fee paid for tickets to participate in this course.  However, if you advise us of your inability to participate in the course prior to 12th June, the value of your ticket will be held as credit and you will be given the opportunity to attend a future course.  Early cancellation is required to allow the Kitchen team to secure a replacement participant.  If you give late notice of your withdrawal from the course and we are unable to find a suitable replacement, you will forfeit the value of your ticket.

This month we are bringing back our revered Asian Chef de Cuisine Keng Wong who will introduce us to some Singaporean delight - "Char Kway Teow". This is a very popular South East Asian dish which will be freshly cooked using our brand new Tiger Wok burner which will be set up on the outside of the conference room.  To finish off the meal, the Kitchen team will also produce a light Malay dessert called "Pulot Hitam" which is black gloutinous rice with coconut milk. Cost for food will be $12 with beer and wine at standard prices. As usual, we require pre-payment with your registration.  If you intend to use a credit carried over from a previous event, please reply to this email and we will book you in. You will be able to get a credit towards a future event if you cancel at least 1 day before this luncheon. No-shows on the day will forfeit their ticket fee. Please register early to avoid the disappointment of missing this jolly occasion as the room capacity is still limited 33 patrons.  We hope you will join us!

2:00pm Historical Photos Project Status Many of the teams are well progressed taking their current photographs and matching them with the rtelevant historical photos. We have also now purchased a high quality scanner and computer with a funding grant from the Town of Claremont to assist us with this project. This session will discuss three key tasks: 1. Getting the relevant high resolution historical images from the Town of Claremont by either downloading them from the Claremont Museum's digital archives or re-scanning the original. Depending on the number required we need to agree a process that meets the Museum's requirements for accessing and the preservation of these images. 2. As a gesture of goodwill we plan to assist the Museum to scan relevant images from the Museum's backlog of currently unscanned negatives, slides and prints for their preservation. We need volunteers for this task please. 3. Preparing a presentation of your team's historical and current photos preferably in a digital presentation.       3:15pm Mike Donaldson Presentation: Indigenous Rock Art Photography It gives us great pleasure to introduce our presenter, Mike Donaldson. Mike, is a geologist, avid photographer and bushwalker, who has devoted the past 30 years to systematically photographing and documenting indigenous rock art sights throughout the Kimberley, Burrup and selected areas elsewhere in Australia. The majority of the Kimberley art sites were previously unknown and were only discovered through Mike’s dedication and painstaking exploration on foot and with limited air support. The fruits of his labours have enabled Mike to create a wonderful series of quality, photographic rock art books, as well as an invaluable scientific legacy, comprising one of Australia’s largest photographic, rock art databases of some 100,000 images. Mike’s contributions are recognised nationally and internationally. He has generously donated his photographic collection for future management by UWA’s Centre for Rock Art Research. No doubt this collection will form the basis for a great deal of future research. Sundowner This Workshop will conclude with an informal discussion including the opportunity to chat with Mike over our usual drinks and nibbles. I hope you can attend this interesting Workshop. Mike Somerville-Brown 

The June event is on the Tuesday, 1st.  This month Kim Roberts, Chris Harding, Curt McDonald and I are providing wines.  A reminder for those bringing wine not to register for the night as i have already reserved you a spot.  If your circumstances have changed and you can't attend please tell me as soon as possible   See you on June 1, be quick.    Stephen