Cbdave

G,day Sorry for the bother but I don’t actually have a working “puter” I only use my phone. Been without one for 3 years now. Been a bit reluctant to go off site after photo shop hyjacked my pics .... Have to do a rethink might just have to use the printed word... your a champ! Chris

Gday thanks for replying. Using the paper clip is what I’ve been doing but it now gives me an error that I haven’t used the correct file. It’s a jpg same as in the past. I’ve unloaded a few pics to give me room but still the same result

G’day Now I’m stuck! Went through a deleted a few pics in an effort to make up space. Still get the error message that it’s got to be certain type. I removed a jpg and attempted to replace with another jpg....error message. what do you have to do to post a pic?

G’day sore and tired But Still Full of NOPE! C

G’day That I’d be right!..... Jo I joined the NAVY in the 1970s.... not the 1870s....

G’day Love a baked spud. And the best way to bake um is in the ashes. No peeling no aluminium foil either The outside gets hard a leathery which is what you u want to keep those insides creamy. A bit of salt is all it needs. Cause it’s not on the list my moneys on the roast. I’ve got a secrete stash of mutton fat saved from the lamb roast. You can keep your duck fat! It’s good but you can’t best a spud cooked in mutton fat.....

Gday NOPE starts this day C

Gday another... a feel good one

Gday I don’t know about banned... easy word to shoot off. I do know that tabocco is no longer grown in Australia, no longer lisenced. Not banned. There were lisences, it was in the interest of big tabacco companies to controll things. Now no licences are issued to grow in the country so nicotine produces are imported. It is illegal to sell snuff chewing tobacco and vaping nicotine. That’s sell. Not import for your private consumption. So no “rights” apart from those of big tabacco are taken away. Meanwhile the big tabacco still have the right to import in cigs and tobacco and cigars. Regulated and taxed heaps. Smoking has declined from over 50 per cent to under 15 per cent. I’m betting the next figures will be under 12 per cent here hoping for that magic 10 per cent. In my lifetime too. So it’s pretty exciting to think it’s actually possible to stop the wholesale sale of smoking in the country. Chris

G’day I’m not going to craft any arguments for the rights of trade, or peer speach or the rights of the individual. Banning cigs is being talked about cause it’s very possible and doable. And that’s in my lifetime. I think it’s blooming fantastic! Im now thinking could this be tried in a slightly larger island....Australia of course! Instead of picking off the smokers one by one lets get big and pick off country by country. Get big I say. Let’s not muck about talking about it let’s make it happen. (And in my lifetime too!) C

Gday Not One Puff E...... Remember insert Ever, Day, hour or min as required C

G’day Jo sorry don’t know I’m still in post op so I’ve goggled on my phone looks like the heat by 10 wickets.... that’s cricket C

How this for a great piece of editing, it makes me smile

Gday i was wondering when someone remembered?

Gday Got the other carotid artery cleared yesterday. Manager to get out the drain and various tubes and wires off this morning. And just then.... Oooo pleasure.... a shower....by myself even. Got my big boys underpants on but still have the hospital robe with the bum freezer opening. Off for a walk down the passageways a bit later just that the head nurse doesn’t know it yet life’s sweet Chris

Gday Lifes gotta be good when your not coughing up fur balls.... C

G’day Harry like most Poms ( brits or welsh in his case) would have to have totally retrained on bathing. In the Aussie heat he would smell like a Congo drummers armpit within the day. “ you don’t wait to be told you need parmolive gold” C

G’day Roll ya owns!!!! Stinking cheap time wasters. As the price went up I took up the “rollies” They satisfied the nico beasts requirements at the cost of smelling worse, tasting worse and wasting more of your day. Yes more time spent in making them I and keeping the beast feed that’s all you need! C

Gday Not One Puff E...... Remember insert Ever, Day, hour or min as required C

Gday Not One Puff ....... insert Ever, Day, hour or min as required C

G’day Well I think I got the answers that I was expecting..... varied. Seems we are all a bit diferent on what NOPE means to us. As long as we all get the thing we all want.... freedom from the smokes... C

Gday Not One Puff ....... insert Ever, Day, hour or min as required C

G’day NOPE starts this day C

G’day cant believe I’ve missed this section. Stinking hot so anything cooked is cooked on the BBQ outside to keep the house cool. Tonight Lime and Garlic salmon medely of vegetable with tomato and Rosemary Sorry no fancy plate shots it’s all cooking ones bugger cant upload a pic?

G’day I’m cbdave and more often that not I get to raise the NOPE pledge of a morning. Being close to the international date line and living on the east coast of Australia means that I get to see the new day a lot earlier than most. If I’m off fishing it can be really early as I hate my phone smelling of fish bait. It wasn’t always that way. I never posted a NOPE on the QSMB board in those first months. I thought it was a tad daggy. Couldn’t see the sense in it, if I smoked it was my fault it wasn’t needed to keep me honest. Had a bit of a rethink about the three month mark as I had two quit killers coming up. First a wedding with old friends who smoked and drinks... normally a recipes for smoking if every there was. On my return a biopsy for cancer. Sobering. So I started to post to keep myself in touch with the board and more importantly as an acknowledgement that Yes I was really an Addict. It really hit home that I needed to fess I that I was only a puff away from going back to that standard 20 cigs a day! So that’s me, now a diferent board ....but still taking the time to acknowledge the addict in me.... if only once a day. So pledge or don’t pledge but never forget what it stands for Not One Puff Ever Chris