Bateau Bay Men's Shed

Our 3rd birthday celebrations were a very happy affair with a lot of laughter and good food to follow.  Colleen our ‘Shed Goddess’ was on hand to cut the cake and to accept a pot of flowering Pansies on behalf of all the men in the Shed. No offence is meant between mentioning Pansies and […]

Our links with the Killarney Shed in Ireland continue to grow and recently we sent this Certificate of Fellowship to them. Mark, our resident creative member, designed a presentation certificate that linked our Sheds under the  nations flags and the combined  logos of the two Sheds. We hope Killarney Men’s Shed will display this framed

Bateau Bay Shed continues to work in support of Vision Australia and our latest project was to make a Braille Teaching Board. This will be used with young blind children when teaching them the Braille alphabet. During the design phase we learnt that when this alphabet was invented in France by Mr Braille he didn’t

 With the scrub cleared and pushed into a pile the next stage with the garden was to get rid of the unwanted cuttings in readiness for levelling the area before starting into the drainage.  What better way to get rid of a pile of bush than to invite the NSW Fire Brigade to set the

The Lucas Mill demonstration at Alison Homestead was watched with great interest by a number of Shedders from across the Central Coast and beyond.  What a great piece of machinery that could be put to good use by Sheds who have access to logs or large pieces of timber they need reduced in order to

The Crew Following the visit by members of Bateau Bay Men’s Shed to Garden Island- our countries ultra secret Naval Station – it was pronounced that Australia is once again in safe hands.  The crew from HMAS – BBMS are ready and willing to fight for our country so all Aussies can sleep soundly knowing

There is just no stopping Santa’s Big helpers as they continue to churn out toys of all types. What with Steve producing the base models and Norm providing the decorations the array of finished products is a testament to their skills.

Christmas is still months away but Santa aka. Norm has been hard at work in his corner and the toys are building up. With not enough time in the Shed he takes parts home to paint, now that’s dedication.

Bruce has taken some timber from the scrap bin at Wideline windows and laminated up two circular table tops which he has finished with a splash of satin lacquer to produce the soft glow evident in the photo. The legs for one table have been salvaged from a friends pot plant stand and the other

Barrie has been a member of the Shed from our very early days and hardly misses a Tuesday where he keeps a close eye on what people are up to. While his eyesight is not the best these days his mind is still razor sharp. All too often he remembers a piece of hardware or