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A couple of kiwi sayings for a person who is not that clever.
The lights on but nobody is home.
If  they had another brain it would be lonely.
Nothing between the ears.
A saying here telling someone to get on with what they got to do.
Fill your boots.
A saying,   you give everyone a fair go is.
A fair suck of the sav.    ( A sav is a type of sausage)

Hi Phil
Great to hear from you. That guitar is a Ashton a great beginners guitar made in China which doesnt cost an arm and a leg. It was given to me by easybeat in 2015. I sold my musical gear over in Aussie back 1981 before returning to New Zealand and hadnt played guitar again until last year. So I have had to learn all over again. The  video was just me playing to my cheap laptop no microphones or  fancy cameras. I tend to record my stuff for soundcloud just using a cell phone. Unfortunately I am not much of player or singer but I just do it as a way to unwind at home sometimes after a hard week at work. Here is a link to my soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/eatleville/phone-my-guitar

Another Kiwi way of saying Ive Got Me  Guitar In The Boot,  is I ve Got My  Gat in the back.

Thank you Bill your a wonderful friend.

Glad you liked that bit of Kiwi entertainment Rickyjack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRcGxhsy0ag

  If this one doesnt work I will see if Easybeat can put the attachment up.  Derek Lind

I agree Zurf. I will attach a real Kiwi talent doing a song for you all to watch. I would love to hear your feed back on his  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRcGxhs … formance..

Gidday ( Kiwi way of saying Howdy) Topdown , Uncle Joe, Rickyjack, Keepitreal,Tig, Tenement, sorry about the sound quality my laptop doesnt record that well.
Easybeat I appreciate you explaining what a Dag is. Our overseas friends most probably dont use words like Gum Boot, Jandals , Kai, Wops, Pakeha, Batch, Old Bombs, Feeling Crook, Grouse, Jee Jees and the word  Kiwi for New Zealander. But I guess they would understand most of our banter down at our local watering hole.
Jandle  inside that Peatle  hard case is a soft lining.

If you love song writing just do it. Not everyone has the same taste in music.The love of my life Maree loves me but not my music. I dont like listening to myself singing or playing but find it trelaxing having a play around with music. Not every song works out but the more you do it the better chance one has of writing a good one. Most people dont like what I write but every now and then someone does and that is good enough for me. So my only advice is dont be to hard on yourself release your songs to the world and maybe they will grow legs or just sit on the shelf. Either way you had the courage to give it a go.

I think the hard thing for all musicians and songwriters is not having an audience. As much as I love Chordie I often wonder how many people on here take the time to actually go and listen to other Chordians output rather than just read their words. I am sure that most people will make that time if they have got it but if your not one of those listeners I would encourage you to listen to some of our family of chordians output.  For me the song means more than the theory behind it. I obviously am guilty of not giving feed back and taking everyone  music in, but if we all just give a couple minutes of our listen time to  some chordians we dont necessarily listen to I think our feed back has real value.

Michael Phelps what an amazing swimmer the whole world is in awe of his ability in the water. My mother's country of Fiji is celebrating with people dancing in the streets after they won their first ever medal a gold  in the rugby 7s. It is nice to see good competion between Nations hitting the news for a change. Our free to air  channel mainly lets us see
the  sports at the Olympics that New Zealand competing in. Those here with sky can watch much more. I guess with all the going's on around the next Presidential election over in the USA , Americans will be enjoying having something else to think about.