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Queens Birthday Honours List
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I don't really understand these awards and the criteria relied upon in granting them. I note two former politicians received these awards but if they were so deserving, why were they booted out by their electorate? It is a bit like having your employment terminated for incompetence and then having y...
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Word Play
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9W78F3nUAg Jay&Dee
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1944 - WW2 To 2014.....
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This is quite interesting........... Just click on the photo anywhere and it will become 2014, 70 years later. Click again and it will go back to 1944. Read the notes below each photo. Scroll down for next photo. http://interactive.guim.co.uk/embed/2014/apr/image-opacity-slider-...
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Hard to believe these 8 incidents were captured on cameras
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Short videos.......cameras everywhere now.
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Going cashless
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During the lockdown a lot of businesses sought to use contactless payments. Was happy to go along with them. I usually would use cash for small purchases but noticed as time went on I was using a card for very small payments. In the Post Office it was $1.10 for a stamp a grand child's birthday card. Went t...
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Small Built in toilet and showe
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I have been constructing this weekend a small self contained shower and toilet for my bicycle caravan when I finish it. I will need it for when I and the dog pull in a caravan park area that says "Self Contained Caravans Only". This toilet and shower will work, and fit in my 2200 L X 850mm W X 1260 H camper/...
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Afraid of heights?
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Nice place to live, you have to carry everything home as well.........
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Can you spot the camel????
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Icould be very Cheeky and give you a clue. Well actually I have just given you a clue in the above words Jay & Dee
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I STILL BELIEVE IN DREAMS.
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I like many of you, at times escape into the fantasy of "" I DREAM THE DREAM "" and yes Saturday night's lotto is till on my bucket list. I like what Charlie Brown has to say below. I notice that C.B. even has the big brown bag ready for the $$$$$ Jay&Dee -- Edited by JayDee on Friday 15th of May 2020 06:45...
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April unemployment figures
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News headline on ABC a few minutes ago . . . "594,000 jobs lost in April as unemployment rises from 5.2% to 6.2%" Edited: That means that a fully employed workforce consists of 59.4 million people . . . or 59.4 million jobs. But Australia's population is only 25 million, with an employable workforce of...
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This is a short version of a great poem.
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Jim BrownTHE ANZAC ON THE WALL (Shorter Original Version) I was wandering in a country town cos I had time to spare; So I went into an antique shop to see what was in there. Bikes and pumps and kero lamps, but nearly hidden by it all, A photo of a soldier an Anzac on the Wall. Such an honest open face, a young m...
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Maybe we don't have it that bad.
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Its a mess out there now. Hard to discern between whats a real threat and what is just simple panic and hysteria. For a small amount of perspective at this moment, imagine you were born in 1900. On your 14th birthday, World War I starts and ends on your 18th birthday. 22 million people perish in that w...
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Who is the oldest member on the Forum.
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A forum member as asked if I am the oldest member on the forum. So let's throw it out there is see what we catch. I John ( AKA Jay) was born on the 16th day of January, 1939. So I am 81 years and 4 plus months. But I reckon that I would the Baby of the (O.B.E.) Over Bloody Eighty. Then of course there is the (O.B.N....
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stir crazy test
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find the camel, it is there -- Edited by Craig1 on Thursday 30th of April 2020 11:51:23 AM
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Protected
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1947 Fargo
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I am rewriting pages of notes I had jotted down during the 50th Anniversary of End of The War in The Pacific against the Japanese 15th August 1995 about my Father in law in New Guinea during WW2 for my Daughter and Son as I led to believe no other family member has this information been relay to them by their...
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Game.
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I put another "Find it " game on the thread where you had to find the Camel. Has any-one looked at it yet ? It's pretty easy, and I love those Trees. Cheers, Sheba.
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WHAT IT ALL MEANS...... THE TRUTH
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BEFORE Covid 19...
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Has anyone "experienced" a bad/negative experience from a community??...in relation to "clogging up" a medical facility....or ..."overcrowding" a fav camping spot/nat park?? etc etc Many years ago a park ranger confessed over a beer his views about visitors to a Nat park and it was not very comp...
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What am I ?
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I was born in Victoria. My partner was born in South Australia. Our eldest child was born in Western Australia Our second child was born in Queensland Our third child was born in the Northern Territory We have lived for extended periods in Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales, Western Australi...
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