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I believe that butter is a healthier choice than margarine but it's just too hard to spread. Occasionally buy the spreadable butter that usually works out to over $6 for 500g, a lot to pay. A few weeks ago friends told us how they make their own spreadable butter. Buy block butter, let it go soft then whip...

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As an update...2 more issues have been found. Would you believe there is NO drain **** on the 127L water tank to drain the tank water. One of the stabilizer legs will not retract all the way in when winding up the leg. Millard are promoting they have been making caravans for 70 years...........and they s...

Semi retirement has come at last, although bit scary I have twelve months to see if I like it. Next three weeks packing and getting van set and loaded then hit the rd on our lap around. 12th April is d day OMD

I note that quite a few Nomads are using domestic refrigerators. A point that is never brought up is that these fridges pull the heat out of the inside of the fridge and dump it into the room its in. Caravan fridges duct the heat away out side. This means that on a hot day the fridge is busy cooling its inter...

hi all, hope someone can help (DAD just bought a jeep lol). We supposed to have tsc, trailer stability control on the jeep. would that work the same as esc on the van .any help would be great. ty

We intend to run north from Port Augusta up the Stuart Highway to Coober Pedy on the instructions from the BOSS. I would like to travel east across to William Creek and then down to Roxby Downs. The road is all metalled. Has anyone run this road recently and know what condition its in? Not keen on 300km o...

In Church on Sunday, I heard a sweet elderly lady, in the pew next to me, saying a prayer. It was so innocent and sincere that I just had to share it with you: "Dear Lord", the past couple of years have been very tough for me. You have taken- My favourite actor - James Garner, My favourite actres...

I have just discovered that you can buy Campimg Showers that are run on 4 'D' Batteries. I had only heard of the 12 Volt ones prior to last Saturday, when a friend advised me that these are now available. Jaycar have some on sale for $19.99 each at the moment. Needless to say, I bought one today. Cheers...

A young lady started work in the village chemist shop. She was very shy about having to sell/handle condoms to the public... The owner was going away on holidays for a couple of days and asked if she would be willing to run the Chemist shop on her own. She felt compelled to confide in him her worries abou...

Off to the dentist this morning..

not looking forward to this. the weather is pretty crap outside and I feel like that inside. supposed to see Billy Idol tonight at the Win Entertainment center in Wollongong but not sure now, and my birthday on Saturday... not doing so good this week.. th...

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This is my personal experience in using a bar fridge in a caravan. It was a new fridge in 2007 when purchased & cost $80. It had to run off a Honda EM500U generator (450Watt) as well as a 300watt Modified sinewave inverter. As purchased it wouldn't run on either powersupply as the start current was to...

I am wanting too start setting our van up with some 12v lighting , what are these strip lights that you can buy on eBay ,about 5mt for $20

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Hi all Has anyone out there had any issues with current model Retreat Vans?

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Hi everybody, has anyone installed a Camec Elite Caravan Mover onto a twin axle van. We have put ours on and all motors work in th correct direction but we can't get the four motors synced to just one remote control instead of using two remotes. We've done what the book and Camec staff told us but it doesn'...

G'day all. Karen and I are returning to Caravanning as grey Nomads (well, speaking for myself only of course). We were much younger when we bought our first van in the UK and camped in all weathers including snow on a few occasions, but are just as keen to camp all year around in Australia. Well....we wou...

http://www.caravantalk.co.uk/caravan-videos/nnn-caravan-videos/rowntree-york-caravan-clubs-approach-- Edited by malurus on Tuesday 17th of March 2015 05:49:26 PM