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Have great day Paul and enjoy that new chair you are picking up today. I was dobbed in, now you are

My last day of real work on Friday 22Augest 34 years service as line worker .Worked in Ryde to Brooklyn area maintaining 11kv /415v mains and supply to customers.. . At 61 I 'm doing the big loop . A few things to do before we go like some maintenance on home mainly gutters .. See you all out there .. Grae...

Photo of my recently completed first ever quilt - all done by hand

You may be like me and never heard of a rocket stove before. But I stumbled across this little gem when looking for something else on you tube. It is basically a very efficient little wood stove that is easily made using some very basic materials that are easily obtained. Typically tin cans. It is exce...

1. A girl is said to be grown up when she starts wearing a bra. A boy is grown up when he starts removing it. 2. Women love to spend lots of money buying new clothes but never realise that the best moments in life are enjoyed without clothes. 3. Having a cold drink on hot day with a few friends is nice, but havin...

Hello everyone,,, joined the group over a month ago but have had no time to introduce US. We are a young at heart couple that sold up, left our corporate jobs, bought our Rodeo and Roadstar and hit the road and have not looked back. Apart from a few speed bumps in life ( lost the roadstar due to a hail storm, h...

Got this in this morning

Keith tidied up in the house. Found a knife on the floor. yours I think. Can you live without it or do we need to send. Regards Alice

Suburban gas/electric model sw6dea. When lighting with gas the hot water unit takes a number of efforts before it stays lit. It seems to attempt to start in bouts of 3. And then requires being switched off and on again. And a further 3 attempts then try to light. Sometimes it may take 3-4 on/off at...

This must have been a slow day in the town planning department. Brought a smile to my face though. A street in Berri South Aust.

An elderly couple, who were both widowed, had been going out with each other for a long time. Urged on by their friends, they decided it was finally time to get married. Before the wedding, they went out to dinner and had a long conversation regarding how their marriage might work. They discussed finan...

We are in the process of joining the band of happy wanders. Any suggestions or ideas would be a fantastic help. With about 10 months to go we now have set the wheels in motion for our donkey, our field has been narrowed to the BT50/Ranger hi rider with the extra cab 2wd 2010/11 3 ltr tdi or the tritons equi...

Hi all new members Adrian and Sandra,located just out of hervey Bay.Retired plumber and gasfitter ,manager and Sandra company director nd everything else important.

I'm not good with introductions but i'll give it a bash

Firstly i would like to thank you very much for accepting me as a member to this forum. I have been visiting for the past month and just reading as a guest what members have been posting and must say learning a lot as well as admiring you travelers. S...

I have spent yesterday look for a towing rig, my preference is leaning towards either the BT50/Ranger or a Triton 2010/11 The Bt50/Ranger in a freestyle cab 3.0ltr TDI as either a 2.5 or 3t towing capacity, where the Triton in a similar configuration is only 2.25t. Finding one is not the problem but the...

big WELCOME to all the newbies that I have missed over the last few weeks - intermittent access to the internet is my only excuse!!! Enjoy the madhouse that is called a forum - don't take life too seriously, get a laugh - put your two cents worth in - ask for advice - learn how to use the forum - read all the sub...

just been told i am wealthy because i drive a car ,and here i was thinking i wanted more, i did not realise i was so well off

Gday... 1861 - William Landsborough organises a relief expedition to find the missing Australian explorers Burke and Wills. Robert O'Hara Burke and William Wills set off from Melbourne in 1860 with a huge party of men, supplies and camels, aiming to be the first to cross Australia's i...

Hi All, It is with great reluctance and long discussions, that we have decided to sell our campervan, We only bought it last year and had so much work done on it but unfortunately age has caught up with us, after a trip to W.A. we realise that we cannot continue travelling on the road. We have been so lu...