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Bill 12 paid a visit today and we enjoyed a cold beer on a hot day while we inspected each other's rigs, which are almost twins - Freeway slide-ons sitting on Ford Courier utes. His a bit more upmarket than mine, though, cos it's newer. I wrote all about it and included a few pics on my daily blog (February 1...

On a bitterly cold winter morning a husband and wife in Dublin were listening to the radio during breakfast. They heard the announcer say, "We are going to have 8 to 10 inches of snow today. You must park your car on the even-numbered side of the street, so the Snow ploughs can get through. "So...

Who carries Jaffle Irons in their rig? What have you got? Vintage or new? Cast iron or not? What do you cook in them? KD

G'day jaffle fans. I stumbled on this site this morning and started salivating when I read all the jaffle recipes... heaps of them! It's difficult to know where to start (or will be when I get my bloody teeth). The hash brown recipe is so simple it's ridiculous! But sounds yummy. Check the site out here....

Hi folks .. For any of you that may have enjoyed stopping over at Macquarie Woods in NSW as I have .. (approx. halfway between Bathurst and Orange) .. Arrived here today and its not in the best of conditions at all .. there appears to have been little maintenance here recently and all the toilets have been...

The new catalogue in Aldi today has a couple of pages of camping stuff for anyone looking...on sale Sat 8th Feb

Gday...1847 - Thomas Edison, the American inventor who, singly or jointly, held a world record 1,093 patents for inventions, is born.1861 - Burke and Wills reach the northern coast but are unable to actually reach the sea, due to mangrove swamps. 1990 - Nelson Mandela, anti-apartheid c...

Gday...1788 - Reverend Richard Johnson officiates at the first marriage ceremonies in the New South Wales colony. 1879 - Ned Kelly's famous Jerilderie letter is penned. 1964 - 82 men are killed as the HMS Melbourne and HMS Voyager collide off the New South Wales coast. 1840 - Queen V...

Hi all, I have a fold up portable solar panel set up, of 120 watts each. I intend to dismantle it and place them on the van roof, so bought 2 sets of corner brackets for the panels. I already have one 120W panel up there, and it was done with the same brackets. The guy who installed it used Sikaflex, but I fai...

Listening to the warnings it sounds as if most of Victoria is ablaze. Around Melbourne the Preston and Warrandyte fires appear to be under control, but the fire in Craigiburn is still out of control, and moving quickly. In Gippsland Orbost, is under significant threat with evacuation orders just i...

Onions and Christmas Trees A family is at the dinner table. The son asks his father, "Dad, how many kinds of boobs are there?" The father, surprised, answers, "Well, son, there are three kinds of boobs. In her 20s, a woman's are like melons, round and firm. In her 30s, 40s and 50's the...

Two paddies were working for the city public works department. One would dig a hole and the other would follow behind him and fill the hole in. They worked up one side of the street, then down the other, then moved on to the next street, working furiously all day without rest, one man digging a hole, the o...

Hi creative ladies and gents. ( sorry this is so big I cant figure out how to make it smaller ) i wonder could anyone please help me regarding the bath mat shown here. It's old as you can see!! I've had them about 30 years so can't remember where I got them. Two questions please , firstly, has anyone seen t...

The fires that are currently out of control have caused MANY road closures around Victoria, including sections of the Hume and Princes highways, the road between Bendigo and Melbourne, Bell street in Preston (just been re opened), and dozens of others. If you are planning to travel in Victoria ple...

We are going to be somewhere in the middle of NSW (Somewhere Between Narrabri and Cowra during the Easter Break. Hoping for some advice about a good place to pull over and spend the 4 days, on top of that it is school hols and half the state will be out camping

Pulled the Boat out this morning. Was quite easy considering its a 7m Catamaran which weighs a ton,and can be a handful with any swell on the boat ramp.Leaving on the 8am barge tomorrow.its blowing a gale,25 to 35 knots, here with a low out in the coral sea should turn into a cyclone in the next few days....

Get A Dickens Cider..................(say it out loud) Have a good laugh. Watch to the end http://www.youtube.com/embed/Xfzxesxk_Y -- Edited by Big Gorilla on Thursday 6th of February 2014 07:50:56 AM -- Edited by Big Gorilla on Thursday 6th of February 2014 07:53:33 AM

Hi all. I have just read, and posted, in a thread relating to a recall of a particular brand of generator which made me wonder if it is essential, necessary or desirable to earth our gennies when using them. I ask this as our Honda 2 Kv has a fairly conspicuous earth tab on the outlet panel but nowhere in the...

Hi, Does anyone know what the caravan parks are like in Casino? Also, has anyone stayed at the showgrounds? Thanks everyone.