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Rose this morning early (for a change) to walk down to the local park to join the residents of the town to a shire hosted Aussie day breakfast. Lions & Rotary & Apex dished out bacon, sausages, eggs & tomato, which we took to one of many shared bbqs and cooked ourselves. Shared tables wit...

anyone got one of them vacuum sealer machines are they worth the effort Neil

Did you hear about the man who fell into an upholstery machine?. He's fully recovered..

We have just had two nights at Wagin Showgrounds ($8.00 for powered site, $5.00 unpowered) this morning before we left, we were greeted by a councillor for the area who is trying to get many more RVs into town. He advised us that council is planning to close down the low cost site. The council also ow...

Looking to upgrade our old Roadstar, and have been impressed by the "storage space" in the new vans we're have been looking at. Must say we are looking at vans just a little larger than our current, and at first it seemed the difference in the storage space was quite a lot..... Until we got do...

Hello Fellow Travellers Well the adventure of a lifetime begins in less than 6 weeks now it has certainly been a busy time packing and chucking. Just wondering if anyone else is in the same boat as me I have a pacemaker and have to send a transmission or interrogation as they call it of my device back to m...

Pics of our van, old floor out and new down, new seat covers and curtains = a new look van for us. After waiting 10 yrs to do this it only took us a week to do!!! (Someone else laid the vinyl, we made the seat covers and curtains) Sorry just oust checked and these loaded sideways as well..... Just tilt yr he...

I am sure lots will relate to this: -- Edited by jules47 on Sunday 26th of January 2014 07:36:54 AM

MOVE OVER DOROTHEA MACKELLAR Australia...Great poem....makes you think When the shearing sheds are silent and the stock camps fallen quiet When the gidgee coals no longer glow across the outback night And the bush is forced to hang a sign, '. gone broke and won't be back' And spirits fea...

I became confused when I heard the word 'service' used with these agencies: Banking 'Service' Postal 'Service' Telephone 'Service' Pay TV 'Service' Civil 'Service' City, State & Public 'Service' Customer 'Service' Bureaucratic 'Service' This is not what I thought 'Service' meant. But to...

Well day two of our trip towards Tassie, left Womargama for Melbourne arriving at 2:30pm and wow what about the roads, and how good the western ring road is anyway, unhooked the van at Braybrook CP and head down to Port Melbourne making sure we can find the place no worries at all. Looking forward to o...

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Omg, we had our v8 03 cruisercconverted to gas and we're only getting 250ks outof a 90lt ttankttowing thevva. Is tthatrright? We were suss thattthe gas guy did a dodgy job as we had to take it back a gfew times as it was stalling etc. No we're REALLY worried. Should we becconcerned or is this fairly no...

This was written by a black gentleman in Texas and is funny. What a great sense of humour... And creative!!!When U Black, U Black When I was born, I was BLACK, When I grew up, I was BLACK, When I went in the sun, I stayed BLACK, When I got cold, I was BLACK, When I was scared, I was BLACK, When I was sick, I was BLA...

Police work must be entertaining as well as dangerous. Recently, a female police officer arrested Patrick LAWRENCE, a 22 year old male, who was caught fornicating with a pumpkin in the middle of the night. The next day, at the Horsham Court (Victoria, Australia), LAWRENCE was charged with lewd and...

Gday...1885 - One of Australia's earliest rail disasters occurs at Cootamundra in New South Wales. 1974 - The devastating 1974 Brisbane floods begin.1924 - The first Winter Olympics open. 2004 - NASA's Exploration Rover 'Opportunity' lands on Mars. Cheers - John

Recently I had occasion to require that I repair a leaking window in the motorhome. I had tried the usual silicon, but it still leaked. Its probably because of the movement when travelling down the highway. So i did a search on Google and came up with a product called,,, Capt. Tolleys Creeping Crack Cur...

A farmer see's a man drinkin fae a puddle and says "Dinnay drink oot o that, it's foo o coos ****" The man says' "Sorry I'm English - Could you speak English please. "Aye .. Use both hands old chap .. you can get a little more in your mouth"

Well we set off this morning for our travel extravaganza to Tassie well heading over to Bungendore hit a Kangaroo smashed the front of the van in then hit a huge downpour of rain front window leaks anyway hopefully things will get better. We are free camped at Womargama near Holbrook good free camp...

Well, I never thought I'd achieve 6 finished quilts in a year but I guess I stayed home a bit more this year. The first was started last year - a candlewick quilt which I hand quilted. The second was a quilt I'd been working on for a while having saved the fabrics for ages - the rose quilt, also handquilted. T...