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Gday... 1876 - Jack London, author of "Call of the Wild", is born. 1899 - Paul Hermann Muller, the man who discovered that DDT was a potent insecticide, is born. 2005 - Nine die in a devastating bushfire on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. 2011 - Tugboat skippers Doug H...

Just a curious question here; How many of you sold up your house completely to go on the road? During our travels, we have met quite a few people who have done that (and new 4X4 and caravan to show for it!) but what happens when they get sick of travelling (or just sick)? We have kept our house (renting it out...

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Message from the Ambulance Service We all carry our mobile phones with names & numbers stored in its memory. If we were to be involved in an accident or were taken ill, the people attending us would have our mobile phone but wouldn't know who to call. Yes, there are hundreds of numbers stored bu...

On a train from London to Manchester to watch the cricket, an Australian was berating the Englishman sitting across from him in the compartment. "You English are too stuffy. You set yourselves apart too much. You think your stiff upper lip makes you above the rest of us. Look at me... I'm ME! I hav...

Hi all, I've already been asking questions before introducing ourselves! We are at home over summer (health problems restrict being in heat) so for the other three seasons we are out and about, we do love the coast but inland anywhere is a favourite, we love free or reasonable camping. To sit near a fir...

oops posted this in General before I realised there was a dedicated section. This is our new van .. we picked her up on Thursday (21' Retreat Fraser). We're both looking forward to finally having the luxury of a shower and toilet on board. No more trekking to the caravan park shower block on a cold and r...

At long last I am in the position to buy a campervan. Have been saving all my dollars madly having to start from square one after my bank account was stolen. So I am interested in a Toyota Tarago Camper van which is regestered in NSW and want to know how I would go about changing the rego. to QLD if I buy the v...

Has the "Mailbaggers" section been neglected of late? Haven't seen a post for some time now. Has it gone to the nudist beach where Bohemian Gypsy has snuck off to. They have nothing to write on there. Perhaps the terrible trio have hijacked/hacked the mailbaggers 'pooter system. Kevin --...

I have discovered that I have a lot to learn about quilts and patchwork!!!! I cleared the kitchen of all furniture so that I could use the floor to work on, even washed the floor then taped the backing fabric, the wadding and the extremely large quilt top to the nice clean floor and got down on hands an...

WOW!!!! Now it won't be long before we will be able to have a tow and a van capable of crossing bass strait. Check this out. http://www.youtube.com/embed/2150iFXF5Vc?rel=0 I guess that we are half way there with our houseboats. Jay&Dee

For some time I have had some issues with my dometic fridge not coping with changes to of temputure from day to day. I followed some posts to instal a couple of computer fans to the outpot grill with a obvious improvement in the fridges ability to cope with temputure changes. While things had improved th...

Left Gooloogong early and arrived in Parkes late morning, had an anxious drive having forgotten to fill up petrol. Fortunately made it but I had a reserve ready for the generator if the worst happened. The festival officially began today Wednesday but not much was happening, the shops were cashing i...

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Hi Campers, A new free camp is being developed in Kyneton, at Kyneton Mineral Springs. Can stay up to 48hours, will have toilets and lots of room... Was in our local paper... Take the first sign saying Kyneton, south of Bendigo, on Calder Hway... Good idea seeing they closed the local caravan par...

Gday... 1874 - Colonel Peter Warburton completes his gruelling nine-month crossing of the Great Sandy Desert. 1896 - Bourke, New South Wales, sees the end of thirteen days of extreme temperatures which kill 47. 1986 - The Gateway Bridge in Brisbane, Australia, is officially commissi...

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/red-alert-fire-health-warnings-for-perth-ahead-of-44c-scorcher/story-fnhocxo3-1226799001330-- Edited by kiwijims on Saturday 11th of January 2014 10:50:45 AM

After Milo asked for eBooks for his iPad I had to look further than the use of my Android tablet I've got a Android tablet that takes nearly 4 hrs to recharge than I tried the Aldiko app on my Android phone low and behold it works like a dream , and only less than hr to recharge so far been using it for more than 5...