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Yesterday my daughter e-mailed me again asking why I didn't do something useful with my time. Like sitting around the pool and drinking wine is not a good thing. Talking about my "doing something useful" seems to be her favorite topic of conversation. She was "only thinking of me&q...

i need to replace my laptop which is 7 years old my kids telling me Dad get an I pad but do they do as much as my laptop can i skype can i print i had an I pad supplied when working for a previous employer wasnt very impressed but it was on optus which i thought was rubbish would it still get an internet signal as g...

Hi Campers, Just curious - all you people who free-camp and say you have everything - where do you get your water? Thanks, Jay-Jay

In South West Gippsland for a week and then I will hit the high seas to battle through icebergs, tidal waves or pirates, heading to Tassie. I have been at Greens Lake for 10 days and boy was it hot as, even at night. I left around 1.00pm and it was that hot travelling there were roads in many places that had me...

Should people who tow caravans have to have a special license? It was an interesting conversation, and one that holds merit in my opinion. Apparently in Europe one has to have a licence for this, I do not know if this is fact, it came up in the conversation. It was also thought that if not a licence then o...

After going to see Judy Dench in a film called Philomena about the treatment of children in a Church establishment and her search for her son taken from her in Ireland, today I watched a movie I had recorded recently called "We Were Children" about the abuse in a church establishment in Ca...

Does anyone carry theIr musIcal Instruments wIth them on theIr trIps? I met up wIth a few In Qld last wInter. The ukulele Is a very popular Instrument not takIng up much room In the van. Hope to meet wIth some of you musIcIans on next trIp happy strummIng and sIngIng

A man and a woman were having a quiet, romantic dinner in a fine restaurant.They were gazing lovingly at each other and holding hands.The waitress, taking another order at a table a few steps away, suddenly noticed the man slowly sliding down his chair and under the table, but the woman stared str...

We are currently staying at the motorhome park in Port Augusta. The parking area is behind the sports club and has a dump point and water available. During the past two weeks that we have been here we were shocked to see the amount of people who pull into the area to empty their toilet cassettes and then dr...

Gday... 1909 - Australian geologists Douglas Mawson and Edgeworth David become the first to reach the magnetic South Pole. 1793 - Free settlement commences in Australia. 1837 - The "Proclamation Establishment of Government in SA" is printed on South Australia's first pr...

I hope it wasn't something I said, but as he says he is off to greener pastures and I think he,s taken heathers boat with him ,we are all a bit concerned where the humour is going to come from now ,guess we will have to wait forKen Thomas to bring in the humour ,alls well and good have fun DOUG

Hi does anybody know anything about thetford toilets, my daughter and son inlaw borrowed the caravan and while empting and replacing the toilet captual he had the slide piece around the wrong way and while pushing the captual in has damaged something inside but I can not work out what. The toilet now w...

We're on the thir day of our first trip and stayed at aAlstonville the first night, wwhich was lovely and Kempsey last night, which was not. WWe'vehad a sslight change of plans, Russell's uncle died llast night, so we need to stay closer to aAlbury for the next few days. Does anyone have a suggestion ...

Hi and happy new year to everyone. Don't know if I'm in the correct section here but here goes. I've purchased a van cover a prestige I think, but I'm now worried that I will need to cut a section out of the roof to avoid covering the solar panel. I am mainly concerned that if I cover the solar panel the onboar...

Greeting Naughty Nomads, Salutations, all you free thinking people out there, and a big hug to all you B Boomers, out there , At the present , Julie and I are in Wagga Wagga,,,,,, One word ... !!Hot,!!, could even say, Bloody !!Hot!!, but that's two words,,,,, Tomorrow , will be working our way over...

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Have just found the govt web site (my switch ) & downloaded the free app to locate the nearest tower etc. They also talk about horizontal & vertical waves . Can anybody tell me is my wineguard aerial suitable for both. We are currently just north of Bundaberg & can only recieve SBS. Ralph

A tourist in Vienna is going through a graveyard and all of a sudden he hears music. No one is around, so he starts searching for the source. He finally locates the origin and finds it is coming from a grave with a headstone that reads: "Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770- 1827". Then he realizes t...