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Ravenshoe railway complex on the tablelands is just about to announce that they will be a 96 hour stopover. We have just had 4 nights there with hot showers, gold coin donation box, take own toot paper, donation locked box also for water to top up van. it is a very friendly little town who have fought fo...

I have the new purple edition 12-19 Sept. showing up in the top left corner but when I open it, up comes the previous edition. Not sure what is going on? Anyone else having problems???

My eldest child has turned 40. My "Precious #1" had a serious dinner party in the wool shed at the farm where she lives. The farmer/land lord had a major clean out to accommodate her guests, and sent a pile of scrap farm machinery away in a very large semi-trailer. Then he set up the "b...

Hi all, I have been told that led lights use less electricity than the "normal" ones. We are only thinking of replacing the downlights at this time. As we are about to go solar is this a fact and what is the difference in usage between the two systems? Thanks in advance, Phil B.

Eventually left Townsville on Monday afternoon and apart from being very tired due to a late Sunday night finishing everything off, had a trouble free trip to Belyando where I spent the night in the C P there. Tuesday was disastrous. The reversing camera monitor packed up (it is new), then the tacho i...

PLEASE NOTE: I did not write these, but I paste them here as a community service. We always hear "the rules" From the female side.. Now here are the rules from the male side. These are our rules! Please note.. these are all numbered "1 " ON PURPOSE! 1.Men are NOT mind readers. 1. Le...

We have a little Satnav It sits there in our car A Satnav is the driver's friend It tells you where you are. I have a little Satnav I've had it Most of my life It does more than the normal one My Satnav is my wife. It gives me full instructions On exactly how to drive "It's thirty miles an hour" it say...

I was testing children in my Sunday school class to see if they understood the concept of getting into heaven. I asked them, "If I sold my house and my car, had a big garage sale, and gave all my money to the church, would that get me into heaven?" "NO!" the children answered. "...

as a new Blogger I was quite surprised that today my blog is off line - especially as I spent about 5 hours yesterday putting the last of it on line. Never fear - I will be back. It is just Google being super cautious and I had to verify my existence. I think their automated spam machine might be too senstivie...

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Any Grey Nomads going to be in Katherine area for the Mango Season. May be able to catch up.

Hi All, Well its happened we have sold our home (finally) and now we start planning our big adventure. We will be travelling around Tassie for a couple weeks so as to get used to Van and Tug. A big thank you to all you "Nomads" for your advice and look forward to meeting you all and learn some more...

I know I go on the sight reasonably often and due to some reticence don't often post. I have a query, have I missed the latest Weekly mailbag? The last one I saw was for the 2-9 August. Has the newest one got lost? Did wombat hide it down his copious burrow? Maybe with the friendly rivalry between Dougwe a...

Julia Gillard walked into the NAB to cash a cheque. As she approached the cashier she said "Good morning , could you please cash this cheque for me"? Cashier: "It would be my pleasure Madam. Could you please show me your ID?" Gillard: "Well I didnt bring my ID with me as I didn...

A dwarf waks in to a tall woman, He did not know if he'd had a crack in the mouth or a box around his ears

G'day all and Red Dog, I watched your movie last night Red, and I can honestly say, you aint changed one bit!!! Thanks for the info on outback travel, most illuminating. Magnarc.

For many years I have worked and travelled in the outback and i do read at length some of the articles which are written in this form. Much of it is useful and much of it is strait rubbish, and if you were to believe everything you were told by different writers you would find yourself in a great deal of strif...

Good service, good price - what more could you want - Jax Tyres - 11 Albany Creek Road, Aspley, suburb of Brisbane.

Greeting , all U excited ppl out there, Today , was a 10 out of 10 day for Us, Got two tyres for the star ship today, booked to get another Solar panel on roof, on Wednesday....Went down the beach for lunch , met two Nomads, who r enjoying the play ground, free camping, and sticking it up the System,,,,had a n...

After a few months of confusion and medial issues I decided it was time to leave Perth. Have only gone as far as York and staying with friends on thier farm. Hoping to leave Fri. Colls