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I am booked to camp with my sister and B.I.L. in early Feb , and want to know if any GNs are going to be about then?It would be nice to meet some members.Bill -- Edited by bill12 on Friday 16th of December 2011 07:14:00 PM

Is there any truth in the rumour on other forums that this Grey Nomad forum may be intending to go "user pays" in the future

I have decided that I should delete myself from the Forum.I wish you all a Merry Christmas.Cheers.

Just finished work until the end of jan, red eye flight back to tassie to check on the house and all things dear to us along with our annual camping trip for a week with family and friends. A bit of maintance to do when I get home (like put the gutter on the new shed, replace some ridge capping and a bit of garde...

I have been having trouble getting enough amps into my main battery,a 150 amp/hr deep cycle and thought it was the cheap($20) reg I was using. Bought a programable Reg for $89 off ebay and It works?As you can see from the pic, I have plenty of volts and this one tells you how much is going out and into the bat...

Not wanting to alarm people but so many people use blogspot these days I thought it prudent to pass on the report I got from Avast this morning. Blogspot is the most attacked website in Australia. If you use it make sure your virus checker is up to date.

Any Grey Nomads travelling on the Bruce Highway between Gin Gin and Yamba (North of Rocky) should be aware to expect long long delays. I drove up to Yamba and back yesterday, and the journey took an extra 1 hour of travel between Gin Gin and Miriam Vale. The road works are long, many and the surface is real...

I have dreamt, planned and thought about travelling with my home on my back for at least 20 years. Now I am approaching the age where I can really start planning my retirement it is getting very exciting. This year I have planned a test, travelling straight down the centre in a rental, only a relatively s...

Hi all: Just bought the bride an e reader but now I need to know how to get the ebooks. She is not very computer savvy so I have to find out how to down load them first so I can show her. Can any one tell me of any free down load sites to get started. Any help would be appreciated. AL

Just a thought, and I am fairly new to the forum, so it may well have already been discussed, a buy and sell section, or swap and trade section. ( Reminds me of a joke, "got a new bike for my ex , I thought that was a pretty good trade !!") -- Edited by woody on Wednesday 14th of December 2011...

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Hi Guys, This morning my GN heading is all wrong, it looks like this, anybody else having the same problem?

People often talk about percieved problems with sitters but after 6 years of sitting the main problems we have come across are squarely in the homeowners court. We have heard of power being turned off due to nonpayment and a car being repossesed but the only hiccups we have encountered are due to peopl...

just letting you all know im still around tomorrow is my pet scan ive spent the last three days with a migraine ,today is my first free day without a headache thank goodness. so im all ready for the scan and lets all keep everything crossed at 7.45 am tomorrow for me and hope this all goes as planned . stay...

I was doing some Christmas shopping at a local shopping centre today when all of a sudden I was being hugged and hugged by none other than Jules47 I knew she was coming to visit family but hardly expected to run into her in a local shopping centre some miles from where her family live!!! We were plannin...

If I were a Business making good profits, I'd be telling them to buggar off.Julia Gillard called Bob Brown into his office one day and said,'Bob,I have a great idea! We are going to go all out to win the country voters.''Good idea Leader, how will we go about it?' said Julia.'Well,' said julia, 'we'll ge...

Hi everyone, I am having trouble loading pics so would appreciate someone posting in my place..........first in best dressed, so lets see what you;ve got! cheers, ozi2

I don,t know whether this should be on this forum, but I just calculated my power bil, up to now, and I am $87 ahead!I have a 1.52 kw panel setup on the roof of the house, and was worried about using the aircon as its been bloody hot here of late.It was a pleaseant surprise when it worked that I was ahead.I won...

Hi wombat & Vic, where in this part of Aus. are you both? I would like to catch up for a coffee/ ale some time after Christmas if you were agreeable & we could arrange it. Is anyone about Perth at Christmas & away from family? If you would like to catch up either PM me or simply reply to this post &...

G'day all in preparation for the road as well as getting the rig all sorted I was wondering if it was worth investing some dollars in lasar eye surgery. Not sure of the cost but I have always enjoyed 20/20 and find the decline in my vision very hampering especially over the past 3 or 4 years...... Could eve...