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An old Australian battler lies dying in his bed. He calls over Shirley, his faithful wife of 60 years, and says, "Shirl, when we started out, tried to buy a business in the depression, went bust: you were with me" "Oh, yes, Bruce", she says. Then the war started, I joined up, and wa...

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So here it is folks, with Tezza's blessing, hope most can make it on that day if possible. I have booked a table but need to confirm the numbers for joining tables etc before the day, so if you think you can make it let me know by a post here or by pm so I have an idea of how big a table we need. Everyone orders and...

Doesn't look very nice up there. Bingara is under water. The Newell from Moree to Goondi is closed as is the Gwydir. Just heard on the news a toddler drowned at Bingara, that is very sad. Are all our Grey Nomads safe, the weather has certainly been a bit uncomfortable the last two days.

Hello all Have moved on from Port Fairy and now at Merngo caravan park in Apollo Bay, very windy but still 31 degrees Have a try at surf fishing but the little bludgers did not want to be fed but will keep trying. If any nomads around come for coffee Ken

Proper use of tools explained...from a safety perspective of course DRILL PRESS: A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings your beer across the room, denting the freshly-painted project which you had care...

My teenage son just told me he shagged the neighbours daughter for the first time last night. "Well done son", I said, "I hope you used something for personal protection". "Yeah dad, a balaclava".

Anyone have a Saturn tv antenna on the van if so does it work ok? Agro

A. Back off and let those men who want to marry men, marry men. B.. Allow those women who want to marry women, marry women. C. Allow those folks who want to abort their babies, abort their babies. D.. In three generations, there will be no Greens. I love it when a plan comes together

- A Chinese man decides to move to Australia after 50 years of living in Shanghai. He buys a small piece of land near Mt Isa. A few days after moving in, the friendly Aussie neighbour decides to go across and Welcome the new guy to the region. He goes next door but on his way up the drive-way he sees the Chines...

We don't plan to do a lot of unpowered site camping but would like the option. hubby uses a CPAP machine so we need some kind of power supply.we can get one from the mob that supplies the CPAP machine but now we don't know what to use as the power source. so is it best to use a battery or a power/ jump start thing...

Hello all just starting to research tents. I want something not tooo claustrophobic that will fit me and the 2 woofers and something I can stand up in would be good. This is for when I want to leave the caravan behind and go 4wd bush camping in my ute or free camping in Tassie. In the ute I will have a solar pa...

The free camp at Chatsworth Park , just north of Gympie has been closed . Completely fenced off so nobody can get in there . 147 in Camps 5 . The one at six mile creek , south of Gympie is still open .

Hi everyone, is anyone experiencing problems with posting on "pick this place"? When I post a reply and submit, I am taken back to a page dated Nov 2010! Weird!! cheers, ozi2

Is anyone else having problems accessing private messages - my notifier said I had two new pm's - able to access one of them, but not the other, now the first one has disappeared - how come they have "fixed" something that wasn't broken? Nothing wrong with the old way. Have pm'd Cindy.

I got the stove,fridge and a/c in there, but it came with the van...My question is." Is it possible to survive out there without microwaves,inverters,solar panels and all the modern stuff...?" Cheers...

last year at around this time the floods started in western qld,i know cause we were held up by them for near a month and of course they carried onto what we all now know as the january floods. On the tv news im watching northern NSW flooding and im thinking is it on its way to a very wet new year again... Che...

The woman applying for a job in a lemon orchard seemed to be far too qualified for the job; given her liberal arts degree from the Sydney University and her jobs as a social worker and school teacher. The foreman frowned and said, "I have to ask you this: "Have you had any actual experience in p...

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