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Are you a solo nomad wanting a break from travelling for a while & want a free camping spot without being hassled by councils or some other authoritarian individual hell-bent on making our nomadic lives difficult, then enquire or call in & look at the Chinchilla Free Camp as it may suit your n...

Apart from mice all over the country, the roads are hell. I've just done a pilot run to Moranbah, and now I'm heading home. I've parked up at Dalby for a couple of days catch up. I've even constructed my tent for the first time, all by myself. We travelled up through Jamestown on the "Over Dimension&...

We have all bought somthing that has proven about as useful as pockets in underpants. Fly and Mozzie repelent's are on that list, you must have wasted some money by now! When it comes to the different aerosol cans of chemical that are available I'm not interested, not even the roll on stuff, not since I f...

Hi, I have a new product that I invented last year and just released it at this years Melbourne Caravan and Camping Supershow. Just about everyone with a caravan or camper trailer can use the Autosteady. It's a 12V remote-controlled system that attaches to your current wind-down or drop down corner s...

Have read back over the "horror stories" on this health & wellbing forum, and basically, all I want is a general concensus on whether to have full medical insurance, hospital cover only, or none at all.

Hope all have a Happy Mother's day and if you are on the road take care, Helena.

How many forum posters does it take to change a light bulb? 1 to change the light bulb and to post that the light bulb has been changed 14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could have been changed differently 7 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs...

A North Queensland ruff-nut stockman attends a social function where Prime Minister Julia is speechifying. Clearly the stockman was not paying much attention, yackking with those closest and even quite far away. Julia endeavoured to attract his interest with slower single syllable words. Yo...

A Husband takes his wife to play her first game of golf. Of course, the wife promptly hacked her first shot right through the window of the biggest house adjacent to the course.The husband cringed, 'I warned you to be careful! Now we'll have to go up there, find the owner, apologize and see how much your l...

Can some-one tell me why my top toolbars are blacked out please ? Happens only periodically, and I don't know why. Cheers, Sheba.

This line of Buddhas was in a collection I saw recently.

Hey Guys n Gals, Whilst not exactly a mechanic thought this may be of interest to you all... Just thought I'd let you all know that the guys n gals at Dobinsons Springs in Rocky are awesome, I bought a 40mm lift kit (Springs/shocks/struts) last xmas and had it fitted up by the local mech, since the fit the t...

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One day God calls down to Noah and says, "Noah me old china, I want you to make me a new Ark". Noah replies, "No probs God, me old Supreme Being, Anything you want. After all, you're the guv" . But God interrupts, "Ah, but there's a catch." This time Noah, I want not just a...

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Chinchilla Free Camp is open again for those who might be interested.

The suspected gas bottle explosion that killed a father and his kids at Timbertops Caravan Park in Mandurah, W.A. had me thinking yesterday. Just a few months ago I bought one of those "Gasfuse Safety Gauge's" that go on the gas bottle. Yesterday thinking about that incident...