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Took the grandkis out to chaffy dam today 40 ks from tamworth here couple of pics was bit cold out there to day a brisk 8 at 3pm this avro -- Edited by lilly on Friday 6th of August 2010 06:27:51 PM

Just how much profit do these theives want? My regular beer at woolies has risen to $47 a carton in their bottle shop & $48 in their new BWS, which was Celebrations until xmass time. The local IGA is $42 normal , just had a special @ $36.95, big difference. A celebrations store in the next town has just...

The Talking Centipede A single guy decided life would be more fun if he had a pet. So he went to the pet store and told the owner that he wanted to buy an unusual pet. After some discussion, he finally bought a talking centipede, (100-legged bug), which came in a little white box to use for his house. He t...

A little boy wanted $100.00 very badly and prayed for weeks, but nothing happened . Then he decided to write God a letter requesting the $100.00. When The postal authorities received the letter addressed to God, Australia they decided to send it to Julia Gillard. Gillard was so amused tha...

Patrick walks into a bar in Dublin, Orders three pints of Guinness & sits in the corner of the room, Drinking a sip out of each pint in turn. When he had finished all three, He went back to the bar & ordered three more. The barman says, "You know a pint goes flat soon after I pull it .....

A get together is being planned from the 25th Feb at the north head primitive camp ground near Moruya airport, south coast , NSW. Pet friendly. Find it on Google & book your site. I am posting this on behalf of a member & friend , they are just doing a short interstste trip & left part of their n...

Well, on 22 Feb my plan is to leave Boonah Qld to go to Porepunkah Vic, for about a week, I have allowed myself 3 days to get there, it is my first solo trip towing my 14ft Coromal Cygnet pop top. Bit apprehensive, but as I have plenty of time, I reckon I will be ok. If you see me - Black Nissan Terrano towing 14f...

Just in case there are some out there who haven't yet seen one of my "Google It" posts, remember to do just that when you want to find out something. Also, if you want to see a place, or what something looks like, or to find out what something you have seen is, [like Marjs' Roasting Rack] clic...

I know I done this one 12mths ago , There has been a few hundred new members since then & thought it was worth a rerun for them. There was movement at the station' so wrote down a famous man But how did Banjo know this? p'raps he towed a caravan. Maybe Banjo had been woken in a van park from his s...

Heading off in June for three months yah taking our two small dogs 5kgs each and want to take our bikes any ideas how to transport dogs on bikes? Cheers Cheryl

For those of you with a tent, and those who can remember... We have found that when sleeping on the blow-up mattress all our body heat seems to go into the ground underneath it, and we are cold even on a warm night. Have tried putting a rug under it which improved it a little. We used to have one of those self-...

The following is quite true. 1973, and it is the start of a twenty year career as a "professional" tour driver. Alice Springs airport, and I am picking up my first tour. It is a Japanese group, and having grown up in the bush, I had no idea about their minor language problem with the letters,...

28 years ago today...SA and Vic burnt.......lives lost...homes destroyed.....Have we learnt anything??

woman goes to the Doctor, with bruises on her face. The Doctor asks: "What happened?"The woman says: "Doctor, I don't know what to do. Every time my husband comes home drunk, he slaps me around." The Doctor says: "I have a real good cure for that. When your husband comes h...

http://www.eldoradocountyweather.com/satellite/ssec/australia/spacific-color-ir-sat2.html-- Edited by petengail on Tuesday 15th of February 2011 06:11:26 PM

Sorry about that. By being a Grumpalian, it meant that many of us can look back, and in my case, remember collecting, and taking soft drink bottles to the green grocer. Collecting beer bottles for the "bottle-o". Newspapers for the butcher, and horse s**t for the local gardners. Thinkin...

Hello everyone. I have been lurking on this site for about three years now, dreaming of joining you all while sitting at my computer in grey, cold England. I'm 54 and my house is currently up for sale but in this market, it could take forever to sell so I likely won't be joining the nomads for some time y...

Life is like a hot bath, the longer u stay in the more wrinkly u get !

We have started our new career as park managers and are happy to offer members of this forum 10% of the daily rate for a powered site which would make it $18/night Unpowered are very cheap @ $7.50 per night and weekly rates are $100/powered and $37.50 unpowered. Looking forward to meeting you.

Hiya, Just wanted to say a great big thank you to the GN's at Port Vincent Foreshore Caravan Park for their help and support. I finally took my first short trip towing the van from Adelaide to Port Vincent and was feeling really really nervous about reverse parking the van onto the site and lining it up...