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Well, firstly, there is no system! As of mid morning, Monday 14 Dec, the Princess Alexandra Hospital called me to reschedule my surgery. Sorry guys, I think the surgeon read the Nomad's post and decided to come to my rescue, Thank Heavens! He made need that alcohol after all. I know I certainly do. I...

Hi all We are currently parked at Edithburgh weather good fishing not to bad. Watching the news last night they had a segment on climate change and predicting what the weather is going to be like in 100 years. Really how can you take this seriously!! Then came the weather for cast for Christmas day they...

Topic 1: How to fill ice-cube trays. Step by step with slide presentation. Topic 2: Toilet paper rolls: do they grow on the holders? Round-table discussion. Topic 3: Differences between the laundry basket and the floor. Pictures and explanatory graphics. Topic 4: Learning how to find things, star...

Just received the following text message from Chris.. quote: "I made it! All good pass it on to nomads pls" end quote

Just foud this yesterday The "Grey Nomad". First emerging in the sixties around beach areas, traveling & residing in strange shaped boxes on wheels, they have since evolved to favour much larger& luxurious contraptions. Rarely sighted in cities the "Grey Nomad" m...

You know the very nice electronic cards you can send "for free"? Excercise caution these are being used as somehow getting your personal info in an identity fraud scam.

How about we try to beat the record of the most members & guests online at one time. Was 14 members and 6 guests at 7.25pm on 1st December 2009 How about we make a date and time suitable to a number of us to beat this record? I suggest if it was done at 7.25pm we use that as a guideline for when it possibly sui...

Old Timer SexThis is too funny to be dirty - enjoy! The husband leans over and asks his wife, 'Do you remember the first time we had sex together over fifty years ago? We went behind the village tavern where you leaned against the back fence and I made love to you.' Yes, she says, 'I remember it well..' OK,'...

The future of nursery rhymes It's Raining, It's Pouring Oh sh!t, it's Global Warming. Jack and Jill went into town To fetch some chips and sweeties. He can't keep his heart rate down And she's got diabetes. Mary had a little lamb It ran into a pylon. 10,000 volts went up its arse And turned its wool to nylo...

In Japan, they have apparently replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with Haiku poetry. With their strict construction rules (each poem has only 17 syllables: 5 syllables in the first, 7 in the second, 5 in the third), Haikus are used to communicate timeless messages, oft...

Monday I formatted my computer.thinking it had a problem.....getting slower and slower.......re-installed everything.......only to find this forum slower still....I thought .Dammmmm computers.........I visited Gary and Kerry yesterday and they said it was slow for them too..........a...

I was fortunate enough to catch Sir Terro hard at work. Although a rare sight .........I was able to capture it on a shutter setting 1/1000

just wondering , if i get a holden rodeo next year, or similar ,has any one had any experiance with the slide out camper things.. as per here http://www.freedomoffroad.com.au/mc750HRD.php

42 yesterday about 21 today, stinking mongrel north west wind and today a cool breeze and hissing down with rain the cyclone off the kimberley coast has stretched it's tentacles right across the centre of aust. to reach us all the way down here, how amazing is that, thousands of kilometres away acros...

I have just been seduced by these fora into wasting the whole of my morning without achieving a solitary thing of a productive nature. It is not only a consequence of spending time reading and responding to the many and varied postings on these pages, but more a matter of the neccessity of rescuing my ke...

A man was leaving a convenience store with his morning coffee when he noticed a most unusual funeral procession approaching the nearby Cemetery. A long black hearse was followed by a second long black hearse about 50 Feet behind the first one. Behind the second hearse was a solitary man walking a dog o...

We are planning on doing the big lap starting around Easter in 2010 and was wondering what the best service provider is for wireless internet access while travelling. We want to be able to keep in touch with family and friends plus do a small amount of business onine eg banking etc. Optus vs Telstra next...

The other day I went to the Patent Office trying to register some of my inventions. I went to the main desk to sign in and the lady at the desk had a form that had to be filled out. She wrote down my personal info and then asked me what I had invented. I said, "A folding bottle." She said, "Ok...

Just before the end of the year I wanted to thank you all for the e-mails you have forwarded throughout the year. I must send a big thank you to whoever sent me the one about rat **** in the glue on envelopes, because I now have to use a wet sponge with every envelope that needs sealing. Also, I now have to wipe...

Hi all, My name is Sandy and my partner's name is Trevor. We are originally from Bribie Island in Qld and we have set off on our adventure with our little Aussie Terrier Roxy. We have a Toyota Coaster motorhome and we are pulling a special trailer with all Trevor's sharpening gear in, as he is a saw doctor a...