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All those going to Mudgee in May, please check the MEETING UP Sticky. Some important information posted. Thanks Elaine

A Woman's Perfect Breakfast She's sitting at the table with her gourmet coffee. Her son is on the cover of the Wheaties box. Her daughter is on the cover of Business Week.. Her boyfriend is on the cover of Playgirl. And her husband is on the back of the milk carton. Enjoy the perfect breakfast, ladies!

OK Mechanical Techies this one's for you..... I need to replace the clutch release bearing in my diesel Pajero manual (90k on the clock) and it may make good sense to replace the clutch kit as well, depending on how much life is left in it. The vehicle is fitted with a dual mass flywheel that would have to...

This is NOT a post about whether we should have a new flag, but about our Flag History and those Australians fought under. First Australians fought under the British Union Jack, in Sudan, the Boer War and Boxer Rebellion in China. Then in the Korean War they fought under the United Nations Flag. In W...

Two parrots were sitting on a perch one day: One said to the other "Can you smell fish ?"

Two parrots were sitting on a perch one day. One parrot said to the other "Can you smell fish ?"

started raining up here around 9 ish last night with lightning strikes and thunder, had to put the green giant away as it was too wet still carrying on like a pork chop today, lightning strikes every minute or so with intermittent rain, we have a few "service lights" on the truck and header so...

Yes , its finally happened , telstra big pond has cut their prices & contract lengths , New contracts have much cheaper fees & reduced time frames . Existing contractes can be restructed to save money . Also no penalties for going over your allocated usage . We just rehashed ours today on a f...

a bolt of lightning just came down not twenty feet from our shed, took out the big old gum tree as if it was loaded with explosives, right down to the stump and this thing was 15 foot around the base, shards of timber came flying into the shed some as large as my arm I reckon I must have rolled on my grease g...

Hi All leaving 15th March for Perth and return and wanting any suggestions of places that are a must to see or avoid. Any extra spares to take for vehicle or van? Probably going via Dubbo-Broken Hill-Port Augusta-Ceduna-Norseman-Esperance-Albany-Margaret River. have 6 to 8 weeks. We wiil be trav...

Hi all you GN's, I'm 52 this year and my wife is 53, I'm keen to sell up and become a GN myself, and my wife would love the excitement too but what if we sell and don't like it? what if we sell and become ill, we've camped extensively in the High country, travelled a little around Oz staying in motels etc' I gues...

see I done told you nuthin was in here but you had to look didnt you!!! -- Edited by dave06 on Wednesday 20th of January 2010 02:10:55 PM

Some lucky tourist picked up $15,000,000 last night on Oz Lotto. The ticket was sold in Tom Price WA to a traveler. It wasn't me...waaaaagh " title="Crying or Very Sad" />

Recently while free camping, I met a man who, in 3 days taught me all about solar panels, batteries, battery charging and many other little tricks. I could not of learnt this in a week of sundays from books. i I have started the modifications he recommended and will stay all 12 volt in both the cruiser...

Just read the lead story on truck drivers on the Newell and we have just travelled down the highway from Brisbane to Melbourne. We found that the interstate drivers with the B doubles etc. were generally good and understood that we didn't want to hold them up and would be pulling over as soon as possible...

Hi, I picked up the car on Thursday and the van on Friday. First time I have towed anything that big (14 ft!) so that might seem funny to you, but it is big to me..... I am on a learning curve just finding out how to open the windows! Had to get a friend's husband to drive over to show me how to unhitch the thin...

howdy fellow nomads, am wondering if anyone in this great wide world has had any dealings with Bellarine caravans in geelong victoria, especialaly with the "dreamtime" models. i am interested in the dreamtime lonsdale but would like to hear any feedback if possible from fellow travell...

Olga may have fizzled AS a cyclone, but she sure has a messy tail. There are huge thunderstorms over Gulf of Carpentaria, in the SE corner in particular. It looks like she's heading inland following a monsoonal low, and will end up somewhere in the middle of WA where no one but miners and dingos live....

Maybe this is what celebrity has-beens do to get back in the news Ray Martin leads push for flag change