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a sister says A nun walks into Mother Superiors office and plunks down into a chair. She lets out a sigh heavy with frustration.What troubles you, Sister? asked the Mother Superior. I thought this was the day you spent with your family.It was, sighed the Sister. And I went to play golf with my brother...

I have a Safety Dave camera mounted on the rear of my caravan. It is a wide-angle type adjusted so that I see the road behind as well as almost immediately behind the van. This generally works well to see traffic building up behind, but being wide-angle, I don't see fast moving cars until they are right on...

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All the gas bottle posts are now pretty old. I needed to get a couple of bottle filled/exchanged so google transport regs for enclosed vehicles. Ok to transport 2 bottles of no more than 18kg total. Suits me as one is a nominal 9kg and the other is a nominal 4.5kg. Then went to home storage, whoops, could h...

For your own safety, please heed this message. We constantly experience problems with "wobblies", that's caravanners who ride the centre white line instead of keeping as far left as safely possible, holding position along the fog line. This is barely possible, but possible along the...

The government recently announced that the fees for STEM courses will be reduced and those for humanities courses doubled. I guess an accomplished spin doctor could argue that the humanities are now being valued more highly than technical professions.

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I've just purchased a motorhome for $56,000 in Perth, and WA Dept of Transport Stamp Duty on the Transfer is over $3,700 !!! What an iniquitous tax this is - money for doing nothing - outright rip-off! -- Edited by jrk36 on Saturday 20th of June 2020 12:22:01 PM

I am going to go for a drive next week to check out campsites around Gloucester. Has anyone got any tips on nice spots. Rod.

A snake goes to a bar and the bartender says; "I cant serve you, you cant hold your liquor and you're legless".

Hi all I recently put the multi meter across the 12 volt charger on my 2 kva Honda generator to see if it produced enough voltage to charge my batteries in an emergency. To my surprise it showed 22 volt seems a bit high to me or will that drop when it comes under load. what do the people that know think ? Landy

Hi everyone, we are at nanango qld and this morning noticed heaps of caravans Etc. Going past. while convalescing i have heaps of time So decided to count them. From midday to 2 pm 27 caravans, motor homes and camper vans went north and 30 caravans, motor homes and camper vans went south. There were more...

I thought of an idea this afternoon after having a fight in removing the spare tyre cover so I could firstly check, then increase the pressure in the tyre - resulting in a couple of broken finger nails. I wondered about getting a flap cut out above/over the valve & having it held closed with Velcro - h...

sounds good Sex after Death!! A couple made a deal that whoever died first would come back and ... inform the other if there is sex after death. Their biggest fear was that there was no after-life at all. After a long life together, the husband was the first to die. True to his word, he made the first co...

My father served his apprentice as a blacksmith in a butcher shop - he was shooing flies...

Don't the Wallys trying to have Qld adopt Daylight Stupid Time also campaign for SA, the NT, and WA to all change their clocks to match the the other eastern states? Just asking because some are trying to link the opening of the Qld border to new Federal rules for movement between the states. Iza

I'll be passing through Dubbo in a few weeks and wondered about the zoo, I've heard a couple of good reports - what is the wisdom of the forum?

Gidday fellow Grey Nomads. The other day, I got back some cut and polished gemstones from Thailand. These are all stones I'd found in QLD and I believe the fished products are quite beautiful. There are polished sapphire as well as cut sapphires, topaz, a zircon and a spinel. I can't wait to get out and d...

Hi. Any help would be greatly appreciated. My relay for my headlights for my 1988 Nissan civilian is faulty and at the moment I can't get a replacement for months due to postal issues (covid). Need to get something sorted out to get the bus over rego and on the road for spring. My question is....can yo...