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percy


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ALLIES CREEK    MUNDUBBERA AREA   ADVERTISED AS A GREY NOMADS VILLAGE

ALLIES CREEK 70 K  FROM MUNDUBBERA IT IS AN OLD SAW MILL OWNED BY THE WILLIAMS FAMILY IS ADVERTISED HOUSES FROM $100PW FOR A ONE BEDROOM HOUSE  THEN YOU HAVE $30PW FOR ELECTRICITY WHICH THE METER IS SUPPOSED TO BE READ MONTHLY AND ELECTRICITY NOT USED TO BE REFUNDED IN CASH THIS HAS NEVER BEEN DONE IN THE SIX MONTHS WE WERE THERE
THE ELECTRICITY HAS NOW GON UP ANOTHER TEN DOLLARE NOW $140.00 PW
UNDER COVER PARKING FOR CARAVABS IS AN OLD SHED WHICH LEAKS BADLY AND WHILST OUR $30.000 VAN WAS PARKED THERE THE OWNER DECIDED TO LIGHT A HUGE FIRE FUELING IT WITH OIL IT TOOK WEEKS TO GET THE SMELL OUT OF THE VAN  AND HE DECIDED TO HOSE THE SAWDUST OFF THE RAFTERS STAINING THE AWNING ALL THE SIDE OF THE VAN WHEN I APPROACHED THE OWNERS THEY LAUGHED AND SAID WE OWN THE PLACE 
THE HOUSE WE WERE IN WAS CLOSED DOWN BY ERGON SAYING IT WAS NOT SAFE TO LIVE IN AS THEY COULD NOT FIX THE ELECT PROBLEMS THERE

PLEASE TREAD CAREFULLY IF YOU GO THERE AND GO IN WITH YOUR EYES WIDE OPEN

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Please don't shout and please don't cross post.

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Peter

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Peter_n_Margaret wrote:

Please don't shout and please don't cross post.

Cheers,
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Hear Hear

 



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Sounds like an odd place to stay at Percy, thanks for the info mate, I will put that one in the other book. smile

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I am trying to work out why on earth would you stay there 6 months when its that bad. Definitely a place to avoid.
You could have gone many other places for much cheaper than that and less stress.

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Happywanderer wrote:

I am trying to work out why on earth would you stay there 6 months when its that bad. Definitely a place to avoid.
You could have gone many other places for much cheaper than that and less stress.


I agree with Happy Wanderer... what made you stay so long? confuse

 



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Yes Gerty Dancer 6 months is a heck of a long time to stay in once place that is so bad and you don't like, unless you were being held captive.

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the reason we stayed so long waqs maggie wasnt well

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hard to go anywhere when the mrs is very crook

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Sorry if I upset you Percy, what a disaster for you both! Hope shes better now?

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Sorry to hear that percy. Wouldn't staying there cause her more stress and not help her get better. I know it would me, but my daughter says I stress over nothing.

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gerty
you didnt upset me in any way
not there now in rockhampton things are good

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Hi Percy,

It's always good to hear about places such as these. Fore-warned is fore-armed as they say, and if someone doesn't tell us about them how do we find out? I really hope your wife is fully-recovered now, and that you are both enjoying yourselves in beef-capital, Rockhampton.

Cheers,

Romy.



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percy wrote:

ALLIES CREEK    MUNDUBBERA AREA  

 I just read an article in a magazine about Allies Creek and had no idea where it was other than in Qld.  Google did not reveal anything specific either.

Thank you Percy for solving the problem for me.

I sincerely hope your wife is back in good health by now and you are enjoying your travels together again.



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I dont know, but if I had an experience like that I surely would shout long and loud about it and as for cross posting the more you let people know about it the better.

SO GOODONYA PERCY SHOUT ALL YOU LIKE



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I don't know why people go on about people using capital letters and calling it 'shouting'. Yes, I know that's what they say it is in IT, but hey, they're just words that this person feels strongly about. I'm with you goinsoon. As far as I'm concerned, shout all you like about treatment like that, Percy. I think I would be too.

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Romy5152 wrote:

I don't know why people go on about people using capital letters and calling it 'shouting'. Yes, I know that's what they say it is in IT, but hey, they're just words that this person feels strongly about. I'm with you goinsoon. As far as I'm concerned, shout all you like about treatment like that, Percy. I think I would be too.

 Goodonya Romy



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All this political correctness really annoys me, goinsoon. Truly, it does. There is just too much intolerance in this world.

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Romy5152 wrote:
There is just too much intolerance in this world.

 Very true.....it is way over the top.



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Agree. Love your profile pic Boroma though! Is it a flower? If so, do you know what kind?


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Agree. Love your profile pic Boroma though! Is it a flower? If so, do you know what kind?

 Yes it is Romy, a Scotch Thistle which is a surprisingly beautiful flower in bloom.  Shame it is a pest otherwise.

It is one of a number of photos I took of the flowers in November last year at Cooyar north of Toowoomba in Qld.

Driving north up the New England highway from Toowoomba there were fields and fields of them...a very beautiful sight.

 



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It's very pretty, Boroma. I'm interested in macro photography, but with it, a lot of things look totally different up close. I thought your pic was a flower, but couldn't be sure. When we toured western Queensland, out around the Quilie/Windorah area, we used to see paddock upon paddock of large and small clumps of pretty white flowers. I don't know what they were, but they were so beautiful en masse like that.

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I love macro shooting, the tiniest thing can look quiet beautiful.

 

Have a little look at this one....very pretty and yet it is a common old dandelion.

Maybe we should have a thread dedicated to macro pics!!



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Me too! And I would love to see a thread dedicated to macro photography - how about it, Cindy?

I love the petals on the dandelion - they almost look transparent, and such a pretty colour - very summery. If I can work out how to post a photo again (since the Seeing red competition has finished, I haven't posted any photos of late! ) I will do so with a couple of my favourite macros.

Well, that didn't work - help please.

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Romy - go to post quick reply - advanced editor at the bottom - then at the bottom of reply area - insert (or is it attach) image - browse - upload wait a bit and it will happen - try again - good luck

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pic as sample



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Sorry Romy - should have said "submit post" at bottom - near upload files box - works for me anyway

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Thank you Jules. I was just going to say, 'There's nothing like that at the end of my page' as I have been replying via the quick post reply, but when I click on the Reply button on the right, everything's there, so will try now. biggrin Worked well!

 



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And a couple more . . .

 



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Hi Boroma,

I have just asked Cindy for a specific 'Macro Photos' thread. The aim is to have no normal size or even smallish photos in it, only macro (very close up) photos. I hope she likes the idea.

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