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Dougwe at The Cup
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Parable for today
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........................................................................... YOUR LESSON FOR TODAY. An old man, a boy and a donkey were going to town. The boy rode on the d...
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Ride Sharing services.
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Just wondered how many people use it on here. We do a lot, lots of competition in the market at present, between Uber, Ola and Didi, with Didi offering really incredible service at present. Taxify is an also ran now and seems to be losing ground. How we use it is thus, generally speaking we will go ou...
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How Time Flies and the Y2K bug.
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22 years ago this month I started working on the Y2K bug. Cannot believe it was that long ago. People still tell me what a waste of time as nothing happened. Nothing happened because lots of money, time and effort went into making sure nothing happened. Computers generally stored dates at YYMMDD forma...
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Au - The most successful rich country?
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https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2018/10/26/australia-worlds-most-successful-rich-economy/?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Saturday%20New...
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Golf for seniors.
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There may be one or two of you who play the odd round of golf. Now, being on the road a bit, you may not have heard of changes to "Rules of Golf for Seniors". For those of you ignorant of the new rules, I'll copy them here;RULE CHANGES IN EFFECT FOR SENIOR GOLFERS :Rule 9.k.34(a): If a tree is between the ball a...
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Woman caught in terrible hail storm.........
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Queensland hail storm injures mother and baby trapped in car.... A Kingaroy mother thought her baby was going to die when they were pelted by hail after becoming trapped in her car during the supercell thunderstorm, http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-12/mum-injured-pelted-by-hail-storm...
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Premium Unleaded (98 RON), E10 & E85
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Noticed in the last few days many "E10" servos around Ballarat and now offering "Ethanol 85". My wife's car runs 94/95 so we always use the E10 as it is rated at 95 RON (price being a big primary reason). Not sure if her car can run E85. When E85 first hit the markets in Brazil, cars had a small "window washer...
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Reasonably priced weekend camping at the MotoGP.
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Im off to the MotoGP on Phillip Island next weekend. Camping trackside. With a pensioner discount, it cost $70 for 4 nights. Thats $17.50 per night for an unpowered site. Toilets, hot showers and a band in a marquee on Fri, Sat & Sun nights. Food vans & grog. No BYO but slabs of beer & pre-m...
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I love my Kindle but...
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My parents were not great readers, Mum less so that Dad but there were a couple of shelves of books in the house and some more children's books scattered around given as Xmas/birthday presents. I am an avid reader and have been since I was (say) eight, the public library was my friend. When I went to board...
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Referincing the Kindle Post.
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I would like to point out one fact Re.Kindle and other E'Books. There lots of sites to download E'Books free and Paid. Some want new authors to put their work out there in the digital world. Amazon for one encourages new authors to submit books in E format for sale on their sites. It does give budding a...
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A Handy One to Save On Favourites
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We stumbled across this website recently. http://alldownunder.com/australia/know.html Good for things like finding school holidays in every State, daylight saving etc. Plenty of other interesting info too. Not a rival to GN, just lots of interesting things about Oz.
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Desert Dweller
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AUSTRALIA AND AUSTRALIANS..
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AUSTRALIA AND AUSTRALIANS The following has been written by the late Douglas Adams of "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" fame. "Australia is a very confusing place, taking up a large amount of the bottom half of the planet. It is recognisable from orbit because of many unusual features, including w...
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So now ya know ....
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Retirement Villages..... why?
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With most of us being around the same age and in early retirement, I thought I'd enquire about peoples experiences and views on Retirement villages. I've had a couple of tentative looks at the possibility. Presently I'm open to all ideas. However when it comes to these villages, I just dont reall...
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Missing Person - C&P from another site.
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NORTHERN Territory Police have appealed for help in tracing a missing 67-year-old caravanner. Alex Rosenberg was last seen on the Leliyn Track at Edith Falls campground on Sunday, August 19. His Elite caravan and tow vehicle were located at his campsite in "a neat and tidy condition", police said....
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The Homing Instinct of Relocated Snakes
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https://www.ineffableisland.com/2018/10/the-homing-instinct-of-relocated-snakes.html
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THINKING OF VISITING WITTENOOM W.A....THINK AGAIN !!!
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Tourists warned over visiting asbestos-riddled Wittenoom, Australia's most dangerous ghost town It has been described as one of the most dangerous and contaminated places on the planet.But that notoriety has become a tourist drawcard for the toxic ex-asbestos mining town of Wittenoom, deep...
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The Pink House - Kalgoorlie - WA
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This is the oldest goldrush brothel in Kalgoorlie, more a tourist attraction & tour these days, but with an interesting history. This is a brief trailer of the full length documentary, only a few minutes, the full documentary is 75 minutes and can be found on google. A few GN's have visited this a...
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Drop Bears ... Again
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https://www.quora.com/What-should-I-bring-to-the-Australian-Drop-Bear-feeding-safari-Im-booked-on-Any-tips-on-how-to-get-the-most-out-of-the-experience
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