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Inspirational Quotes
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As we get older we sometimes begin to doubt our ability to "make a difference" in the world. It is at these times that our hopes are boosted by the remarkable achievements of other seniors who have found the courage to take on challenges that would make many of us wither. Harold Jenkins is such a person: T...
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Custumer Service
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The wife broke the handle on the vacuum cleaner , went to Mr.Harvey to get a new one. The friendly sales man gave her a phone number and told her to get one on line, Bingo !! top service . Well Mr Harvey , if the clown you employed would have ordered one , she would had to go two or three days later to pick it up , a...
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This will start some discussion I'm sure.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRPmLWYbUqA&fbclid=IwAR3MrG671YPPs_HhjizzL8Ir5o4p1toORqe_lzhWw_kWbOJ72ZRwYP4yOHs
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100th Anniversary of Armistice Day ( Rememberance Day)
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Lest we forget. Ok Let's not forget the 100 th Ann. of Armistice Day which is 11th hour 11 th Day 11th Month. We thank those who unfortunately gave up their lives plus the many injured in giving us the freedom that we enjoy today in this great Country A U S T R A L I A. LEST WE FORGET/................... 11.0...
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Will this link work?
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https://www.facebook.com/ebony.hall.165/videos/1641629012536072/
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Diesel prices in Perth going through the roof....
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I don't know how high the cost of Diesel is where you live, but I sure got a shock while checking "Fuel Watch " here in Perth tonight, At top of the list is Caltex Express, with a staggering price.... 185.91 at Caltex Express Canning Vale 280 Bannister Rd CANNING VALE At the other end of the rip-off the...
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Time to hate two birds with one stone
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Oh banks and Facebook; how much do I hate thee... let me count the ways I have a PL company which I haven't used for the past two years, I've been doing other stuff so it's been dormant. I've submitted zero GST and tax returns and there has been no income into the company. However: it does have a regular mont...
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Winx... how good is she???
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Winx today won her 4th consequestive W.S. Cox Plate. Whilst the fieldwason I think 9 starters,I guess all she has to do is beat the field. I rather think that many owners and trainers of horses capable of the Cox Plate distance would have give the race a wide berth. However pretty good money for place get...
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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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