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Commonwealth Games and after hours sports.
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Friend of ours was working at the games in one of the kiosks and called round to tell us about the experience and show us her collection of place location badges - metal badges with different countries name etc.. Apparently the participants were encourages to swap them with people from other Commonwe...
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Safe Loading (no, it doesn't belong in Techs)
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Saw this today, and thought I would pose the question - does this like good loading for a nice level trip?
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Video editing software
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A while back I bought a high-ish resolution video camera and, of course, once I did that I discovered all the other (expensive) things I needed to buy to "make the best use of it" - gadget creep. Anyway: one thing you really do need with video is a way to edit it and I've spent the past year trying different v...
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Like kids waiting for Christmas...
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Now to deal with the waiting. Lindy and I have now made that final decision and bought our new home on wheels... a Legend Groundbreaker fully Off-Road. Now, we have to wait for her to be built. We now spend our morning coffee time looking over the brochures and thinking about where we'll go first and wh...
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Depends on ya point of view :)
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Off to NZ for a few days .
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Unfortunatley a funeral. Back In a few days . Back to the North Island ..
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Jest in case ya didn't know......
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rockylizard
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The Gold Coast Then and Now
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I remember spending family holidays on the Gold Coast when I was a kid back in the 60s and again with our own children in the 80s. Later in the 90s we went there with friends who had young children and finally in the early 2000s just the 2 of us. The last time that we visited was maybe 10 years ago when we starte...
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The Belmont Bear
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Recommended reading for Old Farts & their Families
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I have just finished a challenging, enlightening & captivating read. I will be referring my GP & all the Specialists on the Family Payroll to it along with my immediate family & friends. I reckon that all GNs should read it too. "A Good Life To The End" by Ken Hillman (Professor of I...
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Blood donor
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rockylizard
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Happens every time.....
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rockylizard
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Helpful information.......
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Gday... For travellers to Victoria at least you know where you are, what food is out there and how much! Cheers - John
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rockylizard
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NatRoads recommend an effort to educate light vehicle drivers
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I know many on here dont use or even like Facebook so here is a screenshot of an article that appeared there just recently. It is an interesting statistic at 93% of drivers of heavy vehicles involved in fatal accidents were not at fault In the shot there is a link to the newspaper article but anyone wanti...
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The Closing Ceromony
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An over acted expose of the Village People. Only in my opinion but very ordinary...at least in the first part -- Edited by Dickodownunder on Sunday 15th of April 2018 09:17:39 PM
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Hubby retired and wants to travel NOW. But I'm still working.
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I'm hoping to get some advice please. As the title says. And I'm unable to retire for another 8 years due to a little age gap. I was studying, so have not worked for 3 years, which has left me more time to be at home or travelling. But recently I have been working on a 3 month contract, which the company would n...
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Death
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Death Not something most of us like to contemplate but it is inevitable for all. I've started this thread because my death is something which has been popping into my mind more often in the past few years, I'm early sixties so it's not surprising or inappropriate that it should. In order to give my own th...
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Happy Birthday, Laetisha Scanlan
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Australian shooter Laetisha Scanlan has backed up her 2014 Commonwealth Games trap triumph with another gold medal at Belmont..She was then serenaded by an impromptu rendition of Happy Birthday by packed crowd at the Brisbane complex before Scanlan made a beeline for her father, who first got her...
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Sexual Discrimination at the highest level.
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King marries, she becomes a queen. Queen marries he becomes a Duke! America, He's President, she becomes first lady. Now if Hillary Clinton became President, does Bill become the First Gentleman ? Mind boggles now.
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Anyone go to commonwealth games/stayed
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hi, did anyone go to the commonwealth games and also stayed on the gold coast.
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Is it nearly time to press the reset button?
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Singlet ban only for blokes 'discriminatory', Queensland surf clubs warnedBy Talissa Siganto and Jacqui Street ..The Anti-Discrimination Commission warned some venue owners could be in breach of the law when demanding inconsistent rules for men and women.Acting Commissioner Neroli Hol...
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