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  1. Vet543

    What was your favourite Royal Easter Show Bag?

    I am with you on this .. Although I did take my kids to the Canberra Show for a number of years AND what did I get ... Well, the kids got show bags and rides .. while I got the flu again. It happening every year so when the kids left home I never went to show ever again. .. and I didnt miss...
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    What was your favourite Royal Easter Show Bag?

    HAPPY EASTER TO ALL... The Royal Easter is too far away to even think of show bags there ...
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    This simple trick will instantly make your chips taste so much better!

    Quote Christina V ... We haven't reached out 60s because we were stupid. THAT is so true .. I am almost 80 just One month to go The kids think that their generation invented all this ... No Way Joshua...We did 90% of it .. Our Generation .. Bill Gates is 68 and his hair is going gray... He built...
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    Hosting a BBQ for family and friends

    1970, I moved with the family to Canberra, previous to that I helped Dad build a bigger and better BBQ on the farm. We used two Plough shares. and they we magic and the shape would drain off the fat etc. First thing I did in Canberra was to build a Brick BBQ with a steel plate, that was being...
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    This simple trick will instantly make your chips taste so much better!

    Young kid in Supercheap Auto, thinks he knows everything .. I asked him where they had the lock-nuts for mag wheels? He replied .. You oldies know nothing about autos... They are in the wheel section, if you look. I didnt tell him but I personally know Reg and Hazel Rowe .. (Hazel worked for...
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    Joke Breakfast

    I would get ever egg timer and break them ..then hide in the pantry till she came to cook Brekkie...LOL
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    Your Say Poll: What's your favourite type of cuisine?

    I favour Australian dishes. Remember the Beef Stew, Lamb Chops with onion gravy, Roast Lamb, Lamb Curry, Shepherd Pie, Roast Chicken (Aussie Style), the magic 5-day Stew, also Roast Pork and Apple Sauce. AND THE BEST ... Rissoles with seasoned gravy. Not to be forgotten, the world's best...
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    What do you have planned for Easter Sunday, and what are your family's Easter traditions?

    HEY PEOPLE!!! THIS IS NOT A RELIGIOUS LESSON OR DEBATE... IT IS ABOUT EASTER. On Easter Sunday, afterl normal formalities. We will have a (Easter Egg Hunt?) i DON'T thinks so ... with rising costs of living we will have a FREDDO FROG hunt OR a Turkish Delight Hunt. After a wonderful lunch on...
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    Lightning Strike

    Thank-you Sethia .. The branches, that have been cleaned up, were thrown some 15 - 20 metres from the base of the tree. The road was covered with debris. I have seen lightning strikes similiar and probrably a bit more powerful .. I carry a camera now .. so I have the evidence to show.
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    Dragon Fruit Flower.

    I grew it by accident. It took about 2-3 yrs to flower. I was stunned when I saw last year and then the base become a Dragon Fruit and they taste quite nice. Last year I only had about 4 flowers so only four fruit and this year there were 15 flowers that mean they will become 15 Dragon Fruit...
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    Dragon Fruit Flower.

    Dragon Fruit Flower. This flower is a huge flower. It approximately 250mm across the white petal section. It Blooms in all it's glory for about 3-4 hrs or so of a morning and by the afternoon it will collapse and wilt.
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    Lightning Strike

    Lightning Strike Lightning Strike Gympie Qld Lightning struck this tree on the opposite side of the road. Only 20 - 25 meters from the house. It threw the top of the tree and all the branches to the ground around and on the road. The power of Lightning is phenomenal.
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    Joke How to Wash a Toilet

    THIS IS TRUE.... I DID IT..and I have never printed it to anyone before. On a cold winter morning, in Canberra, I slept in. I was the bus driver who was taking the Cat Club Members to Sydney for a huge Cat show.. I had taken the bus home so I could get an early 5am start. I got a phone call...
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    Shopper accuses Woolworths of 'daylight robbery' after being charged excessive grocery prices

    I am one month short of being 80. I think that makes me one of the "Older Ones" and I get Govvy Glasses NOT the expensive ones... Now the tag is hard to read... THEN I take out my Mobile phone which I use for a hearing disability .. same as most phones .. I open the camera apps and zoom in on...
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    Shopper accuses Woolworths of 'daylight robbery' after being charged excessive grocery prices

    From What I remember Tonia, and i grew up on a 50,000 acre Sheep and Cattle property, is that a lot of imported meat was cheaper and we had to drop the price of Lamb soooo far at markets. Then when drought came we had to offload a couple of thousand sheep BUT the price was less than what it...
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