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Spotted this one on our journey from Bega down to Melbourne last year. Stopped for a coffee at Cann River and there was this lady with her dressed up pooch. Poor thing, it must have bveen uncomfortable - it was a very hot day!

This is what the best dressed dogs will be wearing at Windsor on Saturday!

Still trying. But I believe that there were two daughters before they left England, Maureen and Margaret.
Any help appreciated please.

Just heard the news. Raging fires near Bega and Tathra
Family safe but not sure about their house.
Andrew out there with the Volunteer Fire crews

Inventions
The man who invented cat's eyes got the idea when he saw a cat facing him in the road. If the cat had been facing the other way, he'd have invented a pencil sharpener.. Ken Dodd

Another legend gone. RIP Sir Ken

RIP Jim. Always enjoyed our discussions.

A Minister visits an elderly woman from his congregation. As he sits on the couch he notices a large bowl of peanuts on the coffee table. "Mind if I have a few?" he asks "No,not at all" the woman replies They talk for an hour and as the Minister stands to leave, he realises that instead of eating ju...

All relative! I now state my age in Centigrade ! so I'm still young!

Ralph,I had a similar experience recently. For a number of years I had been trying to find OH's great grandmother Lucy but she seemed to have disappeared off the face of the earth. I put out a request for info on another site, Brit-Gen about four or five years ago without too much success. Then back...

As the man with the wooden leg said "......It's a matter of a pinnion!"

Entry for Christmas Day 1870 in Kilvert's Diary............. "As I lay awake praying in the early morning I thought I heard a sound of distant bells. It was an intense frost.I sat down in my bath upon a sheet of thick ice which broke in the middle into large pieces whilst sharp points and jagged edg...

Christmas Greetings to one and all and good wishes for the year ahead.

Nothing very imaginative really but.....................

The Arbeia
SS St Hilda
The Lawe

Honoured indeed , to be among such illustrious company.
Thank you indeed!

But it's so old its got fossilised cobwebs on it!

We are now six months on from my misdemeanour,(12 th April 2017 at 12.48pm) but Civic Compliance Victoria will not let go. I paid my fine within the time limit by Card, and received a response confirming receipt of payment and satisfactory processing. I then sent a letter (dated 20th July) to confir...

A long time since this page was opened! Looking at my copy of Cinemas of South Tyneside (D Johnson 1992) I see that the Theatre Royal was used for films from about 1921, but its history as a theatre goes back much further. I recently came across a reference to its origins in about 1866 when the arch...

Just noticed this on the form:

Parking Eye will only accept and respond to appeals in English