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Post by Franklin1 on Jun 12, 2017 22:01:58 GMT 10
G'day All, Many thanks to all those who posted positive comments recently, and/or hit the "like" button. Hopefully people get some helpful information from this thread that they can use in their own restorations. The van hasn't been idle...a couple of months ago we went for a weekend away to a little town called Milton, about 100kms south of home. We stayed in the Milton showground... The amenities are somewhat lacking, and at $25 per night for a powered site, it's not very good value. We went back down about a month ago to a nearby town called Ulladulla, and shouted ourselves an "ensuite site" for the weekend (living like royalty )... Tomorrow morning, we head off to Tweed Heads (about 950kms from home), to attend a gala function (dinner suit, bowtie, that sort of stuff ). We'll be taking our time to get up there (3 days) and will camp for 2 weeks at Tweed while we do some rubbernecking around the area (...although it will probably be more like "rubber-booting", after the heavy rains up there over the last few days). Will give the new light board a good test over the 2000kms round trip. So far the van is holding together very nicely, and isn't showing any signs of problems, so I'm happy with how it's holding up after the project was completed 2 years ago. cheers, Al.
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BlueBird
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Monica and Shaun
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Post by BlueBird on Jun 12, 2017 22:06:31 GMT 10
Hi Al,
It's so good to hear that you are out and about and enjoying travelling around in your van.
Good on you.
Are you coming to Christmas in Judy in The Middle?
Monica.
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Post by Franklin1 on Jun 12, 2017 22:19:37 GMT 10
Hi Monica, Unfortunately I won't be able to make the "Back to Murrurundi" trip this year. We get back from Tweed in early July, and I think I'll have had enough of towing a van by then, plus I have some other commitments in July. Might catch up with you at the "Back to Shellharbour" event in October, with the ever-lovely organiser Jude, and the "ever-troublemaker" Geoff. cheers, Al.
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Post by Geoff & Jude on Jun 13, 2017 8:19:48 GMT 10
Might catch up with you at the "Back to Shellharbour" event in October, with the ever-lovely organiser Jude, and the "ever-troublemaker" Geoff. cheers, Al. i can't imagine why you would say such a thing, al. Geoff 'n jude
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Post by Franklin1 on Oct 18, 2017 20:59:46 GMT 10
G'day All, I'm testing a post to see if I've got the hang of Postimages. Tried Flickr but found it to be rather cumbersome to navigate, so gave it the flick. Had a weekend away to Batlow in the van, for a black-tie function. Got to see how the new scalloped awning fringe looked, that I recently made and sewed in place... Also tested how a custom-made shade cloth section looked when fitted to the front of the awning... Been busy on the sewing machine of late, mucking around doing bits and pieces for the van. cheers, Al.
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Post by Mustang on Oct 19, 2017 6:43:10 GMT 10
Quite the seamstress Al, great job.
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Post by Franklin1 on Oct 25, 2017 16:17:23 GMT 10
G'day All, After a marathon effort, I have reinstated all the photos I posted throughout this thread - all 773 of them! . I ended up using the Postimages website, which apart from its quirky nature of 'freezing' during the hotlinking process after you've uploaded a batch of photos, seems to be quite user-friendly. I have spent the better part of 16 manhours fixing up the pictures, so I doff my cap to Don Ricardo for the enormous amount of time and effort he must have spent fixing up all the photos in our Down History Lane section. cheers, Al.
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Post by shesgotthelook on Oct 25, 2017 17:33:18 GMT 10
Good on you Al, it would have been a tragedy to lose your story, one of the most informative on the forum ( & one of my favourites!).
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Post by Franklin1 on Jun 12, 2019 22:15:12 GMT 10
G'day All,
Once again I have gone through all the photo links in this thread, and edited them so they are now showing again. Hopefully PostImage doesn't shift their hosting location to a new web address anytime soon, like they did last year. Takes me hours to get them all sorted again.
cheers, Al.
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