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Jaffle Pizza

You may not have a jaffle iron, but maybe this will entice you into buying one next time you see one… Ingredients: 2 slices of bread 2 Tbsp pizza sauce (it comes in sachets) 1 slice of mozzarella cheese 4 … Continue reading

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How to survive a TRAX trip if you normally drive a Pulsar.

I experienced my first Trax trip in 2009.  My own car at the time was a little blue Pulsar, so sliding behind the wheel of a big 4×4 was a pretty new experience! I really didn’t know what I was … Continue reading

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Trip Report – Cox’s River

The trip started, as all good trips do, from St Mark’s Anglican Church at Pennant Hills.  The convoy of eight cars wended its way through Dural, via Windsor, Richmond and Winmalee to join the Great Western Highway and head on … Continue reading

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Christmas Damper

A great way to start teaching children how to cook in the bush and enjoy what they have made.….. Ingredients: 2 cups of SR flour ½ teaspoon of salt 2 teaspoons of sugar 1 tablespoon of butter 1 cup of … Continue reading

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Trifle

A long-term favourite of mine, first learnt on Guide camp, and developed over the many long years since… Ingredients: 1 small Madeira cake Fruit dessert sauce (I recommend raspberry) 1 tin of fruit (boysenberries work well) 1 carton of custard … Continue reading

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Who doesn’t need the radio?

Bill is a guy who follows Jesus.  And he tells the story of co-piloting a plane from the West Coast of the USA to Chicago with a pilot he had flown with a few times.  Once the auto-pilot was on … Continue reading

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Crosstracks – Christmas 2004

No travel tales, or 4WD Outback experiences, but a sort of ‘twisted’ Christmas tale that starts ‘down on the farm’, and ends with a thought about Mel Gibson’s 2004 Big Movie. It was another stinking hot day down on ‘the … Continue reading

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ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS. When you are travelling in the Outback have you ever noticed that it doesn’t matter whether you are filling up with fuel, buying some supplies at the local General Store, or even just looking at some … Continue reading

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Who, if anyone at all is in charge?

Who, if anyone at all is in charge? Good question! But the really sad thing is that very few people are getting a serious or credible answer. Lots of noises are being made and much sabre rattling, but the world … Continue reading

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The 25th anniversary of one of the greatest trips that I ever did…

This year will mark the 25th anniversary of one of the greatest trips that I ever did….. It was 1975, and we packed the family and enough food for 5 weeks and enough spare parts for any eventuality and set … Continue reading

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