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Train-spotting Or more precisely Coal Train Spotting. You can make note of the engine numbers and count the coal carriages. I spent a thrilling 20 minutes one day counting 80 carriages. Only problem is I don't have an Anorak

So I had a call from my friendly Bank the other day. Which Bank? I'll let you figure that out on your own. Anyway, So they are saying `how am I liking my Home Loan etc etc' and I'm like fine, fine it's all going just peachy. Then I say however one things got me...

OK so we have the `Rutherford Industrial Estate' nearby but what about the Silicon Valley of the Hunter? I propose `Telarah Technology Park'. We could put it right near Bunnings and cater to everyone that is interested in starting a high tech business. I'm sure at...

So I moved from Singleton to Telarah about 3yrs ago. Telarah is a suburb of Maitland and it traces it's birth back to the post '55 time(I think) when flooded houses were moved onto new lots, up on the hill out of the flood waters (my house has river mud in the...

So I went to the book shop at Greenhills Shopping Centre the other day and shelled out thirty dollars on "Online Investing on the Australian Sharemarket" Edition 3 by Roger Kinsky. I'm up to chapter 3 and I find it very readable. I haven't been flummoxed by jargon as...

Life sometimes expects us to be jugglers. Unfortunately juggling isn't one of my skills. Recently we have had the Hunter River flooding it's banks making travel impossible. Many people have been flooded and the general unsettledness of the district is palpable. I will...

Proving I am a creature of habit. Just went to make myself a cup of Coffee and reached into the fridge for the Milk. Unfortunately what was in it's exact location, in the same 1 litre Tetra pack style of packaging, was Gravox. Needless to say I had to remake my...

We live in the Hunter Valley. Not suprisingly the Hunter River flows through the Hunter Valley. Because it's a broad flat flood plain flooding is common. Around Maitland the Telegraph Poles have signs indicating flood levels from the big floods of 1955. We are...

Do you have a dog? Some of us had dogs when we were younger and enjoyed their company and antics. As we got older and moved away from the family home a dog was not something we considered necessary and indeed became an impediment to renting property. But once you buy...

Today is Saturday and I am approaching the last day of my weeks annual leave from my job. I work as a "Systems Engineer" - which for the company I work for means: "Jack of all Phones and Computers and the bits that tie them together". The thing about holidays, and I...