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Here's a song that brings a lump to Australian's throats. Many feel it should be our national anthem.

Here's a tourism song for tourists who wish to visit Australia.

Here's another compilation and Ann Maree Biggar who is now 62 said that this show couldn't be done today because we were so politically incorrect in those times (thank heavens for that!) She also said that she could preempt what Jamie Dunn (the voice of Agro) was going to do and said if you can do that sort of thing then that's half the battle won. Some people thought that Jamie was "feeling up" Ann Maree from his position under the table but Jamie said he only had to touch her ankle and she'd jump. To this day Jamie has Agro in the boot of his car and if people recognise him then he does photos with them and with Agro. After Ann Maree left the show it slid in the ratings chiefly because she and Jamie had such great chemistry working together. Although the show aired American cartoons, many of the jokes in this compilation are what Ann Maree called F1 or Formula One jokes in that they went straight over the kids head's but the adults got them.

The "Coffee Pot" recently had a major overhaul including a new boiler fitted. It only runs on selected days and needs to be booked months in advance. It runs from Quorn to Woolshed Flat where there's a large shed and where a multi course lunch is served and then runs back to Quorn. It's not an auto train but a Steam Motor Coach as the engine is permanently coupled to the coach. There were actually two of them and the other SMC had windows in the rear of the coach but only this one survived long enough to reach preservation due to having been mounted on a plinth for many years.

Here's a show that ran from 1994 to 1997 with a cheeky puppet called Agro being cheeky to Ann-Maree. This sort show is forbidden from TV in Australia these days........more the pity.

Just got my car back from the panel beaters after reversing into a brick wall (at extremely slow speed) at my brother's place. I was so busy trying to avoid the rose bushes in pots I didn't think about the brick wall. So here's two photos of my "little" car when put right. The damage was under the rear left tail light. It didn't crack the plastic bar so the bar didn't need replacing just respraying but the whole bar had to be removed and resprayed. The previous owner had scraped something out of the boot onto the rear bar which I covered with some touch up paint but now it's been professionally resprayed it looks like new. All up $750.00. It may not look it but the car is 15 years old this year and the work was done over three days by Valley Heights Smash Repairs which is local to me. Last month the car was serviced and passed it's annual rego check with flying colours as always and done by Pit Stop Tyre and Mechanical Services who are ten minute walk from my place.

Here's the final part and the part of the line many tourists know.

Here's part 7.

Here's part 6.

Here's part 5.

Here's part four. I've excluded Part 1 because it's this video but the other way from Mount Surprise to Einasleigh.

Here's part three

This video is the beginning of a journey in far north Queensland from Forsayth to Cairns. It's a four day journey with the passengers staying overnight in pubs.

I was driving on the far north coast of NSW on a new section of road and the road construction people had put out mobile LED signs reading "ignore Sat Nav directions". My Sat Nav kept saying "in 300 meters turn right" and on reaching the point to turn right there was no right turn to take. Then it started with the constant "turn round turn round etc".

A documentary on the Darjeeling Hill Railway by Nick Lera who's said with the advent of You Tube it's hard to sell DVD's now. So he's uploading his programs to YT and this is just one. Some are in German too. The steam engines are used these days for tourist trains and new diesels are used for ordinary service trains. At one stage the whole journey cost the princely sum of 3p for an eight hour trip behind steam.