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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="058285a1erlcgo.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><B>Colin and Anne Oz</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Arial" ><B>     |   </B></FONT><B>  </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Colin and Anne Oz"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Our House"><U>Our House</U></A>   |   <B>News</B>   |   <A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Favourite Links"><U>Favourite Links</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Us"><U>Contact Us</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="057d2c00dkelyh.png"> <div> <IMG SRC="0d3b4880.jpg" border=0 width="180" height="136" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>News</I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>January 2006.</B></div> <bR> <div> It is New Years day 2006, and I have just deleted all our old news.  We now start anew for the New Year. Our son Michael came to Bundaberg for the first time and had Christmas with us. </div> <div> We have had the relaying of the "Outdoor Area"  bricks done now for four months and the new levels make the water drain properly. The killing of ant nests under the bricks  has made keeping weed growth at bay much easier. We also had another area under the front portion of the caravan paved ,as the grass under the caravan previously could not be fully mown and looked unkempt. Another 15 square metres of brick pavers under the caravan A frame has made the front driveway much tidier. </div> <div> Its been hot and dry as we haven't had much rain for this time of the year. All of south east Qld has water restrictions as the dams are at dangerously low levels. </div> <div> We do not have a Caravan Club rally in January. Our first rally for 2006 will be in February at Pialba caravan park at Hervey Bay. This is a lovely park with shops and clubs close by. </div> <div> Our daughter Suzanne has been to Bundaberg twice, for her company to install a new Photo processing machine at a local photo shop. It has been great to have her stay.  Anne and Suzanne had a day together while Suzanne was here for some "Retail Therapy."</div> <div> We miss our friends Delma and Harry Visser who have moved back to Brisbane to be nearer to their family.</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>February 2008</B></div> <bR> <div> Time has passed since I have updated this website, so I will endeavour to bring you all up to date. Our friend Harry Visser, who had not long been back in Brisbane, had a massive heart attack and died on January the 5th  2007. We went to his funeral in Brisbane, and finally met Max, Delmas brother. We purchased a new Mitsubishi Pajero 3.2 litre turbo diesel  in late December 2006 and the run to Brisbane for Harry's funeral was Mitsy's first trip. It is now 5 years since we moved to Bundaberg from Brisbane, and it was certainly a good move. Mitsy is much better at towing the caravan and I feel much more comfortable with the caravan in tow. Anne is serving her second year as Secretary of the Bundaberg Caravan Club, and will only be Secretary until mid September 2008, so we can travel up north for a couple of months visiting the Eungella State Forest west of Mackay,We have not been here and seen the Wallerman Falls in the Forest. We also would like to go to Lucinda as it has been 20 odd years since we have been there. The Caravan Club gives us lots of fun and I have bought a Satellite TV system  for the caravan to access free TV when we are in remote areas with either no or lousy reception. Aussie TV reception at many places outside the major cities is poor due to the distances from transmission towers. Even Bundaberg is about 100 Km's from a transmission tower and everyone needs to have a signal booster to get a reasonable picture but even North Bundaberg has problems with Channel 2 (ABC). Satellite TV gives perfect pictures every time except during severe weather. Anne has been busy downloading music MP3's of our teenage era, and I have compiled them and made 3 MP3's with  a combined total of 482 song or orchestral  tracks. Each MP3 plays for about 11 hours. We have recently bought a new sound system that plays CD's MP3's and cassettes plus it has a radio tuner. After seeing the picture quality of high definition LCD TV's, we went and bought a 40" Samsung  LCD TV with a HD tuner. They have come down a lot in price in the last 6 months as we only paid $1590 for our LCD TV with a full 5 year warranty. Our February Caravan Club Rally was again at Pialba Caravan Park and this year we got some wild weather and lost power 3 times over the week. Our normal wet season has returned this year and he dams are filling up and the desparate water shortage is over for a year or more. </div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>March 2008 </B></div> <bR> <div> Our March rally was at Woodgate beach 50 Km's south of Bundaberg. This is a lovely long sandy beach that has recently become popular after the area was sewered,  and prices have tripled in the last 3 years. The first 3 storey flats have been built and over the next few years more will be built. Childers about 30 Km's away on the Bruce Hwy now has a Woollies Supermarket, Woodgate has lots of kangaroos around. Our TV broke while we were here so a quick trip back to Bundaberg was made to replace it with an LG 19" LCD widescreen TV. The India v Australia one day finals were on, but the new TV didn't stop India thrashing Australia 2 nil  in the best of three finals. We are still playing Indoor Bowls twice a week and enjoying it greatly. We have booked flights to NZ on good specials, and we are flying to Christchurch on May the 7th , returning May the 18th . We will be staying at some relatives of Anne's in Christchurch, that she found online, who are about our own age. We have not met them but have chatted on the phone and they seem a lot like us. They will show us around the northern part of the South Island, as I have never been to the South Island, even though I lived in Wellington for 2 years in the early sixties. I am looking forward to this NZ trip. </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> </B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>   . </div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>