Grenfell A few years back, we stopped for a coffee in Grenfell and stayed 3 days, how’s that for captivation? We’ve since returned and enjoyed it just as much. This is a town with a pleasant feel. The freedom camp … Continue reading Confessions of a Grey Nomad – The Places We Love – The Middle Bit of NSW
Day 16 Wednesday 24/5/2023 Gunnedah, minus 2 – 22 sunny A long sleep in, and then we have a sad goodbye. A call from home means that Mrs. Have a Chat must curtail her holiday and head home to the … Continue reading Yackety Yack, Day 16 – A sad farewell
Day 15 Tuesday 23/5/2023 Gunnedah, 1 – 22 Nice It’s doona hugging cold in the wee hours of the morning. Woody does another load of washing at the laundromat in town while I hug that doona. There’s only one washing … Continue reading Yackety Yack, Day 15 – Frogs legs anyone?
Day 14 Monday 22/5/2023 Mullaley to Gunnedah, 4 – 20 warm & sunny It wasn’t as cold last night and there was no traffic noise. We wake to a glorious morning. We take the Oxley Highway east to Gunnedah and … Continue reading Yackety Yack, Day 14 – Poetic Gunnedah
Gunnedah in country NSW has a Dorothea Mackellar memorial because she was inspired to write part of her much loved poem “My Country” in 1905 when she visited one of her family’s properties at Gunnedah. The good folk of Gunnedah have taken things a little further by engraving poems on the backs of the public toilet doors. One can choose which poet they’d prefer to read as the names are on the outside of the door. Now after we compared our photos I have a sneaking suspicion that the poets match the gender of the toilet, but that is only … Continue reading Spending a penny and learning a lot
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