Recent content by bluesbrother

It's already here. Kids coming round at 2 or 3am and banging on the door, then hiding, watching from across the road, has already been reported last month.

Since around 62, I have had right-side migraines. Took many years to work out it was MSG and other emulsifiers, plus sometimes preservatives.. They're shoving them into more and more commercial foods they never were in, like breads, ice creams, some chocolates, any sauces, and anything they want...

We kept 'em out of the Blue Mtns, and they did the same in Eltham. Consequently fast food was much better and more eclectic, small cafes thrived, and far less Macca's litter.

E-bikes are spreading fast around here and they look like light, old-style motorbikes. Very cool, but why are motorbikes riding on the footpath. Keep 'em all on the road, like regular motorbikes. Far too dangerous on paths.

Working in the arts, we're well used to a varied job schedule. I've had 4 or 5 'part-time' jobs at any one time for the last 20 years, mostly self-employment, and most arts practitioners have little or no super because they never expect to 'retire', but their principal art forms rarely make...

From the ABC report: "This is just systems, both in the regulatory and technical practices, not reacting fast enough to the complexity of what has just been built. The report pointed the finger at the "synchronous" — in Spain's case gas or nuclear — plants that were being paid that day to...

It would have been interesting to know what kind of fees/costs apply in these villages, whether residents or their families buy in, rent or whatever (considering limits to life spans), and other financial details like pay rates and conditions of carers, availability of services, controlled...

Ha! So radical it's been around since the 60s and has only been nibbled at the fringes by any of the pollies. You're right, Ricci. The AU pollies are too scared to grow up and get their parties off the mining teats that fund their electoral campaigns, hence like the UK, we move ever closer to...

What a travesty! The most corrupt and destructive PM we've ever had to endure over the last 55 years.

Bloody awful! And quite dangerous.

Can't crack your windows (unless someone's in the car)? That law was obviously not made in a hot place. Glad police have more common sense or they'd book every car in every outdoor parking lot all summer.

They had a 24hr auto-fill at Woy Woy a few years back but it closed after a year or so.

Go, Iggy! Making a serious seniors' liberation statement on body image.

We don't pay for food or retail until we're about to leave the business, so no pre-pay is standard across most retail in AU, except where the internet is involved. I'm quite surprised companies haven't yet disposed of all on-site workers at petrol stations in the name of 'efficiency'.

Quadcopters (lightweight domestic drones) are being constantly reported by journos as being employed by the IDF to chase Palestinian citizens down the street, even into their destroyed buildings, and murder them with pinpoint accuracy. Others say they're almost constantly in the Gazan and West...