Recent content by Geophph

Hmmmm - apart from the brief ackowledgement of the Beatles, there's no mention of what the band achieved in England or Europe where the Easybeats really made their mark

I have been receiving them in sms (text) messages regularly, plus 'Coles' and 'Australia Post' for quite some time now. Blocking them does no good, as they appear again from a different phone number - when I checked a similar message ages ago on a 'who called me' site, it turned up as one of...

War or Hands of Time is my favourite from the Masters Apprentice's. Every time I hear it I am reminded of 1967 and what was going on in my life as a 16 year old in a country WA boarding school

This every second day delivery has been the norm here in suburban Western Australia for several years

I have always thought that it was quite obvious that the long red horizontal rectangle topped by the three red triangles logo was meant to represent a warehouse. But maybe I'm just different .....

They certainly had one in Morley, WA's first KMart

We would use the Holly's Cafe at our local KMart here in Western Australia almost every time we visited the store in the early 1980's and it was a real treat for the kids when they were young. Not so long ago our nearest Target introduced an in-store Cafe that appeared to be well patronised...

I don't for one moment buy into the argument that it's quicker for the contractor to fill in a card rather than walk the few steps to deliver a parcel. With a 23 digit barcode and the remainder of the information required, the only way that would be quicker is if the cards were filled in before...

Exactly my first thought ! I expect the answer to be no

I've lived in Western Australia all of my life including small and large country towns. I was 26 years old 45 years ago and have still never heard of it, even as an apprentice who had to take lunch orders and collect and distribute the lunches. It's still pretty childish to refer to them by...

You are right riskydave. Referring to them by that name is pretty damn puerile

There has to be some added cost associated with this advertising campaign, tooling up for the new size and producing new wrappers However having never been a fan of icecream treats that include soggy biscuits it won't affect me But I still think they are theiving b*st*rds

If I read and understood the article correctly, not all of the items on the list were purchased from each supermarket. A better, and more accurate, comparison would be to show how much the total at Coles and Woolworths would have cost if everything on the list were purchased. Mary Madigan's...