Recent content by Gil

Babybird, thank you so much for the insight into your very active life. I have read your recipes now for a very long time. I have saved a lot of them in a file on my PC. I hope you don't mind. I too am setting out on a European River Cruise in early May. Along the Rhine from Amsterdam to...

Religion had very little to do with the actual fighting in the wars that Australia has been involved in. Sure, differing beliefs may have well instigated the Afghanistan conflict, but the actual loss of life in hand-to-hand combat belies this. I am also aware that 90% or more of conflicts...

How could they have possibly made paying easier and quicker? You still had to line up, have your items scanned, make payment and then exit. All exactly the same as previous, but in a different location. The only way they could make the whole thing quicker would have been to allocate more...

We should not be blaming presiding governments for the demise. The writing was on the wall way before the decision in 2020. There are many contributing factors into the demise of the thousands of businesses either entering receivership, placing the public on notice or just closing completely...

No - They just tell you to place your empty bottle in the recycling bin. They say they have no provision on their automated tills that allows for bottle deposit refunds. so really, if you place your empty bottle in THEIR recycle bin, they pick up the refund which now means the water provided...

Will this do?

It is marvelous how "the old is new again". Back in the 1950's when we lived on a farm in a rural area of the Mornington Peninsula. We were in an area then known as Mt Martha (Mornington Rural) only about 6 or 7 miles out of the town of Mornington. Our mail delivery by the then PMG, was twice...

We have a holiday home in Khon Kaen, Thailand, about 500km N/E of Bangkok. On our village's outskirts is a large water bottling plant. They deliver bottled water to all the local villages. The cost for a block of 24 bottles of 600ml per bottle is 288 Thai Baht (AUD$13.44) This works out at 12...

Pad Thai Castle On The Hill

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