Recent content by Jan A

Glasses for Colour Blindness Do you or family members have colour blindness? I came across a video about Enchroma glasses that use new technologies to correct various kinds of colour blindness. Go to enchroma.com. The glasses are not cheap, averaging about A$500.00 per pair, but the benefits...

An agent told me about this one. When you are selling and you sign the contract for the agent to manage the sale, the contract contains a space to write the percentage the agent receives, e.g. ‘ 2.8 %’. There is enough space between the numbers and the percentage sign to allow unscrupulous...

Fabulous photo. Well captured.

Sometimes these scammers get your name from your email address, e.g. joe.smith@y….oo.com. Don’t make it that easy for them! I know they try this method because my email address uses the name of my teddy bear. When teddy is getting messages addressed to him, I suspect that either he has been...

The tick bite could well have everything to do with your condition. Untreated, Lyme (or Lyme-like disease) is life-long. It has debilitating effects on the body. It can even result in brain damage, as it did in one case I know personally. Do you find that you start to feel better but that...

Lyme disease is a crippling illness with such diverse symptoms it can take a decade or more to diagnose correctly. Then the person is faced with years of antibiotic treatment. Assuming the person has not brought it back from overseas, one of the main ways to contract it in Australia is through...

If it doesn’t have your name, address and Tax File Number on it, it is NOT from the ATO. Delete it.

Fabulous photo. Work of art! Spectacular.

We love you Bruce.

Great advice! I always paid fortnightly for mortgages on my residence and investment properties which reduced the length of the loans and therefore the amount of interest paid. Of course, the banks want you to reduce your repayments when interest rates drop because they maintain the length of...

Karen, while I still work part-time, I repair soft toys owned by both adults and children. It is a small hobby and I enjoy it. To see more, go to Google and enter “Bayside teddy and soft toy repairs.” Many of the owners bring their toys personally to me (in Sydney) and some post them from as...