Recent content by Jan A

Then “they broke the chalice from the palace” !

If there is all this money available to give relief to housing and cost-of-living costs, why is it not being used now for those purposes? A major contributor to the rental crisis is the exit of the property investors from the lower cost end of the market because of the excessive government...

I still love “In Name Only,” an early film of Cary Grant.

Love it! One of the funniest films ever. Danny Kaye at his most glorious. “ . . . the first step of all is to stand, and stand, and stand . . .” Great stuff.

A Good Day to Die Hard and Die Hard 4. Love Bruce Willis. On the gentler side, the little-known Green Fingers is a lovely British film about prisoners who discover the joys of gardening and determine to enter the Chelsea Flower Show (based on a true story). Also must mention another...

Getting anything out of the bottom of the bin is a pain for us shorter people. I have to turn the bin upside down and let gravity do the work for me because I cannot reach anything lying on the bottom. Then I have to lift it upright again, not so easy when it is heavy and on wheels!

What can be annoying is when contractors on your property put their rubbish into the wrong bin. I have had to get stuff out of the recycling bin when I noticed some builders had put it in there instead of the general waste bin. It doesn’t seem to matter if you tell them which bins to use. I...

Another scam email arrived (see below). This one is of the variety that says you have made a purchase and to click on the link if you did not make the purchase. This type of scam has been around for a long time. I have had them from purported retailers saying I bought something from them...

Rule No.1: Government agencies will NEVER send recorded messages about some urgent matter you need to deal with. If there is anything they need to contact you about, they will communicate with a letter containing verifiable contact information relating to the sender and details that identify...

More scam emails Today I received 2 more scam messages. The first one, purporting to be from Suncorp Bank, says: “You have urgent unread message.” Does anyone see the grammatical error?? Interestingly, I do not have an account with Suncorp and have never had an account with Suncorp! I...

Last year I enquired at an ANZ branch about opening an account. I asked about fees on the account and was surprised at the number of extra fees to be charged on a simple savings account. I didn’t go back.

Tata points out a very real problem. Telling a genuine message from a scam is not always easy. Organizations sending out messages need to be aware to distinguish their communications from scams by providing identifying information, such as name, address and account number. By failing to do...