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...or a pharmacist. With the pressure on doctors these days to push as many patients as possible through in a day, I have found that they don't always check for possible drug interactions or even ask about/keep a record of OTC medications their patients use. Pharmacists are able to check these...

The headline here is somewhat misleading. The mother was to be 'staying' with the daughter for up to a month at a time, while continuing to maintain her own household. Not as though she was actually living there. Under these circumstances, it would be fair to ask for a contribution to food and...

Good to see fines being issued.

It has just been reported that two murder charges have been laid, but that the bodies of the missing men have not been located.

That might the only way to get through to them, just like the idiots who drive into floodwaters despite constant reminders.

It would possibly be interesting to find out. Unfortunately nothing beyond the first sentence is able to be read, merely advertising...

A fine example of how poorly today's teachers have been educated!

Both cats and dogs can also be incredibly sensitive to medical conditions such as epilepsy and diabetes, and provide warning to their people of dangerous dips in blood glucose level, or enough advance notice of an impending seizure to allow the person to get themself into a safe position.

Growing up in the 1960s this was the norm. Obviously some common sense is needed, and some clothes were washed after one wear (especially in Summer) but things like our woollen box-pleat school tunics went to the dry cleaner's once a year, likewise our jumpers and cardigans (unless grubby with...

I didn't see this one, but saw the larger ($12) one in kMart yesterday. At the homewards shop NEXT DOOR to kMart, the same bottle was being sold at $29!

I used a variation on this - a basket in each bedroom (kids shared bedrooms in those days) and a 'communal' basket in the bathroom. Not in a basket = didn't get washed.

Should be more than that.

You were lucky. Some were not.