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Still love my Fantales though! I miss them.

I was 12 and my parents allowed me to watch it as all other people at school were, with either parent sitting at the channel controls to change the channel if anything unsuitable happened. That meant most of the time we were watching something else.

During the school holidays we would venture to Coles at Hurstville with our family, shop and then have lunch in the cafeteria. I always had a pie, chips, peas and gravy and a chocolate milkshake. On the way our we would buy a range of loose lollies being able to mix them in a bag after our...

Parking spaces today are small. At our shopping centre lately I have parked and come back to a huge vehicle parked next to me on each side of my car and have not been able to open the doors on either side of the car. I have to wait for the owner of the car next to me to return, with all...

During the school holidays, dressed in our Sunday best, we would go with my Grandmother and Grandfather on the red rattler for a day at Farmers in George Street (now Myers), Anthony Hordens and David Jones in the city. We would have lunch at the David Jones restaurant, shop and come home with...

When so close to the end it is a dignified way of not prolonging the inevitable approaching end. After watching my mother, father, step mother, step father and brother suffering so much in their final days letting them drift (through some assistance) is a kinder humane way of ending of life...

I remember going to Coles in the school holidays as a family so we could eat in the old style Coles cafeteria, pie, mash, pies and gravy and a lime spider. Those were the days of fond memories of a family outing going to town on the red rattler trains and having a Coles lunch - simple pleasures.

I remember the test patten. I also remember at the end of the night when the station closed ending in the national anthem - "God Save the Queen". Long time ago. We were the first in our street to have a colour television, a big teak 26 inch HMV TV with two speakers either side - a real...

Wow - coincidental I opened the same one looking for some cotton just two days ago. It was my mums and I just kept it after she passed away thinking that I might need something in it one day. It is full of old things like thimbles and a sock darner. Some of the things in it were my mum's...