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Maggies are not my favourite neighbors, I had some beautiful hanging baskets in full bloom at the beginning of September they were gorgeous to look at with some having flowering hanging vines nearly touching the ground, they were completely destroyed in one mass attack by the local Magpie...

bonfire night or Guy Fawkes is a different celebration, he tried to blow up the houses of Parliament and so for some reason him not succeeding is celebrated with bonfires and fireworks on November 5th every year. Halloween has its origins from All Hallows Eve the time when the dead walk the...

True Äll Hallows Eve"is an old English tradition Also celebrated in other countries, The Americans typically chose to make a "big thing"of it and turn it into the festival it is now, Ho Hum!!

After years of renting and just "Putting up"with design flaws that made life in the kitchen a misery we had the chance to build our own home, knowing exactly what I wanted in our home I put pencil to paper and designed what I considered to be the perfect floor plan for that new home, I thought...

I remember both grandmothers having bits and pieces of this dinnerware but nostalgia alone will not tempt me I dislike anything green unless it is alive as in plants etc so its a no from me.

I have been a fan of wooden salt and pepper grinders for years but the price to replace my 30 year old grinders was way too high, so I kept on using them till my husband found the new tallAcrylic ones at a recent shopping trip to Aldi, I was not convinced at first but we purchased them any way...

Thank you Vicki for your very kind words. I am very stubbornly independent and so cannot see any walking aid in my future but I appreciate your advice, i just need to be more carefull where I am going I can see me walking into things because I am concentrating so much on where my feet are going...

I have always been extremely clumsy, and able to trip over my own feet without any trouble, this was not so much of a problem when younger as I could easily pick myself up and carry on as if nothing had happened, now however it is a real problem, with 2 damaged knees I find it impossible to pick...

This kind of service is used in the UK as well as the USA, as usual Oz is a little slow to bring this kind of much needed service to our own triple zero emergency services but it looks as if they have caught up even if only NSW at the moment the ability to save lives as this service will...

Had to laugh at your profile name, my husband, raised in London, uses it all the time to enquire "How much"when I want to buy something, although over the years he has shortened it to just Emma!

Thank you for that, most states offer services for seniors to help with tech stuff, some are free and easy to access some not so much, the seniors have to want the knowledge to take advantage of the services available, some are easily confused and not aware of the help on offer and others are...

No disrespect is intended but your post is a little confusing, I sympathise with your issues with mobile phones, my smart phone is very nuch smarter than I am and I find using it very problematic, when all I want to do with it is make phone calls, not use it to access the internet, I use my...

Love IT Cannot wait for chapter 2 of the story

People need to realise that Scamming and scammers is a major industry, they send out hundreds sometimes thousands of emails or text messagess in the hope of just getting one idiot to respond to them, emails from any address that you do not know or phone number not in your contacts need to be...

as usual it is apparently yet another government plot!!

What I find so amazing is the speed in which the "tin foil Hat Brigade"will blame the government and anyone else that they can think of for something as simple as a virus capable of destroying food products the previous comment about there being no such thing as a virus that can destroy...

There are 2 phrases that alert me to the fact that the writer has "fallen down the rabbit hole" the first one being "They"as in say or said ',Just who are "They" ? The Second one is being told to "do my homework" which I suppose means school myself in the same facts as the person writing the...

Thank you I wish you luck also, my diagnosis of Lung Cancer was not my first fight, I beat bowel Cancer 2 years ago only to be told that I NOW had lung cancer late last year, so here we go again. surgery was not an option this time around so the usual umpteen rounds of Chemo and Radiation...

Sounds good but there is a strong BUT here, Immunotherapy drugs are not suitable for every one who has any form of cancer. a certain protein in the blood of every cancer patient has to be present in order for an immunotherapy drug to help or work, I have the deadliest form of lung cancer which...

None of the trainees will be learning anything , they cannot get past the sign!