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My kitchen is all wrong by those standards...and I love it. The way the experts wanted it i told them I'll need roller skates to go from one area to another. I send the whole lot packing until one listen to me and even changed my mind about one set of cupboards opening which then allowed for a...

However don't tell anyone...this quintessential Australian word has French origin... it was "matelot", used on British ships in lieu of sailor🙂 Fascinating to peruse old ships manifests to see matelot abbreviated to mate for ordinary sailors, then a bit later 1st and second matelot also...

If the federal government ensure that the 2 airlines policy is out of the window may be we hope a hope of real competition🙂

I have owned one for a few years now, love it and still working perfectly. I buy 2 spare rolls when they are available and have been fine with that😊

I have done that for years. I suspect that using it in airfryers may have given some the idea to do it with a toaster🙂

I am sure there is a solution, but taking it away from cattle class is the easy way out😉

Notwithstanding it is bad for the tourist trade when a tourist disappear between their jaws😉

A lot of people don't realise their smaller bank is actually part of one of the big four and diversification means to make sure it is really a separate entity

Real, I mean real croissants in my hometown, the one with the Eiffel tower

a few years ago I came back to my car, with long keymarks on both sides. Guessed it must have been the bloke in the white car whom I overheard raving that this was his spot (plenty of spaces around). Left went home. Next day, a Sunday, police car, 2 police officers came out : is this your car...

nothing to do with Australia, newcomers etc... :ROFLMAO: just the meaning of "humour"

Australians have to understand: sense of humour is peculiar to each country and never understood by others, not particularly dry or otherwise... just different

had a van parked half accross my driveway and was encouraged to report it to the police. Having managed to get my car out unsafely and coming back left it on the street. I had taken a photo of the offending vehicle but decided not to report it immediately. Fortunately for them it was gone the...

dont... simply bring your own sturdy one. I remember when I arrived in Australia not only did they have paper bags but we were not allowed to fill them ourselves or to use our own, and they broke regularly becoming soggy as well. Then they gave us plastic an improvement as we were still not...

considering my first travel was before I was actually born, my 2nd at 6months old and I have never stopped since, that is another reason to give to people who ask me what is my "secret" to be as I am, last time was 3days ago by the nurse giving me my flu and covid vaccinations (btw I am only 82...

you got me back to Paris with your Simca (Aronde) Monthléry ;) early 60's !

I do not forget my bags in the car... that is were they reside...I go to the car with the trolley, split groceries in the bags as I need. When emptied at home, being in my way they go back to the car boot... I do not understand people who "forget"their bags in the car, because first of all I...

Not mentioned: cars for Australia, UK etc. ie any left hand drive vehicle, is always different to those for right hand drive ones for EU in particular, ie for us often " close enough is good enough":mad:

It is a fact of life... plenty of us live alone... trying to pretend otherwise is not helping anyone... btw alone does not mean lonely, for quite a few of us it means independence and friends/family around