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I hear you! 24 years in the tropics, then a couple of years in the sub-tropics, no sign of snow or frost!

I relief teach one day a week to supplement our income (self-supporting retirees). It pays well but is often a tough gig. I’ve worked casually at it for 2 years, I can understand why teachers are leaving in droves. This December will be it for me, time to fully retire.

Many mornings we have dog poop on our front lawn, which we have to clean up. It’s annoying. We believe our neighbour just lets his dog out for a “stroll”, nice and early. Definitely not our dog, he’s fenced in to our side and back yard. What’s is it with some people??

Yes I agree I was totally stupid! Thanks for reminding me. Mine was a couple of years ago, the warnings weren’t as prevalent as they are now. Also, the scammer seemed to know I’d been logged into myGov the previous day. I woke up around 6am (probably half asleep checking my emails), had a real...

Absolutely! A couple of years ago, I started with a new employer, and requested they use my current Superannuation account. Of course they didn’t, and they opened a new Super account. Anyway, I had to merge my Super accounts, and get rid of the new one, all thru MyGov. Next morning, I had an...

Landing by helicopter above the Franz Josef Glacier in NZ, pretty special when I live in sunny Queensland!

I must be old or something, I would never consider sitting down at a cafe or restaurant if I’d bought something from a takeaway menu! It makes sense to me to take my food/drink and go!

You’re welcome!

Wow! Five eggs. Eggs are like hen’s teeth in my local area.

My volunteer job is my hobby, I visit a 9 year old girl weekly, who lives in foster care. When outdoors, we play frisbees, take walks, even jump on the trampoline!

No big deal, I buy it for $5 on special, and none of it goes to waste! I’ve seen more expensive dips.

It is expensive, I grab it when it’s on special, there’s plenty left for bikkies, cheese, pate and dips! And a bottle of bubbly. We treat ourselves every now and then, seeing we rarely eat out!

With the airfryer chicken, you have to be careful that the drumsticks are cooked right through. Seems like the end has dropped off my recipe, as I had another 5 minutes of airfrying, giving it 25 minutes. Just 20 minutes is not long enough. To test, you could use a thermometer (I don’t own one).

I’m sure you could replace pate with dip (eg hommus). I actually make my own hommus, and add chilli, so I might try that sometime instead of using pate.

My staple dinner when “batching”, but always added some chilli, and a piece of fish. Perfect. A complete meal in a pan.

“Tread your own path”. Just looking at my records: in 2024 I collected the following in supermarket gift cards - $235 from Octopus; $100 from Purkle; $100 from Connect Panel (news.com.au). I also won $14,000 worth of prizes from competitions.

Constructive comment would be to try a recipe, and then have something to say. I wouldn’t be so publicly rude to knock a recipe that someone has posted, without trying it. If I wasn’t interested in trying it, I’d keep my views to myself.

Thanks readers, lovely to read your comments. Let me reply: 1. Try my recipe, with one drumstick at a diagonal in your slow cooker, to serve two. I’m not reading here that anyone commenting has tried my recipe. My recipe is the crux of my post! 2. “Serving guides” are fine, but I have cooked...

Just before my 50th bday, I raced my hubby to the top of Ayers Rock (Uluru), because he was always telling me how unfit I was, but I knew that wasn’t true! I must say, it was hard going, my knees have never been the same since!

Obviously you have tried my slow cooker turkey drumstick recipe, which is great that you have! The meat is absolutely succulent, nothing dried/shrivelled about the turkey meat (eg like BBQ’d or oven roasted turkey). There is plenty of meat for two, we serve it with roasted vegetables and gravy...