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    Magpie nuisance

    Rob Plumber will definitely need new door after that unless you just intend waving it at them . LOL I’m curios to why they would be pecking at screen .? We have quite a few where I live but they just fly down for food . Is there some insect delicacy they fancy on the door . Sorry I don’t have...
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    Major checkout change quietly rolls out across supermarkets

    Julio you are correct . I am legally blind and have someone take me shopping . Have my home care plan level 3 If I am not well enough to go i have to give the carer CASH not allowed to take card ,(which bank doesn’t give me anyway because i am blind and not safe with one) . Carer has to take...
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    Tap-and-Go Nation: Inside Australia’s $160 Billion Cashless Boom

    Very good replies . People don’t know what it’s like to live in outback areas when storms hit ..trees over power lines and houses ,roads closed etcThousands of homes without power for a week and longer . Plus no internet or phone connection either. Perhaps the next suggestion we could have...
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    Thinking of escaping the city? The shocking truth about small-town life every Aussie needs to know before they move

    I hear everything you say in this story . You never become a LOCAL until you have lived there 20 years ,if you last that long . The drinking , don’t even think about moving there if you don’t intend to frequent the Local hotels 1 or 2 . The biggest No No is DO NOT say a bad word about anyone...
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    Bulk billing boost: New report says seeing the doctor is about to get cheaper

    The GP clinic in Qld has always bulk billed pensioners for the past 10 years , However I was referred to Heart Specialist a month ago . They rang me to give me time of appointment oh and please bring $ 500 with you . I didn’t complain trying to remember the old saying What you lose on the...
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    You could be making this mistake on the road—Why did a horse rider confront a driver?

    Da Freddy ,obviously you have never lived or worked on a farm or you would know farms can be separated on both sides of the road . As for the truck driver that blasted you with his horn that is what this is all about inconsiderate drivers. Pity you didn’t sit there and make him wait longer . I...
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    You could be making this mistake on the road—Why did a horse rider confront a driver?

    Wonder what these impatient drivers would do up here in Queensland when they come across the drovers taking their cattle on the road to feed because of drought and lack of food . There can be more than 10 horses plus cattle dogs controlling hundreds of cattLe.. They do a marvellous job ...
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    Are bad tenants wrecking your community? The push for tougher penalties you need to know about

    People whom trash houses provided by the government and are evicted should never ever be given another home after all it is the taxpayer that is paying for these homes to be built and be refurbished..Instead they should be given a tent and an area way out in the bush out of sight out of mind ...
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    Facing Your Demons

    Col@45 Very helpful reply. I can’t even begin to imagine what Veggiepatch life was like but I admire him for sharing it with us . we need people like this to go to the schools etc and tell the young ones what it is like in correction centres and jails . One day in there is the end of you ever...
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    Safe cooking used to be common sense—so why did this celebrity reach for seawater instead of the tap?

    Some of the seawater I have seen you would not even swim in especially when there has been a breakdown in the sewerage plant. Perhaps they have been watching the chap whom has been arrested at childcare centre abuse his cooking of meals for children at the centres was horrifying . I never go to...
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    I Hate ...

    A truer word was never spoken . I can relate to this as well .
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    The Coo of the Doves, The Hiss of the Guzunder

    Doctor Alan , wonderful story . I can relate to a lot of these things ,not the bomings of course . But the gardening ,vegetables gooseberries I couldn’t eat my mother used to make a pie on Sunday they were so sour think it was half sugar and half gooseberries and wonderful puff pastry 🥐 But the...
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    Are you secretly showing this one surprising behaviour that could mean you're a narcissist?

    7777 and mylittletibbies, after reading your replies I know where you are coming from . I was married for 25 years to a person like this bipolar and narcissistsseem to go hand in hand . I could write 2 pages on my life while I was married to one . When we divorced me after 25 years I’ve never...
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    Are you secretly showing this one surprising behaviour that could mean you're a narcissist?

    7777 and mylittletibbies, reading your replies I understand
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    Are you secretly showing this one surprising behaviour that could mean you're a narcissist?

    Life’s a b***h when you live on your own and can’t blame anyone else isn’t it . I upset my coffee every day that’s nothing new.. Trip over the mats ,don’t know who put them there!. I blame my eyes but they are stuck in my head anyway . Think I will go and take a Valium 🙃😎 Lol.
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    Surprise health diagnosis fuels fresh questions about Donald Trump's future plans

    My point is I do not remember President Roosevelt saying he was going to end the war in 1 day and as of the news tonight I watched he was neither in a scandal involving Geoffrey Epstein or going to sue Richard Murdoch etc No doubt there is a big cover up there . I think he was more of an...
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    Joke The good old days

    Leenie yes I remember that too . Under todays rules and regulations we would be charged as D***heads sitting in it 😆
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    Surprise health diagnosis fuels fresh questions about Donald Trump's future plans

    Yes but president D Roosevelt was in office then . We are talking about 2 different people in that time Things have changed a lot since then .
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    Told my niece the truth about her past—now the family’s upset. Am I in the wrong?

    This same story happened to my best friend .Her daughter had a baby at 15 years old . the daughter wanted to adopt the baby ( a girl) out . But my friend said NO she would raise it as her own . It was her first grandchild . 3 years later the girl met another boy and they got married so she came...
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    Surprise health diagnosis fuels fresh questions about Donald Trump's future plans

    Oh I am with you in the comments above but just think how many upset Americans etc there will be .He didn’t just get to be president by not being voted in . I think quite a few wished they hadn’t voted now.
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