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I was once told to place an empty ice cream container or similar under a roof drip. It catches the water & prevents it coming through the ceiling. It can be emptied regularly or if you live in a low rainfall area the water evaporates before the next rain.

Rubbish. It’s outright greed on the part of the company.

I am very elderly and I remember going to the butcher before school every morning & buying among other cuts, mutton (that’s what we ate in the 1930s) loin chops. They cost 6d for five!

Yankee spelling?

I knew somebody would say that!

Tweed Shire Council does a pretty good job on most things. Potholes are a problem of course as are Developers.

I didn’t receive endowment for my first child only for the next two.

I zap my grocery barcodes for A.C. Nielsen. I get points which I can trade for items like movie tickets & other miscellany.

Different items require different way of recycling. We in the Tweed Shire have three bins, green, yellow & red. The green bin weekly takes our garden waste & kitchen & food waste. This is converted by council into compost which can then be used by council & residents. I freeze some food...

I draw the line at “cookies” & refuse to buy them, plastic covers it nit. I am Australian & I eat biscuits, patty cakes & scones. Not cookies, cup cakes or what Americans call scones - biscuits!

No correct punctuation or spelling in this post let alone the disgusting name calling. There is no need for this disrespect no matter who you vote for.

The September & March pension adjustment is not necessarily a rise. It could be the opposite. Depends on the criteria used to estimate the pension.

I do the same.

Just a suggestion…. Try driving a little slower & you might have time to dodge a pothole!

If the speed limit is 80klms etc. & you obey - no revenue raised. Simples.

I support your comments to the letter. LAZY is the word to use. Language barriers, frustrating. We are supplied with three whibins & in some cases four. It can’t be that hard to do the right thing to keep our planet healthy. It’s the only one we have. There is no excuse for a smelly bin -...

Don’t blame the Greenies, blame the idiots who vote for them.