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When I left school I trained as a comptometer operator, (adding and calculating machine). I started on a machine made in 1913, eventually we got new electric ones with touch buttons, so much easier. Now the only place you will see one is in a museum. When I explained to my grandchildren what a...

After reading all these comments on here by us the older generation, who see nothing wrong in the rhyme from the old days, it must be the younger woke generation that are complaining.

Diagnosis I went to the doctor today because I thought I had arthritis. I don't. It's early onset rigor mortis.

If she can save enough to buy a home then maybe, like the rest of us, she should save a bit longer or buy a home she can afford.

We were in Bunnings yesterday, couldn't find the item we were looking for. We asked a staff member and she immediately got out her phone and looked it up for us, only to find they had none in stock or at the next nearest store. We don't need the item urgently so were happy to wait until it comes...

My parents were given a cat as a wedding present. When my brother came along they had to rehome the cat as it kept getting in the pram and sitting on him.

My husband worked as an electrician at a sewerage works in the UK for a while. It didn't smell and they grew the best tomato's there.

In our previous house we had a tree in the back garden (can't remember what kind it was) a tree root came up in the shower of the neighbour two doors away, they had a small crack in the tiles and the root found it. We took the tree out and killed the root.

The morning news letter format seems to have changed and I can't open some things.

We owned a small villa there a good few years ago. The land was purchased in the name of our Balinese trusted friend of many years and we owned the villa. When we sold up, we got the money for the house and he got the money for the land. All done legally through a notoriety.