Winning for me would mean a little more room to wriggle financially. In the last 6 months I've changed my health fund, power and gas provider, internet and tomorrow it'll be the mobile's turn. Every little bit helps.
As for Drinking Culture, if Amie was around during the 50s or 60s - or even earlier - she'd know all about Aussies racing to the pub after work. It was mostly men doing physical jobs who'd meet up, have a few, then go home. Particularly frantic during the '6 o'clock swill ' days!
Happens all the time in Bass Hill. A friend of mine reminded a young man coming out of the gym he had no disability sign on his illegally parked car & was promptly threatened with violence for doing so!
There goes another link to this country's proud manufacturing past! We buy Smyth's every Christmas looking forward to that nostalgic memory of our childhood when Granma would proudly display them in cut glass bowls.