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My mum bought me a set of these when I left home back in the early eighties. I have used them continuously since and they are still used all of the time and still look as new. I also kept all of my mother's after she passed away - we have a bit of a collection now that are always used. They are...

So many of our appliances and tools today need these kinds of batteries. All of my gardening tools including the lawnmower rely on these batteries, so do many of our house-hold appliances. Our phones, laptops, toothbrushes, shavers, tablets all use them. There is very little escaping them...

He is totally disrespectful for your help and generosity. Do not let him back into your life, he is not a real friend but a user.

What a mess and we are in the middle of it.

Thank you for this awareness and reminder. I have a Pomeranian who does pick up little grass spurs occasionally. After a walk we usually have a fine tooth comb down. I think in future, knowing this, I might be a bit more particular looking out for this when combing and making sure I do a...

As a society it is a topic that we are still hesitant to talk about - anything about end of life. Although it has become better over the last few years, it still is a topic avoided by many. I agree with Suzzanne rose that the family need to be very involved and part of all discussions and stem...

Eating out has become a luxury. It has now become quite unfordable. We used to go out midweek every week for dinner and always ate out on Saturday and Sunday for lunch. We may do Saturday lunch every few weeks now. Rather than go out now, we try to replicate our favourite meals in our kitchen...

Over the years three of our dogs, all Pomeranians, have slept in their own beds but in our room. They have had a set bed time and did/do not get up until we do. They were well trained and were well behaved good dogs. Our second one had terrible and serious lung issues and toward the last few...

We had issues with our next-door neighbour for a number of years with their large boat outside their home and their other five cars taking turns in front of our home right up to the edge of our driveway making it difficult to get in and out and taking any possibility of our parking there. On...

I have been weeding, pruning and mulching this week as I usually do this time of year. I have noticed the last few days that there have been so many big flies around and have not noticed this extent before. Last year it was the mossies, this year looks like it will be the flies.

Good on him for trying something different. 61 is still young!

We had a pair of plovers who would nest in the gassed area at the front of my school where I was Principal. They had been coming there for years before I arrived. Everyone knew about them and stayed away from the area. They would lay eggs each year and they had never hatched. However, the last...

I taught in a demountable classroom in an open area with no shade anywhere close. It had the sun on it all day. I had two of these in the classroom that made the inside the same as the outside temperature. Otherwise without it the classroom was like an oven being so much hotter inside than out...

We go to the local pharmacist in our shopping village and have for over twenty years. They are very good and know their regular customers by name. They are always helpful and do their best to help out whenever they can. They are about personal customer service which they deliver brilliantly...

I think we have to face the fact that the Reject shop as we knew it is gone and replaced by something different from an overseas company. So many of our stores and business are being taken over by overseas companies. The retail landscape as we knew it is fading off as a thing of the past.

The banks say that more people prefer to use digital banking, it is more likely we are being forced to use digital banking as there are fewer alternatives with the branches closing and the removal of ATMs. I do use digital banking only because the alternatives are not there anymore. I am always...

When I was learning to drive my mother always said to watch the road and other users you do not know what someone is going to do and they will cause the accident. Something that has resonated throughout my life is to watch out for other drivers you do not know what they are doing or going to do.

A great simple idea. Well done!

Why is it that the not for profits get looked over by the government who backs and helps so many for profit organisations. Priorities need to be realigned and NDIS taken back in control of the government not by for profit organisations.

Why have we got to such a state that the Health system (like everything else) is? Is it just neglect from the good times of years past or is there another reason. So many issues from our governments with lots of talk and little long term action.