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The argument by Macquarie Bank that cites "Changes in Banking habits" is spurious as when banks close branches and take away ATM machines, they force customers to "change their habits". Many people prefer cash as there are no fees attached. The banks want a cashless society as they get a fee on...

Don't fold and pack your bedding. Roll it up like a long carpet roll, put and old sheet around it and when you get to your new home, all you have to do is unroll it and tuck the edges and your bed is made. If you want to take plants from the garden with you, pot them up as soon as you decided to...

Since I suffer from Essential Tremor, I am unable to focus a camera on the QR as my hands shake too much. If we move to widespread use of QRs, I will be looking into whether it qualifies as discrimination against the disabled. The really annoyed me during covid as I had to m ask strangers for help.

My late mother had an 82 year old friend, Daphne, who watched a fit looking, muscly tradesman pull up in a Disabled Space. His car did not have a sticker so she walked up to him and said, "Poor dear. It's a mental disability is it?" "I'm just getting cigarettes," he answered, looking embarrassed.

I was waiting while my adult daughter had her hair cut, when a bedraggled looking woman came up to me and said hello. She looked at me for a few seconds and said,"You are going to live a long time." As my husband had recently passed and I have several ailments, I really don't want to live all...

Get on the social committee and work out something that suits most people. It is easy to complain when you have put nothing into organisation of the event. If you don't like it, change it.

We sanitize our nursery rhymes and school curricula and have anti-bullying policies etc but the children go home and play violent video games and watch violent films. I am against manipulating our right to free speech, and amending history, But, I adhere to the Golden Rule, "Do unto others as...

Thank you for your lovely reply and the hugs. I felt them where you feel things most, in my heart. MSA is almost the same as Motor Neurone disease but you get dementia as well. All the systems in the body cease to function until death claims you. Bladder and bowel control go, you cannot walk or...

Hi, I am a recently widowed, retired Secondary School teacher and Vice Principal. I was crippled as a child, (TB of the hip) and did what ever job I could get. I married young and while we raised our 3 children, I studied, externally, for 14 years and began teaching at 37 after a year in a...

New to the group. Looking forward to becoming an active member of the group.