"I digress ..."

dorian · dorian

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-16/st-basils-greek-church-taxpayer-funding/100068128

bgt · bgt

OK it's not that serious but food for thought. I have a health issue that sees me at Pathology very regularly. I have had hundreds of gallons, , of blood taken in the past few years. Today was another visit. Normally I have to fast which means getting there before food deprivation makes me cranky. Early...

peter67 · peter67

Has anyone here read it and what do you think? ps it's just been made in to a movie and won some awards cheers

Craig1 · Craig1

We had an email and also a notice on our paper account that Telstra wanted to send email a/cs. After they had dudded us for $5 a month for 3 months, until I re read the a/c. So, we tried to email back, tried to phone them, tried online assist and really got nowhere, as we still wanted a paper account. So wrote t...

Des and Jane · Des and Jane

Just wondering who evacuated and headed South before the Cyclone hit the coast yesterday. Where were you ? and if you hit the road did you have a destination to go to, or just trusted to luck that you would find a spot in a park somewhere South out of harms way.

bgt · bgt

Are masks still mandatory in QLD? Cos no one at the footy is wearing one.

aussie_paul · aussie_paul

Points to ponder!· Half of us are going to come out of this quarantine as amazing cooks. The other half will come out with a drinking problem.· I used to spin that toilet paper like I was on Wheel of Fortune. Now I turn it like I'm cracking a safe.· I need to practice social-distancing from the refrigerat...

Whenarewethere · Whenarewethere

My sister in-law has had her first injection in Germany. Firstly the bad. They live in a small region & had to drive to another town even though their town is larger and they are doing vaccines there as well, but because Germany has actual roads unlike Australia's goat tracks you can drive at 200+kp...

Possum3 · Possum3

Recoup · Recoup

Mike Harding · Mike Harding

A most interesting article from The Age: Thirty years on from the royal commission, lets set the record straight on deaths in custody

Possum3 · Possum3

Whenarewethere · Whenarewethere

South Australia's new tourism ad:

Snippy · Snippy

As an ex Commercial Pilot and keen aviation photographer I decided to drop onto Emerald airport and take some pics. Bad idea! Any parking to stop for a moment is non-existent. There was a small parking bay with a secure entry gate for services vehicles. I pulled into the said and started toward the s...

Tony LEE · Tony LEE

Always regarded Sydney's toll system as reasonable value for money, even when driving a heavy vehicle. However, now that the new compulsory tunnel is open, getting from one end to the other will cost $62. The alternative route well around Sydney is toll free, is almost exactly the same distance but w...

Recoup · Recoup

Ship blocking Suez Canal , between Port Ibrahim and Madama . https://www.vesselfinder.com

dorian · dorian

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/3/this-river-in-canada-now-legal-person

Buzz Lightbulb · Buzz Lightbulb

I have two Isa Brown chooks. They both lay nearly every day so we are well kept in eggs. However, about this time each year, one goes clucky, stops laying and stays in the laying box most of the time. The other, sneaks in, lays its egg and gets out again. Does anyone know how to encourage a clucky chook to g...

msg · msg

When I am away I like to pack a good supply of canned goods. In particular, canned fish. Now, I am a keen "Australian Owned and made" supporter and when I can, I only buy those products. Did you know, that you cannot buy Australian made and packed tinned fish? Its all packed in Thailand. i.e. Australi...

iana · iana

Now installed at a retirement village in Mandurah WA. Four years full time on the road, for the second time, first was towing a Jayco Swan, this time a Jayco Silverline. We both prefer the traveling and living in the van, but couldn't address the van over weight problem, and glad to get that that anxiety...

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