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Even commentators say offense and defense now. When talking about Aussie Rules. Only - they say O-fence and Dee fense I loathe the use of 'impacted' which was well known and loved as a noun when I went to school. Now it's a verb. Magic!

Once you start examining labels you realise how terrible our food labelling laws are here. I think there s already been discussion on how stuff can be labelled 'Made in Australia' but on closer examination it's 'from o/s sources' or only needs a miniscule amount of the product to be sourced...

Those damned Hopeless Dreams just keep sucking people in don't they

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That's all very interesting John. I wonder who worked out what to use the trees for - are they an indigenous species? What do you do with the waste product from the tumbler? If you burnt it for your nightly camprife I imagine it would smell glorious!

After over 30 years of driving Benzes MrMac bought a Kia Optima. We did a little zoom up the freeway to Ringwood and back to the city - Imagine our surprise when we had to fill up with petrol !We also had to call back into the dealership & I told the salesman - thinking it was an oversight - he...

I ordered a new Kindle from Amazon.au last Monday; it was available for collection at one of the Amazon 'hubs' which I'd selected as a newsagency 10 minutes away. You go to a set of lockers at the back of the shop, type in your code and ' ping' the door opens. Got it Wednesday arvo. I reckon...

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I've just bounded off the plane in Melbourne. When my brother and I checked in at LHR I was delighted when the very sweet lass said -oh you've been upgraded to F. So we wafted on board, enjoyed the Suite, sampled absolutely everything, slept like babies, enjoyed the CL in HK and arrived back in...

I just got a couple of snaps of my English cousins - we should have arrived in London yesterday and been gearing up for a cousins' reunion on Sunday. Poor love was bright red sitting in shade with feet in a paddling pool and looking ready to explode. 25 degrees?? Poor old Poms just can't handle...

I posted a parcel from Langwarrin last Wednesday going to Elwood. Lady at the PO said it might take a bit longer to arrive as they are under the pump. Arrived Monday to my granddaughter's delight. Nothing wrong with that service. Actually I've found Aus Post pretty efficient

Gave MrMac a 'reverse' mohawk....before I started I did say - I'll give you a trim, how hard can it be......Then I read the instructions and discovered it was my son's beard trimmer, no wonder it did a coughpy job. Good news is the barber's now open and it's been fixed.

I can't help thinking that our parents' generation would regard us as a bunch of sooks - coughing and moaning about having to stay home! Not to trivialise what's going on here. They really had no choice but to roll up their sleeves and get on with it, first a depression then a war, and only...

My brother and I would be in London, having had a marvellous flight in J with lashings of bubbles. The trip was a combination of his 70th & a gift from my family.Booked on points. He's not been back to the UK for 35 years. We'd have been recovering from a Cousins' family gathering - about 50...

A new Kindle to replace my elderly one with limited memory. I can read 2 books a week so packing for o/s meant a heap of books - I get twitchy if I haven't got at least 4. New one arrived & I'm halfway through latest release of one of my favourite authors. I put it on the floor instead of...

I did a small online order from Woolies last week; I ticked 'small vehicle' deliuvery and it arri ved in a Kia which I assumed was usually an Uber. nice to see businesses supple enough to adapt 1589168294 I've been making a point of asking checkout staff how they've been managing and...

You could put that into any street and it would still look just as fresh

I had to make a dash to the supermarket (have been getting online deliveries & the fruit & veg done by daughters) husband immuno compromised and we are both over 70. Gosh it was scary - how hard is it to calculate the correct distance? When one woman came too close I got a fright, exclaimed 'ah'...

Slightly OT - had to go into Harvey Norman's in Frankston yesterday to buy a small heater (previous died being used whilst WFH) Maybe my understanding of 'essential' is different. My goodness the joint was packed and busy. I had to walk through the furniture section & people were seriously just...

I buy it regularly and enjoy it very much. Was chatting to a friend on the Gold Coast yesterday and was also recommending she try some of the Aldi whites. Her husband does the shopping and alleges that there's no grog section in the store he goes to. I allege male blindness. Who's right?