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I'm feeling a wee bit glum tonight as I've cancelled my planned trip to the UK in May. I feel it's going to be one heck of a rocky ride. Prudence wins out

Well my bro and I are booked CK MEL-LHR, transit HK for 5 hours. May 12-25. We booked our tickets and travel insurance on Dec 28. My TA is booked same trip at the beginning of April & a week ago said - let's wait and see. Which I'm Happy to do, but cancelling tickets and leaving the trip for a...

Cold Duck? Now there's a memory to conjure with. As in, still in our bridesmaids outfits at 6am next morning watching the sun come up whilst sitting on Williamstown pier. We may still have been swigging CD. That's 50 years ago and I still feel nauseous!

I tried to get a bottle of porphyry pearl for a friend for their pearl anniversary. And I was going to make them drink it if I'd found some

I'm booked on Cathay MEL_HKK_LHR in Mid May with a 5 hour stopover in HK. I'm hoping like mad this issue has subsided by then but wondering if they'll let me fly in a hazmat suit & oxygen tank

Never underestimate the power of a steel ruler in the hands of Sister Margaret Mary to inculcate the rules of grammar!

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Thanks. For a layover of 5 hours perhaps a queue won't be too bad. Especially if we make a run for head of the queue

Hi all. I'm a total pleb. lowly Bronze lifetime QFF member. I'm flying to the UK with my brother in May on Cathay in PE (told you I was a pleb). Is there any way I can get access to a lounge as we have a 5 hour stopover in HK. Zilch points

We were trying to enjoy the tranquility - when crunchitty crunch crunch along came some hearty German tourists in their very loud hearty German voices shlepping their very hearty suitcases very noisily along the gravel paths. Talk about killing the moment!

It sounds as though we all had grammar drummed into us! Spelling too was very important. I recall one of my teachers had a list she called ' demon words' with all kinds of little rhymes and sayings to help remember. You use stationAry when a cAr is stopped, and stationEry to describe papEr. I'm...

I put some pics on FB (actually they are amazing - taken by a co pilot, I assume, in some of the helicopters; Vic dept of environment was the source) some of them are like looking into hell. I had very panicked calls from the English cousins worried we were in danger. I think they had also seen...

A friend of mine is involved in animal rescue (in her case it's dogs) and today is going on a 'Black Walk' with a group including vets who are being allowed in to burnt areas to try and find/assist injured wildlife. She raised $1,000 amongst her friends in just 3 days and yesterday translated...

Yes of course - it just happened to pop on my FB feed;

I recall a thread on AFF some years ago, a wise soul recommending that you spend just half an hour taking pics on your phone of every room, and its contents. A video as well, and photos of jewellery & other specified items. Email it to yourself and it's sitting up in the cloud. I lost an...

That's not a new thing or related to bushfires. It's called an averaging condition. If your house is 50% underinsured and you lose the lot, you won't get back 100% you'll only get 50%. We had a body corporate management company and a couple of times had properties badly damaged by fire...

I just watched an episode of 24 hours in Emergency, missed the first few minutes so didn't catch what had brought the young fellow in _ he looked to be in his 20s. I thought he was having a fit or had Parkinsons, but it was actually the full blown DTs. Absolutely shocking.

I'm a 3 book girl. One I'm reading, the next one, and the emergency in case the next one is a dud. On one trip home from the US I was toting a pack of books - (a series by a crime writer called Sue Grafton) home for a friend's cousin. Started reading A for Alibi and many hours later was still...

When you see how relatively quickly we have adapted to taking our own bags with us; being far more aware of the dreadful buildup of plastic polluting oceans so encouraging us to cut way down on our use of packaging etc; councils now distributing compost bins and accepting food waste. They are...

Kindle was an absolute Godsend for me when travelling - I'm a voracious reader and usually have 2 books on the ago- at the moment there are 6 next to my bed, waiting for me. I often find it difficult to sleep in Y so on one trip to the US I re read Lord of the Rings, on another it was C S...