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Resolved! Would you go back?

We are doing extension and I want whatever is going to be left of my garden to be easy care, no mowing, no bending type. That means paving what is still unpaved and putting in number of huge pots and troughs, so I can plant and weed without bending (...

Petrol at 0.99 cents in Sydney

Petrol at .99 cents in Sydney and damn close to a $1 in Melbourne. I reckon Melbourne might go sub a dollar within the next few weeks.

Fish Are Such Shallow Creatures, Ay!

Vancouver Aquarium head veterinarian Dr. Martin Haulena, with help from Dr. Lesanna Lahner of Seattle Aquarium, affixes a prosthetic eye on a yellowtail rockfish (Sebastes flavidus) that had its eye removed due to cataracts. They performed the same s...

Kanye West Fans Don't Know Who Paul McCartney Is!

On Twitter they are thanking Kanye for giving this 'unknown' singer, Paul McCarney, a chance at stardom. Am I getting old or what? http://www.people.com/article/paul-mccartney-kanye-west-twitter

Could Not Resist

This was in the death notice in todays 7/01/2015 paper Marco R**** D'A********28/11/1990 - 02/02/2015 Requiem Mass08/01/2014

STREET ART photo chat thread

Great theme this week, although not much around my way.Can one of you Canberra people get into Civic to take a pic of the Little Men? I love those little guys

Resolved! A lemon, lemon

Shopping at my local Woolies, wanted 1 x lemon ......horrified to find all 3 differently packaged items containing lemons were ALL IMPORTED FROM USA single (tiny) lemons IMPORTED from USA String bags of (tiny) lemons IMPORTED from USA String bags of ...

Resolved! Is there a risk of a volcanic eruption in Australia?

http://home.iprimus.com.au/foo7/volcmap.html Map of Australia where earthquakes have occured. 1788 to 2008. Enhanced Image courtesy of Claire PayneEnvironmental Systems & Services Seismology Research Centre

Resolved! My 71 year old mother got a flu vaccine last year but she has a very bad flu for about 2 weeks, why?

My poor mother has went to the trouble of getting her annual vaccine but now many months later she has caught the flu & it's a really bad prolonged case how is this possible?. I thought that if you still picked it up that it would only be a mild cold...

Resolved! Computer help please

I ask on this forum because it is a small problem and I am sure there is someone here who can help. Please. Somehow I have clicked somewhere and bu gg ered something up. I can no longer do emoticons, emoticons have disappeared from my past posts, and...

No WARMING for 19 years

The Guardian in 2009 predicted five years of rapid warming:The world faces record-breaking temperatures as the sun’s activity increases, leading the planet to heat up significantly faster than scientists had predicted for the next five years, accordi...