At the beginning of this month businesses were no longer allowed to charge customers bank debit or credit card fees for a purchase or servic...

There is something in life that really get on my goat up my nose, and that is bank card fees. There is another, a public holiday surcharge a...

I don't buy a lot in Aldi supermarkets, especially as I buy very little food now, just fruit for myself, and I don't find Aldi's...

In blog posts I refer to it as the big green shed. In reality it's the Bunnings hardware chain. It has pretty well killed small local h...

Like it not, I will use the US currency for the price of a packet of 20 fags from around the world. US, $8 to $12 UK, $15 to $18 France, $12...

Ray's relatives left yesterday morning. As lovely as the couple are, it is a bit of a relief, but also very sad as it is unlikely I will...

Frightful Friday turned into Sad Saturday. I proudly sat in my brand new lounge chair next morning and rechecked its features, the electric ...

The new lounge chairs were scheduled for delivery late Friday afternoon. I received a call that they would be here in twenty minutes. I was ...

My state of Victoria has suffered from very bad fires. And now, along the well known tourist stretch, the Great Ocean Road, there has been f...

You may wonder why I would ever feel stressed, but today I did. The appointment for Jass' FV vaccination was at 12.10 on the other side ...

Aren't we told privatisation leads to competition and a better customer experiences, along with cheaper prices? Hey, cheaper prices real...

I bought new heads for my Oral B electric toothbrush. What I thought were four toothbrush heads were priced at $24. Four will last a year. T...

In reference to yesterday's post, the women I mentioned were all strong women and had the fortitude and self confidence to leave their a...

As the sending greeting cards dies off, businesses selling cards have reduced, so I normally buy mine now in Myer department store, where th...

This lamp was found by Ray many years ago in a long gone interior decoration shop in Port Melbourne, some twenty years ago. While not bespok...

Phyllis went off to work before ten, carrying a new broom. He had taken a new broom to work two days ago, and of course I made the dad joke,...

What to write about? I had lunch today with neighbour HH. Her sister has returned to Sydney, I think somewhat to HH's relief. They are n...

While my stomach is larger than I would like, I don't consider myself as being particularly fat. Older man with a bit of a belly is my p...

Cadbury gorilla in the air tonight. NOT AI but still fake. Yellow Pages Not happy Jan (This phrase, Not Happy Jan, really slipped into Austr...

As they cooked me Mexican barramundi fish tonight, 'The Children' were also playing with their growing collection of model cars. A N...