• The dreaded email: will you complete a short survey

    A common complaint is the need for a password for everything online. Not just government departments, social media accounts and banking which all certainly deserve as much security as computer boffins, firewalls and our brains (“No! Not “Password1!” again!”) can devise. It is the peripheral stuff involving casual browsing online for purveyors of bathers, quilt…

  • Poo, Poke and Post

    That heading above is from an actual advertisement in my GP’s office about getting your bowel checked for cancer. I think it’s clever and ranks up there with ‘do a deposit in your undies’ that was plastered all over Adelaide’s buses encouraging online banking. Anyhoo, Pooing, Poking and Posting usually occurs when you’re fifty, but…

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  • Belated Sunday Stealing

    Bev at Sunday Stealing puts together a bunch of questions so that those of us bloggers who’d like to tap something out but are not sure what to say, can be helped along. My next blog is in draft mode, and will be a LOT more confronting to read, so something lighter seems appropriate for…

  • Madame Marg

    Sorry, dear Reader. It has been a long time since visiting this blog. Like my physical self, it has periods of intense activity followed by slovenly neglect. We had been based at an Air BnB in Moonah for nearly three months and it was only during our final week when I was busy wearing out…

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  • Shopping shockers

    I’ve been job hunting lately, amongst the stuff like trying to get a Medicare card, a refund from an incredibly disinterested UN health insurer and keeping my daily steps up, and was thrown by a scenario presented to me in an interview. “You are about to visit a woman who gets out of bed for…

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