Many years ago, you used to be able to get a contract to go and pick up used rail-way sleepers from cuttings around the ACT. The sites were a couple of hundred metres in from where you could park your vehicle. When we were involved with this activity, a group of men would go out… Read more

In Asia a lot of people wear surgical-type masks on their faces. Some of the masks are almost a fashion item with different designs and colours on them. I wasn’t sure whether the masks were worn to keep the wearer from spreading germs or to keep the wearer from being exposed to pollutants and the… Read more

No Parking I had a lovely morning planned. There was a movie on I was very keen to see, and my sister and I were going to go together. We drove into the city and seeing as we didn’t have lots of time to spare, decided we would go for the more expensive closer car… Read more

Help Yourself I was wandering around the shopping mall and decided to shout myself a coffee. I noticed that outside a popular fast food outlet there was a facility to place and pay for an order – pick up inside. The walk-in version of a drive through me thinks. With this sort of ‘progress’, we… Read more

They are shiny and red, sleek and smooth and last week I went for a ride on one of the new light-rail vehicles, a.k.a. trams. It really worked for me re timings and where I wanted to get to. We are lucky over this side having easy access to it, but there are things on… Read more