“Are fellow C8-ers as baffled as I am by inappropriate mobile phone videoing?” asks Greg Flynn of Turramurra. “At a pathology collection centre yesterday, there were signs asking patients not to video procedures using their mobiles. A collector told me parents are increasingly videoing their children while the kids have blood samples taken.
When parents are asked to stop, angry responses include: ‘You can’t tell me what to do!’. Presumably, fresh content for social media outranks common courtesy.” Stuart Weller hails from the land of the superior rock cake, aka Nabiac, and has a subscription for the US edition of National Geographic magazine: “Yesterday I received a reminder (by snail mail) that it will end shortly.
While the enclosed letter has no indication of where it was written (though it was ‘signed’ by a Gary E. Knell, National Geographic ), the envelope has a return address of Tower House, Sovereign Park, Market Harborough, Leicester LE16 9EF UK, yet it was actually posted in the Czech Republic! Is this some kind of record for decentralisation of services?” “High Five, Brad Campbell,” declares Anne Cook of Ermington. “I did cringe at spending the inheritance (C8).
Our two children are well-off financially, thanks to the best upbringing we could afford and their own hard work. In retirement, we live a quiet life, never big spenders, don’t plan on costly adventures, so ‘the inheritance’ is what’s left after the both of us have moved o.