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Modern post issues in a modern land

Heckler ''I'D LIKE to send this parcel by registered post, please.''

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Abstaining throws up tricky issues

Heckler THE Great Vomit of Y2K was the last time I ever drank champagne or wine. I threw up so violently I lost a contact lens.

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Stewing over rabbit epidemic

Heckler MY SYDNEY suburb is experiencing a rabbit plague - we recently counted 25 at a local park at dusk. I have asked the council for advice, and they put me on to a rural group who suggested I trap them...

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Train fix may only work in Wonderland

Heckler RECENTLY, I noticed a positions vacant advertisement, in the Herald, for managers for NSW trains.

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No worries? Now there's some hot air

Heckler CHRISTMAS 2011, with a house full of family, guests and pets, and an expired vacuum cleaner, we enjoyed the domestic bliss of shopping for a new machine, and were delighted to purchase a super-duper,...

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Word to the wise, if that's OK

Heckler I WANT to change the English language - well, the use of it - but I'm going to need your help and your consensus to do it. Are you prepared to try? Yes or no?

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Youngsters are clueless about life for oldsters

Heckler AT 64 I have read that a group of 40-year-olds working for a think tank recommend raising the knackery level to 70. Oh, the aches and pains now.

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Medication complication a bitter pill

Heckler PICTURE two nights before Christmas 1990. A hot, dry summer in Sydney, a dearth of organ donors and a 50-year-old professor connected to a pump that, with the aid of helium and very skilful medical...

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Let the snobs simmer over slow food

Heckler I USED to think that slow food referred to food that was actually slow. Like snails, or weary cows. No longer! I have recently become aware of the slow food movement and the immense importance...

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Dumping on those litterbugs

Heckler I HATE dumpers. I've never liked them. Who does? The other day, however, they went too far. I was disgusted. Disdain of dumpers escalated to hate.

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Darling, you shouldn't have - really

Heckler AN EMERGENCY Bad Mothers meeting was held last night. The minutes follow:

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Waiting for some sense over weight

Heckler CHILDHOOD obesity is in the spotlight again, with Professor David Penington's suggestion that a child's weight be recorded on their primary school report.

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Anti-football rants out of line and date

Heckler OF COURSE I realise Michael Carlton is exaggerating for comic effect in his attempt to bait me and others with his anti-football rant in the paper last Saturday.

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Why call centres get my goat

Heckler I WRITE this on behalf of the 3 million Australians who, like me, are fed up trying to have our domestic problems solved by doubtless well-meaning, but culturally challenged, people sitting in small...

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Seeing red over use of intoxicating wine studies

Heckler Hardly a day goes by without the media enlightening us with some ground-breaking new research to guide us along the rocky road of life.

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Hoping to hear silent night this Christmas

Heckler CHRISTMAS has a distinct resonance in our house. In other homes, the festive season might be accompanied by the sound of Jingle Bells or the comforting noise of cooking from the kitchen.

Bring back the sound of silence

Heckler WHEN did the world become so noisy?

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Logging off the horror of online dating

Heckler BEING single and at times lonely for some male company, I made the mistake of joining a couple of online dating sites. I now call them ''non-dating sites'' because of recent experiences.

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Going to ground with casino plan

Heckler THE redevelopment of Barangaroo has the potential to create a great public space for all Sydneysiders and tourists to enjoy, as well as the chance to restore part of the foreshore of the harbour to a...

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Report card that 'could do better'

Heckler WRITING reports for the end of a school year used to be one of the more bizarrely enjoyable duties a teacher had. Certainly it was onerous and time consuming but it was also cathartic.