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I know there are lots of cat lovers here... my cat has been sneezing all morning... do we need to take a trip to the vet?

We are in the midst of our big PPOR reno. Last week, we had our parquetry floors polished. Mostly its old timber, but the first room you come to we have replaced the carpet with parquetry since we knocked down the wall between kitchen and this roon. So, we have one room of new and the rest old...

We are still doing our PPOR renovation... one thing leads to another, and it is becoming the never ending story. We got a quote for carpet, underlay and installation, which was $10K for 8 rooms. 6x bedrooms, one living area and one entranceway/ stairs) I was a bit surprised by how high the...

I was told today that someone I know may be involved in dubious activities involving children in a SEA country and possibly also here as well. I dont have any proof, but it does make sense in terms of some of their behaviours etc. I have a reasonably good relationship with both the person...

If you have an account held jointly, do you need to write out cheques to both account holders? I just received a cheque, made out to me only. My husband went to deposit it into our account and ANZ wont accept it without it being made out to both of us. I think that's crazy... people must...

Sorry, this is much longer than intended.... In the past 6 months, I've sold 3 properties. Our PPOR, which sold within a week of putting it on the market (miraculous in the current climate), with a fabulous agent, who I'd highly recommend.. Deborah Gersbach from Walsh and Sullivan, Baulkham...

We are doing a reno on our new PPOR... which will change the 3 main living areas. we have 3 lounge suites. one we purchased new a couple of years ago, but the other 2 are both "hand me downs", and are probably 30 years old or so. They were both very high quality lounges in their day (much...

We are doing a partial kitchen reno in our new PPOR and have to get a new oven. Dont need rangehood etc. I really want an old fashioned griller, so I can make grilled cheese sandwiches....... but it seems that the "new fangled" ovens all grill in the oven. I haven worked out how to do...

I know there are alot of very anti-Green people on the forum. I'm fairly sure I know what your reaction will be to Bob Brown's speech on the weeked where he talked about life on other planets and a global parliament and it just confirms all the reasons why you dont support the Greens..... and...

Wondering what people's thoughts are about Tony Abbott's "plans" to consider increasing child care rebate for nannies ... http://www.smh.com.au/national/now-for-abbotts-nanny-state-20120324-1vqwf.html I'm very fortunate to be beyond child care now, but our family benefitted from having...

We're thinking of doing a 7-10 day holiday in the Top End (Darwin, Litchfield, Kakadu etc). 2 adults, 2 teenagers. We'd be flying up and then looking at hiring a car. Its so expensive up there though... hotels/ travelling around/car hire etc. We're not camping types, and from a health etc...

Being a last minute person, I've just finished my Christmas shopping. I did 90% of it in Kmart Castle Hill (sydney)... I'm somewhat incapacitated at the moment and needed to keep it simple. I dont usually shop at Kmart..... but I was so surprised at the high level of customer service...

Moved house today... what a nightmare. I was late booking a removalist, and the one I'd planned to use ended up being booked out. So, I booked this alternative one, who seemed fine. I booked 3 men, cause our new PPOR is over 4 levels, and a bit complicated. They sent 3 guys.. only problem...

We've had a "Complying Development" knocked back by Hornsby Council, because the property is in a bushfire zone. Its a fairly minor reno in our new PPOR.. put in bigger windows/ glass doors, large skylights, knock down an internal load bearing wall etc council have given us 2 options...

Our new PPOR has a large terraced backyard, including an unfenced section which backs onto a public bushland area. None of the neighbours are fenced, so its like having a large playing field for a backyard. We would like to keep it that way at this stage. We are planning to put our trampoline...

I have a confession.. I'm a bit of a cricket tragic (only test cricket though! which I guess is even worse). I was really sad to see that Peter Roebuck died. :( He was a great writer/ commentator, who made the game come alive for me. I'm sorry to see him gone...

My hubby and I are feeling pretty chuffed today. We just put our PPOR on the market (we are upgrading suburb and size). The first open home was today. I left poor hubby and kids to manage it on his own today (in terms of cleaning/organising, not running the actual event ;)), cause I'm overseas...

In our new PPOR, the downstairs bedrooms have black tiles. Its quite a cold house and these bedrooms are also quite dark. So, I was planning to buy some rugs to put on the floors. But I thought it would be better if we could install carpet over the top of the tiles.. it would be nice to do it...

Photos of post tsunami Japan.. immediately after, around 3 mths later and 6 mths later. http://blogs.sacbee.com/photos/2011/09/japan-marks-6-months-since-ear.html It is great to see things beginning to get back to normal, but it must be a heartbreaking and overwhelming task. It makes my...

We are applying for 2 loans... an extension to our line of credit, and a loan for a new PPOR. We have applied for enough to allow us to go ahead with the purchase even if we dont sell our current PPOR (we have 4 months to sell before we need to settle on new one).... so its a reasonably big...