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....and if you keep paying your rates on time, freehold land seems to last quite a while as well. It's one of the few things still around at the end of a person's journey, and usually one of the only things with substantial value.

....or a qualified stonemason to erect it for you. Most of the building sites here in WA are so predictable, regardless of whether you are building a package 170K Dale Alcock special, or a 2m Zorzi extravaganza. Doesn't matter.... 1. Excavator in first to clear the site. 2. Mario and...

Stone buildings.....

Yes, it's actually quite nostalgic going for a slow wander through your shed and spending a few hours going through your own stuff, talk about memories come flooding back. We were cleaning up my FIL's shed after he died last year, and he had metal parts and motors / gears etc going back to...

Absolutely - the old Metters stoves with the big cast iron plates. Keep the whole house warm for free using one of those things in the winter, and if never moved, would see the occupants out for sure. Old soup pots bubbling away in the background for when the kids come home from school with...

Got a few good tips off the 86 y.o. barber who sold them to me. I've only had a couple of shaves with them, so still getting the hang of it....no blood as yet !! They give you a magnificently close shave, but I'm not quite game enough yet to go close to my Adam's apple bump with them. Yes...

Yeah Bluecard, you're floundering against a well oiled machine, already set up by the CFO, the comapny's chief legal counsel and the engineer's who determine what the absolute minimum should be set at. They aren't interested in negotiating with customers. Directives get cascaded down to mere...

I cannot stand plastic, or anything made of plastic. It drives me nuts. They never last. I've started reverting back to things that last. You pay a decent price, you look after it, and in turn it looks after you. I'm talking about things made of good steel, thick sturdy wood and top...