Sideswipe: February 15: Dear Melbourne…
14 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM
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How to train your cat 1. My cat will open the tray to my Xbox when he thinks I ve been playing too long. Even if I have just started.
2. I take baths with my cat by letting her float in a plastic box. I keep the box in my closet. I only started doing this about a month ago, but now when I turn the bathwater on she runs to the closet and jumps in her box.
3. I talk to myself constantly so my cat thinks it s normal to walk around making chatty noises all the time. If he s awake, he s talking. I think it s adorable but it drives my husband nuts, which has resulted in my husband yelling at him a lot (don t worry, the cat doesn t get upset). Now the cat thinks that s just how my husband talks, so whenever he sees him he yells at him really loudly in order to imitate him. My husband will walk in the room and my cat will stop whatever he s doing and just meow SO LOUDLY right in his fac
(MENAFN - The Conversation) If elections in the UK go ahead in May some incarcerated British citizens will have the right to vote for the first time. Scotland has passed legislation enfranchising prisoners with sentences of less than 12 months. Wales looks set to follow suit, with plans to allow prisoners serving less than four years to vote. These moves are a break from what has until now been a blanket ban on prisoner voting in the UK – a policy which has been criticised as contrary to human rights and proved a touchstone issue in the early years of the Brexit debate.
Police will not penalise motorists who make way for an AMBULANCE by jumping traffic lights ! We’ve all been there, waiting at the traffic signal while an ambulance siren wails impatiently behind
Kerre McIvor: The NIMBYs might have a point
13 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM
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Intensive housing can and should be done well. Photo / Alex Burton Back in the days when I had a house, it was right next to Wellpark College, a place where students of all ages studied natural medicine and the like. They were good neighbours. People who are dedicated to studying massage and aromatherapy and naturopathy are gentle souls, in the main. There was one bats t crazy woman of a certain age who clearly needed someone in her class to realign her chakras when she started yelling and ranting that we shouldn t have two car parks, that it was just greedy and she was going bankrupt paying parking fees. But she was not the norm.