Back in July, 2015, the ACT Government published an article on the problem with “flushable wipes” (article below). This is a problem around the world and it seems people are still flushing wipes (and other things) into the sewerage system. Canberra’s sewer systems are being choked with great mounds of supposedly ‘flushable’ wet wipes. Instead…
Health
Naked Tuesday
Back in 2013, Adam Hills, on his show, Adam Hills Tonight, interviewed Craig Coombes who is fighting throat cancer. This week, in the twitterverse, I somehow stumbled across a tweet from Craig who is still fighting his battle. Back in 2013 he was on the TV show because he’d started Naked Tuesday – his way…
Your man reminder: check your breasts
A very dear female friend recently fought (and won) against breast cancer. A close (male) friend of my parents recently lost his fight with breast cancer. In 2017, it is estimated that the risk of an individual being diagnosed with breast cancer by their 85th birthday will be 1 in 14 (1 in 715 males…
Help fight cancer while you sleep
If you had a way of helping fight cancer while you slept would you do it? I learnt about this today and tonight will be my first night helping. From the website (https://www.ourdreamjob.com.au/): DreamLab is a multi-award winning* app that uses the processing power of your idle phone to help solve cancer while you sleep.…
Hug O’War
I’m a touchy kind of person. I love hugs and firmly believe hugs can solve a lot of problems. It’s been scientifically documented that people need touch. But in this politically-correct world where touch isn’t allowed and where touch means more about your device screen than human contact, there are many people (adults and children)…