These days it is very easy to review anything from restaurants to airlines; from doctors to vacuum cleaners. Some platforms, like Airbnb and Uber, require users to review stays/rides as part of helping complete the feedback loop to deliver better quality services. We have come to rely on reviews to inform us on where to go and what to buy: but what if that information is false?

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I received an excellent present at Christmas - a game called Bananagrams. As a Scrabble fan, Bananagrams pandered to my love of word games but with the added heart-elevating play that Scrabble could never bring. Requiring no pen or paper to score, and in a cloth bag containing 144 plastic letter tiles weighing in at just over 400g, Bananagrams is very portable - perfect for taking on holiday or to a friend’s house.

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In this series entitled Making Melbourne Move I look at some of the transport issues facing Melbourne today, as well as possible solutions to get the city moving again. Melbourne has grown immensely in the past 10 years and that growth has put a lot of pressure on the city’s infrastructure.

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In a previous article - Monkey Bars - I described how I decided to build some monkey bars in our garden for my kids and design process I used. This article builds on that one, this time covering the purchasing of materials and the build itself. Materials I opted to use a company I’d found online during my initial searches - Econo-Steel.

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In our household we consider ourselves relatively good recyclers, though I wonder whether we could do more. While we typically fill our 240 litre yellow recycling bin every fortnight, we still manage to put around 4 x 27 litre bags of general rubbish into our red 120 litre bin each week.

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Although France is leading the world, having implemented its Energy Transition for Green Growth legislation in 2015, with subsequent legislation in 2016 that will ban single use cups by 2020, in Australia single use coffee cup waste reduction is also very in vogue, following some excellent public awareness campaigns such as the ABC’s War on Waste series.

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My kids are crazy about monkey bars. They could spend an entire day swinging by their arms or upside down, via their legs - so much so the they have permanent calluses on the palms of their hands. So when their 6-year old trampoline (which they no longer used) started disintegrating, I wanted to put in something that would get them out playing in the garden, keep them entertained, as well as hopefully keeping them fit.

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