Category Jasminda – Agony Aunt

DEAR Jasminda, Why, on the face of so much evidence, do people refuse to see the importance of the environment? What do they think is left when we destroy it? Gina P. Dear Gina P, This sounds like one of…

DEAR Jasminda, I HAVE a friend who is a beautician. She gives me cheap massages and facials but she talks the whole way through the experience and it’s torture. Can I tell her to be quiet? Rebecca D. Dear Rebecca,…

DEAR Jasminda, MY 13-year-old son wants an E-bike for his birthday. He has offered to pay half. All his friends have E-bikes and he can’t keep up with them.. Should I relent even though I think he’s better off riding…

DEAR Jasminda, There was so much stress in the build-up to Cyclone Alfred. How did the experts get it so wrong? Marcia P. Dear Marcia, Now the meteorologists will give you all sorts of reasons for Alfred’s change of heart,…

DEAR Jasminda, I HAVE a neighbour who parades around his backyard in the nuddy. He opens his side gate, so I can see him from my kitchen window. He thinks it’s funny when I tell him I can watch porn…

DEAR Jasminda, LAST week my phone rang during the meditation part of a yoga class. I quickly attended to it and switched it to silent (which I thought I’d already done). One of the other yoga attendees made a big…

DEAR Jasminda, FOR a couple of years I’ve been encouraging the kids to use our local Return and Earn facility, but lately they can’t be bothered, so now I recycle the cans and bottles and cash in the vouchers. It…

DEAR Jasminda, Why can’t the other members in my family replace the toilet roll with a new one? Invariably there is an empty roll sitting on the windowsill or the floor. How hard can it be? Betina M. Dear Betina,…

DEAR Jasminda, TWICE now during the holidays I have been beeped while waiting at the roundabout. I have been driving for decades but I am always wary of roundabouts and sometimes completely change my travel route to avoid them. I…