Thursday, June 30, 2011

MyAnswers: Exchanging money to Thai baht in Doncaster today

The following MyAnswers solution 2109 is now available:

Today I helped a person exchange their Australian dollars to Thai baht. We shopped around and ended up saving around $50 or nearly 10%. Not bad for asking a few questions.



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Kelvin Eldridge
www.MyAnswers.biz

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Accident in High Street Templestowe Lower

I just passed a tow truck cleaning up and three ambulances in High Street, Templestowe Lower near the primary school.

Traffic is flowing and the road is now clear.


Kelvin Eldridge
www.OnlineConnections.com.au

Will see Bulleen Preschool, Lower Templestowe Preschool and Twin Hills Preschool merged

The fourth - which will see Bulleen Preschool, Lower Templestowe Preschool and Twin Hills Preschool merged - is yet to find a site. ... Read More

- Kelvin Eldridge
www.OnlineConnections.com.au

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Australian Girls Choir Open Day

Australia’s leading performing arts organisation for girls invites 5 to 8 year olds to try our junior@agc program. Come along and join a free class of singing, dancing, and drama activities at your local rehearsal venue.... Read More

- Kelvin Eldridge
www.OnlineConnections.com.au

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Man pleads guilty plea on car blaze

A LOWER Templestowe man has pleaded guilty to torching a Doncaster East teenager’s car after a dispute over a girl escalated into a “tit for tat” between two groups of youths.... Read More

- Kelvin Eldridge
www.OnlineConnections.com.au

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Templestowe's Birrarung Park in Templestowe Lower

This article was about Templestowe’s Birrarung Park. The park is actually located in Tempelstowe Lower and is located on the border of Bulleen. Visiting the park during the drought was very disappointing. I took the children there to see all the birds and really it was little more than mud with not much life. When the water is present it really is a magical place. I hope the check the park out again in the near future.

Graham and Berilie Kane enjoy the revitalised beauty of Templestowe's Birrarung Park.... Read More

- Kelvin Eldridge
www.OnlineConnections.com.au

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Ambulance plan for Manningham stalls

Property manager Kate McDermott said Ambulance Victoria had hoped a purpose-built building in Doncaster East or Templestowe could be leased from a developer for the unit, but none was interested in the project.... Read More

- Kelvin Eldridge
www.OnlineConnections.com.au

Monday, June 13, 2011

Is your neighbour's solar panels pushing your electricity bill up?

I read this article which is from the UK and couldn’t help feeling the situation in Australia is much the same.

Who's paying for your neighbour's solar panels? You are
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I attended the local Manningham council bulk solar panel offer and one of the questions I wanted to ask was, “who is paying for the solar panels?” The answer I received was, “we all are”.

For me that creates the situation where those with enough money to install the solar panels puts the $5,000 subsidy onto everyone else. That doesn’t quite seem fair to me.

 

However there is a gotcha in there for everyone. Those who install solar panels are putting their own prices up as well. Yes they are saving some money, but not as much as they are lead to think they will, the increased prices from using time-of-day charging will put their electricity costs up, plus the future increases as a result of their subsidy will eat into their own savings as well.

Personally I think it would have been much better if the government had installed solar panels as larger projects where there would be economy of scale and the savings of doing larger projects would have meant a subsidy may not have been required. For example schools have very large unused roof space. Buying in bulk at government scale and negotiating on the labour for a larger scale job should have been able to achieve the same result for much less than many individual smaller jobs.

The bottom line is now we will all suffer increasing prices for years to come. For me the idea of taking other people’s money like this just doesn’t seem right. I’m not against solar energy, in fact I’m all for it. But it should be done as cost effectively as possible.

Kelvin Eldridge
www.JustLocal.com.au

Monday, June 6, 2011

13 two-storey dwellings at 280 Thompsons Rd

Urban Design Architects has applied to have the planning application for 13 two-storey dwellings at 280 Thompsons Rd heard at the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal.... Read More

- Kelvin Eldridge
www.OnlineConnections.com.au

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Cameras snapped drivers 2847 times at High St and Verene Ave,

Manningham’s other cameras snapped drivers 2847 times at High St and Verene Ave, 2464 times at Manningham and Macedon roads - both in Lower Templestowe ... Read More

- Kelvin Eldridge
www.OnlineConnections.com.au