Was waiting for a mate outside the IGA the other day and actually stopped to read the community noticeboard for once.

Someone giving away a stack of paving bricks. A lady offering sewing lessons. A missing budgie poster with FOUND! written across it in thick black marker. A flyer for a community garden working bee. Someone selling a treadmill that, judging by the photo, had already become a clothes rack.

There was also a handwritten note from someone looking for empty egg cartons. No explanation. Just a phone number and a surprisingly urgent request for egg cartons.

I spent a good five minutes reading everything.

Meanwhile, my suburb's Facebook group is mostly arguments about bins, blurry photos of suspicious vehicles, and people asking why a helicopter flew overhead.

I've lived in the same area for six years. Had no idea there was a regular community gardening group nearby. Didn't know people were still offering sewing lessons from their homes either.

It's funny because we keep hearing that nobody knows their neighbours anymore, but there's an entire little economy of people helping each other stuck to a corkboard outside the supermarket.

And unlike Facebook, nobody can turn a free paving bricks advertisement into a 70-comment argument about council rates.

I reckon we need more of these things. At train stations, libraries, little suburban shopping strips. Somewhere you can advertise a genuinely local thing without needing an account or joining yet another group.

Does anyone else actually read these boards? What's the strangest or most useful thing you've found on one around Perth?

How is it fair that my bus passed my stop 5 minutes before it was scheduled to? I left when the app told me to and saw it zoom past as I walking to the stop. This sort of thing has been happening so often and it’s frustrating because it’s not as if I was late, you miss it even if you are on time or there a few minutes early.

Anyway have to get a god awfully expensive uber to work now.

I have certainly noticed there is so many along tonkin highway and Thomas road area

Imagine looking at that plate every day and thinking, “Yep, nailed it.” 😂

I’d been following the merger posts here and mess expecting it to be about that whole disaster. Spoiler alert, it’s the nimby’s and their objection to the ferry terminal and they state they will not be hearing any other topics.

Special mention goes to the Wesfarmers Lecture Theatre - they’re not even being subtle about bowing to their corporate overlords.

🌳 BSWA 50th Anniversary Bonsai Exhibition – This Weekend!

Celebrate 50 years of bonsai in WA with an incredible display of trees ranging from just 5 cm to over 1 metre, plus suiseki viewing stones and ikebana flower arrangements!

📍 Morley Sport and Recreation Centre
📅 Saturday & Sunday Oct 17&18 | 9 am – 4 pm
🎟️ Entry by donation

🪴 All weekend: Bonsai sales, plants, pots, tools and raffles!

🌸 Saturday

• 10 am – Ikebana Demonstration: Watch the Japanese art of flower arranging come to life as an arrangement is created.
• 11 am – Bonsai Demonstration: See a bonsai transformed as an experienced artist demonstrates the techniques used to shape and style a tree.
• 1 pm – Exhibition Critique: Explore selected trees with a guided discussion of their design, styling and key features.

🪨 Sunday

• 10 am – Suiseki & Literati Lecture: Discover the beauty of suiseki viewing stones and the elegant, minimalist literati style of bonsai.
• 11 am – Exhibition Critique: Gain fresh insights into the trees on display and learn what makes each one unique.

Bring your friends and family for a fantastic weekend celebrating bonsai in WA.

👉 Event details: https://www.facebook.com/events/977647087939073

This is Midlands brickyard

The builder i work for is a reputable big project builder and can't get dates on delivery I've been off two weeks now. And have no info when we will be back to business as usual

Does anyone have any information

I work for a call centre and had a client call us to book an appointment. I helped her out, and towards the end of the call, she said something along the lines of

‘I just wanted to say, I’m Christian and I was wondering if you would like me to pray for you.’

I politely declined by saying ‘oh, no thank you’ and her response was,

‘Well, Jesus loves you anyway.’

I told her to have a good day and that was that. I got off the call pretty weirded out. I could’ve been apart of a different religion where Jesus/God is not the centre focal, but she still blatantly ignored that with that comment.

To preface this, I’m a Catholic and have been since birth. I believe in God, go to mass etc but my beliefs will put me into the ‘woke Gen Z’ category.

This call just made me think about the multiple bad experiences I’ve had with evangelical Christians, especially at Uni. I would wear my cross necklace on campus often, and they would use that as a symbol to basically corner me and harass me into going to their events (SCJ, iykyk). It happened too many times so I just stopped wearing my necklace to avoid the hassle.
These negative experiences really showed me how little they care about you and consider you a number on their attendance sheet rather than an actual human being.

Even when I was on a flight from Singapore to Perth, I sat next to some nice people that were part of a mission. They asked what my religion was, I told them, and whilst we were landing they asked if they could pray for me. In the moment, I said yes. I preferred to avoid any awkwardness as we were confined in a plane. In this prayer, they said ‘we hope OP finds the right path to you eventually.’ Not the exact words, but they definitely insinuated my Catholicism is not the route to God and heaven.

I’ve always been a believer in being a good person is what really gets you into heaven - NOT what religion you are in. And also, not being a good person to impress God, but just out of pure kindness and compassion. I also believe that everyone has a right to believe in whatever religion/God they want to (which is probs what pissed me off more about the phone call), and if you don’t want to believe, that’s fine too, just be a good person.

I’m just looking to vent, I guess. I’m kind of sick of certain Christians constantly trying to push their religion onto others or even put down Catholicism (we have the same god!!!). I don’t know if I’m attracting this attention, or it’s just happening more often now.

Is it just me?? Is anyone else experiencing this??

I also want to add that there is good and bad in all communities. I’m sharing these experiences because they seem to occur quite often to me. Please don’t spread any hate. Some people that are really deep in religions are generally very vulnerable and just want a form of belonging in their lives.

I am also Filipina (raised here and NZ for basically my entire life) if that matters. None of the people that have approached me have been from Fils.

🤒

I know you’re reading this Basil…. Tony Buti was taken out for dinner by Deloitte 4 months prior to the date of their final report. This is from the gift registry declaration he was required to submit. What was discussed that couldnt have been an email or a meeting during office hours? Crooked AF

WHY IS THERE A STOP SIGN???

(@ Albany Hwy near the Carousel)

I was just at a spotlight store and found that all the tills were closed and made into self serve, only one till being open and with a staff member at it.

With the unemployment rate going up to the highest its been, (I think its sitting at 4.6% now) it made me wonder why tf is this allowed?

Why is self serve being pushed when unemployment is going up, as well as under employment? Why is this being allowed at all? It's so ridiculous.

It's fucking minumjm wage, just pay people! People want to work!!!

So this morning my mum went out to feed our two chickens, but only one came out.

She's searched absolutely everywhere. No sign of the missing chicken, no feathers, no blood, nothing to suggest a cat. Just completely vanished.

We've had chickens at the property for the past 6+ years, and have never had one go missing.

Here's where things get a little dark (and I wish I was making this up). About 15 years ago, our ducks and ducklings were actually slaughtered in what appeared to be a satanic ritual in our backyard. So unfortunately we have a bit of a history with suspicious poultry incidents. (Police were involved for this).

Naturally, we're now worried our poor little chicken might have ended up somewhere terrible. Has anyone around North Perth had chickens mysteriously disappear recently? Is this a bit much to report to the police?

I realise this sounds ridiculous, but we are genuinely concerned about her.

Perth house prices could be entering a bust cycle with possibly very steep drop in prices according to Cotality’s data. This is good news for those saving to buy a home.

Anyone else stunned by the social media post of State Member for Southern River - Terry Healy.

He did a Facebook post saying that the Gosnells council was cancelling a plan for an indoor pool at Sutherland Park, and was instead going to do a splash pad.

Everyone was pretty upset.

Then the Mayor of Gosnells did a post, with a link to the meeting minutes, said it wasn’t true, and the state MP was the one pushing for a splash pad that they didn’t want!

Drama drama

I'm currently looking for any good retro game shops and second hand shops that may have these games, if anyone's seen these in the wild or knows a good shop to contact pr visit let me know 🙌

Super Mario 2 - Gameboy advanced

Skate 2 - Xbox 360

Bo1 - Xbox 360