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TROPIC • OPINION

2 / Vinyl just sounds better: there is a rich warmth to the
Nikki sound that you are unable to achieve from a digital source
Huddy and nothing beats the crackle heard when the needle drops
Managing Director for the first time.
PLANZ Town 3 / Vinyl can make you money: when buying vinyl, you’re not
Planning just buying music, you’re buying an investment that can later
be sold or handed down the generations.
Vinyl is clearly here to stay and I guarantee that once you
Here’s the rub start collecting there will be no looking back.

hile we are focusing on changing our shopping MORE: threewolves.com.au
Wbehaviour when it comes to plastic bags and straws, it
is a good time to think about microplastics and antibacterials.
There are tiny plastic bits (microbeads) found in everything
from face wash and skin scrubs to toothpastes and dishwasher
soap, and antibacterials are found in almost every handwash
as we continue the modern crusade against germs.
Here’s the rub – microplastics and antibacterials do not
breakdown, they do not evaporate from water and cannot
be removed at the sewerage treatment plant. They are
released into the waterways and into the oceans, attaching
themselves to suspended solids and sediments. They then
bio-accumulate, building up in living organisms, and in turn
this is how chemicals and pollutants enter the food chain.
As we bring our green bags to the supermarket, it is a good
time to think about our purchases in the toiletry aisle. These Megan
days it is hard to find a handwash without an antibacterial Thomas
in it. As a kid I once, and only once, put undiluted Dettol Owner
directly onto an injury, and it burnt and did more harm than PhyxMe
good. I have also accidently sprayed Dettol onto a plant and Physiotherapy
was shocked to see the harm it did.
From our sinks and showers into the world’s waters, it is a
jolt to the system to learn that yet another of our everyday Being busy is a choice
choices is causing harm. Did you ever realise just how started to notice a common response when asking friends,
hazardous handwashing and exfoliating could be? I family, patients and colleagues how they were. Invariably,
they would say: “BUSY!” This was then followed by a drained
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‘you know what I mean’ kind of expression that would come
across their faces.
People sounded exhausted and exasperated when they were
asked to describe how they were, yet the choices they made
Darren to live that busy lifestyle were, for the most part, their own
doing and also exactly what they wanted.
Barber I then thought back to a parenting seminar I once attended
Owner that spoke about the way we are exactly what we say and
Three Wolves think we are. If we continually tell ourselves and others that
we are wallowing around in a pile of crap, then we can’t let go
of the mindset and we actually do believe we are.
Spin me round I believe the same goes for always telling others how busy we
are. This makes us wallow around thinking the busyness is bad.
e live in a highly technological world, where we can Am I busy? Well, I have two young children, two large dogs,
Wnow access hundreds of thousands of songs at the tips a house with a backyard and a pool, I own and run a large
of our fingers. With streaming apps on our smart phones, physiotherapy company, exercise most days of the week and
music has never been so accessible to so many people. But catch up with friends regularly. So, most certainly I lead a
for me these apps lack the soul, passion and warmth of busy lifestyle. If being busy means being involved, engaged,
a vinyl record. You may have thought vinyl records died absorbed and immersed in life then yes, I am busy…. but do
in 1980’s but they are still very much alive and becoming I describe myself as busy? Not anymore. I prefer to say I am
vastly popular again. Record sales have hit a 25-year high as happy, successful, loved, fulfilled and very much enjoying
customers young and old are embracing this analogue form this thing we call life.
of music. In my opinion, there are a few key reasons why… So, in the future if someone asks how you are, try to think of
1 / Buying a record is an experience: there is something any other words you could use to positively describe how you
wonderful about going to your local record store and sorting choose to live your life. It’s highly likely you will be pleasantly
through 100’s of LPs until you find what you want. This type surprised that the admiring responses will make you realise
of experience is sadly lost in music streaming. We are lucky you are not wallowing in busyness at all.
enough to have two great stores in Cairns with LP Records in
Oceana Walk and Tangent in Village Lane off Lake St. MORE: phyxmephysiocairns.com.au

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