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The Sun
3 days ago
- Business
- The Sun
Shoppers rush to Amazon as 75 mega-pack of Calgon Washing Machine tablets are slashed to 19p each
BARGAIN hunters are rushing to Amazon to claim a deal on Calgon Washing Machine tablets that slashes the price of each tab to just 19p. The retail giant has discounted a 75-tablet 'Mega Pack' from £28 to just £14.49, a 48% discount. Calgon Power Tabs x75, £28 £14.49 from Amazon BUY HERE The limited-time deal has already caused a rush to buy the tablets, with 7,000 people heading to Amazon to take advantage in the last month alone. If you're meticulous about keeping your washing machine in tip-top condition, this is a steal you won't want to miss. The deal becomes even more impressive when you compare it to supermarket prices. Tesco's largest pack of Calgon is a 30-tablet box for £10.50, which works out to 35p per tablet. Asda offers a slightly larger 45-pack for £15.98, making each tablet 35.5p. At just 19p per tablet, Amazon's mega-pack deal is unbeatable. The best deals on household essentials this week *If you a click a link in this article, we may earn affiliate revenue. Our team of shopping experts are constantly on the lookout for the best deals on household essentials — whether that's pantry staples, laundry pods or necessities like kitchen and loo rolls. Here are the best deals we've spotted at Amazon this week: Vanish Gold Oxi Action Plus Stain Remover, £10 £3.96 - buy here Finish Ultimate Infinity Shine Dishwasher Tablets, £27 £12.85 - buy here Flash Power Spray Mop, £45 £32.75 - buy here Ecover Fabric Softener, £10 £6.65 - buy here Dettol Washing Machine Cleaner x3, £15.99 £8.50 - buy here Method All Purpose Cleaner Spray, £4 £2.38 - buy here Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate Gift Bar 850g, £13.44 £8.50 - buy here Mutti Chopped Tomatoes x6, £9.18 £5.51 - buy here Oatly Barista Oat Milk x6, £12.60 £8.10 - buy here Heinz Beanz x12, £16.80 £8.99 - buy here Plymouth Original Dry Gin, £28.50 £19.30 - buy here Bulldog Age Defence Moisturiser, £8.99 £4.49 - buy here Garnier Micellar Cleansing Water, £9.99 £6.80 - buy here NIVEA Q10 60+ Mature Skin Body Lotion, £12.09 £5.11 - buy here Those who remember Calgon's famous jingle — "washing machines live longer with Calgon" — know that this product is nothing short of essential for those living in hard water areas like London, the South East and East Anglia. Hard water can cause limescale to build up in your washing machine, leading to unpleasant odours, reduced efficiency, and costly repairs. Calgon tablets help your washing machine in four ways: They remove limescale and other harmful hard water deposits They soften water, protecting your washing machine and clothes They prevent rust They neutralise bad odours Reviewers have highlighted how effective Calgon is at keeping their washing machines in working order. One Amazon customer wrote: "Third time ordering. UK water is hard so it makes your drum in your [washing machine] smell, this helps a lot and it also softens the water for softer washing. Good value for money". Another wrote: "[I] bought a new Bosch washing machine in January 2011, have used a Calgon tab in every wash for the last 15 years and it's never missed a beat, still going strong — brilliant price for 75 tabs, can't be beaten anywhere."
Yahoo
27-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
St. Cloud Police investigation yields suspects in ‘Vanish' graffiti vandals
The St. Cloud Police Department announced charges are pending against two people for spray painting 'Besh' and 'Vanish' on buildings across the city. A May 27 release states charges are pending against two suspects, a 22-year-old St. Cloud man and a 16-year-old Kansas boy who is temporarily living in the Granite City. Allegedly, the 22-year-old primarily wrote 'Besh' in downtown St. Cloud, with a few other locations across the city, causing 'thousands of dollars' in damages. Meanwhile the 16-year-old would write 'Vanish' in the city's downtown and south side, causing more than $3,000 in damages, according to police. The police department said multiple charges have been sent to the Stearns County Attorney's Office. Authorities in the release said they'll continue working with businesses and community members to investigate graffiti. 'Graffiti will not be tolerated in this city and continued police resources will be utilized to seek criminal charges on any individual that wants to vandalize property in the City of St. Cloud,' SCPD wrote in a release. Corey Schmidt covers politics and courts for the St. Cloud Times. He can be reached at cschmidt@ This article originally appeared on St. Cloud Times: St. Cloud 'Vanish' graffiti investigation finds suspects.
The Advertiser
24-05-2025
- The Advertiser
How a childhood crisscrossing regional Australia has shaped my crime novels
Shelley Burr's crime fiction is steeped in Aussie landscapes and characters. The author of the Lane Holland detective novels Wake (2022), Ripper (2024) and now Vanish explains the countryside that has inspired her. The bio inside my books says that I grew up in Newcastle and Glenrowan, and the road in between. There's always a pause when I tell people I grew up not in one and then the other, but back and forth every few months. My parents, then a remote area nurse from coastal NSW and an air force radio operator from country Victoria, met in Darwin. Their marriage imploded for reasons that had nothing to do with geography, but the result was that getting to spend time with both my parents involved a great deal of it. We didn't always drive-my brother and I sometimes made the journey as unaccompanied minors in a tiny FlyPelican prop plane from Newcastle to Sydney, then a thankfully less bouncy flight to Albury. I think I was the only passenger ever to follow the ongoing plot in the Ansett inflight magazine for children, although their collapse meant I never did find out how it ended. More often, we made the eight-hour drive (more with "driver reviver" breaks). I was a bookish kid, and so the marathon journeys were an opportunity to read. When I ran out of books, or the journey pushed on past sunset, I made up my own stories. Even now, a long drive is one of the best tricks I have for getting unstuck with my writing and I always get home from a regional writers' festival brimming with new notes and ideas. Passing through so many small Australian towns left me with a deep affection for them, and insight into the ways they are similar and yet different. That has had a massive influence on the setting of my books. I don't set my books in real places. I don't like the idea of taking somewhere real people live and layering a dark history over it. But I do draw inspiration from real towns. Geography is not a strength of mine, so it's useful to be able to look at real maps and check how the streets might be laid out, what number and type of shops would be realistic. Would there be a school, would there be a police station, how far would people be willing to drive to get to the nearest regional centre? There's also a freedom in using a fictional place as the setting. I can start from what's real and tweak it in any way the story demands, without worrying about instant messages and emails from readers put out that I've completely misunderstood how their local bus system works. When my debut, Wake, came out I opted not to name the place that inspired the small-town setting of Nannine. I enjoyed how keen readers were to guess, and was reassured that I'd built somewhere that felt real when people asked if I had perhaps based it on the place where they grew up. Most guesses were a little too far to the east, a reflection of just how much of Australia's population is clustered in the green part of the map. Nannine's foundations are firmly in the red dirt. One of the highlights of the promotional tour for Wake was the moment a reader named the actual town, in front of an audience at the Occasional Wine Bar in Boorowa. She first asked if Nannine was Broken Hill, and I explained that it was not, but the larger town the characters visit in a few scenes was. The reader grinned, like she had sprung a planned trap. "Then it's Ivanhoe, NSW." I couldn't have denied it if I'd wanted to, the audience exploded at the look on my face. Later I nervously asked her if I'd done the town justice, and hearing that I had was better than any award. There's an excitement about seeing your own tiny piece of the world represented in fiction - especially for Australians, when most entertainment expects us to relate to lives in New York or Los Angeles. I still remember the frisson of reading a scene in Tobias McCorkell's coming of age novel Everything in its Right Place, when the teenage main character and his father stop to eat in the Nagambie bakery. I'd eaten there many times with my own father. I know those tables! I've had that vanilla slice! I've never been to Ivanhoe - I planned a research trip while drafting Wake, but unnecessary travel amid the restrictions at the time felt unethical. I've drawn closer and closer to home with my later books, and the influence of my earlier travels is obvious. I found the setting for my next book, Ripper, in the midst of a move from Canberra to the Albury-Wodonga region, where we live now. The fictional town of Rainier sits exactly halfway between Sydney and Melbourne. Readers who are particularly good at pub trivia would know that there is already a real town in that spot -Tarcutta. I stopped in Tarcutta to stretch my legs, and was struck by a sign directing drivers to turn one way for Sydney, and another for Melbourne. I was fascinated by the idea of a town defined by being on the way to two other places. One thing that struck me on my family's travels up and down the highways was that every town has something like that. Newcastle has a fort that fired "in anger" on a Japanese submarine during the war. Glenrowan was the site of the last stand of the Kelly Gang. From a child's view the trip ran from The Big Merino in Goulburn to the Dog on the Tuckerbox in Gundagai then the Holbrook submarine. My private investigator character, Lane Holland, starts the books literally and figuratively homeless after a lifetime spent moving about, first with his family who worked the agricultural show circuit and later going wherever there's a case for him. I'm often asked if the remote setting of Wake was inspired by my time in Glenrowan -and it was. But out of all my characters I feel the most affinity for the constant motion of Lane's childhood. Country Victoria ended up feeling like home, and I now live on 10 hectares that we're trying to turn into a productive permaculture farm. That inspired the Karpathy farm that Lane visits in my latest book, Vanish. I'm sure my neighbours will recognise the steep hills and treacherous winding road that leads up to it. I have discovered in the writing that inspiration works both ways. Vanish is soaked in paranoia, and the fear that someone is watching. When I took a break from writing to check the goats or the chickens, I started seeing ghosts. Every humanoid shape out of the corner of my eye became someone watching me. I plan to set my next book far from here, but I think that no matter where I choose, there will be some aspect of the setting that feels like home. Shelley Burr's crime fiction is steeped in Aussie landscapes and characters. The author of the Lane Holland detective novels Wake (2022), Ripper (2024) and now Vanish explains the countryside that has inspired her. The bio inside my books says that I grew up in Newcastle and Glenrowan, and the road in between. There's always a pause when I tell people I grew up not in one and then the other, but back and forth every few months. My parents, then a remote area nurse from coastal NSW and an air force radio operator from country Victoria, met in Darwin. Their marriage imploded for reasons that had nothing to do with geography, but the result was that getting to spend time with both my parents involved a great deal of it. We didn't always drive-my brother and I sometimes made the journey as unaccompanied minors in a tiny FlyPelican prop plane from Newcastle to Sydney, then a thankfully less bouncy flight to Albury. I think I was the only passenger ever to follow the ongoing plot in the Ansett inflight magazine for children, although their collapse meant I never did find out how it ended. More often, we made the eight-hour drive (more with "driver reviver" breaks). I was a bookish kid, and so the marathon journeys were an opportunity to read. When I ran out of books, or the journey pushed on past sunset, I made up my own stories. Even now, a long drive is one of the best tricks I have for getting unstuck with my writing and I always get home from a regional writers' festival brimming with new notes and ideas. Passing through so many small Australian towns left me with a deep affection for them, and insight into the ways they are similar and yet different. That has had a massive influence on the setting of my books. I don't set my books in real places. I don't like the idea of taking somewhere real people live and layering a dark history over it. But I do draw inspiration from real towns. Geography is not a strength of mine, so it's useful to be able to look at real maps and check how the streets might be laid out, what number and type of shops would be realistic. Would there be a school, would there be a police station, how far would people be willing to drive to get to the nearest regional centre? There's also a freedom in using a fictional place as the setting. I can start from what's real and tweak it in any way the story demands, without worrying about instant messages and emails from readers put out that I've completely misunderstood how their local bus system works. When my debut, Wake, came out I opted not to name the place that inspired the small-town setting of Nannine. I enjoyed how keen readers were to guess, and was reassured that I'd built somewhere that felt real when people asked if I had perhaps based it on the place where they grew up. Most guesses were a little too far to the east, a reflection of just how much of Australia's population is clustered in the green part of the map. Nannine's foundations are firmly in the red dirt. One of the highlights of the promotional tour for Wake was the moment a reader named the actual town, in front of an audience at the Occasional Wine Bar in Boorowa. She first asked if Nannine was Broken Hill, and I explained that it was not, but the larger town the characters visit in a few scenes was. The reader grinned, like she had sprung a planned trap. "Then it's Ivanhoe, NSW." I couldn't have denied it if I'd wanted to, the audience exploded at the look on my face. Later I nervously asked her if I'd done the town justice, and hearing that I had was better than any award. There's an excitement about seeing your own tiny piece of the world represented in fiction - especially for Australians, when most entertainment expects us to relate to lives in New York or Los Angeles. I still remember the frisson of reading a scene in Tobias McCorkell's coming of age novel Everything in its Right Place, when the teenage main character and his father stop to eat in the Nagambie bakery. I'd eaten there many times with my own father. I know those tables! I've had that vanilla slice! I've never been to Ivanhoe - I planned a research trip while drafting Wake, but unnecessary travel amid the restrictions at the time felt unethical. I've drawn closer and closer to home with my later books, and the influence of my earlier travels is obvious. I found the setting for my next book, Ripper, in the midst of a move from Canberra to the Albury-Wodonga region, where we live now. The fictional town of Rainier sits exactly halfway between Sydney and Melbourne. Readers who are particularly good at pub trivia would know that there is already a real town in that spot -Tarcutta. I stopped in Tarcutta to stretch my legs, and was struck by a sign directing drivers to turn one way for Sydney, and another for Melbourne. I was fascinated by the idea of a town defined by being on the way to two other places. One thing that struck me on my family's travels up and down the highways was that every town has something like that. Newcastle has a fort that fired "in anger" on a Japanese submarine during the war. Glenrowan was the site of the last stand of the Kelly Gang. From a child's view the trip ran from The Big Merino in Goulburn to the Dog on the Tuckerbox in Gundagai then the Holbrook submarine. My private investigator character, Lane Holland, starts the books literally and figuratively homeless after a lifetime spent moving about, first with his family who worked the agricultural show circuit and later going wherever there's a case for him. I'm often asked if the remote setting of Wake was inspired by my time in Glenrowan -and it was. But out of all my characters I feel the most affinity for the constant motion of Lane's childhood. Country Victoria ended up feeling like home, and I now live on 10 hectares that we're trying to turn into a productive permaculture farm. That inspired the Karpathy farm that Lane visits in my latest book, Vanish. I'm sure my neighbours will recognise the steep hills and treacherous winding road that leads up to it. I have discovered in the writing that inspiration works both ways. Vanish is soaked in paranoia, and the fear that someone is watching. When I took a break from writing to check the goats or the chickens, I started seeing ghosts. Every humanoid shape out of the corner of my eye became someone watching me. I plan to set my next book far from here, but I think that no matter where I choose, there will be some aspect of the setting that feels like home. Shelley Burr's crime fiction is steeped in Aussie landscapes and characters. The author of the Lane Holland detective novels Wake (2022), Ripper (2024) and now Vanish explains the countryside that has inspired her. The bio inside my books says that I grew up in Newcastle and Glenrowan, and the road in between. There's always a pause when I tell people I grew up not in one and then the other, but back and forth every few months. My parents, then a remote area nurse from coastal NSW and an air force radio operator from country Victoria, met in Darwin. Their marriage imploded for reasons that had nothing to do with geography, but the result was that getting to spend time with both my parents involved a great deal of it. We didn't always drive-my brother and I sometimes made the journey as unaccompanied minors in a tiny FlyPelican prop plane from Newcastle to Sydney, then a thankfully less bouncy flight to Albury. I think I was the only passenger ever to follow the ongoing plot in the Ansett inflight magazine for children, although their collapse meant I never did find out how it ended. More often, we made the eight-hour drive (more with "driver reviver" breaks). I was a bookish kid, and so the marathon journeys were an opportunity to read. When I ran out of books, or the journey pushed on past sunset, I made up my own stories. Even now, a long drive is one of the best tricks I have for getting unstuck with my writing and I always get home from a regional writers' festival brimming with new notes and ideas. Passing through so many small Australian towns left me with a deep affection for them, and insight into the ways they are similar and yet different. That has had a massive influence on the setting of my books. I don't set my books in real places. I don't like the idea of taking somewhere real people live and layering a dark history over it. But I do draw inspiration from real towns. Geography is not a strength of mine, so it's useful to be able to look at real maps and check how the streets might be laid out, what number and type of shops would be realistic. Would there be a school, would there be a police station, how far would people be willing to drive to get to the nearest regional centre? There's also a freedom in using a fictional place as the setting. I can start from what's real and tweak it in any way the story demands, without worrying about instant messages and emails from readers put out that I've completely misunderstood how their local bus system works. When my debut, Wake, came out I opted not to name the place that inspired the small-town setting of Nannine. I enjoyed how keen readers were to guess, and was reassured that I'd built somewhere that felt real when people asked if I had perhaps based it on the place where they grew up. Most guesses were a little too far to the east, a reflection of just how much of Australia's population is clustered in the green part of the map. Nannine's foundations are firmly in the red dirt. One of the highlights of the promotional tour for Wake was the moment a reader named the actual town, in front of an audience at the Occasional Wine Bar in Boorowa. She first asked if Nannine was Broken Hill, and I explained that it was not, but the larger town the characters visit in a few scenes was. The reader grinned, like she had sprung a planned trap. "Then it's Ivanhoe, NSW." I couldn't have denied it if I'd wanted to, the audience exploded at the look on my face. Later I nervously asked her if I'd done the town justice, and hearing that I had was better than any award. There's an excitement about seeing your own tiny piece of the world represented in fiction - especially for Australians, when most entertainment expects us to relate to lives in New York or Los Angeles. I still remember the frisson of reading a scene in Tobias McCorkell's coming of age novel Everything in its Right Place, when the teenage main character and his father stop to eat in the Nagambie bakery. I'd eaten there many times with my own father. I know those tables! I've had that vanilla slice! I've never been to Ivanhoe - I planned a research trip while drafting Wake, but unnecessary travel amid the restrictions at the time felt unethical. I've drawn closer and closer to home with my later books, and the influence of my earlier travels is obvious. I found the setting for my next book, Ripper, in the midst of a move from Canberra to the Albury-Wodonga region, where we live now. The fictional town of Rainier sits exactly halfway between Sydney and Melbourne. Readers who are particularly good at pub trivia would know that there is already a real town in that spot -Tarcutta. I stopped in Tarcutta to stretch my legs, and was struck by a sign directing drivers to turn one way for Sydney, and another for Melbourne. I was fascinated by the idea of a town defined by being on the way to two other places. One thing that struck me on my family's travels up and down the highways was that every town has something like that. Newcastle has a fort that fired "in anger" on a Japanese submarine during the war. Glenrowan was the site of the last stand of the Kelly Gang. From a child's view the trip ran from The Big Merino in Goulburn to the Dog on the Tuckerbox in Gundagai then the Holbrook submarine. My private investigator character, Lane Holland, starts the books literally and figuratively homeless after a lifetime spent moving about, first with his family who worked the agricultural show circuit and later going wherever there's a case for him. I'm often asked if the remote setting of Wake was inspired by my time in Glenrowan -and it was. But out of all my characters I feel the most affinity for the constant motion of Lane's childhood. Country Victoria ended up feeling like home, and I now live on 10 hectares that we're trying to turn into a productive permaculture farm. That inspired the Karpathy farm that Lane visits in my latest book, Vanish. I'm sure my neighbours will recognise the steep hills and treacherous winding road that leads up to it. I have discovered in the writing that inspiration works both ways. Vanish is soaked in paranoia, and the fear that someone is watching. When I took a break from writing to check the goats or the chickens, I started seeing ghosts. Every humanoid shape out of the corner of my eye became someone watching me. I plan to set my next book far from here, but I think that no matter where I choose, there will be some aspect of the setting that feels like home. Shelley Burr's crime fiction is steeped in Aussie landscapes and characters. The author of the Lane Holland detective novels Wake (2022), Ripper (2024) and now Vanish explains the countryside that has inspired her. The bio inside my books says that I grew up in Newcastle and Glenrowan, and the road in between. There's always a pause when I tell people I grew up not in one and then the other, but back and forth every few months. My parents, then a remote area nurse from coastal NSW and an air force radio operator from country Victoria, met in Darwin. Their marriage imploded for reasons that had nothing to do with geography, but the result was that getting to spend time with both my parents involved a great deal of it. We didn't always drive-my brother and I sometimes made the journey as unaccompanied minors in a tiny FlyPelican prop plane from Newcastle to Sydney, then a thankfully less bouncy flight to Albury. I think I was the only passenger ever to follow the ongoing plot in the Ansett inflight magazine for children, although their collapse meant I never did find out how it ended. More often, we made the eight-hour drive (more with "driver reviver" breaks). I was a bookish kid, and so the marathon journeys were an opportunity to read. When I ran out of books, or the journey pushed on past sunset, I made up my own stories. Even now, a long drive is one of the best tricks I have for getting unstuck with my writing and I always get home from a regional writers' festival brimming with new notes and ideas. Passing through so many small Australian towns left me with a deep affection for them, and insight into the ways they are similar and yet different. That has had a massive influence on the setting of my books. I don't set my books in real places. I don't like the idea of taking somewhere real people live and layering a dark history over it. But I do draw inspiration from real towns. Geography is not a strength of mine, so it's useful to be able to look at real maps and check how the streets might be laid out, what number and type of shops would be realistic. Would there be a school, would there be a police station, how far would people be willing to drive to get to the nearest regional centre? There's also a freedom in using a fictional place as the setting. I can start from what's real and tweak it in any way the story demands, without worrying about instant messages and emails from readers put out that I've completely misunderstood how their local bus system works. When my debut, Wake, came out I opted not to name the place that inspired the small-town setting of Nannine. I enjoyed how keen readers were to guess, and was reassured that I'd built somewhere that felt real when people asked if I had perhaps based it on the place where they grew up. Most guesses were a little too far to the east, a reflection of just how much of Australia's population is clustered in the green part of the map. Nannine's foundations are firmly in the red dirt. One of the highlights of the promotional tour for Wake was the moment a reader named the actual town, in front of an audience at the Occasional Wine Bar in Boorowa. She first asked if Nannine was Broken Hill, and I explained that it was not, but the larger town the characters visit in a few scenes was. The reader grinned, like she had sprung a planned trap. "Then it's Ivanhoe, NSW." I couldn't have denied it if I'd wanted to, the audience exploded at the look on my face. Later I nervously asked her if I'd done the town justice, and hearing that I had was better than any award. There's an excitement about seeing your own tiny piece of the world represented in fiction - especially for Australians, when most entertainment expects us to relate to lives in New York or Los Angeles. I still remember the frisson of reading a scene in Tobias McCorkell's coming of age novel Everything in its Right Place, when the teenage main character and his father stop to eat in the Nagambie bakery. I'd eaten there many times with my own father. I know those tables! I've had that vanilla slice! I've never been to Ivanhoe - I planned a research trip while drafting Wake, but unnecessary travel amid the restrictions at the time felt unethical. I've drawn closer and closer to home with my later books, and the influence of my earlier travels is obvious. I found the setting for my next book, Ripper, in the midst of a move from Canberra to the Albury-Wodonga region, where we live now. The fictional town of Rainier sits exactly halfway between Sydney and Melbourne. Readers who are particularly good at pub trivia would know that there is already a real town in that spot -Tarcutta. I stopped in Tarcutta to stretch my legs, and was struck by a sign directing drivers to turn one way for Sydney, and another for Melbourne. I was fascinated by the idea of a town defined by being on the way to two other places. One thing that struck me on my family's travels up and down the highways was that every town has something like that. Newcastle has a fort that fired "in anger" on a Japanese submarine during the war. Glenrowan was the site of the last stand of the Kelly Gang. From a child's view the trip ran from The Big Merino in Goulburn to the Dog on the Tuckerbox in Gundagai then the Holbrook submarine. My private investigator character, Lane Holland, starts the books literally and figuratively homeless after a lifetime spent moving about, first with his family who worked the agricultural show circuit and later going wherever there's a case for him. I'm often asked if the remote setting of Wake was inspired by my time in Glenrowan -and it was. But out of all my characters I feel the most affinity for the constant motion of Lane's childhood. Country Victoria ended up feeling like home, and I now live on 10 hectares that we're trying to turn into a productive permaculture farm. That inspired the Karpathy farm that Lane visits in my latest book, Vanish. I'm sure my neighbours will recognise the steep hills and treacherous winding road that leads up to it. I have discovered in the writing that inspiration works both ways. Vanish is soaked in paranoia, and the fear that someone is watching. When I took a break from writing to check the goats or the chickens, I started seeing ghosts. Every humanoid shape out of the corner of my eye became someone watching me. I plan to set my next book far from here, but I think that no matter where I choose, there will be some aspect of the setting that feels like home.
The Sun
21-05-2025
- Business
- The Sun
'Perfect' Vanish stain remover slashed to just £4 by major retailer — 65% less than Ocado
AMAZON has kicked off its first-ever Everyday Essentials Week, with significant discounts to be found on a range of household staples. Among the standout offers is a deal on Vanish's Gold Oxi Action Plus Laundry Booster, which has been slashed to its lowest-ever price on Amazon. Vanish Gold Oxi Action Plus Super Concentrated, £10 £3.96 from Amazon The stain removal powder has been discounted from £10 to just £3.96. Ocado sells the same product for a massive £11.50, making this Amazon deal 65% cheaper. Vanish Gold Oxi Action Plus features a "super-concentrated" formula, allowing users to use half the amount of powder compared to regular Vanish while achieving the same results, adding to value for money and making it easier to store. The product is designed to be versatile, offering three useful application methods. It can be added directly into the detergent drawer of a washing machine, dissolved in water for soaking garments, or mixed into a paste for pre-treating tougher stains. Vanish claims that the powder will remove tough stains even on a 20° cycle, or on a quick 30-minute wash. *If you a click a link in this article, we may earn affiliate revenue. Our team of shopping experts are constantly on the lookout for the best deals on household essentials — whether that's pantry staples, laundry pods or necessities like kitchen and loo rolls. Here are the best deals we've spotted at Amazon this week: Nescafé Instant Cappuccino Sachets x12, £4 £2.23 - buy here Walkers Cheese and Onion Crisps 45g x32, £35.20 £19.20 - buy here Mutti Chopped Tomatoes x6, £9.18 £6 - buy here Ellis Harper Fridge Deodoriser, £13.99 £8.39 - buy here Ecover Non-Bio Laundry Detergent, £10 £6.65 - buy here Ariel The Big One Laundry Pods x69, £39 £24.50 - buy here Vanish Gold Oxi Action Plus Super Concentrated 500g, £10 £4.62 - buy here Fairy Outdoorable Fabric Conditioner x8, £40 £28 - buy here Spesh by Cusheen Lemon Scented Toilet Roll x72, £34.99 £23.99 - buy here Duck Fresh Discs x3, £15 £8.55 - buy here Biodegradable 20L Bin Liners x100, £12.99 £7.12 - buy here Mr Muscle Drain Unblocker x2, £8.56 £5.48- buy here Reviews seem to agree, having awarded Vanish Gold Oxi Action Plus an impressive 4.5-star rating. One parent wrote: "I have a little boy who loves playing football, and his white kit often gets covered in grass stains as well as a bright orange goalkeeper top that seems to attract the mud. "Vanish Gold Oxi Action Plus handles these tough stains easily. It is able to remove the grass stains from his football kit without damaging the fabric or fading the colours. The bright orange top also comes out looking clean." Another wrote: "I add Vanish into every wash (stops my colours transferring and makes me clothes last longer) and I am so glad to have found this concentrated version. [it's] much easier for delivery and storage compared to the tubs." One reviewer also said that it hadn't affected their senstive skin: "I put half a scoop in my detergent drawer when I did my whites. It smells lovely and works really well at removing stains. I've got sensitive, eczema-prone skin, but it hasn't caused me any irritation."
The Advertiser
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Advertiser
Oysters: saltily sublime or the ocean's slimy stomach-turners?
New books sampled this week include the Australian murder mysteries Vanish, by Shelley Burr, and The Empress Murders, by Toby Schmitz. Andreas Ammer. Greystone Books. $39.99. Once a cheap staple of the masses, no-longer-so-humble oysters are polarising. To some, they are saltily sublime. Those who don't understand them say unkinder things. And forget cheap. In some restaurants a single oyster can set you back six bucks! This delightful little book is a lyrical celebration of the biology, culture, art and taste of this magnificent mollusc. What it lacks in Antipodean references it makes up for in fascinating facts and oysterly illustrations. As Ammer says, few people now eat oysters solely to satisfy hunger. Consuming them, he writes, "constitutes a magical moment rather than a creaturely necessity". Find it at Amazon. Steve Williams and Evin Priest. HarperCollins. $34.99. Steve Williams caddied for golf legend Tiger Woods for 12 years. They were together through the highs of 13 majors wins and the lows of the spectacular implosion of Woods' marriage. Then, in 2011, their partnership ended abruptly, and messily, after Williams opted to carry Australian golfer Adam Scott's bag while Woods was out injured. The pair would not speak again until 2023. Williams has teamed up with journalist Evin Priest to tell the story of one of golf's best-known duos, covering on-course triumphs such as Woods' victory on a broken leg at the 2008 US Open and behind-the-scenes interactions. Find it at Angus & Robertson or Amazon. Alexis Vassiley. Monash University Publishing. $39.99. Striking Ore tells the story of the rise and fall of union power in the Pilbara's iron ore mines. During the 1970s workers in the Pilbara were among the most bellicose in Australia, winning considerable gains and outdoing even their coalmine comrades with a "strike first, negotiate later" approach. Over time, however, the workforce has become almost completely deunionised. Labour historian and industrial relations scholar Alexis Vassiley explores how a "well-organised and militant movement" was comprehensively defeated, and what the consequences have been. Vassiley describes the Pilbara as an extreme case study of what has happened with unionism in Australia. Find it at Angus & Robertson or Amazon. Toby Walsh. Black Inc. $27.99. Toby Walsh is a professor of artificial intelligence at the University of NSW and chief scientist at its new AI institute, In the latest in the Shortest History series, he opens by introducing us to characters in the journey of AI from idea to transformational reality, beginning with mathematician Alan Turing, who asked: "Can machines think?"; Charles Babbage, inventor of the Analytical Engine, and Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter and the first computer programmer. Walsh distils AI into six concise and accessible ideas designed to equip readers to understand where AI has been and where it is headed. Find it at Angus & Robertson or Amazon. Shelley Burr. Hachette. $34.99. Shelley Burr grew up on Newcastle's beaches, her grandparents' property in Glenrowan and on the road between the two. The Canberra-based author's noir thrillers are steeped in Aussie landscapes and characters. In her follow-up to Wake (2022) and Ripper (2024) her flawed sleuth Lane Holland is out on parole. He can never work again as a private investigator but the unsolved disappearance of Matilda Carver 20 years ago still haunts him. So, he follows a lead to an isolated farm community run by Samuel Karpathy, who promises lost souls the chance to find meaning. Is it a commune or a cult - or something more sinister? Find it at Amazon, Big W, QBD Books or Target. Tasma Walton. Bundyi. $34.99. In 1833 a young woman called Nannertgarrook was abducted by sealers from the shores of Boonwurrung country on what is now Victoria's Port Phillip Bay. Along with other kidnapped girls and women destined to be sold into slavery, she was taken to King Island, north-west of Tasmania, then South Australia's Kangaroo Island and eventually to Bald Island, off the coast of Albany in Western Australia. Tasma Walton, the actress best known for Mystery Road and Blue Heelers, was born in coastal Geraldton in WA and has been researching her ancestor Nannertgarrook for 20 years. The result is this heartfelt story of indigenous pain and survival. Find it at Big W or Amazon. Fleur McDonald. HarperCollins. $34.99. When a professional scandal forces investigative reporter Zara Ellison to retreat to the wild west mining town of Kalgoorlie in search of a fresh start, her questions for the local newspaper, The Prospector, about a horror highway accident involving a pair of grey nomads reveal dark and dangerous secrets buried deep under the swirling red dust. As her ex-detective partner Jack tries to find his feet back in uniform policing this new lawless beat, Zara begins digging for her own kind of gold. But will she find redemption or trouble? This is the 25th outback crime novel by Esperance author Fleur McDonald. You can read Chapter One here. Find it at Amazon, QBD Books or Big W. Tony Schmitz. Allen & Unwin. $32.99. The debut novel by stage and screen actor Toby Schmitz (last seen in Boy Swallows Universe) is based on a 2013 stage play he wrote. Described as witty and tense, it's an ocean-going whodunnit set in 1925 aboard the luxury liner Empress of Australia on its regular Atlantic crossing to New York. When a Bengali deckhand is found brutally murdered, Inspector Archie Daniels resolves to reveal the killer. But as more and more bodies pile up, from the filthy rich and mostly vile first-class passengers as well as the lower classes below deck, no one is safe and no one can escape. Find it at QBD Books, Amazon or Big W. You can also find these and other great books at Apple Books and on Kobo. Love books? Us too! Looking for more reads and recommendations? Browse our books page and bookmark the page so you can find our latest books content with ease. New books sampled this week include the Australian murder mysteries Vanish, by Shelley Burr, and The Empress Murders, by Toby Schmitz. Andreas Ammer. Greystone Books. $39.99. Once a cheap staple of the masses, no-longer-so-humble oysters are polarising. To some, they are saltily sublime. Those who don't understand them say unkinder things. And forget cheap. In some restaurants a single oyster can set you back six bucks! This delightful little book is a lyrical celebration of the biology, culture, art and taste of this magnificent mollusc. What it lacks in Antipodean references it makes up for in fascinating facts and oysterly illustrations. As Ammer says, few people now eat oysters solely to satisfy hunger. Consuming them, he writes, "constitutes a magical moment rather than a creaturely necessity". Find it at Amazon. Steve Williams and Evin Priest. HarperCollins. $34.99. Steve Williams caddied for golf legend Tiger Woods for 12 years. They were together through the highs of 13 majors wins and the lows of the spectacular implosion of Woods' marriage. Then, in 2011, their partnership ended abruptly, and messily, after Williams opted to carry Australian golfer Adam Scott's bag while Woods was out injured. The pair would not speak again until 2023. Williams has teamed up with journalist Evin Priest to tell the story of one of golf's best-known duos, covering on-course triumphs such as Woods' victory on a broken leg at the 2008 US Open and behind-the-scenes interactions. Find it at Angus & Robertson or Amazon. Alexis Vassiley. Monash University Publishing. $39.99. Striking Ore tells the story of the rise and fall of union power in the Pilbara's iron ore mines. During the 1970s workers in the Pilbara were among the most bellicose in Australia, winning considerable gains and outdoing even their coalmine comrades with a "strike first, negotiate later" approach. Over time, however, the workforce has become almost completely deunionised. Labour historian and industrial relations scholar Alexis Vassiley explores how a "well-organised and militant movement" was comprehensively defeated, and what the consequences have been. Vassiley describes the Pilbara as an extreme case study of what has happened with unionism in Australia. Find it at Angus & Robertson or Amazon. Toby Walsh. Black Inc. $27.99. Toby Walsh is a professor of artificial intelligence at the University of NSW and chief scientist at its new AI institute, In the latest in the Shortest History series, he opens by introducing us to characters in the journey of AI from idea to transformational reality, beginning with mathematician Alan Turing, who asked: "Can machines think?"; Charles Babbage, inventor of the Analytical Engine, and Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter and the first computer programmer. Walsh distils AI into six concise and accessible ideas designed to equip readers to understand where AI has been and where it is headed. Find it at Angus & Robertson or Amazon. Shelley Burr. Hachette. $34.99. Shelley Burr grew up on Newcastle's beaches, her grandparents' property in Glenrowan and on the road between the two. The Canberra-based author's noir thrillers are steeped in Aussie landscapes and characters. In her follow-up to Wake (2022) and Ripper (2024) her flawed sleuth Lane Holland is out on parole. He can never work again as a private investigator but the unsolved disappearance of Matilda Carver 20 years ago still haunts him. So, he follows a lead to an isolated farm community run by Samuel Karpathy, who promises lost souls the chance to find meaning. Is it a commune or a cult - or something more sinister? Find it at Amazon, Big W, QBD Books or Target. Tasma Walton. Bundyi. $34.99. In 1833 a young woman called Nannertgarrook was abducted by sealers from the shores of Boonwurrung country on what is now Victoria's Port Phillip Bay. Along with other kidnapped girls and women destined to be sold into slavery, she was taken to King Island, north-west of Tasmania, then South Australia's Kangaroo Island and eventually to Bald Island, off the coast of Albany in Western Australia. Tasma Walton, the actress best known for Mystery Road and Blue Heelers, was born in coastal Geraldton in WA and has been researching her ancestor Nannertgarrook for 20 years. The result is this heartfelt story of indigenous pain and survival. Find it at Big W or Amazon. Fleur McDonald. HarperCollins. $34.99. When a professional scandal forces investigative reporter Zara Ellison to retreat to the wild west mining town of Kalgoorlie in search of a fresh start, her questions for the local newspaper, The Prospector, about a horror highway accident involving a pair of grey nomads reveal dark and dangerous secrets buried deep under the swirling red dust. As her ex-detective partner Jack tries to find his feet back in uniform policing this new lawless beat, Zara begins digging for her own kind of gold. But will she find redemption or trouble? This is the 25th outback crime novel by Esperance author Fleur McDonald. You can read Chapter One here. Find it at Amazon, QBD Books or Big W. Tony Schmitz. Allen & Unwin. $32.99. The debut novel by stage and screen actor Toby Schmitz (last seen in Boy Swallows Universe) is based on a 2013 stage play he wrote. Described as witty and tense, it's an ocean-going whodunnit set in 1925 aboard the luxury liner Empress of Australia on its regular Atlantic crossing to New York. When a Bengali deckhand is found brutally murdered, Inspector Archie Daniels resolves to reveal the killer. But as more and more bodies pile up, from the filthy rich and mostly vile first-class passengers as well as the lower classes below deck, no one is safe and no one can escape. Find it at QBD Books, Amazon or Big W. You can also find these and other great books at Apple Books and on Kobo. Love books? Us too! Looking for more reads and recommendations? Browse our books page and bookmark the page so you can find our latest books content with ease. New books sampled this week include the Australian murder mysteries Vanish, by Shelley Burr, and The Empress Murders, by Toby Schmitz. Andreas Ammer. Greystone Books. $39.99. Once a cheap staple of the masses, no-longer-so-humble oysters are polarising. To some, they are saltily sublime. Those who don't understand them say unkinder things. And forget cheap. In some restaurants a single oyster can set you back six bucks! This delightful little book is a lyrical celebration of the biology, culture, art and taste of this magnificent mollusc. What it lacks in Antipodean references it makes up for in fascinating facts and oysterly illustrations. As Ammer says, few people now eat oysters solely to satisfy hunger. Consuming them, he writes, "constitutes a magical moment rather than a creaturely necessity". Find it at Amazon. Steve Williams and Evin Priest. HarperCollins. $34.99. Steve Williams caddied for golf legend Tiger Woods for 12 years. They were together through the highs of 13 majors wins and the lows of the spectacular implosion of Woods' marriage. Then, in 2011, their partnership ended abruptly, and messily, after Williams opted to carry Australian golfer Adam Scott's bag while Woods was out injured. The pair would not speak again until 2023. Williams has teamed up with journalist Evin Priest to tell the story of one of golf's best-known duos, covering on-course triumphs such as Woods' victory on a broken leg at the 2008 US Open and behind-the-scenes interactions. Find it at Angus & Robertson or Amazon. Alexis Vassiley. Monash University Publishing. $39.99. Striking Ore tells the story of the rise and fall of union power in the Pilbara's iron ore mines. During the 1970s workers in the Pilbara were among the most bellicose in Australia, winning considerable gains and outdoing even their coalmine comrades with a "strike first, negotiate later" approach. Over time, however, the workforce has become almost completely deunionised. Labour historian and industrial relations scholar Alexis Vassiley explores how a "well-organised and militant movement" was comprehensively defeated, and what the consequences have been. Vassiley describes the Pilbara as an extreme case study of what has happened with unionism in Australia. Find it at Angus & Robertson or Amazon. Toby Walsh. Black Inc. $27.99. Toby Walsh is a professor of artificial intelligence at the University of NSW and chief scientist at its new AI institute, In the latest in the Shortest History series, he opens by introducing us to characters in the journey of AI from idea to transformational reality, beginning with mathematician Alan Turing, who asked: "Can machines think?"; Charles Babbage, inventor of the Analytical Engine, and Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter and the first computer programmer. Walsh distils AI into six concise and accessible ideas designed to equip readers to understand where AI has been and where it is headed. Find it at Angus & Robertson or Amazon. Shelley Burr. Hachette. $34.99. Shelley Burr grew up on Newcastle's beaches, her grandparents' property in Glenrowan and on the road between the two. The Canberra-based author's noir thrillers are steeped in Aussie landscapes and characters. In her follow-up to Wake (2022) and Ripper (2024) her flawed sleuth Lane Holland is out on parole. He can never work again as a private investigator but the unsolved disappearance of Matilda Carver 20 years ago still haunts him. So, he follows a lead to an isolated farm community run by Samuel Karpathy, who promises lost souls the chance to find meaning. Is it a commune or a cult - or something more sinister? Find it at Amazon, Big W, QBD Books or Target. Tasma Walton. Bundyi. $34.99. In 1833 a young woman called Nannertgarrook was abducted by sealers from the shores of Boonwurrung country on what is now Victoria's Port Phillip Bay. Along with other kidnapped girls and women destined to be sold into slavery, she was taken to King Island, north-west of Tasmania, then South Australia's Kangaroo Island and eventually to Bald Island, off the coast of Albany in Western Australia. Tasma Walton, the actress best known for Mystery Road and Blue Heelers, was born in coastal Geraldton in WA and has been researching her ancestor Nannertgarrook for 20 years. The result is this heartfelt story of indigenous pain and survival. Find it at Big W or Amazon. Fleur McDonald. HarperCollins. $34.99. When a professional scandal forces investigative reporter Zara Ellison to retreat to the wild west mining town of Kalgoorlie in search of a fresh start, her questions for the local newspaper, The Prospector, about a horror highway accident involving a pair of grey nomads reveal dark and dangerous secrets buried deep under the swirling red dust. As her ex-detective partner Jack tries to find his feet back in uniform policing this new lawless beat, Zara begins digging for her own kind of gold. But will she find redemption or trouble? This is the 25th outback crime novel by Esperance author Fleur McDonald. You can read Chapter One here. Find it at Amazon, QBD Books or Big W. Tony Schmitz. Allen & Unwin. $32.99. The debut novel by stage and screen actor Toby Schmitz (last seen in Boy Swallows Universe) is based on a 2013 stage play he wrote. Described as witty and tense, it's an ocean-going whodunnit set in 1925 aboard the luxury liner Empress of Australia on its regular Atlantic crossing to New York. When a Bengali deckhand is found brutally murdered, Inspector Archie Daniels resolves to reveal the killer. But as more and more bodies pile up, from the filthy rich and mostly vile first-class passengers as well as the lower classes below deck, no one is safe and no one can escape. Find it at QBD Books, Amazon or Big W. You can also find these and other great books at Apple Books and on Kobo. Love books? Us too! Looking for more reads and recommendations? Browse our books page and bookmark the page so you can find our latest books content with ease. New books sampled this week include the Australian murder mysteries Vanish, by Shelley Burr, and The Empress Murders, by Toby Schmitz. Andreas Ammer. Greystone Books. $39.99. Once a cheap staple of the masses, no-longer-so-humble oysters are polarising. To some, they are saltily sublime. Those who don't understand them say unkinder things. And forget cheap. In some restaurants a single oyster can set you back six bucks! This delightful little book is a lyrical celebration of the biology, culture, art and taste of this magnificent mollusc. What it lacks in Antipodean references it makes up for in fascinating facts and oysterly illustrations. As Ammer says, few people now eat oysters solely to satisfy hunger. Consuming them, he writes, "constitutes a magical moment rather than a creaturely necessity". Find it at Amazon. Steve Williams and Evin Priest. HarperCollins. $34.99. Steve Williams caddied for golf legend Tiger Woods for 12 years. They were together through the highs of 13 majors wins and the lows of the spectacular implosion of Woods' marriage. Then, in 2011, their partnership ended abruptly, and messily, after Williams opted to carry Australian golfer Adam Scott's bag while Woods was out injured. The pair would not speak again until 2023. Williams has teamed up with journalist Evin Priest to tell the story of one of golf's best-known duos, covering on-course triumphs such as Woods' victory on a broken leg at the 2008 US Open and behind-the-scenes interactions. Find it at Angus & Robertson or Amazon. Alexis Vassiley. Monash University Publishing. $39.99. Striking Ore tells the story of the rise and fall of union power in the Pilbara's iron ore mines. During the 1970s workers in the Pilbara were among the most bellicose in Australia, winning considerable gains and outdoing even their coalmine comrades with a "strike first, negotiate later" approach. Over time, however, the workforce has become almost completely deunionised. Labour historian and industrial relations scholar Alexis Vassiley explores how a "well-organised and militant movement" was comprehensively defeated, and what the consequences have been. Vassiley describes the Pilbara as an extreme case study of what has happened with unionism in Australia. Find it at Angus & Robertson or Amazon. Toby Walsh. Black Inc. $27.99. Toby Walsh is a professor of artificial intelligence at the University of NSW and chief scientist at its new AI institute, In the latest in the Shortest History series, he opens by introducing us to characters in the journey of AI from idea to transformational reality, beginning with mathematician Alan Turing, who asked: "Can machines think?"; Charles Babbage, inventor of the Analytical Engine, and Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter and the first computer programmer. Walsh distils AI into six concise and accessible ideas designed to equip readers to understand where AI has been and where it is headed. Find it at Angus & Robertson or Amazon. Shelley Burr. Hachette. $34.99. Shelley Burr grew up on Newcastle's beaches, her grandparents' property in Glenrowan and on the road between the two. The Canberra-based author's noir thrillers are steeped in Aussie landscapes and characters. In her follow-up to Wake (2022) and Ripper (2024) her flawed sleuth Lane Holland is out on parole. He can never work again as a private investigator but the unsolved disappearance of Matilda Carver 20 years ago still haunts him. So, he follows a lead to an isolated farm community run by Samuel Karpathy, who promises lost souls the chance to find meaning. Is it a commune or a cult - or something more sinister? Find it at Amazon, Big W, QBD Books or Target. Tasma Walton. Bundyi. $34.99. In 1833 a young woman called Nannertgarrook was abducted by sealers from the shores of Boonwurrung country on what is now Victoria's Port Phillip Bay. Along with other kidnapped girls and women destined to be sold into slavery, she was taken to King Island, north-west of Tasmania, then South Australia's Kangaroo Island and eventually to Bald Island, off the coast of Albany in Western Australia. Tasma Walton, the actress best known for Mystery Road and Blue Heelers, was born in coastal Geraldton in WA and has been researching her ancestor Nannertgarrook for 20 years. The result is this heartfelt story of indigenous pain and survival. Find it at Big W or Amazon. Fleur McDonald. HarperCollins. $34.99. When a professional scandal forces investigative reporter Zara Ellison to retreat to the wild west mining town of Kalgoorlie in search of a fresh start, her questions for the local newspaper, The Prospector, about a horror highway accident involving a pair of grey nomads reveal dark and dangerous secrets buried deep under the swirling red dust. As her ex-detective partner Jack tries to find his feet back in uniform policing this new lawless beat, Zara begins digging for her own kind of gold. But will she find redemption or trouble? This is the 25th outback crime novel by Esperance author Fleur McDonald. You can read Chapter One here. Find it at Amazon, QBD Books or Big W. Tony Schmitz. Allen & Unwin. $32.99. The debut novel by stage and screen actor Toby Schmitz (last seen in Boy Swallows Universe) is based on a 2013 stage play he wrote. Described as witty and tense, it's an ocean-going whodunnit set in 1925 aboard the luxury liner Empress of Australia on its regular Atlantic crossing to New York. When a Bengali deckhand is found brutally murdered, Inspector Archie Daniels resolves to reveal the killer. But as more and more bodies pile up, from the filthy rich and mostly vile first-class passengers as well as the lower classes below deck, no one is safe and no one can escape. Find it at QBD Books, Amazon or Big W. You can also find these and other great books at Apple Books and on Kobo. Love books? Us too! Looking for more reads and recommendations? Browse our books page and bookmark the page so you can find our latest books content with ease.
