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bushtelegraph Easy about-face Choosing spectacle frames is only marginally less stressful than finding the perfect swimmers. However, Frankie Dean is minimising the angst with the launch of its Home Try On service. Browse its range of styles online and select five pairs to try on at home; Frankie Dean will post them to you free of charge. Then it's just a matter of making your choice, ordering online and providing your prescription to receive speedy shipment of your glasses direct to your letterbox. If you think that looks good, with every pair of glasses you buy you're contributing directly to the company's Sight for Schools program, which aims to provide Australian schoolage kids with $100,000 worth of free prescription eyewear in 2013. www.frankiedean.com.au Taste-test the waters Effortlessly remove unwanted nasties from your drinking water with Brita's new Fill&Go water bottle that incorporates a replaceable filter. This unique filtration technology for personal water bottles reduces substances in tap water that impair taste and smell to ensure the water you drink always tastes pure. The carbon filter disc is designed to be replaced weekly. Brita Fill&Go Water Filter Bottle $19.95, 8 Filter Discs $12.95, www.brita.com.au Devils' new playground A group of Tasmanian devils has been transferred to a small island off the east coast of Tasmania to hopefully establish a self-sustaining population free from the facial tumour disease that has devastated the species. Devil facial tumour disease (DFTD) was first detected in north-east Tasmania in 1996. Over the following 10 years the Tasmanian devil population declined by an estimated 20 to 50 per cent and in 2009 the creature was declared an endangered species. It's hoped the Maria Island relocation program will ensure a future for the devils. "The Maria Island translocation is designed to establish a self-sustaining population of healthy wild devils in a safe haven where they are protected from interaction with the deadly facial tumour disease," said Brian Wightman, Tasmania's Minister for Environment, Parks and Heritage. The project may be small in scale with the relocation of just 15 devils, but conservationists are optimistic that Maria Island will work as an 'ark' for future generations of devils, the plan being for the population to increase by another 50 over the next two years. www.tassiedevil.com.au The Tassie devil's scientific name, Sarcophilus harrisii, means 'Harris' meat-lover' and is derived from the first published description of the carnivorous marsupial, by naturalist George Harris. XV