source : the age
“The stories of the throwing out of one’s treasured items by other family members (C8) brought to mind the sad fate of my treasured Afghan goatskin coat, which kept me warm for years while travelling in Europe in the ’70s,” writes Anne McCarthy of Marrickville. “Unfortunately the uncured hide, when wet, would give off such a rank goat smell that people on buses would move away. On my return my mother took the opportunity, when I was out, not to throw out the coat but to incinerate it!”
“In watching Shakespeare’s tragedy it is clear that Macbeth would like to be king,” notes Eric Scott of Bondi Junction. “In reading the paper, however, it became clear that Burnham would.” Shouldn’t have removed that portrait of the Bard from No.10, Sir Keir.
Move over, Airfix. David Sallows of Ormiston (Qld) is the proud owner of a Minicraft kit for the Avro Lancaster Mk.1 on 1/144 scale. “I have had it for ages and it is unopened, with the outer clear plastic box wrapping cover fully intact. I used to make umpteen model aircraft back in the last century but I just never got around to making this one as I had nowhere suitable to hang it. The cover says it even has options for RAAF ‘G for George’ and RAF decals. How about that? I guess I will never make this one, so I will have to get it to a good home soon.”
“My now-retired civil engineer husband has such illegible handwriting (C8) that his colleagues would often threaten to give it to the local pharmacist to decipher as apparently she was used to dreadful longhand,” laments Pauline McGinley of Drummoyne.
Derrick Mason of Boorowa wonders if “in view of the fact that committed supporters claim that the round ball game should be called ‘football’, rather than ‘soccer’ [try telling that to the Vics! – Granny], wouldn’t it be appropriate for the Socceroos to be renamed the Footeroos?”
“A warning to Graham Lum (C8),” declares Ray Witherby of Kings Langley. “The green bin is your best choice. DO NOT, under any circumstances, use the yellow bin for the disposal of bodily parts, lest you incur the wrath of the ‘Yellow Bin Police’. I have been sanctioned recently for ‘contamination’, due to the relatively innocent (I thought) disposal of shredded paper. Big Brother is watching.”
Ron Johnston of Wollongong has more on the power of graphic fiction: “One of my teaching friends boasted that he passed English 1 correspondence arts degree at Armidale by reading classic comics (C8) instead of the novels!”
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