“Talk of desserts (C8) and grandmothers, reminds me of the story of my grandmother and her sister when they tried the new jelly crystals,” writes Dorothy Barnes of Armidale. “Expecting instant results, they were disappointed so threw the mixture out the kitchen window only to find the bush below the window decorated with jelly the next morning.”
“Sixty-plus years ago when a call from Blacktown to Arncliffe was a trunk call (C8), my dear departed mother would call her sister three or four times a week,” says Michael Hayden of Kiama Downs. “The normal course was that after three minutes the operator would interrupt with ‘three minutes, are you extending?’. However, on the days when their conversation ranged across many, many interesting and varied subjects there was no interruption. Mum was sure the girls were listening in! We will never know!”
Big ups to John Weir (C8), from Elizabeth Savage of Hughes (ACT): “How exciting to see a Column 8 contribution from someone in Bigga. My parents Alan and Clarice Grabham were teachers at Bigga Primary School before and during the early years of World War II. Although I was only six when we left, I have many happy memories, including that of the noise made when my father’s Model A Ford cracked the ice over the potholes as we drove to school on winter mornings.”
Speaking of potholes (C8), Andrew Brown of Bowling Alley Point points out that “it is common knowledge for those of us who live west of the sandstone curtain that while coastal regions drive on the left of the road, we drive on what’s left of the road.” Stay in your lane, Andrew.
Not to be outdone, Warren Finnan of West Ryde reckons the state of potholes on the Central Coast means that “they must have Terrigal roads up that way!”
“This time last year when a freak razor of a corn chip sheared a large fillet off my tongue, I couldn’t eat or drink anything, even water, because it was too agonising,” says Andrew Cohen of Glebe. “Panic set in when prescription preparations proved useless until I bought a can of Carnation (C8) which actually soothed the lesion. Three weeks and about six dozen cans later, all better. How good is Carnation?”
“I give you BAGA,” declares expat Glaswegian, John Elder of Annerley (Qld). “Beating American Golfers Again. Well done the Europeans, perfect timing!”
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