“A van sped previous my native bus cease on Namatjira Drive,” experiences Mike Fogarty of Weston (ACT). “Flashing yellow lights on its roof alerted me. Was it destined to attend an emergency? Crime scene? Accident or hearth? Hardly, for I then famous its industrial brand: ‘Dial An Ironer’. Take braveness. To all these younger males, whose spousal help wants are challenged. And to these ladies manning the barricades, forming the white shirt revolution. And to all those that have thought of a neighborhood laundry, when their wardrobe of pressed clothes was not sufficient. Cling on, assistance is on the way in which!”
Ray Anderson of Arncliffe has extra on the general public transport pooch: “I recall studying a couple of South African canine named ‘Simply Nuisance’. He lived at a naval base close to Cape City and caught the prepare on daily basis on the similar time to a specific cease, spent the day there and caught the afternoon prepare again dwelling. He obtained into hassle for not having a ticket and in consequence was formally enlisted into the navy and that entitled him to free prepare journey.”
After all some hounds can’t be bothered with public transport: “Does anybody keep in mind Rusty the labrador from Melrose Parade in Clovelly?” asks Mary Watson of Balgowlah Heights. “He used to stroll all the way down to a pub in Coogee and within the afternoons a taxi would drive over the hill, cease and Rusty would climb in.”
“Pricey Granny,” writes Peter Hutchinson of Marrickville: “It is extremely onerous to get a narrative in Column 8.” Keep affected person, Pete. You by no means know. It may occur any day now.
“Maybe those that have obtained unsolicited invites to photo voltaic renewal on their fall alert pendants (C8) may see them as omen and a vitality name,” suggests Meri Will of Baulkham Hills. “Your time within the solar is way from over.”
Steve Hulbert of West Kempsey is by no means shocked that Peter Wotton is fearing complaints concerning the odor of cooking beetroot (C8). “I can clearly keep in mind strolling dwelling from Kempsey Excessive Faculty again within the Seventies, and speaking to my neighbour in her entrance yard and understanding precisely what Mum had been cooking that arvo (as I think did our different neighbours).”
The beet goes on: “Sorry, Peter Berry, however beetroot on a burger is a latter-day affectation, an abomination. Subsequent you’ll be suggesting pineapple,” says Peter Hayes of Port Macquarie.
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