“Monday’s TV Guide promises an episode of Return to Paradise in which, ‘A tense game of bowls turns to chaos when a player is killed on the green in broad daylight’,” notes Don Bain of Port Macquarie. “Brought on a wave of nostalgia for this old trundler.”
“Someone I know very well locked his keys inside the car (C8), but had also left the engine running,” writes Debbie Rudder of Maroubra. “I had to catch a cab (this was long before the Uber era) from University of NSW to the Australian Museum to rescue him from both a parking fine and running out of petrol.”
Even though October 27 is widely recognised as the dedicated “Day of the Dead for Pets” or Día de Muertos para Mascotas, it was nonetheless a terrible day for Donna Wiemann of Balmain when “my precious fifteen-year-old Jack Russell, Will, went to dog heaven, leaving me in hell. So there is some justice in this crazy, screwed up world. I asked him to have a quick word in God’s ear about Trump. Let’s see how that works out.”
John Constable of Balmain is getting hot under the collar: “The Windsor knot (C8) is anathema to any well-dressed gentleman to whom the skewiff schoolboy knot is the epitome of style.”
On the back of Pasquale Vartuli (C8) never having seen Sir Les Patterson and Federal front-bencher Don Farrell in the same room, Merilyn McClung of Forestville wonders if politicians really do have alter egos: “I always thought Scott Morrison was a dead ringer for Benny Hill’s Fred Tuttle.” In appearance or deed?
“Speaking of doppelgängers, I think Granny is the spitting image of Esme Watson from A Country Practice in both appearance and personality, right down to the Dame Edna Everage-style glasses,” offers Sue Casiglia of North Ryde. “Uncanny, isn’t it?”
“I had a small blue freezer block confiscated (C8) from my carry-on at Sydney Airport when flying to New Zealand in 2019 as it contained over 100ml of liquid,” recalls David Sayers of Gwandalan. “It was meant to have kept our food cool during our driving holiday. The security guard told me that if it had been in frozen format, it would have been allowed as it wouldn’t have been classed as a liquid: and I thought I knew about airport security rules. I should’ve paid more attention during science lessons at school.”
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