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Helen Knight of Wherrol Flat needs your help: “All of our European honey bees have disappeared. We live on the Mid North Coast. Has anyone else reported this? Are there people with beehives looking for fresh pastures? We would love to speak with them.”
“Australia Post seems to come in for its fair share of brickbats, so when a bouquet is due, it is only fair for it be bestowed,” reckons Michael Maguire of Emu Plains. “At 10:00 am on Saturday, at the Emu Plains Post Office, I posted a parcel to Matraville in Sydney. At 4:30 pm on Saturday, I received an email from the recipient acknowledging receipt of my package. Fortunately, I was sitting down at the time.”
“Is the contributor, ex-Knox boy Andrew Taubman (C8), from the 1972 drop?” asks Warwick Sherman of Huntleys Point. “If so, ‘Hi Andrew’ some 53 years since I last saw him.”
The reviews are in! “I happen to have my very own first edition copy of The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump (C8), given to me by my daughter for Christmas 2017,” says Mary Carde of Parrearra (Qld). “Hmmm, I thought, Trump creating poetry? That’s just got to be the ultimate oxymoron. And so it is. Far from being a collection of elegant prose crafted by the creative self-proclaimed ‘genius’, it’s a compilation of intelligibly challenged word salads that are his speciality. I wasn’t disappointed.”
“Surely, Trump’s poetry and Putin’s self-help belong next to Grimms’ Fairy Tales,” offers the bookish Merilyn McClung of Forestville.
“On the Sunshine Coast I found a business which described itself as an Artesian Bakery,” reports Nicolas Harrison of Evans Head. “I found their products quite boring.”
Kate Bryant of Lane Cove claims that “the most envied school student job (C8) was bell monitor. She had to leave class early to ring the bell for all occasions to announce end of lessons, lunch breaks, etc. We all wanted that job as it came with a badge that said ‘Bell Ringer’.”
“At my high school, second form boys were rostered to be ‘Supervisors’ for the day,” recalls Franz Weiss of Maroubra. “We didn’t supervise anything, we did odd jobs, one of which was to go to the shops to buy the headmaster’s cigarettes.”
“I was really enjoying Father’s Day until it was pointed out that it was also International Endangered Species Day,” laments John Brooks of Pyrmont.
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