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Having a father away at work and a sick mother led to Simon Dixon of Bolton Point witnessing quite the kitchen disaster (C8) in their luxury caravan in southern England, courtesy of his well-meaning Uncle Jack, who volunteered to make a curry: “For unexplained reasons he elected to cook the rice in a pressure cooker. Suddenly, there was a pop, followed by a loud hissing sound. The aluminium walls were evenly covered with the contents of the cooker, the rice having emerged through the safety valve, presumably at great speed, one grain at a time. All of Jack’s considerable charm was required to placate my mother, who seemed to have suddenly recovered from her illness.”
While Catherine Rogers of Canada Bay reckons that Camp Pie (C8) is at least “a great vehicle for large amounts of tomato sauce,” David Prest of Thrumster thinks you can have too much of a not-so-good thing: “As first term apprentices at HMAS Nirimba, we were fed at lunchtime after everyone else. Consequently, we were ‘lucky’ enough to be fed 13 meals of Camp Pie in a row. The catering officer was tight with his money.”
Is there another Renaissance type emerging in Canberra? Pasquale Vartuli of Wahroonga thinks so: “Does anyone else see Sir Les Patterson, when the Minister for Trade and Tourism, Don Farrell appears on TV?”
Robert Roobottom of Taree has an eye for detail: “Lake Cathie (C8) is indeed pronounced Cat-eye, as it was originally spelt Cattai. This caused problems with mail delivery before postcodes as there is a Lake Cattai near Windsor. To avoid confusion, the one south of Port Macquarie changed the spelling to Cathie but retained the pronunciation Cat-eye.”
“The Pom in me is unimpressed with your so-called tricky Australian pronunciations,” declares Susan Bradley of Eltham (Vic). “They pale in comparison to Gloucester, Bicester, Mousehole, and Magdalen, as in Magdalen College, Oxford. To wit: Gloster, Bister, Mouzl and Maudlin.”
Prince Andrew has had a somewhat high profile of late, but Ross Storey of Normanhurst could not help but note that “recent photographs of him indicate that he does not know how to tie a Windsor knot.”
“Someone I know locked the car keys in their car twice in the same day and the same NRMA service person came,” says Michael Payne of West Pymble. “His comment was, ‘I see you have moved the car.’ Is this a record?”
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