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“I just bought a pruning saw to do some gardening,” says Ross Kendall of Mullumbimby. “It boasts a ‘hanghole for easy storage’ and, I kid you not, an ‘ambidextrous design’. The latter is a fantastic innovation, they should apply it to cricket bats and kettles!”
Brian Lucas of Bundanoon wonders if the Noosa Heads Dentist who provides classic novels (C8) has extra-long wait times, “or can you put in a bookmark and continue reading at your next visit?”
“In the early ’70s, I worked as a veterinarian in West Wyalong which had the last manual telephone exchange (C8) in NSW,” writes Tony Mosman of Randwick. “My number was 707 and the medical practice was 717. Sometimes the plug was connected to the wrong hole. I would often get an involved history of a personal medical problem and have to say at the end that I was the vet, not the doctor. Similarly, the doctor would get calls of animal health issues related to him. Conveniently I never needed a mobile for emergencies as the exchange staff knew 24/7 if I was visiting a patient, a friend, the pub, club or was just at home.”
This suggestion from Chris Johnson of Wyong is appealing: “If they’re going to make the labels on apples impossible to remove, you would think they could at least make them edible.”
Gisela Meyer of Cremorne presents a different Carnation (C8) perspective: “Being from Germany, our coffee was always drank with Carnation milk, but coming to Australia, we changed to cream as the local Carnation was a bit strange in flavour. Then Aldi came to the rescue. Their Carnation is made in the Netherlands (perfect taste for coffee). Once they ran out, and I purchased Carnation, made in Mexico, from Colesworths. That certainly spoiled the coffee. The cat was disgusted too.”
“When 8-year-old Jacqueline Spencer (C8) flew unaccompanied from Brisbane to Singapore, it’s likely that my grandfather, Fred Stevens, was the pilot,” offers Matthew Stevens of Thornleigh. “He pioneered the route, and carried the mail between Brisbane and Singapore, stopping at airstrips along the way. The return trip took a week, but he did get to stay at Raffles Hotel.”
“Last weekend, I noticed a Christmas pop-up shop that had commenced trading in readiness for the coming festive season,” says Paul Taylor of Winston Hills. “I wondered how the rental property had been marketed. For lease, Navidad?”
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