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“I reside in the North West NSW town of Baradine,” informs Phillip Hensby. “Last Friday, I read an article on how diesel was $3.11 a litre in the town of Collarenebri, some 200 kilometres north-west of Baradine. I contacted the Western Plains news app, expressing my excitement as our last fuel delivery in town, last Wednesday had risen to $3.29 a litre. It’s worth the trip .... isn’t it?”
“The NRL games last Saturday fortuitously involved consistently appropriate adversarial combinations, such as the Knights versus the Warriors, the Sharks versus the Dolphins [at Ocean Protect Stadium, no less - Granny], and the Rabbits versus the Tigers,” notes Ron Vernon of Thornleigh. “Only the Cowboys taking on the Broncos would have been needed to complete the set.”
Warren Menteith of Bali recently noticed an online real estate article “about combining a shed with a house to make a dwelling. The journalist called it a shouse. Don’t think I’ll buy or build one.”
“Never mind the burgundy bow ties (C8),” says Geoff Gilligan of Coogee. “In the mid ’70s, I had a burgundy three-piece suit. Flared trousers, of course, and a pair of platform shoes. I guess I must have been a dedicated follower of fashion back then. More conservative these days, though not into grey cardigans just yet.”
“George Zivkovic has revived memories of colourful racing identity Perce Galea (C8) who found the track to be a useful way to launder the proceeds of his illegal casino through betting ‘wins’,” writes Seppo Ranki of Glenhaven. “I think he also famously won the Opera House lottery twice, presumably by buying all the tickets and allowing the government its take.”
Far from an old wives tale, Cathy Soder of Mooney Mooney remembers a certain remedy well: “Camphor bags (C8) around one’s neck, hidden under the school tunic but still with aroma pervading. What a childhood memory, surpassed only by the nightly dose of a teaspoon of sugar with a few drops of eucalyptus oil. Guaranteed to keep colds and coughs at bay in a frosty winter.”
“At the risk of sounding potty-mouthed, if the plural of brothers is brethren (C8), should not the plural be of sister not be cistern?” asks Regan Pallandi of Hurlstone Park. “Or am I talking crap?” Geoff Maynard of Paddington has often wondered “if, since the plural of mouse is mice, should the plural of spouse be spice?”
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