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“Before the University of NSW (C8) was the NSW Institute of Technology, sited on the old Kensington Racecourse, I was six years old and learning piano from Miss Wilson,” writes Adrian Bell of Davistown. “The infamous Basil boys from Doncaster Avenue took great delight in giving me a bashing and throwing my music lesson books around the street. My escape was to the flooded rubbish dump on the disused racecourse where we would float out old mattresses to play ‘navy battles’. No doubt Australia lost my talents as an older Lang Lang or Elton John. Later I became a drummer.”
Greg Phillipson of Aranda (ACT) wonders: “Is it irony or comedy that is dead now that Bruce McAvaney has been nominated for the Bruce McAvaney Logie Award for most popular sports presenter?”
“I hear that authorities have promised to investigate possible cases of bird flu (C8) thoroughly, leaving no stone unturned,” notes Brianna Wilson of Condell Park. “I wish them all the best, or we’ll be left with no tern unstoned.”
Here’s one for the C8 brains trust: “The first official foreign aid from the US government was in 1812 to Venezuela in response to a catastrophic earthquake,” says Chris Commens of Rosebery. “And according to Google, Australia’s first is the Colombo Plan in the 1950s. That can’t be right, can it?”
“I’d love to have Fiona Spicer over to do my Airfix Lancaster (C8),” muses Mickey Pragnell of Kiama. “It’s in 1:72 scale, so theoretically twice the size of the 1:144 Minicraft. And these days would take me about five months to make. Beautiful kit of a magnificent aircraft.”
Speaking of “the Lanc”, Caz Willis of Bowral “was privileged to know a man called Frank Hibbert, who was one of the original pilots, doing amazing things. And after the war he kept doing amazing things, as an advocate for returned service people. He did my Dad’s tribunal, and won it, 35 years after World War II ended. A generation that will never be repeated, methinks.”
Graham Lum of North Rocks points out that “the generation before the Baby Boomers is known as the Silent Generation (1928-1945). That name doesn’t do it justice. I suggest the Resilient Generation, the Peacemakers or the Builders are more appropriate descriptors.”
“Apropos of nothing, a curry shop has just opened here in Tuncurry on the Mid North Coast, called ‘Tuns of Curry’,” reports Heather Harman. “Clever!”
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