Bruce Moxon of Toongabbie has grave fears for Europe after discovering that the Prime Minister of Poland is one, Donald Tusk: “I had to double-check. Is he some terrible offspring of Trump and Musk? Was he carved from ivory?”
“Your par about screws on the road, possibly scattered by tyre companies (C8), reminded me of the smash repair business in a country town which also conducted a kangaroo breeding program and when trade became slack would allegedly release kangaroos on the district roads,” says Barry Wooldridge of Harden.
It’s nothing more than a screw loose, according to Ian Torrance of Dunlop (ACT): “Self-tapping metal screws penetrate tyres at all places where a tradie’s table-top is required to stop or slow down such as roundabouts etc. When the tradie puts the pedal to the metal to take off, the loose screws slip under the tailgate onto the road. Check your local roundabout, and you may see them waiting to hitch a ride.” Gary Lane of Milperra agrees and also blames speed humps and road covers: “I’ve even had a screwdriver removed from my tyre.”
“Lyn Langtry’s Stonehenge story (C8) reminds me of overhearing a visitor to Hearst Castle complaining that it was built a long way from the visitor centre,” recalls Dennis Fardy of Warriewood.
“More beveragespeak (C8),” declares Dick Pollitt of Mosman. “At a local coffee shop, a decaf skim cappuccino is known as a ‘why bother’.”
Bernadette McGuire of North Epping continues the classification: “When travelling in Italy some years ago, my cappuccino arrived without the sprinkle of chocolate powder, just the way I like it and what I have asked for ever since. I was pleasantly surprised in New Zealand last year when the waitress announced my ‘nude cappuccino’. Other visitors to the land of the long white cloud have confirmed this. And no, it is not a flat white, it’s a lot frothier.”
“I’m not a coffee fanatic,” explains Coral Button of North Epping. “My brand of instant was recently voted worst on the market. Still, mixed half with boiling water and half hot milk, it starts my morning about 5.30 to read the Herald and have my morning swim, with no jitters and doesn’t cost six, five or even three dollars. PS - I had a coffee maker once, and it was such a devil to clean I had to have a coffee afterwards to recover.”
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