Plugging in cars (C8) is not a new occurrence, depending on where you are living. Tim Ingall of Scottsville (USA) first learnt about plugging in cars when he was living in Minnesota in the mid-1980s, where “the winters are brutally cold (down to -20 degrees at night), and if you park your car outside you are advised to purchase an electric engine block heater so the car can be started in the morning without damaging the engine.”
Keith Appleton, now of Wolfville (Nova Scotia), states that if you are living in Manitoba in Canada, “it is de rigueur to plug in your engine heater (C8) if the car is left outside in the middle of winter. However, some summer visitors from the US of A once wrote a letter of thanks to the local council for ‘their thoughtfulness in having power points outside their offices so visitors with mobile homes could plug in their appliances’, missing the real reason for the outlets.”
Clearly no one saw this one coming. Coleen Box of Barton (ACT) writes that her nephew “was hit in the chest by a drone while riding his eScooter home from work last week. A traffic accident? No. He spoke to the local police but they can’t deal with it because drones come under federal civil aviation regulations.”
Joy Paterson of Mount Annan confirms that her “grandson was certainly obsessed with dinosaurs at ‘that age’ of four (C8), resulting in my honed knowledge of the names of every known dinosaur to man”. Also, as predicted, Joy has retained little of that knowledge 11 years later, except for one fact: “the Cape ‘Paterson’ Claw was the first dinosaur bone discovered in Australia”.
Retired engineeer Terry O’Brien of North Parramatta decided to throw a spanner in the works and say that “Sara Holt, Elizabeth Morgan and grandson Hudson are all correct, depending from which perspective the truck (C8) is viewed. If the bowl was still turning on the mobile mixer it was mixing cement with other raw materials to produce a product named concrete. If the bowl was not turning it had delivered the concrete, and was simply a very big truck with an empty bowl.” So it all comes down to bowl movements? Sounds about right.
Ellen Kassel of Collaroy read about the increase in training of “aged care workers” and thought she “might have a chance of employment, as I’m very caring and eighty-one”.
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