Hitting isolation for six

Richard Stewart of Pearl Beach is not the first of us to run short of lockdown viewing options, but he says: "A 1991 cricket replay helped and one could not avoid noting the advertising on the fences. Foster's Lager, Four and Twenty Pies and Benson and Hedges smokes. Them was the times. Less to worry about than now."

While we've got you, Richard, David Linfoot of Castle Hill thinks it would be concerning if you were still getting New Zealand coins in your change (C8). "Until 2004, New Zealand coins were the same size as Australian coins so it was common for these to be passed off as our currency. As they were not legal tender in Australia, I didn't like using any that I inadvertently received. I kept them and, sometime after 2004, I took them back to the country they belonged in. Unfortunately, I was too late as they were no longer acceptable in New Zealand either."

"Nola Tucker (C8) is an optimist if she thinks Australia is home to either virgins or volcanoes," reckons Philip Bell of Bronte. "Sacrificing the odd politician would be a popular move, but they'd miraculously return after a few weeks, working for the arms industry." Jo Rainbow of Orange adds: "Thank you Nola Tucker. After the Plague and pestilence of 2020, all that is missing is three days of darkness. Sufficient incentive to get my first-born son out of bed on a Monday morning."

Now, a belated apology from Jennifer Briggs of Kilaben Bay: "I’d forgotten the lime spider (C8) I had at the age of 7. It came back up into the Church Street gutter. Sorry, Saturday morning shoppers, Parramatta, 1960."

"The Herald informs me that the only emission from a hydrogen car is water," says George Manojlovic of Mangerton. "So, while a petrol car gets me from A to B, a hydrogen car gets me H to O."

"Hey David Gore (C8), I predict that if you dig a hole deep enough in your backyard you'll probably find water," proclaims Peter Riley of Penrith. "Does that make me a long-distance water diviner? Hardly! That applies for most backyards in Australia. The government doesn't employ water diviners to find water for the same reason police don't employ psychics to solve murders. It's flim-flam. As for being called a city slicker − them`s fighting words for a boy from Gooloogong."

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