“Concord West is also a nesting site for an osprey family (C8) at Ron Routley Oval at Majors Bay Reserve,” says Jan Delahunty of Concord West. “To the delight of our residents, the osprey family fledged a healthy chick last year and have again built a new nest on top of the light pole at the oval. The City of Canada Bay Council have cared for the ospreys, alerting the public by placing posters at the base the pole, and they monitored the lights last year so that they would not interfere with nesting. The nest attracts bird watchers and photographers and the ospreys don’t appear to be disturbed by crowds and noisy soccer matches at the base of their nesting site.”
The librocubicularist variations (C8) continue: “I do DA’s cryptic crosswords in bed on Fridays,” reveals Michael Will of Deakin (ACT). “Does that make me a masocruciverbacubicularist?”
The Wills are alive today. “As I stopped at some traffic lights yesterday, I noticed a car with 5ING on its number plate,” says Meri Will of Baulkham Hills. “Near it was a car with a plate that said H4PPY. So I did, and I was.“
Judith Campbell of Drummoyne has successfully tracked Judy Jones’ pizza cash thieves (C8): “They went to a cocktail bar to spend their ill-gotten gains on a margarita.”
“What’s to understand in sportspeak (C8)?” asks Mickey Pragnell of Kiama. “They’re usually just saying the same thing: ‘Yeah nah’, (thanks, Peter!), ‘we take it one game at a time’, ‘yeah, they’re a good side, and it was a game of two halves but at the end of the day, yeah, it was good to get the win’.” Leaving nothing in the tank, Bernie Carberry of Connells Point suggests: “Why not try AI?”
Possum-wise, Graham Russell of Clovelly has it worse than George Manojlovic (C8): “My neighbours’ possums arrive in the early morning, eat oranges from our tree leaving a mess everywhere, and poo on our back deck. The local council is not interested in removing them but did suggest that I move the trees over water. Apparently, possums can’t swim.”
According to John Constable of Balmain, both possum hosts should go up and take a look: “Heard on the radio the other day from a zoologist talking about critters in the ceiling: ‘If they sound like possums they’re rats, if they sound like elephants, then they’re possums’.”
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