Granny thought the best person to confirm that Geoff Turnbull’s visiting brush turkey (C8) shared his taste in music was our favourite instrumentalist, Susan Bradley of Eltham (Vic), but she has concerns: “I fear Geoff is being fooled by the brush turkey. It’s either sizing him up as a mate or as dinner.”
“Reading of music experiences reminds me of my journey home on the XPT from Sydney last week, on the last leg of an exhausting return from London,” writes Steve Hulbert of West Kempsey. “My carriage was half-filled with young Fijians, and just outside Kempsey, they burst into song, and serenaded the passengers. When I thanked them for their beautiful harmonies, and asked if they were a choir heading to a competition, they said no, they were heading to a netball competition!”
“The recent article in Lifestyle regarding incontinence, brought to mind my own introduction to this sometimes distressing condition,” recounts Viv Munter of Tumbi Umbi. “Following the birth of my first child, I was to undertake pelvic floor exercises. I naively asked one of the nurses if I should bring my sneakers. She nearly wet herself.”
“In Notes From a Small Island, Bill Bryson relates his first stay in Britain in a boarding house in his youth,” says Andrew Taubman of Queens Park. “The landlady had an obsession with the state of his room’s counterpane (C8), a term he’d not come across in his childhood in rural USA. He thought it had something to do with the window but couldn’t work out if she wanted it open or closed.”
Jack Dikian of Mosman also finds comforters much easier to bed down. “Otherwise, you’ve got to locate the corners of the doona, locate the corners of the cover and then somehow find a way to smooth out the 5th corner.”
“After readers rearranged the body parts of our new tennis prodigy, I wondered if the AI department of WADA had pricked its ears to Maya Joint (C8),” offers David Pyke of Wagga Wagga. Well, she was playing on grass.
Still on sport, Leo Corbin of Rockdale thought the Windies were in with a chance in the second Test: “They needed 274 runs in its 2nd innings. At 4-40, it didn’t look promising, but with Chase and Hope at the wicket anything was possible. But they lost Hope and with Greaves next in, the loss came soon enough.”
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