It’s the small things. Peter Skinner of Beecroft awoke with an excruciating pain in his mouth, which he found to be caused by a tooth abscess. “You beauty! Checked guidelines, double AZ vaccinated weeks ago and a medical emergency – check. Finally get to drive new Campervan again ... 2.5 km to surgery. Freedom! Oh, what a feeling!”
“You know you are in lockdown when (C8) ... you start counting how many times the Prime Minister addresses his replies during Question Time to Mr Speaker,” writes Maureen Casey of Breakfast Point. “Unfortunately it is so easy to lose count.” Michael Wright of Chippendale concurs. “In a three minute response on Wednesday I counted 29, that’s a ‘Mr Speaker’ every 6.2 seconds. I wonder what his Personal Best is?”
More difficulties in remembering present time (C8). “When my brother retired and went to live on an island in Moreton Bay he created an email address wotdaisit,” writes Michael Egan of Killarney Heights.
Another Michael, this time Michael Ward of Mosman, asserts that the measurement of the shortest period of time “can be defined as the period of time between the traffic light going green and the car behind sounding their horn.”
Chris Lockley of Alstonville wants to put a word of support in for the much-neglected tangerine, far tastier than the common mandarin (C8). “When sliced in half for juicing, they normally display a beautifully symmetrical, mandala-like seed pattern – almost too good to destroy by squeezing. One of yesterday’s tangerines surprisingly had no seeds when sliced, creating a pip-less mandala.”
Graham Bird of St Ives wondered whether the bureaucrat mentioned a couple of days ago (C8) had a previous career in local government. “Were they responsible for upgrading the local pool to an ‘International Aquatic and Leisure Centre’? Or the tip to a ‘Waste Management and Resource Centre’?”
Sadly, the contributions of the venerable Harry Bell of Bowral will no longer be gracing Column 8. Instead, his name made an appearance on a different page of Wednesday’s Herald, a page which he had previously admitted to regularly reading. A 2017 discussion in this column revealed that a significant number of readers had their own fond remembrances of time spent in the presence of (Retired) Justice Hubert Henry Bell – the retelling of those stories delighted the man himself. Granny will miss reading the anecdotes from one of her favourite nonagenarians, and sends her condolences to his family and friends.
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