“I was thrilled to see Nabiac Bakery (C8) get a run over the last few days,” writes Ron Montague of Enfield. “I grew up out Bucca Wauka way on a dairy farm and the baker from Nabiac used to come out to our farm in a little green van in the 1950s and deliver bread. He had a wood fired pie heater in the van and would have hot pies on board. The first meat pie I ever ate came from Nabiac Bakery and if mum had some spare change,we would get this treat for lunch and a pie was cut into thirds and shared with my sister and brother. I never go through Nabiac without stopping and getting a pie. I’ll have to give the rock cakes and lamingtons a burl as well,next time.”
Roger Bendall of Darling Point completely endorses the recommendations of both Carole Dawes and James McKinnon for the Nabiac Bakery and Green House Cafe,but chides them both for failing to mention the excellent Nabiac Butchery,“the best butcher South of Scotts Head and just around the corner from the café.” Now,we’re just waiting for a post on the best flower arranger on the Mid North Coast.
“On February 14,1966,a TV commentator was asking people what they thought about the change to decimal currency (C8),” recalls Michael Payne of West Pymble. “One little old lady replied,‘Why didn’t they bring it in when everyone was young?’”
David Gordon of Cranebrook started at UNSW in March 1966,“and decimal currency wasn’t my colleagues’ only gripe,they couldn’t understand the metric system,but preferred the kips,slugs,poundals and cwts they were used to. I had no such problem because the country from which I’d emigrated had gone metric in 1957.”
“My big brother worked at a bank,so I had the new money to spend on day one,” says Margaret Daridis of Mount Kuring-gai. “I proudly took my 5 cent coin to the tuckshop to buy lollies that had been two a penny. I was given a bag with ten lollies. The kid next to me ordered the same but paid with a sixpence and received twelve. Pride comes before a fall.”
Kerrie Wehbe of Blacktown “can’t shed any light on the ‘will’ vs ‘shall’ debate (C8),but I do know that where there’s a will,there’s a relative.”
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