Bob Yorston of Roseville informs us that his wife,“Bev Lewis,grows grammas (C8) every summer,and she cooks and freezes them – gramma pies and scones all the year. Anyone need seeds?” Bob also helpfully provides Bev’s “never-fail pastry” recipe. “Rub 4 ounces margarine into 2 cups self-raising flour and 2 tablespoons sugar,stir in ½ cup milk – roll out. Before putting the top on the pie,don’t forget to sprinkle some cinnamon onto the gramma.”
Unkle Cyril of East Corrimal still has his “lime-green polyester safari suit (C8),with large pointed collar and huge flares,bought from an op-shop about 30 years ago. I still wear it when the occasion demands,and friends have requested to borrow it a few times. In summer,it’s like wearing an oven glove.”
For his contribution to the just-launched discussion on rocket science (C8),Andrew Taubman of Queens Park quotes Oculus’ former chief technology officer,John Carmack. “Rocket science has been mythologised all out of proportion to its true difficulty.” In an attempt to more accurately reflect difficulty,Barry Riley of Woy Woy “suggests that ‘it’s not rocket science’ could be replaced by ‘it’s not quantum physics’.”
Kerry Kyriacou of Strathfield informs Jeffrey Huang that rocket scientists (C8) clearly don’t get paid enough nowadays. “According to late night TV advertorials they are now designing pillows and mattresses. Catchphrase:‘Designed by two NASA engineers’.”
Overlooking the classifications (C8),Anne Cook of Ermington finds American film descriptions very helpful. “Often what they consider a thriller,drama or horror I find to be comedy.”
Talk of movie classifications (C8) reminded Tom Meakin of Port Macquarie of “a time in (then) Rhodesia when my eldest brother took me to the movies and tried to buy a ticket for me to go to an M-rated movie when I was about 12. When the ticket vendor questioned my age,he just declared,‘Of course he’s old enough,he’s my brother’. So I was admitted.”
Bruce Satchwell of Carrara (Qld) more than remembers Nola Scott’s windmills (C8).“Windlite wind turbines were sold by Quirks Victory Light Company in Bellevue Hill,and manufactured by Dunlite in South Australia from 1936. They were widely used in Australia and exported to the USA up to 1970. My great-grandfather John Hesketh,Australia’s first Chief Electrical Engineer from 1903,encouraged the use of alternative energy,and was instrumental in Australia’s first hydroelectric power station in 1898 at Thargomindah,connected to an artesian bore.”
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