“Reading about Glyn’s lack of ties reminded me of a teacher flatmate from the 1960s who was taken out of her primary school classroom on a hot summer day for not wearing pantyhose,” recallsAlison Brooks of Hope Island (Qld).” Sheer madness!
Mike Fogarty of Weston (ACT) declares that “The late Dr Ashton Calvert,a stylish member of the diplomatic intake of 1970,was an impressive figure. He wore sandy suede desert boots (C8) which signalledle tout Hobart,from whence he hailed. A Tasmanian Rhodes Scholar for 1966,he also read that classic Marcel Proust novel,In Search of Lost Time, in French. A fluent Japanese linguist. Still missed.”
“As Australia does not import bananas (C8),whoever is advertising them as 100 per cent Australian needs to be spoken to,” warns Anne Cook of Ermington. “Many years ago a cyclone destroyed the majority and if you could find any,they were very expensive. Some party hosts served slices of banana on toothpicks with the other pre-dinner appetisers.”
Back to the tatts. “A friend needed to have a tattoo (C8) of the Southern Cross removed from her upper arm,so she could wear a sleeveless wedding dress,” writes Kerry Kyriacou of Strathfield. “The procedure cost her an arm and a leg.”
“I thought it would be a good idea to let you know that one of your avid contributors,Heather Lindsay of Woonona passed away last Friday,” writes longtime friend Heather Bailey. “I know she looked forward to reading the various and entertaining snippets in the column every day. To be published herself was a great thrill. She became a minor celebrity in Woonona where she was often stopped on her daily walks by eager fans of her observations about the minutiae of the everyday.” Go well,Heather.
Regarding eye-charts (C8),a friend of Kersi Meher-Homji of St Ives likes to show a bit of vision:“He has memorised the last three lines. This amazes the ophthalmologist and his staff.” Just on the subject of eye-charts,no Polish jokes,please. It’s not worth the backlash.
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