It takes more than an Olympic pie run (C8) to impress our readers. “2,400 pies? Pah!” scoffs Andrew Taubman of Queens Park. “In 1999,US TV stations sent over teams to reconnoitre facilities here in the run-up to the Sydney Olympics. They were shocked by the authority of coffee to be had here,so arranged for a container-load of American ‘coffee’ to be shipped over for their staff.”
It could be worse,thinks David Gordon of Cranebrook:“Remember Warnie and his baked beans?” Nola Tucker,however,sees bigger problems:“When our Olympians get one look at a pâtisserie,I doubt there’ll be much call for muesli bars.”
“I had to chuckle when reading about ‘Our Lady of Petrol Stations’ as told by Rosemary Towers’ little grandson,” writes Susan White of Minnamurra. “It was a reminder of my own grandson’s gem. Walking home from the bus stop,he asked if I knew about ‘the other Moses’ - ‘not Mitchell Moses but the one who floated down the river?’”
On the face of it,this is a sign of the times:“Before we had mobile phones,many of us also didn’t have a watch,” says Michael Fox of Taigum (Qld). “It was quite common for someone to step up to you in the street and ask:‘Got the time mate?’ Sadly,these days many of us would probably step back and ask suspiciously:‘What for?’”
“There are plenty of places people don’t want to move to (C8),” notes John de Meur of Cremorne Point. “But there is somewhere I have always aspired to go to,Paradise (Check it out,postcode 7306). I would have thought that I would be one of millions,but surprisingly,there are only 112 other lucky souls there according to the last census,but if this gets up in Column 8,there could be a population explosion!” There’s at least one C8-er who has been there. In 2019,our friend Merilyn McClung of Forestville described travelling “from Hells Gates to Paradise,in one day.”
“If you want to escape from Dungeon Road,near Blayney,head east through Bathurst,” suggests Frank McGrath of Bulli. “Don’t go too far,though,lest you come upon Mount Horrible.”
In a final piece of navigational advice,Julian Neylan of Dulwich Hill reckons “Anyone on a road trip in France should know the safest approach to Toulouse is via the nearby town of Condom.”
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