From the many who wrote in with the same suggestion for Glenys Quirk (C8),Andrew Taubman of Queens Park had the winner with this one. “Just turn a left-handed rubber glove inside-out and bingo! You’ll be right.”
Dick McCaughey of Bayview relates that his wife’s recent purchase of a new pair of standard flat bedsheets had washing instructions which advised “turning the sheets inside out to wash. Today I saw the sheets on the clothes line,washed. I don’t know how she achieved this.”
Making a case for not throwing out your treadmill (C8),Susan Bradley of Eltham (Vic) says she “purchased a treadmill some years ago and,like many,only used it for a few weeks. It languished in the corner of the spare room,but it didn’t go off,it didn’t go mouldy,it didn’t even sulk,and when I decided recently to get a little fitter,it was waiting,ready for me.”
Dave Lewington of Heathcote also thinks we are being unfair to treadmills (C8). “I regularly exercise on a treadmill at the cardiology clinic for my heart stress test. Every three years is regular,isn’t it?”
Years ago,Susie Junankar of Kingsford “was sitting at an outside table having a coffee in Newtown,when a man running past,paused long enough to pick up my teaspoon (C8) from the coffee cup and then continued running with the spoon. I’m still puzzling over that.” Random spoon collector? Had just seenThe Matrix and wanted to test the “There is no spoon” hypothesis? Granny has her own theory about the fate of that teaspoon which involves a bit of bending and quite a lot of heat.
“How I miss the days when I could show off my (limited) knowledge of Greek when a new COVID variant was in the offing,” says Richard Murnane of Hornsby. “Now they sound more like J-Pop or K-Pop band names,and frankly I’m too old for that kind of thing.”
Lyn Langtry of East Ryde reports that her “neighbour’s lawn is beset by bandicoot burrowing most nights. She has taken evasive action to no avail. No neighbouring lawns receive the same nocturnal nuisance. Any ideas on why,and how to deter them in an ecologically friendly way?”
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