“Reading any day’s Herald, it seems that just about everyone, except me, is organising a scam,” notes Ted Richards of Batemans Bay. “I just can’t think of a suitable topic for a scam. Any suggestions?”
“Speaking of Australia Post (C8), it has been announced that Milsons Point Post Office will permanently close on November 12, 2025,” reports Edward Loong. “In protest, a rally is planned for 1pm on Sunday September 14, to walk from the Greenway apartments to Kirribilli House. Perhaps C8 could kindly include this post to help save our Post Office from becoming a ghost office?”
These school punishments (C8) are really punishing. Michael Johnston of Corlette recalls that “the deputy headmaster at Fairfield Boys High School in the early ’70s had a golf bag full of canes and allowed you to choose your tormentor. I couldn’t discern any difference between the driver and the nine iron.”
“If any of my students needed to be disciplined, I would tell them my life story,” explains Peter Miniutti of Ashbury. “It would start by me saying ‘a long, long time ago, when I was very young, I was born’. After about five minutes of this, most begged me to stop and never played up in class again.”
“In my final year of primary school in 1973, I was given the great job (C8) of delivering crates of milk from Maroubra Junction Primary School to the infants department across Anzac Parade and back,” says Mark Berg of Caringbah South. “Crossing four lanes of traffic with no teacher supervision and no pedestrian crossing. One of our evil pastimes as milk monitors was to set aside a bottle of milk for a few days, then substitute it into a fresh crate. It was like Russian roulette as to which infant student would pick up the sour milk. Belated apologies for our sadistic actions.”
For Lyn Langtry of East Ryde, “being the bell ringer at Sydney Girls High School had added advantages. On occasion, I’d be able to make a quick exit to the gates where my father was waiting for me. A walk over to the SCG where the final session of the cricket ensued.”
“Whilst staying with Merilyn McClung in beautiful Forestville, I have been feeding the local birds – Kookaburras, magpies, butcher birds and more – cold, cooked chicken,” says Alison Brooks, usually of Hope Island (Qld). “Is this cannibalism?”
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