There was something missing over Easter for Coral Button of North Epping: “Scanning the Herald TV guide on Good Friday there was not a single Bible story to be seen. I was so looking forward to the possibility of yet again seeing actor Jeffrey Hunter portraying Jesus Christ with shaven armpits.”
Lesley Green of Castle Hill was also unimpressed: “Not one Easter Parade, Ten Commandments or Holiday Inn to name a few. Instead, we got Fifty Shades of Grey, Blockers and Nightmare on Elm Street. Hardly lovely Easter-type movies! Come on programmers, do better!”
“While walking with my wife along Parramatta Road on the weekend, a casual glance over the brick wall of the Bridge Road School in Camperdown revealed a puzzling sight – an aviary with five or six kookaburras perched inside,” reports Tony Tarplee of Newtown. “We wondered why are these birds in a cage in a school? Are they part of the education program? Perhaps they’re being rehabilitated. Or are they simply being kept as pets? We would love to know. Curiouser and curiouser.”
Bunty Handyside of Noosaville (Qld) “can relate to Peter Craig’s story about wine availability in Mount Isa (C8). In 1960, my parents and I were driving to Sydney from Darwin when we stopped overnight there and had dinner at the pub. My father requested a bottle of claret to have with our meal but was told very robustly ‘cook says we don’t have no carrots tonight’. Dad tried to explain but eventually gave up.”
“A few years ago we were in a remote part of NSW and the local pub had many beers but only two lonely bottles of wine in the fridge,” recalls Maggie Hamilton of North Sydney. “Looking to have a glass with dinner, we asked the price, $18. Seemed a bit steep, but we said ‘OK, two please’. Moments later two full bottles were presented. Bargain!”
Within all the chaos in the world right now, Patricia Farrar of Concord sees a marketing opportunity: “I can’t wait to see a restaurant open in Lakemba called The Strait of Hummus.”
“I wonder how many people remember the poems displayed in Sydney trams in the 1950s extolling the benefits of Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure,” writes David Morrison of Springwood. “I committed one to memory once, but it seemed better not to use it in an exam as an example of great poetry.”
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