Laura Hansen of Naremburn has gone green: “I have recently discovered a bag of old plastic bags that for some reason were treasured, but it’s now time to clear them out. Has anyone else recently used a 1987 Harrods (Knightsbridge, London) shopping bag for their non-rrecyclable rubbish-bin liner? Mind you, it was obviously made from very tough plastic to still be in one piece in the cupboard. And it worries me to think how long it will take for it to break down. The thin plastic bags that we used to get in supermarkets have turned to ash-like material when stored for one year!” This could be a mistake. Granny noticed the “Green Harrods classic bag” on eBay going for a respectable $13 (or four payments of $3.25).
“After reading Richard Glover’s home delivery item in Saturday’s Herald, I was reminded of the ‘Watkins Man’”, writes Amanda Donlan of Cammeray. “In the mid ’60s, he appeared regularly in the driveway of our Gordon home in his little mint-green Morris that was filled with, from memory, pharmaceuticals and cleaning products. Was his name Mr Watkins? Was that a brand name of his wares? Can anyone enlighten me? Richard?”
Lin Sinton of Killarney Heights didn’t feel a thing: “Fortunately for me, having topped the SAS [Special Air Service] selection course and imposed rigorous self-discipline since, the COVID needle held no terrors for me. The nurse approached, I bared my arm, then everything went blank. When I woke up on the floor, it was all over. There is nothing to fear.” Still on the jab, Heather Lindsay of Woonona says: “There has been confusion as to who receives the first vaccines in Australia but the CEO of IRT Group, Illawarra made it clear this morning: ‘The odd 300 residents’.”
“To answer Brian Peck (C8), I experienced a single whammy some years ago,” says Mark Griffiths of Haberfield. “But it was so inconsequential I don’t remember much about it.”
Paul Duncan of Leura writes: “An advertisement appeared in our local paper, The Blue Mountains
Gazette, which read: ‘Large bedroom available, share with two others, prefer female.’ Perhaps there’s a local accommodation shortage due to refugees fleeing the pandemic in Sydney or, possibly, it’s just a way to meet new friends.”
