John de Meur of Cremorne Point claims: “The ball-topped columns (C8) that George Zivkovic talks about were a feature of the BBC Hardware chain stores. They were taken over by Bunnings in 2001. I have no idea what they were meant to signify, but they remind me of Wirth’s circus.” Martin Field of Kingscliff says: “As I recall, three balls used to be the sign of a pawnbroker, but I suggest that in Bunnings’ case it’s just a tri-ball symbol.”
“Many memories after watching the SBS documentary The Secret Life Of Lighthouses,” says Paul Stevens of North Epping. “No helicopter landings when I was stationed at Eddystone Lighthouse. All done by ship’s tender and winched up, through the waves if you were unlucky.”
Roger Lenehan of Eagle Heights (Qld) says: “Seeing the price Odille Esmonde-Morgan (C8) has to pay for her gluten-free crumpets, it just goes to prove that in no way is gluten, free.”
“A trolley (C8) in the back of your station wagon, Ingo, is most commendable,” says George Manojlovic of Mangerton. “My best effort was smuggling five friends into Wagga Wagga drive-in in the boot, covered with blankets on the back-seat floor of my Toyota Crown back in 1970. Worse still, I absent-mindedly drove off with the speaker still attached to the rear window. But I’ll bet I’m not Robinson Crusoe when it comes to that misadventure. Try telling that to the kids of today and they’ll ask you what a drive-in is.”
“Reading of the impending departure of a Sunrise co-host made me wonder if her contract contains a sunset clause,” contemplates Allan Gibson of Cherrybrook.
Even though we thought we’d already ceased letting our fingers do the walking (now they do the scrolling), Lionel Latoszek of Long Jetty has written in response to Richard Stewart: “I received a Wyong area phone book (C8) today with a retro cover image of a 1970s lady with an apron holding an old-style phone, which has an attached cord no less. The message on the cover is that, like everything else, the phone book is going digital and is now downloadable by QR code which is also on the cover. Richard, we might have just received the last printed phone books on the Central Coast.” Aaisha Slee of Mount Victoria received hers last week: “Unfortunately, it covers a different local area to mine.”
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