Nola Tucker is blooming impressed: “How very clever of nature to produce all those lovely pink flannel flowers after the bushfires. Here in Kiama after all that smoke-affected heat last year, my garden produced the most amazing variety of weeds; none of them especially attractive like the Blue Mountains bonanza. However, if scientists are interested, they are most welcome to come and collect them.”
“Having lived in a number of properties, particularly Paddington terraces, with a number of orientations (C8), I can assure you that every orientation is ideal for something,” writes Robert Hosking (still) of Paddington. “South Facing: Cocktails in the back yard on lazy summer evenings; West Facing: Sunny mornings in the kitchen, drying sheets on the line, light all day; North Facing: Cool backyard in summer and warm bedrooms in winter; East facing: Generally the best fireworks views from the upper stories. An estate agent’s wonderland of positives!”
“Streetview is particularly handy for checking out accommodation (C8),” says Roger Epps of Armidale. “When locating a hotel in Queenstown, New Zealand that promoted lake views, Streetview showed what appeared to be a significant construction in progress across the road. We booked alternative accommodation and, sure enough, when arriving, for the premises that we originally considered, their lake view was no more.”
“I hear the WHO is undecided as to the definitive source of COVID-19. From what I’ve seen on checkout magazine covers, it has to be Meghan Markle!” asserts Don Bain of Port Macquarie.
Tom Owens of Leichhardt was recently riding on a bus from the city going to Balmain Wharf. “This guy gets on and says to the driver: ‘I see you’re going to Balmain Wharf.’ The bus driver says ‘Yep’. The guy then asks: ‘Is that near the water?’”
