Fresh out of school in the 1960s, Brian Blunt of Kensington joined the public service, where one of the first things he was taught by the old hands was “that I should start work slowly on Monday morning, then increase my creativity (C8) tempo progressively up till lunchtime on Wednesday. After lunch, I should reverse the process so that I was completely relaxed again by go-home time on Friday. I guess this correlates to warnings we used to be given to avoid buying a car or other product made on Monday or Friday.”
Don Bain of Port Macquarie received a book on his 10th birthday which “carried…
