“My grandson loves a fun fact,” says Julian Neylan of Dulwich Hill. “So with Easter Sunday falling early this year, I asked him when’s the latest it can fall. He tells me it’s on Anzac Day and that 2038 is the next time it occurs. Which conjures the curious prospect of Christians observing the Easter Vigil then the Dawn Service, careful to avoid the Easter bunny doing its rounds, and on to their local for a bit of two-up, played with chocolate pennies, of course. He says the last time this happened was in 1943. Do any senior grannies remember?” Judging by responses on the Harbour Bridge crossing, it’s likely.
“Thelma Marks’ (C8) experience of crossing the bridge when it opened reminded me of a story my primary school teacher, Mrs Gentle, told of marching across the bridge with her school class, for its opening,” writes Wendy Illingworth of Kiama. “She said the children were made to march out of step in case the rhythm of in-step marching caused the bridge to collapse.”
Jill Golledge née Corner of Longueville has another fond memory of the revered Laurie Orchard (C8): “When testing my sight-reading and recorder playing skills for my final music exam at Wagga Wagga Teachers’ College in 1962, Mr Orchard commented wryly: ‘That’s a lovely tune, Miss Corner, but it’s not what’s on the paper’.”
“I’d rather think morality birds as opposed to Judas birds (C8) for the teals!” chirps Gail Grogan of Constitution Hill.
David Gibson of Crescent Head has another meat saga (C8) for your consumption: “I’ve come to the conclusion that whenever someone suggests that I eat the local ‘delicacy’ in a foreign country, it is shorthand for ‘this is the stuff we feed to silly foreigners to see how they react’. Trying to get my teeth through horse meat sushi, courteously ordered especially for me by my host, convinced me of that.”
And please remember the vegetarians: “So many C8-ers have contributed meaty recollections recently, that I remember my time living on Norfolk Island in the late 1970s,” says Judith Allison of Bexley. “I trawled the local equivalents of a greengrocer and, often, the only veggies available to ‘visitors’ were kumara, aged tomatoes and cucumbers. Anything else available was allocated to restaurants and hotels. A tad difficult for vegetarians. Canned food was expensive as it was infrequently shipped in via boat. I’m sure times have changed.”
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