source : the age
More wine issues ( C8 ), this time Mickey Pragnell of Kiama:” My wife’s work group requested a bottle of bubbly for a celebration lunch at an outer Sydney bowlo. The waitress returned with a” plump beast” and began to attack the bottle with a corkscrew.
A nearby beach club offers” Low Tide, High Tide, or Tsunami” and says,” Speaking of clubs and liquor, one goes one better than just a small or large glass of wine.” We extend our gratitude to John McCartney of Mt. Coolum ( Qld ).
According to Stephanie Edwards of Leichhardt,” The Edwardian Police Minister is called Anthony Carbines.” ” I’m hoping the latest army has more cutting-edge technology.”
Robert Hosking of Paddington says,” I also recall Rob Venables ( C8 ).” ” I was with him at college, and of course, he sailed. His father, Hal, was a shipwright in Rose Bay, where he built the very attractive Stella folkboats (‘ The Volkswagen of the sea’ ), while Rob, himself, was into vintage motor vehicles like mine. Driving through the Cross in his adored 1920s Crossley is one storage. The names of those we have lost contact with in Column 8 and the Letters to the Editor are often a joy to read, and it’s always nice to see that they are still alive and well.
Regarding Garry P. Dalrymple’s rubber band surplus ( C8 ), Ashbury resident Peter Miniutti has a well-rounded theory:” Surely it’s not too much of a stretch of the imagination for Garry to create the world’s largest rubber band ball.” He was simply “roll on over to the next Monument by the Sea” with it. Does Earlwood to Bondi have a steep descent?
Brooke Walker, a C8 first-timer, collects them “until we have a critical mass ( as judged by ourselves ),” then transports them to one of the vegetable stalls in Hobart where they are reused to distribute their produce. Until they break, at least until a round market is established.
The University of New England Music Band, led by Geoffrey Briot of Stanmore, was primarily made up of individuals who had one or two native Armidale players in the middle of the 1960s. The band’s name was often changed to C8 by our chief Neil Steeper. We again became Johnny Dagg and the Dag-Rattlers thanks to a top-notch native trumpet player named John Dagg and as a show of support for nearby sheep farmers. Granny wonders if they’ve been together for the longer enough to create the ideal double-bill with The Stray Dags, a regular at Sussex Hotels.
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