“Now that spring is here, I’ve been keeping track of the various local fêtes and fairs with the allure of trash, treasure and pre loved bric-a-brac,” writes Paul Taylor of Winston Hills. “At last count, I can look forward to a nursing home jumble sale, a school white elephant and a church charity bazaar, and the various charity market stalls in carparks across the district. There’s one, though, that has caught my eye – the Ugg Boot Car Boot Sale. I’ll be hotfooting there!”
“I’ve thought of a way to avoid AI killing us all (C8),” claims Alan Phillips of Mosman. “Simple. Feed it with the last 50 years of Column 8 to train on. That will drive it mad, and it will terminate itself.”
As long as it contains this offering from Merilyn McClung of Forestville: “My young granddaughter asked why, when a building is finished, it is still called a building? She wondered if C8-ers might know.”
“The kids liked the Bee Gees (C8), but I ran across Frank Sinatra in a bar in Honolulu in 1957,” says John Crowe of Cherrybrook. “We shared a couple of beers. He belied his reputation and was happy to yarn with a young unknown Australian.”
“The Mouseketeers were performing at the Sydney Stadium in Rushcutters Bay”, circa 1960, recalls Judy Klein of Double Bay. “At the end of the show, Annette Funicello looked directly at me, smiled and waved. I have never forgotten the thrill.”
“Elton John pressing one of his carnations into my hand in the ’70s was the tell that we’d one day marry,” remembers Suzanne Saunders of Jiggi. “Which we did, a million times in my head.”
“I can relate to Judy Archer (C8) and Mr Squiggle, but in a different way,” reckons Gary Lane of Milperra. “We were concerned about our very young daughter having terrible breath. After lots of brushing and repeated inspections, we noticed a green drainage. Thinking she had developed a serious disease, we ran to the doctor, and after much poking and prodding, he pulled a green Fuzzy-Felt from her nose. The smell was horrible, and to this day we wonder how she did not complain more. She has always been very stoic.”
John Weir needn’t worry about a One Nation campaign against whale migration (C8), assures Caz Willis of Bowral: “Whales are internationalists, and I’m pretty sure they were here first.”
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