Pymble’s Bob Makinson notes that the Tasmanian devil is missing from the Gold Coast Zoo but thinks “they’re looking for this animal in all the wrong places. It would obviously be of great interest to Warner Bros Movie World.”
“Just for once, I’d like to highlight a little-known risk in the home and workplace,” reveals John Swanton of Coogee. “Standing on empty, elevated milk crates becomes dangerous as they deteriorate with age. The plastic becomes brittle and crumbles easily. Your mate broke his arm doing this, and you might as well cut your legs with a ribbon on hard pieces of plastic. Have a nice day guys.”
“Yesterday I was playing Lego with my five-year-old grandson when I remembered my old Meccano set,” writes N. Andrew McPherson of Tathra. “The only other person in the room of 11 who knew what I was talking about was my dear old mother (93) What?
The fence of higher education pranking (C8) seems to have taken a turn for the worse, with many offenses involving the pranking of students, something Warriewood’s Dennis Fardy knows all about: “At Drummond College UNE in 1979, I was away for a weekend playing rugby. When I came home, exhausted, I found my room full of rage.
Shout out to those parents of the cloth diaper era who kept those things out of the landfill. Brad Campbell of Redfern has memories of “the diaper pail in the laundry and the white squares being hit on the Hills Hoist. We started using them in 1985 and continued into the mid-1990s. Not with the same baby, of course. I still have a few squares left that are used regularly to clean and dry my bike. Better than little value for money and exceptions.” Ruth Saunders of Dulwich Hill says, “my son was born at the end of the cloth nappy era and so his never wore out. They lasted us as wipes for over 30 years. I almost cried as I finally threw away the last one.”
Corinne Johnston of Gymea Bay says “the mention of nappy pails and cloth nappies made me realize my ‘nappy stick’ (used to soak nappies in their sanitiser pails) is almost 46 years old and is still being used for other cloth soaking purposes”.
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