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Aflame at the bottleneck

Warren Menteith, David Harrison, Nola Tucker, Margaret Grove, Paul Koff, Don Bain, Jim Stranger, Helen Nicol, Kerry Kyriacou

Michael Britt, Warren Menteith, Martin Field, Don Leayr, Alison Brooks, Odile Esmond-Morgan, John Ruffels, John Miller

Advertisement Could this be 2021’s Oliver Twist? Martin Field of Noosa Heads (Qld) reports that at breakfast, his five-year-old grandson asked, “Can I have another piece of toast with Vegemite, please? I’m having a growth spurt.” With apologies to Dorothy, Michael Britt of MacMasters Beach suggests that “a generation of baby-boomer engineers will attest that the preferred expression for a negligible quantity (C8) is ‘four-fifths of five-eighths of FA’. Derivation unknown, but I’d be delighted to hear suggestions.” Warren Menteith of Nyatnyatan (Bali) agrees that “three-fifths is very little, but three-fifths of five-eights is really bugger all!” With all the current hype about

Kerry Kyriacou, Rosemary Shephard, Margot McGregor, Christine Haines, Angus McLeod, Angela Williamson, Tony Livingstone-Thomas, Phil Armour,

Advertisement Having noticed that every house whose block runs north-south is advertised as either “north facing street frontage” or “north to rear gardens”, Kerry Kyriacou of Strathfield wonders if this is just a case of real estate agent spin or if there is “an ideal orientation for properties in Sydney? I trust one of your informed readers will enlighten me”. As an avowed yellow peach-lover (C8), Margot McGregor of Balgowlah has discovered through years of trial and error how to distinguish between the slipstones and clingstones before you buy them. “The slipstones have a small point on their bottoms, whereas clingstones are smooth all over. This way has always worked for me.” If by some chance the peach still has some stem attached to it, Tony Livingstone-Thomas of Taipei suggests “flipping the remaining piece of stem attached to the peach, and if it comes away easily it is a slipstone. If difficult, it is a clingstone.”

Jack Dikian, Ian Avila, Bill Wilkinson, Warren Menteith, Greg Oehm

Advertisement Having not had the opportunity to work from home during this COVID era, Jack Dikian of Mosman is interested to know where those working from home go to when they chuck a sickie . USB-C is great, writes Warren Menteith of Nyatnyatan (Bali). No more fumbling, cursing or damaged bits when plugging in your phone or whatever. Now a challenge to the tech boffins. Please do it on the other end of the cord and the adaptor. Everyone correctly identified the orange poles artwork (C8) as a memorial to the Light Horsemen at the appropriately named Light Horse Interchange on the M4. Congratulations! A few readers observed that the site is particularly significant as the Light Horse trained at nearby Wallgrove, some actually managed to appreciate the humour in the suggestions in John s item while others admitted to their own original confusion about the poles upon first seeing them, thinking they were unfinished electrical poles. Those who regularly pass the location lamented

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