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Advertisement The father of Warren Menteith of Nyatnyatan (Bali) was a primary school teacher, who had “the unerring ability to turn from the blackboard (C8) and hit a miscreant, supposedly sight unseen, with the chalk. Years later when I asked how he could do that, he said, “Easy, I wear glasses and the blackboard acted like a mirror on the edges of the specs.” “Well may you write a cheque on a cow (C8) but a student teacher of mine actually drew a diagram of a cow’s digestive system on one of our school’s Jersey cows,” writes Phil Armour of Yass. Something to ruminate on.

Advertisement When Fiona Moulds of Wangi Wangi was showing her son, who is in the Defence Force, around their new house building block, "he queried why it was known as a 'battle axe' block when a battle axe traditionally has two heads, as opposed to an 'axe' block which has only one head and more like the shape of the block". Having Googled pictures of battle axes, Fiona agrees with him, but wonders if some old military types know better. Cameron Brown of Lindfield has written with some sad news. "My father, John Barrie Brown, formerly of East Gosford, who was a regular contributor to Column ...