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BURNHAM — Firefighters from Burnham Fire Co, Yeagertown Fire Co, Chief Logan Fire Co, Fame EMS and Local Fire Police were called to 405 First Ave Burnham around 11:15 p.m. Thursday evening for smoke from a house. Crews arrived on scene to find visible fire in the basement and first floor. As crews were making […]
No pockets, no sympathy Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement Ted Richards of Batemans Bay answers the call for popular names for pre-decimal currency (C8) with “browns (pennies), bob or deener (one shilling), two-bob (two shillings, as in silly as a two-bob watch), dollar or possibly crown (five shillings), spin (five pound note), brick (10 pound note). A 20-pound note was a small fortune and no one I knew had ever seen one”. As a young bank teller in the days before decimal currency (C8), Frank Maundrell of Nundle notes there were “lots of names for ‘the cash’, most unprintable...
Advertisement "Was it just me, or did the New Year's Eve fireworks starbursts over the Sydney Harbour Bridge resemble the coronavirus?" asks Ron Schaffer of Bellevue Hill. Garry Champion of Jamisontown attempts to make sense of the uproar over his Christmas decoration (C8) tale. "Let me get this right. I can buy hot cross buns before January 6th but I shouldn't take down my Christmas decorations? I'm perplexed." "If it's any consolation Garry, 'my mother' said it was 'bad luck' to leave the decorations (C8) up after the 12th night, so you, and we, are probably fine this year," Robert Hosking...