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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. Con...

The Ghost of Christmas repast The Ghost of Christmas repast December 23, 2020 — 8.00pm Normal text size Advertisement Ralph Davis of Wahroonga thinks: "The Christmas turkey tradition (C8) is like the Australia Day lamb tradition – both dreamt up by hungry Aussie advertising executives," and Paul Keys of Cloud Creek says: "There were no turkeys for Christmas in the 1950s in my surrounds. Chicken if you had money and a slice of K.R. Darling Downs tinned ham for us." But others beg to differ. Alison Gyger of Sydney is 87 and definitely has memories of turkey as part of Christmas. "We picked ...

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.