Brian and Penny Millett of Yass have fun a milestone immediately: “My spouse and I are very lucky to have reached our sixty fifth marriage ceremony anniversary and are conscious of how uncommon such longevity in a wedding really is,” writes Brian. “We’ve acquired congratulations from lots of the nice and well-known, together with Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II and likewise one from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. The cardboard from Mr Albanese was distinctive as he had used one in every of Scott Morrison’s outdated clean needs playing cards and pasted into it a personalised one from him. We recognize the want and likewise his frugality within the recycling of ScoMo’s misplaced needs.”
“About possums (C8), ours in Cremorne ate every little thing from parsley to marigolds and, in response to the native vet, had been answerable for the fleas on the canine,” says Ken Batten of Lake Macquarie. “Nothing would deter them. So we moved.”
Talking of shifting: “I’ve by no means regretted shifting to Brisbane in 2010,” writes Grant Agnew of Coopers Plains (Qld). “One of many many delights of life right here is the native possum-control system. It’s dependable, renewable, natural, Australian-made and accessible with out provide chain issues. It makes no noise and is even cheaper than solar energy. So that you simply by no means have to fret about it, you retain it within the roof. I’ve even given mine a non-discriminatory title: Albertoralberta. She or he is a carpet snake.”
Valerie Bray of East Killara doesn’t find out about possums “however I hung a big teddy bear on the fence subsequent to my veggie backyard a yr in the past and it positively retains the comb turkeys away”.
“I might need missed some plot whereas watching High Gun: Maverick, however I feel they had been coaching at Edwards Air Power Base in California,” says Jeff Stanton of Strathfield. “They got per week to finish the mission together with coaching and transport. They shipped out of San Diego on a service. If the service travelled at 25 knots for 3 days, they might be 1800 nautical miles from San Diego. The goal was in snow-covered mountains with pine forests. I feel they attacked Canada.”
Whereas John Perry of Enmore suggests, “One strategy to decide if an concept has an opportunity of passing the pub check (C8) is to throw it within the assume tank and see if it floats”, Allan Gibson of Cherrybrook thinks, “The go mark has been set at a excessive bar.”
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