Got your coven covered
“There’s a big metal plate covering a hole in the road near our house,” says Barbara Ryan from Caringbah South. “Originally it had three witches’ hats on it. Today there is a diverse collection of 10 pieces varying in size. Does this constitute a coven?”
Noting Bruce Hyland’s (C8) odd choice of a Cadillac for his Italian trip, Killara’s Peter Thornton recalls: “Growing up in Sydney I thought Italians must be really poor because they drove small cars like Fiat 500 Bambinos. Decades later, after driving and trying to park in Tuscan hill towns, I realized the folly of my thinking and realized the virtues of the microcar.”
Lilyfield’s Wayne Duncombe finds Bruce’s story about his disappearance in Italy highly improbable. “After all, don’t all roads lead to Rome?” Bob Doepel of Greenway (ACT) was thinking the same thing.
Mount Colah’s Murray Hutton agrees: “Yes, Chris Keane (C8), English is stupid.” “But still, through reflection, I managed to figure it out.”
Speaking of English (the King this time), Northmead’s George Zivkovic says: “On a recent interstate trip, I had lunch at a local bowling club with a corner library. Three of the four ‘rules’ seemed fair enough – ‘Our library operates on an honor system’, ‘Please always bring as many books as you can replace the ones you take with you’ and ‘Please do not turn back pages, always use bookmarks’. With this together, the fourth rule of ‘Novels to be’ Animated images of the Russian/French version of Tolstoy in English War and Peace instead it is left out by the bowls.
Lugarno’s Col Burns isn’t sure: “My childhood dog appreciated Shakespeare as much as Julian Neylan’s pet Toby (C8), but when he returned home from a mud-covered dip in the local (Hamlet’s) stream, I was sure to hear my mother shout, ‘Out, bloody Spot!’ He understood your command.”
“Following the President Poincare Parade with alliterative botanical street names (C8) reminded me of a street in Shoal Bay called the Flannel Flower Fairway,” says Rob Woof of South Hurstville. “Triple-barreled alliteration at its best.” Manly’s Enid Murphy “once lived in a modest ‘loft’ (split-level, read upwards) flat in Monte Carlo Villas, Monte Carlo Boulevard, Surfers Paradise. I could barely contain my glee whenever I was asked.”
“Wandering around Reigate, England, I came across Effingham Street,” writes Peter Cowan of Mount Keira. “How rude, I thought.”
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