This was bound to happen
“Outward Bound Australia is celebrating its 70th anniversary and as part of the celebrations last Sunday about 70 former students took a cruise on the Hawkesbury River to the site of the former Outward Bound school at Fishermans Point and nearby Bar Island,” said Bensville’s Ken Bergin. “With such a diverse group, it wasn’t surprising there were some Column 8 guys on board. I saw Meri Will and Seppo Ranki. This just goes to show that Grandma is always there, and rightly so!”
Balmain’s Alastair Wilson claims that Peter Cowan “did not need to go to England to find Effingham Street (C8)”. “There’s one in Mosman.”
This was confirmed by Warren Mitchell of that circle, who stated: “I expect any of those cursed hams who dare to come too close to the croquet club to be scolded with a hammer”.
Jack Dikian, who still lives in Mosman, wonders: “Is it just me? It seems almost impossible to stop people complaining about capital gains tax breaks and negative practices when they’re holding a $9 coffee, wearing gym clothes they’ve never exercised in, and sitting ten feet from one of the country’s best beaches. I’m talking about my wife.”
“My Yorkshire-born grandmother also used the term ‘sunbeams’ (C8) when putting unused cutlery back into her drawer after a meal,” says Louise Watson from Canberra (ACT). “The daughter of a poor tenant farmer, she grew up on a large farmland and had seven children before marrying a union organizer and continuing to live in grinding poverty even after emigrating to this ‘working man’s paradise’ in 1911. After working all day in a smoky kitchen to put food on the table, perhaps she needed to seek joy wherever she could find it, so she gave a happy sigh of ‘my rays of sunshine’ as she stroked some clean cutlery. Before she started doing the laundry.”
The Fiat Bambino (C8) is having a moment. Here’s Ruth Magoffin from Cheltenham: “Walking through Paris I witnessed the advantage of having a micro car. Two men took a Fiat Bambino and carefully placed it in the only small parking space available.” Jonty Grinter, from Katoomba, had a friend in 1960s London who “made a large, silver-painted wooden key and stuck it to his back and regularly took it around Trafalgar Square for tourists to photograph”.
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