Bob Yorston of Roseville informs us that his spouse, “Bev Lewis, grows grammas (C8) each summer time, and she or he cooks and freezes them – gramma pies and scones all of the 12 months. Anybody want seeds?” Bob additionally helpfully gives Bev’s “never-fail pastry” recipe. “Rub 4 ounces margarine into 2 cups self-raising flour and a pair of tablespoons sugar, stir in ½ cup milk – roll out. Earlier than placing the highest on the pie, don’t neglect to sprinkle some cinnamon onto the gramma.”
Unkle Cyril of East Corrimal nonetheless has his “lime-green polyester safari swimsuit (C8), with massive pointed collar and big flares, purchased from an op-shop about 30 years in the past. I nonetheless put on it when the event calls for, and pals have requested to borrow it just a few instances. In summer time, it’s like carrying an oven glove.”
For his contribution to the just-launched dialogue on rocket science (C8), Andrew Taubman of Queens Park quotes Oculus’ former chief know-how officer, John Carmack. “Rocket science has been mythologised all out of proportion to its true issue.” In an try and extra precisely replicate issue, Barry Riley of Woy Woy “means that ‘it’s not rocket science’ could possibly be changed by ‘it’s not quantum physics’.”
Kerry Kyriacou of Strathfield informs Jeffrey Huang that rocket scientists (C8) clearly don’t receives a commission sufficient these days. “In keeping with late evening TV advertorials they’re now designing pillows and mattresses. Catchphrase: ‘Designed by two NASA engineers’.”
Overlooking the classifications (C8), Anne Prepare dinner of Ermington finds American movie descriptions very useful. “Typically what they take into account a thriller, drama or horror I discover to be comedy.”
Speak of film classifications (C8) reminded Tom Meakin of Port Macquarie of “a time in (then) Rhodesia when my eldest brother took me to the flicks and tried to purchase a ticket for me to go to an M-rated film once I was about 12. When the ticket vendor questioned my age, he simply declared, ‘In fact he’s sufficiently old, he’s my brother’. So I used to be admitted.”
Bruce Satchwell of Carrara (Qld) greater than remembers Nola Scott’s windmills (C8).“Windlite wind generators had been bought by Quirks Victory Mild Firm in Bellevue Hill, and manufactured by Dunlite in South Australia from 1936. They had been broadly utilized in Australia and exported to the USA as much as 1970. My great-grandfather John Hesketh, Australia’s first Chief Electrical Engineer from 1903, inspired the usage of various power, and was instrumental in Australia’s first hydroelectric energy station in 1898 at Thargomindah, linked to an artesian bore.”
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