“The sight of bananas bearing indicators describing them as 100 per cent Australian obtained me questioning what the alternate options is likely to be,” writes Sue Threlfall of Minto. “Do producers import banana pulp from abroad and package deal it on the market in regionally made skins? Or, maybe, regionally grown banana pulp is shipped offshore to be packed into skins by decrease paid staff after which returned to Australia on the market.”
John Moyse of Dora Creek is equally interested in sure grocery gross sales discuss: “There’s a product referred to as Chilly Pressed Uncooked Milk on sale. I’m questioning what traumatic course of the cow may undergo to supply this milk.”
“As somebody within the optical occupation, I’d prefer to guarantee your correspondent that though the highest line of the attention chart (C8) is, certainly, at the very least 10 instances smaller than any site visitors signal, it’s additionally at the very least 10 instances nearer,” declares Brett Jack of Bonnyrigg Heights. “So far as masking every eye to examine imaginative and prescient, I recommend he stroll across the native retailers with one eye closed, then think about what it could be like driving with no peripheral imaginative and prescient on one aspect. Not with my automotive!”
Mary Grocott of Barraba says her 84-year-old husband doesn’t have a selection about how he views the attention chart: “He’s solely obtained one eye.”
The college have knowledgeable Granny that Glyn Bradford (C8) was a particular exception when it got here to educating minus a tie: “Glyn, you have been fortunate,” reckons Warren Menteith of Bali. “In 1967, I used to be educating Phys Ed at Moree Excessive. I needed to come to work, and depart within the accepted method: costume shorts, lengthy socks, correct sneakers, collared shirt, tie and alter into the PE gear for classes. Making it extra onerous, I might educate classroom classes if a trainer was absent. Extra altering! A little bit of a bugger within the Moree summer time with no time for a bathe.”
The exact same yr whereas educating in Sydney, Peter Floyd of Mullumbimby was “sporting the required coat and tie when the principal chipped me for sporting desert boots as a substitute of black sneakers. Years later, I finished sporting ties when mine caught fireplace as I lent over a Bunsen burner.”
Russell Hill of Hobart recollects, “when Sydney bus drivers have been required to start out sporting ties, no one stated they have been for use across the neck; therefore they utilised them to carry up their pants.”
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