“My sister Paula and I were playing Scrabble,” says Mary Anne Hingerty of Clovelly. “We drew tiles from the bag to determine who goes first and both drew an N, and put them back and tried again. Two E tiles the second time. We replaced them, muttering something about a low chance of that happening. On the third attempt we each drew an I! On the fourth try I drew A, so Paula was happy with her E (for some reason, she doesn’t like going first). We finally played the game, rather than doing the maths but thought that the chance of that happening three times must be very low. Unfortunately, we didn’t have the tiles to be inspired by ‘improbable’.”
“Having discovered I’m an accidental British citizen, I’m suddenly getting missives from the UK government, re how many pounds I’ll be saving on power bills for my (non-existent) properties over there,” reports Mickey Pragnell of Kiama. “Should I try for Andrew’s spot in the royal line of succession?”
Dave Williams of Port Macquarie can confirm that certain local phrases have gone international: “We hired a motor scooter on the lovely Greek Island of Samos. Seeking directions, we sought help from a local young woman, said directions included ‘go down there and chuck a uey (C8).’ She had heard our Aussie accents and had been hoping to chat, as she had spent a few very happy years in Australia and wanted to reminisce.”
More murder and, inevitably, more gullies (C8), courtesy of Kate Fraser of Scone who informs us that “on the Scone/Merriewa road, there is Murdering Hut Gully.”
Alan Garside of Raglan escalates the body count: “Geoff McNamara is right in that NSW does not have a Murdering Gully Road. We do have, however, four features named Murdering Gully, five Murdering Creeks and two Murdering Hut Creeks.”
“There’s a Dead Man’s Gully near Boggabri on the main highway into town,” advises Carmel Kenniff of Randwick. “Perhaps the murdered man from Murdered Man’s Gully” ended up there? There’s also a very shallow Deep Creek eight kilometres East of Narrabri. Both in NSW, of course.”
“The recent mentions by correspondents of Get Smart and the Cone of Silence (C8) has led to clips from the show coming into my social media feed,” notes Lisa Clarke of Watsons Bay. “I was a fan, but surely this must be the work of KAOS.”
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