Lilian Andrew of Mosman “was surprised to learn that Australians didn’t skip the maypole as children. We would take the three-legged stool, the pole from the Ewbank, crepe-paper strips for ribbons and, with a few friends, entertain the local streets with our singing and dancing. Great fun in a Lancashire mill town in the ’50s. Wait ’til they hear what we did around November 5th.” While this may be the case, Granny definitely can recall locally spotting the odd morris dancer.
“About 15 years ago I put a large sofa out for collection (C8),” says Chris Moon of Katoomba. “It disappeared quickly and I forgot about it until about two years later, when a storm brought down a tree in Katoomba golf course with my old sofa in the canopy. Other items indicated that homeless youths had used it to make a comfortable bedroom with million-dollar views.”
For other uses of the Herald (C8), one could always check the source, reckons Geoff Carey of Pagewood: “My dad ‘Strawb’ worked on the presses at the old Herald building in Ultimo. There, the workers would fashion hats from the Herald to protect them from ink spray. The Sun was too small, so you got that pirate hat look, but with the Herald broadsheet you got a double headband, and that pirate peak neatly tucked over to make a bowl shape.”
If a return to number-plate slogans (C8) is on the cards, the powers that be could do worse than check out our forum. John Perry of Newtown steps up: “Perhaps they could pinch ideas from the New Zealand tourism board via Flight of the Conchords: ‘NSW – Better Than Old South Wales’ or ‘NSW – Don’t Expect Too Much and You’ll Love It’.” Andrew Cohen of Glebe gets real with “N$W – The Real E$tate.”
Switching state lines, Peter Waterman of Griffith (ACT) thinks that “it’s Canberra that needs a snappy slogan and, given the city is the roundabout capital of Australia, as well as often being unfairly labelled as a dull place, a possible slogan could be ‘ACT – Cool in a Roundabout Way’.”
We’re saddened to report on the passing of our friend Ellen Kassel of Collaroy, who readers may recall was regaling us just a matter of days ago with her tale of copious grandparents, both great and great-great. She will be greatly missed. Go well, E of C.
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