Lindsay Somerville of Lindfield was thinking about people’s names that are suburbs and came up with: “Terrey Hills, Rose Bay, Summer Hill and Russell Lea. Riverview and Normanhurst are a stretch. If Terrey Hills married Rose Bay, Rose could be Rose Hill. Do readers have other offerings? Does anyone with the real name of a suburb live in the suburb?” Surely, there’s a Winston in Winston Hills?
“I know where I stand,” declares Dick McCaughey of Bayview. “Yesterday, I asked my three-and-a-half-year-old granddaughter how was the family cat, Bob. She told me, ‘Bob is getting old and we will have to put him in the bin soon, like you Pa.’ Oh!”
Still on grandspawn, Gregory Abbott of Macleay Island (Qld) writes: “It did get up my nose to start but grandson Declan, 10, assured me it was the Lego technique of SNOT (Studs Not On Top) that gained him two blue ribbons, one being for overall champ, at the recent Tully Show. He picked it, not me.”
The search for clamato (C8) aficionados continues: “In 1990, we spent a fortnight in the delightful ski village of Kimberley, British Columbia,” recounts Allan Cowley of Balmain. “Our Canadian hosts extolled the virtue of their local beer, Kokanee, topped with clamato juice. One word: disgusting. Certainly, an acquired taste which, in two weeks, we couldn’t attain.”
They’re no clots: “On arrival at the blood bank for my volunteering shift, first Monday in August, I found a notice pinned to the door: ‘Blood Bank closed, for Bank Holiday’ (C8),” says Rosemary Seam of Kempsey. “Stretching the Australian love of a long weekend a bit far.”
Tim Glover of Rozelle respectfully submits the following for consideration: “Residents have been informed by Sydney Airport that there will shortly be opportunities for aircraft noise sharing on weekdays. Can’t wait.”
There are connections, and then there are connections: “A horse called Gangitano raced at Flemington last Saturday,” notes George Zivkovic of Northmead. “It is obviously named after notorious Alphonse Gangitano, the face of the underground organisation the Carlton Crew. Victoria seems to have an affinity with horse names of this kind. The best have been slightly more cryptic, though. Dry Creek Road, just out from Bonnie Doon, was where mobster Tony Mokbel once hid from the law, while Delfinia is the name of the café in the Athens suburb of Glyfada where Mokbel was arrested by narcotics officers.”
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