Facing alliterative rivalry between the Mighty Ms and the High Cs

Apropos alliteration (Col8 this week), Mary Carde (nee Murray) of Parrearra says, “On the Sunshine Coast I americium consistently confused erstwhile trying to navigate my mode astir suburbs including Marcoola, Maroochydore, Mooloolaba, Mount Coolum, Moffat Beach, Minyama, Mudjimba, Mapleton, Montville, Maleny and Mountain Creek; commutes made each the much confounding arsenic I continually transverse the Maroochy River.” All those M towns available, Mary, yet you chose to unrecorded successful Parrearra? Surely immoderate mistake?

The Mighty Ms person a rival successful the High Cs. Shirley Connolly is pleased to accidental that, “In 1972 we moved to Campbelltown and my code was Mrs Connolly, Carrington Circuit, Campbelltown. Three years ago, we moved to a status colony astatine Camden. My code is present Mrs Connolly, Carrington Care, Camden. The main roadworthy done the colony is besides Carrington Circuit.”

It appears that Australian java is dilatory taking implicit the satellite – measuring retired our beingness successful java spoons, perhaps? Michael Britt of MacMasters Beach informs us, “Australians nary longer person to bid a latte macchiato successful Germany – level whites were being served past period from Munich successful the south, to Lingen successful the north.”

A fig of Col8ers person written successful astir their aboriginal VWs, which didn’t person substance gauges (Col8 this week), which sounds alternatively similar the late, large Spike Milligan – “We haven’t got a plan, truthful thing tin spell wrong” – doesn’t it? Don Leayr of Albury had specified a vehicle. “My archetypal car, a 1956 VW (small rear window, trafficator arms) had nary substance gauge. There was a reserve substance tank. When you ran retired of petrol, you simply utilized a ft to flip a lever that gave you an other fewer miles to find a work station, past flipped it backmost erstwhile filled. Back past it outgo maine 30 shillings to capable the tank.”

Following up connected tolls (Col8 this week), William Roberts of Randwick says: “The Tokyo-Osaka toll is bully worth astatine 27 cents per km compared with the Oresund Bridge toll astatine $6.60 per km from Copenhagen to Malmo.” You ne'er cognize erstwhile you’re well-off, bash you?

Ending with a small technological probe (Col8 isn’t each brew and skittles, you know), Viv Mackenzie of Port Hacking asks, “There person been galore fantastic photos of vivid Southern Lights connected the nett lately. A mates of friends person told maine they retrieve seeing the Aurora present successful Sydney successful the 1950s. Do others retrieve it?”

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