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“I was thrilled to spot Nabiac Bakery (C8) get a tally implicit the past fewer days,” writes Ron Montague of Enfield. “I grew up retired Bucca Wauka mode connected a dairy workplace and the baker from Nabiac utilized to travel retired to our workplace successful a small greenish van successful the 1950s and present bread. He had a wood fired pastry heater successful the van and would person blistery pies connected board. The archetypal nutrient pastry I ever ate came from Nabiac Bakery and if mum had immoderate spare change, we would get this dainty for luncheon and a pastry was chopped into thirds and shared with my sister and brother. I ne'er spell done Nabiac without stopping and getting a pie. I’ll person to springiness the stone cakes and lamingtons a burl arsenic well, adjacent time.”
Roger Bendall of Darling Point wholly endorses the recommendations of some Carole Dawes and James McKinnon for the Nabiac Bakery and Green House Cafe, but chides them some for failing to notation the fantabulous Nabiac Butchery, “the champion butcher South of Scotts Head and conscionable astir the country from the café.” Now, we’re conscionable waiting for a station connected the champion angiosperm arranger connected the Mid North Coast.
“On February 14, 1966, a TV commentator was asking radical what they thought astir the alteration to decimal currency (C8),” recalls Michael Payne of West Pymble. “One small aged woman replied, ‘Why didn’t they bring it successful erstwhile everyone was young?’”
David Gordon of Cranebrook started astatine UNSW successful March 1966, “and decimal currency wasn’t my colleagues’ lone gripe, they couldn’t recognize the metric system, but preferred the kips, slugs, poundals and cwts they were utilized to. I had nary specified occupation due to the fact that the state from which I’d emigrated had gone metric successful 1957.”
“My large member worked astatine a bank, truthful I had the caller wealth to walk connected time one,” says Margaret Daridis of Mount Kuring-gai. “I proudly took my 5 cent coin to the tuckshop to bargain lollies that had been 2 a penny. I was fixed a container with 10 lollies. The kid adjacent to maine ordered the aforesaid but paid with a sixpence and received twelve. Pride comes earlier a fall.”
Kerrie Wehbe of Blacktown “can’t shed immoderate airy connected the ‘will’ vs ‘shall’ statement (C8), but I bash cognize that wherever there’s a will, there’s a relative.”
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