“Many years ago, I lived in a unit in Cooper Park in the eastern suburbs,” recalls Simon Dixon of Bolton Point. “There were many possums (C8) and my wife and I found them quite endearing and more entertaining to watch than TV at the time. Not so, my neighbours.
They obtained a trap and relocated the resultant captives to Parsley Bay which was then quite densely wooded. The local population of possums didn’t seem to diminish. My neighbours were puzzled, but one night came upon someone releasing a possum into Cooper Park.
Guess where they lived? It begins with P.” According to Stewart Martin of Mangerton, possum invasions are nothing: “On a recent weekend at Bream Beach in torrential rain, I awoke early to a kerfuffle. Sheltering in the hallway were four ducks and an Eastern Grey Kangaroo.
” Sounds like water on a duck’s back. Here’s a yarn from Marilyn Upton of Bathurst: “Reading in the Herald about chunky cardigans back in fashion, I have a couple of hand-knitted cardigans made by a firm called Purl One from the 1980s. Still wear them and receive much admiration when I do.
There is nothing like them in the shops today, it would be good if they did make a comeback. Does anyone remember Purl One?” Patricia Miller of Bexley has a sound theory regarding the indecipherable nature of sportspeak (C8) and suggests that the out-of-breath interviewees in question “don’t use punctuation.” On the other side of the mic, Les Shearman of Darlington caught an incis.
