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Andrew Brown of Bowling Alley Point “hit the big smoke to see my grandsons play soccer and was astounded to hear (twice) kids asking for a time qualification, as in: ‘How long until I go back on, Mum?’ ‘Just under 10 minutes’ ‘How many Blueys is that?’ ‘One and a bit’. On asking, it was explained how a Bluey episode is of eight minutes duration.”
“A Column 8 chortle puts me in a positive frame of mind, as it does Irene Wheatley (C8),” agrees Ian Falconer of Turramurra. “And then reading the letters pages, with their contributions from thoughtful, compassionate readers, assures me that our world is not such a bad place, and I can do my bit to make it even better.”
“I enjoyed telling my nephew about the recent council clean-up stories in C8,” writes Judy Archer of Hornsby. “He told me that his friend went to pick up a lawn mower during our local collection. He then realised that the engine was still warm. The owner came out, they both laughed and decided to finish mowing the lawn together. It was the start of a lovely friendship.”
This is not a bad shout from Ken Finlayson of East Corrimal: “Further to Janice’s remarks about omissions from the list of great Aussie movies (C8), I recall the pleasure of a visit to our farm out in the bush by a distant relative who, at that time, had been shortlisted for the support role of Buster in the ’57 movie The Shiralee, starring the great Peter Finch. Surprised this movie didn’t make the list.”
Duncan Allen of Stroud reports that “Lake Burley Griffin (C8) was definitely not filled around March 1963. The 1st Leichhardt Scouts tagged along with our Rover crew to the 1963 Rover Moot held in Canberra. We camped in the yet-to-be-filled bottom of the lake. I had to show our three Canberran grandsons the standard 8mm film I took, looking up at the lake walls still under construction, before they were convinced that Gramps wasn’t telling fibs.”
According to Colin Wright of Hong Kong, “filling started on September 20, 1963 and the lake reached its final water level on April 29, 1964. The opening ceremony was held by PM Robert Menzies in October 1964. Burley was Walter Burley Griffin’s middle name. It would have made more sense to name it Lake Griffin.”
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