The perils of being a regular contributor to C8. "I never considered C8 would fit into the social media category until today when I received a phone call from a co-worker from the 1980s. After speaking with Mike, whom I had not heard from for well over 20 years, I discovered he is now driving iron ore trains in the Pilbara. Turns out he is a FIFO worker spending half his time in Sydney and on Friday on return from Port Headland picked up the Herald, saw my name in C8 and tracked me down using White Pages." Allan Gibson, Cherrybrook.
Currently on holidays and it would be hard for me to be further from my home in Penrith, reports Garry Champion. "I'm sitting in a hotel room in the centre of Reykjavik and I'm in need of help. [C8: sounds like the start of an email scam.] With a little time to spare I thought I would go online and have a crack at the SMH quick crossword. I was going well until 9 across. 'Iceland's capital'? Anyone?"
"Lifting a packet of winter roasting vegetables from the freezer section at the supermarket, I noticed they were 'packed in the United Kingdom from local and imported ingredients'. Strange?" Noela Fisher of Chatswood West.
Richard Stewart is bored with the 7pm ABC News background (C8 Friday). "I, too, am bored with a background when an item has something to do with a change in bank interest rates. Invariably the shot is of the Reserve Bank in Martin Place. When next there is an item on interest rates, if a new background not showing that bank is used, I'll make a donation to this column's staff superannuation fighting fund 'without reservation'." Paul Hunt, Engadine.
While on the ABC, could you get them to stop showing lawn bowlers every time anything about pensioners comes up, writes David Beames, Kirrawee. "Bowls is a 'young persons game that older people can also play'."
Suzanne Walker, of Darling Point, enjoyed the article about school uniform in 2017 (SMH June 2). "I remember kneeling to have my skirt length checked in 1948 when I started secondary school in England. We were in trouble because the New Look had come in the year before and we all wanted to wear our skirts down to mid-calf or even longer."
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