The retsina diet will have to wait
“A large study published this week in a prestigious American medical journal shows a modest reduction in cancers in those following a Mediterranean diet,” notes Chris Commens of Rosebery. “The 20-plus authors are headed up by Immaculada Aguilera-Buenosvinos PhD. Despite that encouraging surname, sadly vino has been excluded from the study. I’ll keep sipping cautiously.”
“Reading Robert French’s item [C8], took me back to the dizzy heights above Menton,” writes Nanette Danks of Riverview. “We visited the same cemetery. My architect husband and I were on a mission to pay our respects to the Swiss/French modernist architect Le Corbusier. With great effort and luck, we were able to find his grave. We were sadly unaware William Webb Ellis lay nearby. As we stared out onto the glistening sea, we spoke with a paraglider who floated by. It is indeed a cemetery, well on the way to heaven.”
“I knew William Webb Ellis picked up the ball and ran with it, but I didn’t know he grounded it in France,” says Jim Dewar of Davistown. “Must have been quite a conversion!”
David Williams of Port Macquarie is “surprised that no one has yet mentioned the Mornington Peninsula grave, on the side of a hill overlooking Port Phillip Bay, where the thoughtful deceased had arranged their tombstone in the form of a stone sofa, facing the bay. Truly a tomb with a view, and a great one.”
“A cup of tea made for you by someone else invariably tastes better, and is more enjoyable, than one made for yourself,” ponders Kerry Kyriacou of Strathfield. “A lot like the tomato sandwich featured in C8. I don’t have an explanation; I know that brewing tea is not a science. I even read George Orwell’s essay, A Nice Cup of Tea, where he gives a list of 11 points on the process.”
And Gerry Wagemans of Ryde needs to get himself to a Tokyo 7-Eleven while he deals with his hankerings: “Reading about the tomato [and salt] sandwich, I wonder if I am expecting as I have developed a craving for strawberry sandwiches.”
Thoughts on the Tesla logo (C8), are sparking up, with Helen Croaker of Canberra agreeing with Jen Brown’s fallopian theory, “except I’ve always seen it as an IUD”. All Corinne Johnston of Gymea Bay sees in the Amazon/Prime logo is a sperm. “Not sure what Dr Freud would make of that!”
No attachments, please.
Include name, suburb and daytime phone.
