Yeah, the memory kicks in, Bill. Although the names etc are rather local, meaning little to those of us outside Oz. So I get the basic meaning, but not the specifics. Not really something you can do anything about…
Doug
> On Jun 14, 2017, at 3:59 AM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Shares the delight well!
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> Andrew
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> On 14 June 2017 at 17:57, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
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>> cheers Bill you getting a whole collection of these memories -could be a
>> book here!!
>>
>> cheers P
>>
>>
>>
>> On 14/06/2017 10:31, Bill Wootton wrote:
>>
>>> Taking it in turns
>>> to run a kick's length ahead,
>>> brother Dan and I
>>> short-passed and marked
>>> the brand new ripe red leather Sherrin
>>> all the way up Robinhood Road.
>>>
>>> Neither of us had dared to believe
>>> the prize we'd won for filling out a coupon
>>> to say why we liked White Wings flour
>>> in ten words or less
>>> would be an actual footy.
>>> Plastic, we assumed.
>>>
>>> But Jack O'Sullivan the grocer
>>> had calmly reached beneath the till
>>> and presented us with
>>> real leather and laces.
>>> We each signed
>>> and shot out the door.
>>>
>>> Turning right on the home stretch
>>> down Wallis Avenue,
>>> Dan positioned himself to be
>>> the receiver outside our house
>>> so he could be the first
>>> to rush in and show Mum.
>>>
>>> bw
>>>
>>
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