Waiting for Big Nurse

Here’s a page turner from Martin Field of Noosa Heads (Qld): “In the waiting room of the dental clinic at Sunrise Beach this morning I expected to find ancient copies of Women’s Weekly and National Geographic . Instead, there was a pile of orange and white Penguin Classics, including The Great Gatsby , Pride and Prejudice , One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Shakespeare’s Sonnets . Classy.”

“Fifty years ago, my first task on early morning shift at the Maryborough Telephone Exchange (C8) was to check the local district manual lines, rung in a specific order,” says Lorraine Gammon of Tugun (Qld). “Using the mnemonic ‘Dead Men Rot And Smell Under Low Hedges’ proved effective in getting that correct. The place names are a mystery to me now but that sentence is ingrained.”

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