Only Australians of a certain age will get this but “you can’t impress me, I’ve been to Constantinople, too”

youtu.be/EVOIg_lHRzk

“… I never could get the hang of Thursdays…”

We should light fork handles in his memory…

Sorry, autocorrect insisted on “it’s” over “its” and I posted before I noticed it

I can’t help thinking that they’re still fuming that Brexit (in particular it’s “let’s go back to the Empire and pretend nothing happened to the Commonwealth’s industry after 1973” selling point) didn’t kick start the Leyland Force 7 back into production…

www.goodwood.com/grr/road/new...

Your description rang a bell, so I looked and found a White Wings ‘Instant Breakfast’ on Trove:

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/ar...

IIRC there was an unwritten rule that the reason for Maggie’s vagueness was never specified: Geoffrey Atherden apparently based it on his and his friends’ experiences with ageing parents… apparently stopping a funeral cortège at a fruit vendor actually happened…

I’ve been on both sides: like you, absolutely no memory of ‘Gambler’… but, a decade or so ago, an acquaintance of mine wrote an article about this sort of thing and cited The Bureau’s ‘Only for Sheep’ as an unknown song and I was “like, that was one of my first singles!… still on my playlists!…”