To my surprise I made my way through a whopping great list of errands in the city before lunch and am now a whole afternoon ahead of myself, much of which I plan to fritter away blogging. Here are the verbal high points of the morning:
-- Overheard in Adelaide Arcade, as two men deep in conversation passed me: ' ... so my other major problem is only a minor one.'
-- Seen before I had the chance to avert my gaze from the windowful of big fresh heaped rainbow-arrayed snowdrifts of fresh gelati, a sign under one variety of a delicate pale creamy-brown, indicating its flavour: 'Ferrero Rocher'. I drooled all the way back to the car.
-- Heard in the car on Radio National as I crossed the river, on a program about the endangered status of the mallee fowl: 'To all the foxes and feral cats around the place, these guys are just little Mars Bars on legs.'
Is using the Future Fund for housing, energy and infrastructure really
‘raiding Australia’s nest egg’?
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It’s unclear whether requiring the fund to prioritise certain kinds of
investments will lead to lower returns. There’s a bigger question – why
can’t the go...
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My not-my-real-uncle- Uncle Alan claimed to have overheard on a London bus, 'So there she was, stark naked in the Sistine Chapel'...
Instead of feeling for the endangered species, I feel very very hungry, between the ice-cream, and the mars bar image - must go and eat donuts now...
Tyaakian
That Mars Bar comment made my afternoon. And it definitely needed making. Thank you.
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