Who could have guessed days ago when C8 started on parfait glasses, that the discussion would morph into spiders (the drink), and it would turn out that spiders (the drink) have more spokes than a Darwin\u2019s bark spider\u2019s (the animal) web? (For any nervous Northern Territorians, Darwin here refers to Charles, not your city, the spider lives in Madagascar.)<\/p>\n
Graeme Finn of Campsie reports, \u201cI have made a variation of the spider using cider, which I call an \u2018Old Lady\u2019, as in \u2018There was an old lady who swallowed a spider, that wriggled and jiggled and tickled in cider\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
Even more: John Lees of Castlecrag says, \u201cI grew up in Eugowra in the central west and in the 1950s that drink C8 calls a spider was called a \u2018bodgie blood\u2019.\u201d Diligent investigation by C8 shows that, yes, \u201cbodgie blood\u201d is a real thing, and there is also \u201cwidgie blood\u201d, made from lime cordial and cola.<\/p>\n
Stepping back a moment to parfait glasses, Carole Dawes of Randwick suggests, \u201cIf anyone needs another purpose for them: a prawn cocktail with shredded iceberg lettuce and home-made cocktail sauce with a hint of Worcestershire sauce.\u201d <\/p>\n
Then again to meetings, Adela Parkes of Boat Harbour remembers, \u201cI was at Sydney Airport when I was approached by a woman who called me by my maiden name. It was my high school Latin teacher. Nothing unusual except I was 60 years old and looked nothing like my teenage self. As someone who doesn\u2019t even recognise people I see regularly, I am awed by that skill.\u201d<\/p>\n
Steve Hulbert of West Kempsey adds, \u201cLast June, I was sitting in a pub in London and the patron at the next table asked in an Aussie accent to borrow a chair. He turned out to be an old schoolmate of one of my cousins, but they had lost contact. I took a selfie with him, sent it straight away to my cousin, asking if my cousin knew who it was \u2013 an almost immediate response, while we were still there, naming the stranger, lead to them being reconnected.\u201d <\/p>\n
Regarding Stewart Martin\u2019s sad tale of losing his keys and then his car (C8 Wednesday), Allan Gibson of Cherrybrook wonders if \u201cNext time Martin enters any of the stores he had checked with, will he be asked, \u2018Do you know where you parked your car, or did you walk?\u2019\u201d C8\u2019s reach is far and wide, but doubts it is that specific.<\/p>\n
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