Pollie advice from the grave

Not much has changed in six decades

FORMER proof reader at The Chronicle of the 1950s contacted Whispers reminiscing about a letter to the editor he had proof read from a Mrs Rowe, widow of a Toowoomba doctor, who lived in Phillip St.

“I’ve never forgotten that letter, it was only one sentence,” the octogenarian said.

“The letter simply said: ‘I wish that politicians would stop playing politics and get on with government’.”

Given the goings on in Canberra this week, our operative said Mrs Rowe’s sentiments still hit the mark 60 years on.

CLUNK HAD RING TO IT

WILSONTON lady was lamenting for some months the loss of an earring, one of a pair that her sister had brought her back from Paris.

After a search through the house proved fruitless, she had resigned to the fact that she would never again wear the matching set.

However, months after the earring went missing she was vacuuming her car when she heard a “clunk” and an object lodged in the vacuum hose.

Closer inspection revealed the item to in fact be the missing earring.

Now she happily wears her earrings and tells one and all that they come from Paris.

POOR TASTE

CHAP known for his fussy eating habits joined a group of diners at an inner-city Toowoomba restaurant one night this week for a smorgasbord of Asian fare.

Realising our man’s lack of knowledge in matters cuisine, the lass seated next to him offered him a treat and asked what he thought of it.

After taking a small bite, the lad said he thought it was tasty.

“What is it?” he asked, chewing the bite while holding the remainder in his hand.

Told it was Tofu, he suddenly lost his appetite for the treat and discarded the remainder.

SUPPLY AND DEMAND

COUPLE reside in a Toowoomba retirement village where the good wife has taken to rationing her husband’s supply of beer.

To this end, she buys cartons of his favoured drop when it’s on special and stores them at their son’s Newtown home to stockpile as she rations supply to her husband by six packs at a time.

Fed up with the regular visits to her son’s home for beer rations which interrupted her busy schedule of tennis and cards functions, and noting her husband had slowed his intake of beverages of late, she decided to take two cartons from the stockpile back to their digs at the retirement village.

However, she has since reverted to her former schedule of supply and demand after she found her husband had emptied the whole two cartons (that’s 48 stubbies) in just four or five afternoons.

RUPEE OR NOT RUPEE

NORTH Toowoomba woman has vowed to better keep up with the world’s news after suffering a financial loss this week.

She had had in her possession for some time a wad of Indian rupee to the value of about $150 Australian and so this week decided to exchange the currency and treat herself to a gift courtesy of the windfall.

However, it was only on attending her bank that she learned that the Indian government, in a counter corruption move, had banned the use of Rs500 and Rs1000 notes in November 2016.

The Indian government had since issued new Rs500 and Rs2000 denomination notes but alas our lady’s notes were out of date.

SIGNS OF THE TIMES

MANY of the Indian-born residents who have migrated to Toowoomba originate from the Kerala province in southern India which has been devastated by floods in recent weeks.

At a parish church in Toowoomba last Sunday, a parish priest who also hails from Kerala led the congregation in praying for rain for the drought affected areas of Queensland, in particular the Darling Downs, while at the same time praying for the rain to stop in Kerala.