“The power has just come on after a 12-hour blackout due to the truly awful weather overnight,” writes Nola Tucker of Kiama. “Raging winds and heavy rain, nobody would’ve gone out, surely, but when I looked outside, there was my Herald on the steps. Just like the postman, the paper must get through. Thanks all round and I even got the Target word!”

Peter Reddel of Terrigal recalls that “in the ’50s, an American friend visiting my parents, mentioned going down to reception in a swank Sydney pub and asking for a comforter (C8). The receptionist firmly replied, ‘We are not that sort of hotel’.”

The Liberals aren’t the only ones distancing themselves from a certain hospitality company: “I, Meri Will (of Baulkham Hills), hereby disavow any connection with Meri Vale.”

Readers will no doubt be aware of the passing of our friend Joan Brown. We thank those who posted tributes, but the letters page had it covered. In wrapping up the week, Granny would like to revisit the colourful debate that followed a reader’s assertion that Joan and Jo Rainbow, also of Orange, were one and the same person. Joan: “Jo Rainbow and I are two separate people. Admittedly, she lives just around the corner from me, not far from a trendy shop called The White Place, but nowhere near the popular Green Lane.”

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