A valued contribution to last week’s tirade about Victoria’s Ocean Road walking ‘trail’ which would be more Australian as a ‘track’ with Brad H of the Department of Defence cursorily encapsulating the commonest commentaries the controversy it caused.
“You’ve tackled the long held point of conjecture of track versus trail,” the vigilant Brad vigilated.
“Whilst I walked the Kokoda Trail (mid ‘80s) I now feel compelled to refer back to my trek as “I walked the Kokoda Track,” he confessed.
“It is not an easy transition”.
According to Brad the challenge is to avoid the discomfort of having to change from trail to track.
”It could be a track, It could be a trail. It could be a trek,” he gambled.
“Why not compromise and call it a mixture of all of them?”
“The Great Ocean Treick” he offered. “That’ll catch on!”
Not quite what we had in mind Brad, but better than Trump’s Trail so a Popular PS-sssst! Pack of Paraphernalia coming your way as our way of saying thanks.
Lost letter a winner?
Staying in Victoria now where a missing letter from one word in a headline can commit readers to feel confounded and confused as they consider what the completed words could be.
So it was during the past week when the frantically flat-out spokespersons speaking on behalf of the State’s health heroes were reported on a website under a headline in which the word ‘Victoria’ appeared a vowel short.
The headline read thus: “Information about vaccination centres in Victori”
PS-sssst ! hopes with the hopest of hopes that the unintended appearance of ‘Victori’ doesn’t encourage the prevailing pandemic to presume it can produce its own powerful position by putting up a ‘victory’ of its own!
Farmers’ mother
To NSW now where necessity has shown itself to be the mother of invention and the Public Service the beneficiary of a loving State mum offering the warmth and sweetness only a mother can deliver.
Faced with farms across the State unable to find the farmhands needed to harvest a booming growing season, parts of the NSW public service have been offered a week of paid leave to try their hands at farming and help support the State’s primary industry.
The State’s Minister for Regions offered the working holiday to 4,500 PS staff members willing to volunteer with any harvest, anywhere in the State; “from harvesting blueberries in Coffs Harbour, oranges and table grapes in the Riverina and Murray, to cherries in the Central West or helping bring in a bumper grain harvest,” the Minister said.
Details can be found in the Help Harvest NSW website at this link.
Picking up ‘The Pick-up’
To Rama Gaind’s generous giveaway now with the family fun book The Pick Up by Fiona Harris and Mike McLeish on her table of freedom.
To become one of two new owners of The Pick Up, one needed only to answer Rama’s quiz question by naming its popular prequel and then be drawn from the PS News Barrel of Booty where the prize is waiting.
The answer to Rama’s riddle is “The Drop-off “ and the first two correct answers belonged to Susan E of the Commonwealth Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment and Stacey H from Queensland’s Department of Education.
Congratulations to Susan and Stacey and thanks to everyone who took part. The books will be on their way soon.
For another chance to rifle Rama’s riches simply visit her review of the DVD Senior Moment at this PS News link and follow her instructions and/or visit her review of the Book Sort Your Money Out & Get Invested at this link and try your luck a second time.
It’s free, it’s fun and you have to be in it to win it!
Good luck to everyone who does.
Philomena filler!
And finally, another fine finish at the hands of Dame Philomena S of the Victorian Department of Families, Fairness and Housing whose service to the mental health of PS News readers is second only to the contribution made by the ultra-popular cartoonist extraordinaire Ted Quinlan whose art out of knowing where to draw a limit is legendary.
Philomena’s philosophical footnote for the week is forged for a family facing a late night phone call.
“There are worse things than having a phone go off with a wrong number at 3 O’Clock in the morning,” the wise and bleary-eyed Philomena advises.
“It could be a right number!” she warned.
How true!
Till next week…..
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