Seppo Ranki of Glenhaven stories: “A cousin has alerted me to the point Finland’s presidential loved ones has a new ‘First Puppy’ with an Australian relationship. It is a Tenterfield terrier named Osku.”

Even now hounding, Joan Dalgleish of Ballina “thought pet sofas had been a little bit in excess of the major until eventually I came upon a area of the pet food items aisle in our grocery store looking accurately like the self-serve dried fruit and nuts assortment for human beings. In this situation, the containers were devoted to doggie treats. You could pick out from joint mobility biscuits with included glucosamine, internal health and fitness with included charcoal, hemp-infused kinds and yoghurt drops. Teaching treats arrived in kangaroo, liver, beef, hen and, for pescetarian canine, salmon. Other delights integrated smoked-lamb bone, pork-trotter discs and chicken necks. In my childhood days our dogs were being fed scraps and the occasional bone from the butcher. No question about it, the globe is surely likely to the dogs.”

Ice age or pandemic? Helen Gregory of Penshurst says: “My two-12 months-old grandson’s initially string of phrases collectively was ‘Hey, Google, enjoy Into the Unidentified on Spotify.’ A indication of the periods probably? Admittedly, the music is from Frozen 2.”

“The stories relating to fishing line knots (C8) reminded me of fishing with my brother using bamboo rods built by my grandfather,” writes Doug Conkey of Wagga Wagga. “We have been beach fishing at North Narrabeen and there was no a