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(Part 1)
Bette Davis once said “Old age is not for sissies.” I think she was right, but why am I quoting a long gone Hollywood actress? Well I’d tell you if I could remember...um..er...Oh I now, remember, it’s about the Queensland Premier. You know her Annabella...no that’s not it. Annafrieda? No that’s the lovely red-headed girl from ABBA. Remember them? As well as the redhead there was that tall blonde with legs all the way up to her award-winning butt, and the two boys in the background. Whatever happened to them? Well, like all of us they just got old and can’t do all that fancy dancing queen stuff anymore.
I remember that night in Sydney, eons ago when they were performing outdoors at the sports ground and it rained. Well as it turned out ‘legs’ slipped on the wet floor, fell on that famous butt and bounced back. If that happened today there would be broken hips and slipped discs from here to breakfast time.
Sorry, I seemed to have shot off on a tangent. What is a tangent? Well I’d look it up for you, but I can’t lift the Macquarie dictionary anymore. It’s too big. I blame the young ones, you know, for making up all these new words and overstuffing the dictionary. Just believe me that it’s something you can shoot off on. Oh bugger, see what I did, I ended a sentence with prepatostrum and I just know I’m going to receive a missive from Rigby. Have I told you about my friend Rigby, he’s really a sweetie, but sees it as his mission in life to correct all my grammar, spelling and punctuation. Now don’t be too harsh on him, after all he is a retired teacher.
(To be continued)
Bette Davis once said “Old age is not for sissies.” I think she was right, but why am I quoting a long gone Hollywood actress? Well I’d tell you if I could remember...um..er...Oh I now, remember, it’s about the Queensland Premier. You know her Annabella...no that’s not it. Annafrieda? No that’s the lovely red-headed girl from ABBA. Remember them? As well as the redhead there was that tall blonde with legs all the way up to her award-winning butt, and the two boys in the background. Whatever happened to them? Well, like all of us they just got old and can’t do all that fancy dancing queen stuff anymore.
I remember that night in Sydney, eons ago when they were performing outdoors at the sports ground and it rained. Well as it turned out ‘legs’ slipped on the wet floor, fell on that famous butt and bounced back. If that happened today there would be broken hips and slipped discs from here to breakfast time.
Sorry, I seemed to have shot off on a tangent. What is a tangent? Well I’d look it up for you, but I can’t lift the Macquarie dictionary anymore. It’s too big. I blame the young ones, you know, for making up all these new words and overstuffing the dictionary. Just believe me that it’s something you can shoot off on. Oh bugger, see what I did, I ended a sentence with prepatostrum and I just know I’m going to receive a missive from Rigby. Have I told you about my friend Rigby, he’s really a sweetie, but sees it as his mission in life to correct all my grammar, spelling and punctuation. Now don’t be too harsh on him, after all he is a retired teacher.
(To be continued)