Tuesday, 29 May 2012
Bilding the Edukashon Reverlushion
In my mother's local town this morning, I was glad to see so many signs of Australia's rapidly improving educational system:
(presumably the table became soild because they stored the manuare on top of it?)
(One artist in the family's plenty - I don't need a cupboard that draws).
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The dimensions of that wardrobe are interesting - 1.25 metres wide by 2.15 centimetres high. Sufficient height to store the entire town's educational qualifications, by the sound of it.
ReplyDeleteThat's hilarious, I hadn't noticed the dimensions. Mind you, the level of someone's education is not usually reflected by the grandeur of the piece of paper they've been awarded. During your long career, I seem to remember, you have been handed the odd framed meaningless certificate of achievement and I think that's par for the course these days.
Delete:D And the items in question are also cruising the Good Hope area of town for hostess trollies or whatever. (And even Merriam Webster doesn't doesn't list 'shelfs' as an 'informal variant' on 'shelves').
ReplyDeleteWell-spotted - I'm ashamed not to have noticed that myself. Hard to believe they resisted the temptation to stick an apostrophe into the word as well
DeleteMay i see a photo of a double yoker?
ReplyDeleteSorry, you'll have to make your own fun, yoke-wise, Nurse
DeleteI found one of these last night on an Australian real estate site -- someone was advertising a house in a "Sort after location." But my favourite piece of salesmanship in any of the ads (nothing to do with the spelling) was "Nearby rivulet lends lovely ambiance."
ReplyDeleteIs this just an odd way of indulging your nostalgia - or are you coming home?
DeleteThe rivulet is enchanting, by the way
DeleteThe rivulet adds a necessary serenity. I pointed out to M. that the rivulet is not in fact actually located on the property being sold, and he replied, "So you mean that someone else could buy the property with the rivulet and concrete over it?" I said that I couldn't see why that would be impossible. So this rivulet is not only visually enchanting in the present, it may also in the future provide an opportunity for reflection on what-once-was, like cherry blossoms in Japan and the ruins of Rome in the eyes of nineteenth-century poets.
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Answer: Nostalgia. And I'm tickled by the way Australian real estate ads often include "shed" as a selling point. "The back yard," exclaims one agent in a place called Wivenhoe in north Tasmania, "is quite large and given that the property is industrially zoned and on an easy access corner block you could construct a huge shed."
I think a cemented-over rivulet could drive someone to an act of passion
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