Everyone’s favourite alliterative reader, Merona Martin of Meroo Meadow, writes that she is in Portugal and is amused by the tollway prices, which she photographed for proof on the A22. The sign starts with ‘Classe 1’ vehicles (motorbikes and cars) at €0.35 (58 Australian cents) and goes up to ‘Classe 4’ (heavy trucks) at €1 ($1.64). Read it and weep, as Merona rightly says.
Also in international news, Jim Dewar of Davistown has been considering the news of Japan being part of AUKUS and suggests the name NIPPONAUKUS. Then again, maybe not because it “sounds like a dinosaur, and we know what happened to them”.
Then, stepping back to last week, regarding buns versus bread, Bob Selinger, secretary of the Rotary Club of North Ryde, would like to assure readers that “the barbecue at Gladesville Bunnings run by the Rotary Club of North Ryde has always opted for bread over…
