Just thought I’d add this pic — I did my 160-piece puzzle when I got home from the Gourmet Viking dinner. This puzzle was a still from an Australian TV appearance on Bandstand in 1976 and released by Reg Grundy as a puzzle only in Australia. So it’s very rare and one of my favourite items. Priceless to me — and it features their cat costumes, which the ladies often ripped off during Waterloo to reveal a mini-skirt version.
Yay! I’ve been an ABBA fan since 1975 (34 years!) and was contacted by the competition, the Daily Telegraph, to organise something for their Mamma Mia promotion. They also ran a full-page Mamma Mia photo too.
I couldn’t appear in the photo or article, but my friends are in it, and I was at the Gourmet Viking dinner. Later, we got 18 free tickets to Mamma Mia for our efforts (worth $100 each!). Which we greatly enjoyed.
One of the fans emailed: “We look so old in the pics.” Cause we are!
I have a pic of me there too, will dig it up.
The Bondi Hakoah Club is closing. It was a Jewish club where all the high-flying Jewish people and their friends hung out. Over the past decade or longer it was mainly frequented by oldies.
I used to go there in the early 1990s when I was living in Bondi in Jacques Avenue and watch the free movies for members (my flatmate was a member and it was cheap to join.) Though the club is gone, there is a strong Jewish community around Bondi — there is a fence (“eruv”) running around the beach which Jewish people are not supposed to venture past on the Sabbath. It cost a lot to build and took many years to get Waverley Council permission to erect it.
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UK comedy bloke Frank Skinner always dreamt of a Catholic-Anglican reunion but now he realises that only the hard-core anti-gay, anti-women Anglicans want to rejoin the Catholic church. Oh noes! He’s not keen on this.
They’re brilliant! Went to three of the four shows.
What I enjoyed most is their wit and on-the-spot improvisation and changes they made between the shows. There’s so much subtle physical comedy too (especially from Tim) — the glances and postures; the timing of each phrase. So much confidence gained from years committed to comedy. Watching two masters of the art in action who are still great friends.
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