“Talk of desserts (C8) and grandmothers, reminds me of the story of my grandmother and her sister when they tried the new jelly crystals,” writes Dorothy Barnes of Armidale. “Expecting instant results, they were disappointed so threw the mixture out the kitchen window only to find the bush below the window decorated with jelly the next morning.”

“Sixty-plus years ago when a call from Blacktown to Arncliffe was a trunk call (C8), my dear departed mother would call her sister three or four times a week,” says Michael Hayden of Kiama Downs. “The normal course was that after three minutes the operator would interrupt with ‘three minutes, are you extending?’. However, on the days when their conversation ranged across many, many interesting and varied subjects there was no interruption. Mum was

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