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Christine's Hello

Hello - BIG May 2012 Hello - BIG May 2012

Mother’s Day is here again, a time to appreciate your mother or to put your feet up and be spoilt, if you are one. Most mothers can remember the moment they first became a mother, that instant when a woman holds her first child in her arms and realises that her life will never be quite the same again. And I’m no exception. I can clearly remember that moment 30 years ago, when Patrick arrived and turned me into a mother, followed closely by Dominic and then Kathleen. Being a mother has its challenges - plenty of sleepless nights, pacing the floor soothing a sick child or worrying about a partying teenager, yet no mother would change a second... 

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Subscriber Draw Winners - March/April ‘12

Congratulations to these five lucky Lovatts puzzlers, winners of the March-April... 

Newsagents in Focus - Philip & Leoni Jenner Newsagents in Focus - Philip & Leoni Jenner

Philip & Leoni Jenner purchased Port Mall Newsagency in Port Adelaide over 15... 

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Words and Phrases

Toff

Toff – ‘a rich or upper class person’. University dress includes an academic cap, or mortarboard, with a black tassel. At Oxford and Cambridge from around the 1600s the titled young undergraduates began to wear gold tassels, known as tufts,... [Read more or comment]

Flavour of the month

Meaning: Something temporarily in fashion – akin to a ‘one-hit wonder’. This relatively recent expression comes from American advertising posters of the 1930s. It became popular with ice cream companies who saw a flavour-of-the-month as... [Read more or comment]

Send to Coventry

If you send someone to Coventry, you ignore them or ostracise them from your group. It is form of a playground bullying and also used to punish strike-breakers. Why Coventry? During the English Civil Wars of the 1640s, Cromwell sent Royalist... [Read more or comment]

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Puzzler or Puzzlor?

Hi, With words ending in either ‘er’ or ‘or’, is there any rule which determines which is the correct usage? Or is it merely happenchance like so much of our language?  Read More →

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