Thieving mongrels

Australia won the Ashes, England won the rather less glamorous Commonwealth Bank Series but it seems as if Australians made off with the final prize when a gang of what Alf Stewart on Home & Away would have called "thieving mongrels" robbed the England physio at knifepoint. Poor show, lads.

I was impressed with the laidback attitude of the New South Wales police when I called them about the story. None of this "ello, ello, ello" stiff-backed formality of the British plod, the Aussie copper genuinely answered the phone with "G'day" and then slipped into the familiar "ah look mate, fair dinkum, Waltzing Mathilda and throw a chook on the barbie". Or something like that.

Comments

[Mr J Donovan]

Home & Away?!!

In any case, like the majority of knifepoint robberies in Sydney, you will find the the culprits are - shall we say - somewhat less 'dinki-di, true blue Aussies' than what your mate the copper was.

The 'Australians' who made off with the 'final prize' will be a very loose (in fact inaccurate) description you will inevitably find.

Alf Bloody Stewart.

This coloumn is read in the colonies you know. I would not be expecting next month's 'Erinsborough - UK Fanzine' if I were you Patrick.