Less than 6 degrees of separation: a nice story

[watt price tully]

https://www.theage.com.au/national/how-a-fatal-bus-crash-connects-barrie-cassidy-and-harry-frydenberg-20191211-p53izr.html

*Josh Frydenberg’s dad was my Mum’s surgeon some years ago: He’s a urologist I think. A nice unassuming man.
*Barrie Cassidy is a mad Collingwood supporter.
*My wife, children & moi lived reasonably close to Chiltern for 6 years in the early 1990’s

[stui magpie]

Interesting article, brings back memories of the manual telephone exchange at Tocumwal, one of the last in the country.

It was in the Post Office and was a larger version of what you see in the 40's movies of hotel switchboards. From within the town, to call anywhere you cranked a handle on the phone and told the operator the number you wanted. No keypad or dial. If I went with the parents to visit family in other towns, I'd look at the cream coloured phones with a number dial on front and wondered how they worked

I think it was in the early 80's when Toc finally got an automated exchange