Heather McEwen’s letter on this page conjured interesting visions.
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We’ve decided to channel Nikki Gemmell – but we’ll be discerning about that writer’s body of work.
Forget the Murdoch press; how could we look past The Bride Stripped Bare and its sister novels, With My Body and I Take You?
Of course!
The Bay Stripped Bare! The Eurobodalla Unveiled! Moruya Unmasked!
We’ll get the Gossip Gals and Grumpy right on to it – you can find them in Friday’s Bay Post/Moruya Examiner, people.
That should spice up the weekend!
Gosh, how could we have been so provincial as to think cancer, homelessness, lead contamination, the Nepal earthquake, asbestos, children with disabilities, an ice rehabilitation unit and other community causes were worthy of publication these past weeks?
Now we see they are merely “the usual round-up of ‘newsworthy’ happenings”.
We stand corrected, but ludic? We’re impressed, but we hate to think what it means as neither the two-volume Shorter Oxford nor the Macquarie attempt a definition.
Whatever, surely a ludic has a place in our new Spicy Friday editions.
However, whose infidelities and peccadilloes should we strip bare first? And what if consenting adults are using ludics?
We have another reason for looking to Ms Gemmell for comfort – until her outing as the anonymous author of The Bride Stripped Bare, she was rather shy of a byline herself.
We like the ring of “ghost writer” and, given most live letter writers wouldn’t last two minutes in our busy rural newsroom, a few more ghosts would be welcome.
If Ms McEwen had not been so keen to jump past our Wednesday edition to Friday – all the better to be rankled – she may have noticed another column.
Hairy Eye on Fuel began it’s ten-week life on February 27.
Reader Terry McGee had followed our ongoing coverage of price gouging and had a constructive suggestion – to compile a weekly graph and commentary on an issue that affects every reader, whether they drive or not.
The price of every product delivered to our towns – food, clothing, medication, furniture – rises or falls with the price of fuel.
His final column is on page 7 of the Bay Post/Moruya Examiner (May 6) - and, if prices rise again, he’ll take a hairy ludic to someone.