"This was in the backyard of a house we bought a few years ago," writes Rosemary from Whangārei. "The patio support was inserted between ropes and cemented into the ground. Had to totally dismantle the clothesline
Sideswipe: July 14: Tradie stuff-ups
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Ducked driveway
A driveway crew was pouring concrete at a new house next to a duck pond. They went to lunch and came back to this.
Getting politician's name right
When Virginia senator William B. Spong Jr. first went to Washington in late 1966, he worried that the media might mistakenly pronounce his name Sponge. But he observed that his Senate colleagues included Russell B. Long and Hiram L. Fong. So in introducing himself at the National Press Club, he announced that the three of them would be introducing a bill to protect the rights of songwriters in Hong Kong. It would be called the Long Fong Spong Hong Kong Song Bill. They never introduced the bill, but the media never mispronounced Spong's name.