Silver (August)

Debating Society notes: “That every cloud has a silver lining.” Armchair Revolutionaries argued most clouds don’t have silver. That clouds don’t have linings at all. Backseat Drivers countered, it’s a glass-half-full thing. Metaphor! While there’s no gold at the rainbow’s end, this doesn’t mean it’s not true. ARs called this semantics. BDs broached science. If water can be called silver, then clouds are all silver lining and air. ARs accused BDs of being “all air”. Anyway, had they lined their pockets with the takings, thirty pieces of silver? BDs threatened to boycott August’s meeting if ARs’ personal attacks continued. Tie.

Silver (January)

Macleod Primary was jeffed for quick silver, a prim estate of Jane Austen maisonettes and incongruous silver eucalyptus named Hester Rise. Tortured expressions of Joy Hester are not apparent, at safe distance from the Bath of Jane and the hotbeds of Heide. Reid Walk memorialises poet Barrett Reid, all his life on the SLV staff: little houses keep Silver Age rhyme. Tidy, trim Tucker Way seems not remotely an image of modern evil and Hester Walk offers the best vantage each January First to view silvery fireworks rise from the vast bushland opposite, known to locals simply as The Barracks.