Paul Duncan of Leura said the front and back fly-screen doors are covered with bogong moths each morning, and a leaf blower is needed to move them on or they fly inside. He recalled that in earlier times the moths swarmed around the nearest street light, which attracted local owls, but those owls "seem to have disappeared. Hopefully they, too, will return."
For Donald Hawes of Peel, the return has brought problems at All Saints Cathedral in Bathurst. The trumpet, bassoon, trombone and clarinet pipes, which have large reeds at the base, have become jammed with moths and are unplayable. Pipes ranging from about 70 millimetres to nearly five metres must be taken down, cleaned, returned and re-tuned, after which a screen will be installed to keep the moths out.
In Bulli, Janice Creenaune of Austinmer said her middle child watched multiple diamond pythons copulating in his front garden: "One large and beautiful female and multiple males 'balled in ecstasy'. An amazing sight."
Elsewhere, Andrew McPherson of Tathra wondered whether AI would have squashed the millennium bug, and Pauline McGinley of Drummoyne recalled the 1969 Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin song "Je t'aime... moi non plus", noting that by the time it reached No.1, only the music, sans lyrics, was permitted on radio due to censorship.
Finally, Greg Phillipson of Aranda (ACT) described a flight from London to Melbourne in a pod next to comedian Peter Helliar. They exchanged "g'day" on boarding and "see ya" at landing, with not another word spoken in between. "Bliss!"