Last night's Q&A

[bluecat*dancing]

I'm watching a repeat of last night's Q&A. Rosalie Kunoth-Monks is mesmerising.

*Edited due to missing 's'.*

[i-need-a-martini]

Yes I watched. She didn't answer a single question directly lol but when she spoke the world stopped. I wish she had gone into politics.

Same with Jane Goodall.

I am surpriesd that Betty Churcher came across so dimwitted. I knew her for a few years when she was the director at the NGA and she was tough, quick and scary. From last nights episode I thought age hasn't done any favours to her brain.

And the less said about Peter Coleman the better...

[bluecat*dancing]

Absolutely spell-binding. Yes, that Liberal dinosaur is so ignorant. Jane Goodall is brilliant as usual but Betty Churcher has lost some sparkle, hasn't she?

[polksaladallie]

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@i-need-a-martini wrote:

I am surpriesd that Betty Churcher came across so dimwitted. I knew her for a few years when she was the director at the NGA and she was tough, quick and scary. From last nights episode I thought age hasn't done any favours to her brain.

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She is ill, and her earlier life wouldn't have done her any favours.

[azureline**]

I missed it. I might get to see it later today.

[i-need-a-martini]

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@polksaladallie wrote:

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@i-need-a-martini wrote:

I am surpriesd that Betty Churcher came across so dimwitted. I knew her for a few years when she was the director at the NGA and she was tough, quick and scary. From last nights episode I thought age hasn't done any favours to her brain.

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She is ill, and her earlier life wouldn't have done her any favours.

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Really?? What's wrong with her?

I knew she had macular degeneration in her eyes which had stopped her driving and writing but otherwise I thought she was well? Message me if you know.

[azureline**]

emphysema

[polksaladallie]

What I know about her now is from a radio interview only, and this which I googled.

Her elegance hides a multitude of age-appropriate afflictions she would happily outsource: shortness of breath from the 60-a-day habit she gave up decades ago; arthritis; “an auto-immune thing”; blindness in her right eye due to melanoma; macular degeneration that’s left her with just enough sight in her good one to keep driving for a little longer; and this morning she’s menaced with a migraine.

[cherples]

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@bluecat*dancing wrote:

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That was a good answer, as were her other comments, from a wise old woman