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Myfawny (sic)
Posted May 25, 2008
Yes, we of the Smart State have a thoroughfare gazetted Mifawny Drive.
Go on, ask Larry Page to help you find out some more about Mifawny.
There's nothing about Donald Horne or John Betjemen or Benjamin Britten, or even David Essex is there?
Now try Myfanwy. Yes that's better.
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Notes from a Big Island: Blue Peter?
Posted May 25, 2008
The ABC (a sort of BBC for Australians) has a show: it is called the First Tuesday Book Club in which the high-brow latte-literati teach us about books. A while back, they ran a competition in which viewers were invited to submit a few words from somewhere splendid, "the most imaginative" of which would be rewarded with the complete library of Bill Bryson.
I of course have an imagination you could fly a kite in so fully expected to take first across the line honours, and submitted several worthy efforts extending from my memoir recounting the time I went over Vic Falls in a concreter's wheelbarrow to time travels to 1954 Cardiff when I was arrested on suspicion of espionage.
Imagine then my utter dismay and disappointment to read the winning entry:
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/firsttuesday/s2060064.htm
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John Terry
Posted May 21, 2008
How unlike an England captain to miss a crucial penalty.
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Prince for Origin
Posted May 21, 2008
Suncorp, 11 June 2008
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Andy Murray
Posted Jan 14, 2008
Definitely Scottish this week.
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