Christmas with the Pennisons/Derehams

Christmas time

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December 24th 2005
Well, I'm skipping the last month in India for now and shall come back to it later! I arrived in Sydney on the 22nd Dec and spent the first few days in a nice hostel getting over the hustle and bustle of India and catching up on sleep and washing - so I didn't turn up and Ed and Blythe's looking like too much of a waif and stray! They live in a gorgeous flat in the inner west suburb called D ... read more

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more