Randy and the very good beer
February 16th 2006 The irony of this latest side-trip wasn't lost on me: as recently as 1840, the mere mention of the phrase 'Van Diemen's land' would send shivers down the spine of London's most hardened criminals, for Port Arthur had the dubious distinction as the destination for those transported for their transgressions to what at the time was tantamount to another world. How people of those times would gawp if
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