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The Great Escape

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April 30th 2009
GdaY folks and welcome back. I do apologise for the lack of 'blogging' but it has been a manic couple weeks, sorry to make y'all jealous..... So last time we spoke I was still picking apples and livin in the Garra abbatoir. I did that for another couple of weeks while it continued to get colder, even more miserable, longer shifts without any change in pay and cos i was the end of the season the h ... 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