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Tea and cake - Mount Tamborine

Finishing with work & the Christmas "silly season"

December 18th 2009
My last day of work was on Friday the 18th of December... The last fortnight didn’t seem much like 'work' at all - in fact the Aussies also call Christmas the ‘silly season’ - for ‘tis the season to be silly, namely endless Christmas parties, lunches, morning coffees, secret Santa’s... One particular day in mid December was the university’s Christmas lunch a three-hour outdoo ... read more
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Australian Flag 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
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