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For Aussies......and friends
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Allan | Report | 17 Jan 2010 22:21 |
Tec, I think thay Linda's remark is just part of the Sisterhood's Mantra |
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Tecwyn | Report | 17 Jan 2010 22:22 |
Hi Janet, |
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Allan | Report | 17 Jan 2010 22:23 |
Janet, I've done a normal tour of the prison...after it ceased to be used as a prison, I hasten to add. |
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LindainHerriotCountry | Report | 17 Jan 2010 22:23 |
Hang on, you were the one who said that you were pathetic Tec, you can't expect me to ignore a remark like that |
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Tecwyn | Report | 17 Jan 2010 22:26 |
ok Linda - I walked as an innocent into that - will I never learn? |
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LindainHerriotCountry | Report | 17 Jan 2010 22:27 |
Old glass is lovely Tec, with the imperfections that give distorted images when you look through it. |
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Janetx | Report | 17 Jan 2010 22:27 |
Not sure about the tunnels Allan....Not a fan of the caves at Margaret River..!! Don t like closed in spaces at all...Just a tour of the prison with someone walking behind and in front :))) |
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LindainHerriotCountry | Report | 17 Jan 2010 22:28 |
I like ging for tours of unusual places Janet, The local crematorium had an open day and the sewage works, both very interesting |
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Tecwyn | Report | 17 Jan 2010 22:31 |
While studying a Census today, I found a neighbour of my ancestor named |
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LindainHerriotCountry | Report | 17 Jan 2010 22:33 |
That is a superb name Tec, my lot are all the usual suspects, generation after generation. |
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Allan | Report | 17 Jan 2010 22:34 |
Linda I read somwhere that glass although appearing solid is in fact still semi molten and that is why really old glass is thicker at the bottom than the top and appears distorted. |
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Allan | Report | 17 Jan 2010 22:38 |
Janet, I have just been on the prison website. |
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LindainHerriotCountry | Report | 17 Jan 2010 22:40 |
I have just been googling old glass distortion and there are lots of results, |
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Janetx | Report | 17 Jan 2010 22:43 |
Not sure that they would be on my list of places to see Linda...:) Allan makes me wonder if many people can actually say that they have been through the tunnels. |
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LindainHerriotCountry | Report | 17 Jan 2010 22:49 |
I have just read an interesting article which seem to conclude that old glass has not deformed due to glass flow Allan. |
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Allan | Report | 17 Jan 2010 22:53 |
Thanks, Linda, I'll check that last one out later> |
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Berona | Report | 17 Jan 2010 22:56 |
Just reading through again. Haven't heard that word 'berm'. Here, the area between front fence and road is commonly called the 'footpath'. In the older inner-suburbs, it is very often all-concrete, but in the outer suburbs, it can be all grass or have a centre concrete walking path. Many homes don't have a front fence and the householder mows right to the gutter. It is Council property and they refer to it as the 'nature strip'. They will mow it if the householders don't. Some people curse the walking path because they need to trim the edges - but others take pride in looking after it. |
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LindainHerriotCountry | Report | 17 Jan 2010 23:01 |
We do indeed learn lots from each other Berona. i think berm is a great word, it is so different from anything else |
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Tecwyn | Report | 17 Jan 2010 23:01 |
I'll look at that item on old glass later Linda, |
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Persephone | Report | 17 Jan 2010 23:01 |
Haven't done much sitting on my berm this morning, just been out measuring and string lining (if that's what you call it) to mark where the picket fence will go. Our path had a step at the top/front and the next piece was connected to the footpath and when the council were here re doing our driveway (they had been laying underground lighting/phone cables etc) OH got them to cut the part (at no cost to us) where it joined up in readiness for the digger to just chunk out the offending piece and now the path will come straight down the much smaller slope. |
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