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Non Philatelic. 13y.o. Boy My hero......... Goodness knows we need good stories these days. Home alone, Escapes bushfire, by learning to drive a manual car. ("I stalled it a few times)  Saves Mum's Emu. "I ran around and let the animals out, shoved the dogs in the car, didn't want mum to be too sad, so I put the emu in the car because it's hers, and then tried to work out how to drive the car," Logan said. Logan's driving experience is limited and he had never driven a manual before. "I had to grab the instruction manual out of the glove box, stalled it a lot but got it going in the end. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10...res/11609008 |
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Great story Rod! I like the photo of the emu looking completely unperturbed. |
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Western Australia THSaunders Watermark Source : Western Australia, The Stamps and Postal History The Western Australia Study Group ISBN 959647600 PP68 and Appendix 6   |
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Australian Prisoner of War Postcard Envelope Source: Millenium Auctions 2019 Estimate $100  |
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Unusual advertising backdrop to Australian TV, SBS World Movies. Looks like an interesting Stamp Bourse somewhere, with Postcards....... (I didn't watch the movie...animation)  |
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Melbourne Victoria Circa 1855 Clipper Ships The Black Ball Line of Australian Packets. Flag: "Swallow Tail" Pennant of Red, with Black Ball centralised. 1855 "Champion of the Seas" brought Rail Carriages, Liverpool to Melbourne, for amongst others , the Geelong to Melbourne Rail, which appears to have opened 1857. Sailed 5th July 1855, with 468 Passengers and Railway Carriages, and Her Majesty's Mails. Average Transit time for the Clippers 84 days. First Class Ticket £50 Image : Trove Library.  |
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Master Die Surface printed King George V, Sideface. De la Rue (Sub-contracted) Sculpsit : R. Pearce. Held Note Printing Branch of the Reserve Bank of Australia Source : Philately from Australia September 1988 Author : T. A. Carter  |
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Non Philatelic : Interest piece. Question: What Australian slang term, derived from an East Midlands dialect, means "Hard Work" Answer : "Dinkum" / "Fair Dinkum" There you go "Fair Dinkum Stamps" |
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I didn't know the East Midlands dialect origin, Rod222 - thank you for posting that. You prompted me to see what I could find. This page provides a good explanation of 'dinkum': http://ozwords.org/?p=6840but erroneously reports that 'dinkum' appeared in the 1890s. "Fair Dinkum" was used at least as far back as 1879 to express the current meaning of true, honest or real - a genuine go - in the description of the work of the horse 'Mabel' in this training run:  It was fun to see the recent Fair Dinkum Aussie Alphabet set of stamps issued by Australia post  Another great 'dinkum' issue was the 'Dinkum Oil- War news from Gallipoli trenches' stamp pack that included copies of the eight editions held in the Australian War Memorial. https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/blo...e-dinkum-oil |
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https://www.fairdinkumstamps.com Fair Dinkum Stamps - Specialising in stamps from early Australia and the colonies, Australian philatelic literature, catalogues, stockbooks and accessories. |
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Nice work FDS......... Quote:
I didn't know the East Midlands dialect origin, Rod222 - thank you for posting that. My source...This evenings TV "Think Tank" episode, a gentleman won the "Impossible Question" as I quoted above, He made a wild guess, and I thought "That's absurd!" I had fair dinkum as "genuine" None of the "Think Tank" panel could answer the question. It went to the adjudicators and they passed the answer, to wild applause. |
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Black Ball Line of Australian Packets Millenium Auction 2019 Est $150 Broadsheet identifying Rail Carriages to Melbourne. Crime and Punishment Rowdy passenger placed in irons and confined to cabin   |
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